Tomaso Poggio

Podcast #16: Tomaso Poggio on the State of AI

After a long so-called winter, artificial intelligence has recently made amazing gains. Tomaso Poggio, Director of MIT’s Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, explains why this success is still a long way from the dystopian fears of robot overlords, but that the threat to jobs is real.

2016, The Year in Review

A look back at the biggest technology-related stories of 2016.

Why America Needs Technoskepticism

With the presidential election turning on economic issues, Art Keller points out that neither party addressed the major cause of today’s inequality and job insecurity, nor has any plan to deal with it now. Hint: it isn’t trade.

Convenience, Control, and Contempt: Uber (part two)

It long ago became an agreed upon standard of liberal capitalist democracy that a monopoly was a bad thing. This [...]