Here’s the new edition of my “Fav 4”, edition 38. My favorite and most noteworthy tech & innovation news bites of the last week. 4 updates in an easy to consume video format. Enjoy!
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Now here's the end to #Amazon's #NYC #HQ2 after months of protest over social impact of the plan. All this after criticism that they had framed the search in the first place as a competition in order to wrest maximum incentives from its desired locations. https://t.co/7sShbjuF2f pic.twitter.com/2X78dNgaZp
— André Cramer 🇪🇺 (@TheAndreCramer) February 15, 2019
Oh come one… let this sink in. Is this the type of #digitaleconomy we want? Last year, #Google / #Alphabet paid $5.1bn in fines to the EU. That's more than the $4.2bn they paid in WORLDWIDE (!!!) corporate income #taxes. This system is broken… https://t.co/wQ7ZKKOjWV pic.twitter.com/tBq9npwWNp
— André Cramer 🇪🇺 (@TheAndreCramer) February 14, 2019
It's not always 'AI beats humans' apparently. #IBM's #ProjectDebater #AI now lost to a human challenger, Harish Natarajan, 2016 World Debating champion. In a first competition in 2018, Debater had won against one competitor and narrowly lost to another. https://t.co/g6Rx41Fn0q pic.twitter.com/rsyHdsA2Ix
— André Cramer 🇪🇺 (@TheAndreCramer) February 14, 2019
Hmm… scary news in the #fakenews & #mediaauthenticity context. #OpenAI developed an unsupervised language-learning model that can write news & answer reading comprehension problems, #GPT2. Works so well, it's too dangerous to release, they say. #AI https://t.co/6cRIajn26i pic.twitter.com/Z6X1NEBN2C
— André Cramer 🇪🇺 (@TheAndreCramer) February 17, 2019
ANDRÉ CRAMER 