The optimistic case for AI, compute, and tech. No nonsense. By @edtarnowski | Views expressed are our own
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Welcome to The Compute Optimist: the optimistic case for AI, compute, and tech. By @edtarnowski
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Capitalism gave us epidurals, rockets, the internet, and now flying cars.
All in one century.
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Researchers developed an AI-generated voice resembling the study participant’s using recordings of him speaking before ALS had severely impaired his speech.
AI then translated his brain activity into speech using that reconstructed voice.
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AI Is Helping People With Paralysis Reclaim Their Voices
How recent advances in AI-powered brain-computer interfaces are enabling breakthroughs in accuracy, independence, and intonation for those living with ALS
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In my latest for @ComputeOptimist, I explore how AI is helping restore natural communication for those living with ALS.
Not just through greater speed, accuracy, and independence, but by translating brain activity into tone, emphasis, and even song.
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This week’s @ComputeOptimist piece drops tomorrow 🧠
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BREAKING: A radioactive peptide that targets cancer cells and delivers radiation to destroy them has just succeeded in a Phase 3 trial.
What If Surgical Expertise Could Be Everywhere?
Experimental AI-powered robotics could vastly expand access to specialized surgeries
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The techno-optimists are having fun. And optimism is how we win.
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In throwing this party, our message was simple: You’re allowed to be excited and optimistic about the remarkable things happening in American tech right now
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Data After Dark in VICE tonight:
“For Ed Tarnowski, the founder of The Compute Optimist, it’s a matter of historical scale. ‘It really is our generation’s Industrial Revolution, but bigger,’ he tells me. He doesn’t deny the risks, but his bet is that ‘the risk of slowing down is far greater than pushing forward.’”
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New friends and followers, ICYMI, I founded @ComputeOptimist earlier this month: analysis, reporting, and the receipts on the technologies poised to drive unprecedented human prosperity—if we let them.
Fear about AI + tech sells. I'm building the opposite. Read the manifesto 👇
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We’re in the midst of our generation’s industrial revolution. AI and other emerging technologies are poised to push the bounds of human prosperity. But only if we let them.
Optimism is how we win. That’s what #DataAfterDark is all about.
