Save The Puppy? ( ) Yes ( ) No

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Save The Puppy? [ ] Yes [ ] No
Number 2712
Broadcast Date MARCH 15, 2016
Episode Length 46:08
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Patrick Beja, Molly Wood

People let companies track them and store gigabytes of information about them yet encryption and privacy have never been hotter topics. Do people really care about their privacy or only the appearance? Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt discuss with special guest Molly Wood.

Guest

Headlines

AlphaGo beat Lee Se-dol in game five of the DeepMind Challenge to win the series with 4 victories and 1 loss. According to DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis, AlphaGo made a “bad mistake” early in the Go match and had to “claw” back from what The Verge described as a close match. Lee said the games were psychological difficult for him and that he felt sorry the series had come to an end. Before the match reigning Go champion Ke Jie told China Central television he believed he could beat AlphaGo, “but the probability is not as high as I thought before. I think it is 60 per cent in favour of me."
Submitted by jXd1689
Mapping app-maker Here announced it will pull its apps for Windows 10 March 29th and will limit development of its Windows 8 apps to critical fixes. Here maps will stop working entirely on Windows 10 June 30th. Nokia sold its Here maps division to Audi, BMW and Mercedes in December.
According to a Google blog post the $50,000 bounty to uncover a “persistent compromise” in Chromebook’s guest mode has been doubled to $100,000 after receiving no successful submissions. The company also introduced a new bounty for uncovering methods that can bypass Chrome’s Safe Browsing download protection features. Full details on qualifying bugs and payouts can be found at Google’s Application Security page.
Google launched Analytics 360 Suite today, a competitor for Adobe’s Marketing Cloud. The new suite combines Google Analytics Premium, Adometry and Google Tag Manager for enterprise with three new products, Audience Center 360 for data management, Optimize 360 with A/B testing and Data Studio 360 for data visualization and analysis. Data Studio uses Google Docs collaboration technology combined with BigQuery’s data analytics. The four new products are now in limited beta.
AMD announced the Radeon Pro Duo combining two Fiji GPUs in a single card. AMD claims the card can do 16 teraflops of performance. It requires three 8-pin PCIe power connectors. AMD says it is working with a VR headset manufacturer to put the card in a 4K per eye headset. The Radeon Pro Duo goes on sale in early Q2 for $1499.
General Motors and Lyft announced a service called Express Drive. GM will provide Lyft drivers with rental cars for $99 a week plus mileage if you give fewer than 40 rides. Give 65 rides and you don’t pay anything. Drivers pay for nothing else except gas. The service will launch in Chicago with 500 Chevy Equinoxes. Boston, Washington, DC and Baltimore will follow.
AMD and Toronto’s Sulon Technologies showed off the Sulon Q VR headset at GDC yesterday. The Sulon Q is not tethered to a computer because the computer is in the headset. It has a four-core AMD FX-8800P processor with a Radeon R7 graphics card, 256 GB SSD, 8GB of RAM and a 2560 x 1440 OLED display with 110-degree field of view. It also claims to be able to do real-time spatial mapping with just two camera sensors built into the headset. It’s expected to launch late spring. No price was announced.
Business Insider reports Apple has added a new ad format for its News app. According to an updated Apple developer specification document, the ads can "display directly in the content feeds, in line with News articles.” The only difference is a small ‘sponsored’ tag. Apple’s specs say the ads are, "intended to blend in with their surroundings.”
Razer announced a new 14-inch Blade laptop with a Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM and Nvidia’s TX 970M GPU. It also has a USB-C Thunderbolt 3 port. The 256GB model runs $1,999 and the 512 GB costs $2,199. Preorders start March 16 with shipping expected in April.
iRobot announced the Braava Jet Mopping robot designed to get into tight corners and scrub hard surfaces. It’s three modes can sweep up dry particles,clean floors with water and detergent and scrub out spots. You pick the mode by swapping out disposable pads on the bottom. Packs of 10 pads cost $7.99. The Braava Jet is available now for $199.
AND Sony will have a press conference Tuesday afternoon at GDC to talk about PlayStation VR. Erin Carson from Tech Republic will join Scott Johnson and myself to talk about what they announce and what the VR headset playing field looks like, on tomorrow's show.

Discussion

Pick of the Day

I had a pick for you to consider. It's actually another podcast I listen to called TechStuff, from HowStuffWorks.com. It is a weekly podcast. They cover topics ranging from news stories, to the history of tech companies. One of my personal favorites is the rise and fall of Atari.

TechStuff just put out an episode on the Apple FBI case, and I think (besides DTNS's coverage) that it was the best overview of the topic. The issue was put into perfect perspective and it was in terms a 5 year old and even me could understand.

Thank you for considering this, and thank you very very much for the show. It's a staple of my life, almost literally, in fact. My mousepad is a DTNS pad!

Sincerely,
Submitted by Zach from mild Minnesota

Messages

I don't think AIs will develop emotion, or even emotional understanding, to be better problem solvers. Raw computing power and pattern recognition can handle that. I think AIs will learn emotions in order to communicate with humans, and subsequently, to solve problems involving humans, rather than just mathematical results or probabilities. Emotions are an important way of how people talk to each other, and if an AI is ever going to be able to meaningfully communicate with a human, and vice versa, it will have to understand emotions. I think this is the major challenge of the Turing test.

Angelica Lim and Aldeberan Robotics are tackling this very issue. If you have time, you might want to check out some of the links on her web page.
Sent by Alan


Hi Tom,

On Monday’s show you and Veronica (yet again) joked about AI and computers taking over your podcast hosting jobs. Laughs were had all around, but I’m here to let you know it is already happening!
I’ve created two podcasts (so far) that are completely autonomously produced and hosted by bot’s I programmed. One even has a twitter presence that it manages entirely by itself. Pumping out new content 24-7, 365 days a year.

My future plans are to integrate neural networking for improved language processing and quality assurance on it’s crowd sourced content, or maybe I’ll just skip straight to integrating it with a natural language generator (such as NarrativeScience) and an open-source AI engine to remove the crowd sourcing of content all together!

So be forewarned! You set a very high bar with DTNS, but if AI can beat champion GO players, anything is possible now…

Incase you want to keep an eye on your autonomous competition:
TIL Reddit Recap
Today in History

I still love the show though, keep up the great work!

Regards,
Sent by Matt

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