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Forget Turing the Lovelace Test Has a Better Shot at Spotting AI

I recently blogged about a chatbot, called Eugene Goostman, that was claimed to have passed Alan Turings famous measure of machine intelligence in June by posing as a Ukrainian teenager with questionable language skills. Motherboard notices that "the world went nuts for about an hour before realizing that the bot, far from having achieved human-level intelligence, was actually pretty dumb." This article proposes the Lovelace test for AI that demands an act of creativity from an AI rather than automated conversational skills - its an interesting idea and would be a good way of honouring Ada Lovelace.

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10 awesome internet hacks to make your life better

Well Im not  sure that they are "awesome" but they are potentially useful, interesting or just fun. The Guardian recently published "10 awesome internet hacks to make your life better" that range from: how to log out of Facebook remotely if you left it running on a friends or relatives computer, how to bring up an emoji keyboard on your Mac or PC, and how to watch YouTube in slow motion. 

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Amazon at 20 what has the online giant ever done for retail

You may not have noticed but Amazon recently celebrated its 20th birthday. You may or not be a regular user (I certainly am). It was originally billed a the "Earths Biggest Bookstore" featuring over one million titles. Twenty years later it has over 270m active accounts and claims to have more than 2m third-party vendors selling millions of products through its marketplace platform. Amazon is comfortable with the term "disruptive." Its disrupted the bookshop and publishing industries and is disrupting other retail industries. The Guardian recently published an interesting article about the impact Amazon has had - recommended.




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A beautiful mind has died

News is breaking that the Nobel prize winning mathematician John Nash and his wife were both killed in a taxi crash in New Jersey, USA. John Nash is famous for his "Nash Equilibrium" in Game Theory, which can be most easily be described by the game of paper, rock, scissors. If a player randomly plays each of the three options 1/3rd of the time they can guarantee they will never be beaten over a large enough number of games. As soon as a player deviates from the Nash Equilibrium, perhaps by slightly preferring to play scissors, then they can be exploited by an opponent preferring rock. Of course as soon as the opponent tries to play the exploit they themselves become exploitable. John Nashs life was famously documented in the movie "A Beautiful Mind," a clip of which is shown below.  


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Find Who has Access to your Files in Google Drive

Wondering who has access to userr Google files and folders. This simple Google Script will show a list of all files that user may have ever shared with public or specific contacts.
 
Google Drive lets user share files with specific contacts or user can make them public and anyone can then view userr files. Sharing also prevents user from clogging someone else’s mailbox. For instance, if user are sending a large file as an email attachment, a better option would be that user upload the file to Google Drive and share the link instead.

Who Can View or Edit userr Shared Files?

If user have been using the sharing feature of Google Docs (now Google Drive) for some time, user may have quite a few files in the Drive that are accessible to other users. Would user like to review this list?
Here’s a simple Google script that will scan userr Google Drive and prepare a list all files that have been shared from userr Google Drive.
To get started, click here to copy the Google Script in userr own Google Drive. Then choose Run->Start to execute the Google Script. The script will ask for authorization since it needs to check the sharing permissions of the file in userr Google Drive. Say “authorize” and user’ll soon get an email with a list of all the shared files that were found in userr Google Drive.
The report, see the above screenshot, will have links to the shared files and also a list of users who can view or edit that particular file. If a file can be viewed by anyone, the user will be mentioned as Public.
The Google Script checks the sharing permissions of every single file in userr Google Drive and thus it may take a minute or two to finish if user have too many files in the Drive.

Bonus tip: Did user know that user can set an auto-expiry date for userr shared links in Google Drive. The shared link will automatically stop working after a certain date or time set by user.
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