Brain inserts and carbon-absorbing bacteria aren\u2019t just the fantasies of Silicon Valley\u2019s richest executives, they\u2019re also a part of a larger hope to advance artificial intelligence and computing efforts.<\/p>\n\u201cBiology will undoubtedly fuel computing\u201d in coming years, former Google CEO and current technical advisor Eric Schmidt said at a conference called SynBioBeta in San Francisco Monday. \u201cTaking biology, which I\u2019d always viewed as squishy and analog, and turning it into something that can be digitally manipulated, is an enormous accelerator.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schmidt\u2019s comments come as Silicon Valley\u2019s seeming obsession with biology attempts to move beyond fascinating projects and into more serious investments that could help modernize tech processes.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s easy to come up with movie recommendations or YouTube recommendations, because we have millions of data points of people like you,\u201d Schmidt said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have an analogous amount of data in biology yet.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s easy to laugh at the barking insanity of these monsters, but at the same time, you probably know someone who spent their hard earned money to buy a “smart speaker” surveillance platform for their home. Via: CNBC: Brain inserts and carbon-absorbing bacteria aren\u2019t just the fantasies of Silicon Valley\u2019s richest executives, they\u2019re also a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,22,8,39,6,3,10,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotechnology","category-dictatorship","category-economy","category-elite","category-police-state","category-rise-of-the-machines","category-social-engineering","category-surveillance","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56080,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56079\/revisions\/56080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}