Last month, a brief video was uploaded to YouTube that fills me equally with delight and dread. A robot with the physical build of an NFL linebacker and the agility of a wide receiver leaps from a standstill onto a waist-high wooden block. It makes a deft 180-degree hop, then crouches, backflips onto the floor, and raises its arms in triumph. Welcome to the uncanny valley.
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For the first time since the dot-com bust, tech companies are running scared. Last year exposed the ease with which social media could be weaponized, as platforms once hailed as revolutionary for democracy became tools for spreading disinformation and hate speech—and even enabled foreign interference in the presidential election. And this year, it became a rare point of consensus among many Republicans and Democrats that tech companies were both destructive and possessed too much power. What, then, does 2018 hold for Big Tech? Читать дальше...
