🔮 AI beyond deep learning; thinking about attention; European startups; green ships, cars and planes; subcultures, cephalopods & free houses++ #195

**Dept of podcasts **🎧

The basic assumption on our side is that technology transcends everything. The distinction between what is local and what is global makes no sense anymore, as platforms have no respect for national borders.

The world's first Ambassador appointed to represent a nation-state to the technology industries around the world, Casper Klynge, joins me in London to discuss the state of relations between leading technology companies and governments. We acknowledge a unique moment in history we're in: trust in government in the West is declining, the effects of emerging technologies are combinatorial, and a shift from West to East is happening.

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Dept of the near future

🥊 The limits of deep learning. Lovely Gary Marcus argument against "the notion that deep learning is without demonstrable limits and might, all by itself, get us to general intelligence, if we just give it a li…