In popular culture, the term "The Singularity" has two very different meanings -- sometimes seeming nearly identical and sometimes being diametrically opposed.  The first meaning, which we shall call

RELATED LINK: 10 SBD Weekly Bounty for Best AI Article of the Week (Additional 1 SBD Bounties for links) Here are the best five artificial intelligence articles that I've seen in the past week: Our Sexual

Additional 1 SBD Bounties for *excellent* NEW AI links and sources that I would otherwise have missed. Rules and Conditions for weekly article bounty: The article must be newly written by you and the first

In my last post, I showed how Inspirobot, an AI designed to create creepy "inspirational" posters, is able to create an uncountably large number of unique phrases by having a relatively small number of

A couple days ago, I introduced you to Inspirobot, an AI designed to create creepy "inspirational" posters.  Today, I'm going to try to figure out exactly how it operates. While we are well past the

So . . . . I was in the Nanopunk Posthuman Assassins Facebook Group today and what did I see but the headline "AI Trying to Design Inspirational Posters Goes Hilariously Wrong". Of course, I had to go

Meet @crypto-p.  @crypto-p has about $70,000 invested in steem. Yesterday, @crypto-p was frequently rewarded 0.212 SBD, and 0.122 STEEM POWER for up-voting his own very brief comments (like "Thanks

So . . . . with HF19, which overall was awesome, we have a new, and apparently reasonably major, threat to the community.  As pointed out by Jerry Banfield last week, We Double Our Steem Power

Kraken just announced on their Tumblr blog that they now support EOS trading! Available pairs for trading are: EOS-Ethereum (EOS/ETH)  EOS-Bitcoin (EOS/XBT) EOS-U.S. Dollar (EOS/USD) EOS-Euro (EOS/EUR)

There was an interesting propaganda article in yesterday’s BBC News Technology section entitled “The one law of robotics: Humans must flourish”.  It started by describing Asimov’s three laws of robotics

The comment that you are placing on every up-vote *still* points to your original post where you promise 1-50%. You really, really, REALLY should change it to point to the newest post where the promise

Anyone know how this post initially disappeared? Last Sunday, Kai-Fu Lee (Chairman/CEO of Sinovation Ventures, an established Chinese early stage ventures firm managing an estimated $1.3B) wrote an excellent

I haven't searched the block-chain yet but here is proof that it DID exist . . . . Here what it looked like on Steemit  And now it's gone (and doesn't show up in my blog list or anything) Anyone able to

Two days ago, on June 21, Ether (ticker ETH) suffered a flash crash on the GDAX market.  Many people took huge losses while others, who were lucky and fast enough, were buying ETH for as low as $0.10.

 Yesterday, Jack Ma, the founder of Chinese Internet giant Alibaba (the world’s largest retailer – generating more gross merchandise volume than Amazon and eBay combined) predicted that our current

Update:  There are currently only 2 additional correct answers (from improv & troilo) vying for the second 5 SBD awarded randomly tomorrow AM.  blackswith12 won the first 5 SBD!   Hint

The Minnow Support Project (@minnowsupport) is a new effort, led by witnesses @aggroed, @teamsteem and @ausbitbank, to assist new users.  The latest and greatest documentation is here. EDIT:  It