Shortly after I published Avogadro Corp, readers would email me whenever there was news related to AI or other technology in my novels. Over the years, we’ve seen data centers in shipping containers, email auto-replies, and countless new AI developments. In the beginning, I’d blog about each of these, but the pace has been accelerating and lately there are too many to keep up with. Here are a few from recent months:
People kicking robots. Will they never learn?
People kicking these food delivery robots is an early insight into how cruel humans could be to robots https://t.co/tcYP9NlCg2 pic.twitter.com/Y2SZmVWIGC
— SFGate (@SFGate) June 12, 2018
Microsoft puts a data center at the bottom of the ocean:
I hadn’t considered the possibility that tech companies would read @hertling‘s Avogadro Corp and see it as a goddamn tutorial.https://t.co/KKopqKCcb2
— Jim Perrin (@BitIntegrity) June 6, 2018
Hey @hertling , I think we know what's going to happen next… https://t.co/MCK5Xt17x7
— M!KEY (@mikeyanderson) June 6, 2018
Facebook develops Tomo’s PrivacyGuard:
It's like Tomo's PrivacyGuard, only with nude photos. What can go wrong? Facebook asks users to upload nudes to prevent revenge porn: https://t.co/uuo9rf7jiG
— William Hertling (@hertling) May 24, 2018
Arming robots with lasers:
Something like this? Leave it to the Germans 🙂 https://t.co/O4f8oe5fKj
— Timo Kissel (@timokissel) May 24, 2018
The GoogleIO Assistant can make phone calls, impersonate people:
Will the GoogleIO assistant request more computing resources and upgrade itself?
— William Hertling (@hertling) May 9, 2018
Google’s ELOPe, er, I mean “smart compose”:
Closer and closer we come to @hertling’s Avogadro Corp. https://t.co/LHupKNFXbW
— Damon Cortesi (@dacort) May 11, 2018
Thus ELOPe 🤖 is born, as depicted in @hertling’s “Avogadro Corp: The Singularity is Closer than it Appears” – the most credible sci-fi 📚depiction of #ArtificialInteligence IMHO. https://t.co/tZw8rrTgJa
— anton.io (@roldao) May 8, 2018
Spoofing cell phone tower with software-defined radio:
This is incredible. Software Defined Radio allowing laptops to spoof cell tower for less than $100. Cc @hertling
— Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim) April 24, 2018
Facebook as Tomo:
Seriously tho, @Netflix should option Kill Process and release it as The Social Network 2. #indieweb #facebook #tomo /cc @hertling
— Aaron Parecki (@aaronpk) April 14, 2018
Facebook having nation-state level influence:
This headline really drives home the fact that Facebook is basically its own sovereign now https://t.co/xTOiror1eY pic.twitter.com/4XX13g9KYZ
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) April 5, 2018
Reacting to the Facebook scandals:
This seems like a good time to re-read @hertling's book Kill Process, in which the protagonist, a database programmer at the world's largest social network, decides to destroy the company by decentralizing social networking #indieweb https://t.co/j3kPm1AfHs
— Aaron Parecki (@aaronpk) March 20, 2018
Reconstructing speech via laser reflections off a potato chip bag:
Holy cow. MIT researchers reconstruct speech/audio by analyzing laser reflections off a potato chip bag. Wow. Cc @hertling pic.twitter.com/1caBUENdOW
— Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim) February 14, 2018