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The April 2024 Serious Insights Bookshelf: 2 Books That Explore Love and Language

By: Daniel W. Rasmus for Serious Insights

The future is complex. Scenario planners look for social, technological, economic, environmental, and political uncertainties to understand the variables that should be explored against a focal question such as “What will work look like in 2035?” Naming uncertainty is just a starting point. 

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Jlab Go Mouse-Keyboard Set Review: 2 Devices, 1 Portable and Affordable Bundle

By: Daniel W. Rasmus for Serious Insights

Mobile devices have led to a growing demand for portable keyboards to accommodate an on-the-go lifestyle. Mobile keyboards have come a long way, from bulky and cumbersome to sleek and compact. 

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SXSW 2024 - Cyber Snake Oil for Sale: Beware of The Social Media Influencer

By: Rex M. Lee, Privacy Advisor and Tech Journalist for My Smart Privacy

Aside from the fact that many popular social media platforms are developed using highly addictive and harmful “Brain Hijacking Technology” associated with manipulative advertising technology, social media platforms are also a playground for social media influencer fraud.

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With AI, Communication Skills Become Vastly More Important

By Rob Enderle for Techspective 

There has been a joke going around my community that goes something like this: “OMG, AI is taking our jobs. All users will need to be able to do is describe what they want an app to do, and AIs will do the work without us!” The response is, “No worries. When has a user ever been able to describe what they want?”

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The Next Thing to Look For in AI Vendors: Interoperation

By Rob Enderle for TDWI

 AI vendors that interoperate and partner well should significantly outperform their competitors.

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Weaponized Quantum Computing & AI: Threats Posed by Tech Centralization

By: Rex M. Lee, Privacy Advisor and Tech Journalist for My Smart Privacy

Tiffany Meijer, NTD News, interviews Rex M. Lee, Security Advisor, My Smart Privacy, regarding threats posed by Quantum Computing and AI.

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IBM vs. Microsoft vs. NVIDIA and AI

By Rob Enderle for Techspective 

Twenty years ago, NVIDIA and Microsoft were nowhere with AI, while IBM’s Watson was winning Jeopardy! and later taking on professional debaters. Conventional knowledge was that IBM was going to own AI, but no one seemed to care since projections at the time indicated that AI wouldn’t take off until sometime around 2040 when general-purpose AI was expected to become viable.

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AI Hallucinations, Bias and Lies: Why We Need to Stop Ascribing Human Behavior and Attributes to AI

By: Daniel W. Rasmus for Serious Insights

The new era of AI has made a mistake. Makers, users, marketers, critics, and academics have ascribed human attributes to AI, overloading understood terms. When we overload terms, we lose the ability to differentiate without context.

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IBM Moves into IT Sustainability Services

By Rob Enderle for Techspective 

IBM is one of the oldest IT services organizations in the world. The firm stands out historically for looking at problems holistically instead of cherry-picking a few aspects of a particular problem.

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U.S. Government Enables Foreign Companies, with Chinese Investors, to Mine for Rare Earth Minerals/Elements within The U.S.

By: Rex M. Lee, Privacy Advisor and Tech Journalist for My Smart Privacy

I attended a CERAWeek S&P Press Conference in Houston, TX, on 03.18.2024 and was honored to be able to ask an important question regarding the Thacker Pass, NV, lithium mining initiative associated with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) green energy investment fund paid for by U.S. taxpayers.

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