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Alex Fink

Zuckerman vs Zuckerberg

July 14, 2024

Ethan Zuckerman is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a scholar of digital media. He and his team work to understand the contemporary digital world and build social media systems that are focused on communities, not on profits. Ethan is currently suing Meta (i.e. Facebook) in a landmark case that might (and likely should) change our interpretation of section 230. Please tune in to hear the details of the case and the various ways it could change the social media landscape. It's fascinating!

Prof. Jeff Jarvis - Rewriting Media's Business Model (Yet Again)

May 24, 2024

Jeff Jarvis is a journalism professor at the City College in New York (CUNY), the author of six books, and the cohost of the successful podcast "This week in Google and AI". Jeff spent many years teaching entrepreneurial journalism - and God knows journalism could use some entrepreneurial spirit, right about now. Please check out Jeff's books, The Gutenberg Parenthesis and Magazine, both from Bloomsbury (discount codes here: gutenbergparenthesis.com).

Donald Robertson - Where Philosophy Meets Psychology

June 22, 2024

Our guest today is Donald Robertson - Donald is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist and author of several books, including How to Think Like a Roman Emperor and, more recently, Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor. He is one of the founders of the Modern Stoicism nonprofit organization and the founder and president of the Plato's Academy Centre in Athens, Greece. He was born in Scotland but now lives in Montreal, Canada. His upcoming book, How to Think Like Socrates, will be released later this year, and can be preordered on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or anywhere else books are generally sold.

Rick Edmonds - Analyzing the Financial Decline of Legacy Media

July 8, 2024

Rick Edmonds is the media business analyst for the Poynter Institute, a school and study center for working journalists. He has been doing research and writing for 25 years on the financial decline of legacy media, newspapers particularly, and the rise of new media alternatives. His reporting and commentary appear regularly on the Poynter Online site. He has spoken to conference groups in the U.S.A. and in Paris, Norway, Madrid, Vienna and Chile.

Jonathan Green - How To Make ChatGPT and Other Tools Useful (Right Now)

July 5, 2024

Welcome to the Otherweb. Our guest today is Jonathan Green - a bestselling author of hundreds of books, a celebrity ghostwriter, and an expert in using artificial intelligence tools to their utmost capacity. This is the best conversation I've had on the practical implications of ChatGPT and how regular people can augment their own capabilities by using these tools as a shortcut.

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News from robots

Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about robots, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 109 stories have been published about robots which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.

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Home

Robot trained on surgery videos performs as well as human docs

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ScienceDaily

ScienceDaily

New tool makes 'intrinsic' movements calculable for robots

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WTAE

WTAE

Carnegie Mellon University students develop robot to mimic human movements

WTAE

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Last of the week

CNET

CNET

AI and Robots That Do Your Laundry and Dishes? Dream On, Folks

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Interesting Engineering

Interesting Engineering

Wave-busting tech from Edinburgh keeps robots steady in stormy waters

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Latest news stories

Home

Home

Robots as small as a grain deliver drugs

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Fortune

Fortune

Next time you go under the knife, there's a good chance a robot will hold the scalpel

Fortune

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Space

Space

Adorable 3D-printed rovers learn to find blue ball in Mars-like environment

Space

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The Register

The Register

Robots gut job prospects for low skilled workers

The Register

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CityNews

CityNews

Collaborative robotics helping to increase productivity in the welding industry

CityNews

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The Motley Fool

The Motley Fool

3 Companies Building Tomorrow's Game-Changing Technologies

The Motley Fool

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The Robot Report

The Robot Report

Relay Robotics proposes levels of autonomous navigation for indoor robots - The Robot Report

The Robot Report

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TechSpot

TechSpot

MIT researchers develop new approach for training general purpose robots

TechSpot

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China Daily Website - Connecting China Connecting the World

China Daily Website - Connecting China Connecting the World

Given rapid rise of AI, will robots replace humans?

China Daily Website - Connecting China Connecting the World

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch

MIT debuts a large language model-inspired method for teaching robots new skills | TechCrunch

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New Atlas

New Atlas

Incredible generalist robots show us a future free of chores

New Atlas

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Live Science

Live Science

Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot can now 'play fetch' — thanks to MIT breakthrough

Live Science

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch

Boston Dynamics’ electric Atlas humanoid executes autonomous automotive parts picking | TechCrunch

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Quartz

Quartz

Elon Musk says there will be more humanoid robots than people in less than 20 years

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Cryptopolitan

Cryptopolitan

The rise of AI in decision-making

Cryptopolitan

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