In April 2015, the US government refused to let Intel help China update the world’s biggest supercomputer. The Tianhe-2 used 80,000 Intel Xeon chips to generate a computational capacity of more than 33 petaflops. In 2015, the Chinese machine was due to undergo a series of upgrades to boost its number-crunching abilities past 110 petaflops. …
Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots’ potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. Researchers analyzed for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and value added. …
The Hamilton project has shown that US productivity growth has stalled since about 1973. The underperformed of 2% per year has resulted in the US being half as rich per capita as it could have been if we had maintained the 1948-1973 trend I was on the World Transformed interview series and discussed existential risks …
Several AI Marketplaces will launch in 2018 and will do for AI what Web 2.0 did for the Internet. Standards-based integration will launch AI 2.0. Costs will drop and development times will shrink. SingularityNET, AT&T and others are creating AI marketplaces in 2018 that will speed up AI development. AI projects and businesses will be …