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Born under a bad sign — AI learning, trolling, economy & political influence — leads to unwanted developments and consequences. Shape of things to come — health privacy, insect bots & chip making — is a mixed bag of developments. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Born under a bad sign - DARPA Seeking AI That Learns All the Time — “[DARPA] is looking to change the way works…[with] …that learn continuously, adapt to new tasks, and know what to learn and when. ‘ AI Lifelong Learning Machines …. We want the rigor of automation with the flexibility of the human’ ….[ Neural networks are adaptable systems whose ability to learn comes from…[training] on a set of data….[Problem] when the AI encounters something it was never trained to recognize So] two sets of groups. One set will…develop systems that can continuously learn, adapt to new tasks and circumstances, and understand inputs according to what the system’s mission is (called ‘goal-driven perception)…. .” [Another] to identify new mechanisms of lifelong learning — from biology or a physical science — and transfer that mechanism to an algorithm that improves AI https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/robotics/artificial-intelligence/darpa-seeking-ai-that-can-learn-all-the-time _There are ghosts in the machine._medium.com Why You Should Fear Artificial Intelligence-AI State-Sponsored Trolling — “[T]he use by states of targeted online hate and harassment campaigns to intimidate and silence individuals critical of the state…[using] surveillance and hacking…afforded by a new era of pervasive technology…persecutes perceived opponents at scale…. [ …. There’s] several commonalities…[including] death and rape threats, using bots…to amplify vitriolic attacks at scale…accusations of treason or collusion with foreign intelligence agencies, using ‘black’ public relations firms to disseminate hyper-partisan or libelous disinformation about targets, spreading doctored images and memes…using spyware and hacking to gather…intelligence against targets, and sowing acrimonious sexism ….[ Changes in law are unlikely to effectively stem the practice of state-sponsored trolling in the short term…[so] technology companies bear…[responsibility] to curb…state-sponsored harassment campaigns…[as] form of human rights abuse…with pinpoint personalization Need] the expansion of…international and US law to include the types of online harassment and hate speech deployed as part of state-sponsored trolling attacks; the reconsideration of intermediary liability…[for] platforms in facilitating trolling campaigns;… .” technology companies to detect and identify state-linked accounts, bots, and hateful content online http://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/images/DigIntel/IFTF_State_sponsored_trolling_report.pdf These 3 advantages once ensured U.S. prosperity. They’re not coming back. — “[Prosperity] constructs a society with greater economic and social justice…[Trump’s] appeal rests heavily on our loss of confidence in this vision…. From 1950 to 1973, the economy grew at an average annual rate of 4 percent …[but] from 2008 to 2017…averaged only 1.5 percent ….[T]he postwar boom…[had] three economic advantages…that were fated to fade…. backlog of new technologies (television, jet aircraft, synthetic fibers, antibiotics, air conditioning) that boosted both consumer spending and business investment…. destruction of Europe and Japan left…few serious [competitors]…[so] trade balance was routinely in surplus; the first deficit [1971]…. …. …. progress in stabilizing the economy 2008–2009 financial crisis remind us that the problem of the business cycle hasn’t been solved …. U.S. corporations turn out to be vulnerable…abroad, and to new technologies…. The skewing of income toward those at the top compounds the effect…[and] a breeding ground for discontent ” Trump blames… immigrants and imports…[and] American officials…[so] tariff proposals seem to be causing as much or more grief among the U.S. firms they’re supposed to help…[because] there’s a big difference between economic nostalgia and economic policy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/these-3-advantages-once-ensured-us-prosperity-theyre-not-coming-back/2018/07/22/835b4102-8c49-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html?utm_term=.75d1f0c9de66 _As a dog that regularly bites, it is fair to say we have a love-hate relationship with capitalism. This lends itself to…_medium.com Capitalism and Post-Capitalism — The Whole Truth & Nothing But As inequality grows, so does the political influence of the rich — “SQUEEZING the top 1% ought to be…[easy] for politicians seeking to please the masses…[but] more concerned with immigration and sovereignty…[is] sign of the corrupting influence of inequality…. …. 19th century governments across the West faced the threat of socialist revolution…[and] promises of greater redistribution…[needed] institutional guarantees America’s electoral college…prized by elites…because they served as a check on the egalitarian tendencies of the masses …. …. [Today] more than two-thirds of Americans and Europeans express concern about current levels of inequality…[but] democracies might have become too jammed to make progress on any issue of substance …. Last year America’s government…change to taxes…tilts the distribution of income even more in favor of the rich…[and] politicians seem less interested in grappling with the problem [ So] rising inequality…boost the power of the rich…to counter the popular will…[with] political preferences of those with $40m or more…overwhelmingly favor cutting spending on major social-safety-net programs. (The general public wants it increased.).… [In] regular personal contact with elected officials…fewer than 30,000 people account for a quarter of all national political donations from individuals and…more than 80% of the money raised by political parties…[with] means to shape public opinion: financing…think-tanks…or buying media outlets…to shape public narratives about which problems deserve attention…[so] economic justice are crowded out…. [It’s] the ‘negative agenda power’ of the rich…that reducing inequality becomes less likely even as it becomes more urgent…with a loss of democratic accountability as a nasty side-effect …. [So far] across human history, inequality inevitably rises until checked by disasters like wars or revolutions…. If political leaders tried…they might…find that redistribution is a winner at the ballot box.” https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/07/21/as-inequality-grows-so-does-the-political-influence-of-the-rich Shape of things to come — Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates — “[Insurers] are tracking your race, education level, TV habits, marital status, net worth**… ….** social media, whether you’re behind on your bills, what you order online…[then] feed this information into…algorithms that spit out predictions about how much your health care could cost them …. [But] patient advocates and privacy scholars say the insurance industry’s data gathering runs counter to its…federally required, allegiance to patients’ medical privacy …. HIPAA only protects medical information Patient advocates warn that using unverified, error-prone ‘lifestyle’ data to make medical assumptions could lead insurers to improperly price plans — for instance, raising rates based on false information — or discriminate against anyone tagged as high cost …. . . [This] is important because patients — through taxes, cash payments and insurance premiums…[fund] entire health care system Yet the industry’s…strategies and inside deals often has little to do with patients’ needs… [ …. T]he big guns in health data…[are] Optum, IBM Watson Health and LexisNexis ….[Optum] owned by…UnitedHealth Group…collected the medical diagnoses, tests, prescriptions, costs and socioeconomic data of 150 million Americans going back to 1993…to link patients’ medical outcomes and costs to details like their level of education, net worth, family structure and race…[and] filed a patent…to gather what people share on…Facebook and Twitter, and to link this…to the person’s clinical and payment information …. Doctors and hospitals have typically been paid based on the quantity of care [provided]…[but] moving toward paying them in lump sums for caring for a patient, or for an event, like a knee surgery…[so] can profit more when patients stay healthy …. Studies show social and economic aspects of people’s lives play an important role in [health]…[but] industry has a history of boosting profits by signing up healthy people and finding ways to avoid sick people … Affordable Care Act prohibits insurers from denying people coverage based on pre-existing health conditions or charging sick people more…[but] Trump administration is promoting short-term health plans, which do allow insurers to deny coverage to sick patients…[fail] to include enough information about which drugs a plan covers…[change] things a plan covers, or how much a patient has to pay…after a patient has enrolled…[or] exclude or limit certain types of providers from their networks — like those who have skill caring for patients with HIV or hepatitis C . …. ’ [IBM] surveys 80,000 Americans a year to assess lifestyle, attitudes and behaviors that could relate to health care…[and] analyzed together to identify social and economic factors for an area….A region with too many sick people, or with patients who don’t take care of themselves, might not be worth the risk ’God forbid you live on the wrong street…[and] get lumped in with a lot of bad things …. …. [LexisNexi] uses 442 nonmedical personal attributes to predict a person’s medical costs…[with] more than 78 billion records…including people’s cellphone numbers, criminal records, bankruptcies, property records, neighborhood safety and more…to predict patients’ health risks and costs in eight areas …. People who downsize their homes tend to have higher health care costs…[likewise] those whose parents didn’t finish high school. Patients who own more valuable homes are less likely to land back in the hospital within 30 days of their discharge….[T]he largest health actuarial firm in the world, Milliman…[uses] LexisNexis scores…[for] individual patients and make adjustments to protect themselves from losses ’No one gave anyone permission to do this…[and] not health data…[but] inferred data’ …[leading] to poor people being charged more…[and] harder for them to get the care they need….[Employers] could even decide not to hire people with…high medical costs in the future …. [Our] policymakers could…protect people’s information…[like] ’Europe, data protection is a constitutional right’….[Also] health scores should be treated like credit scores. Federal law gives people the right to know their credit scores and how they’re calculated .[If] rated by whether they listen to sad songs…or look up information about AIDS online, they should know…. … ” [LexisNexis] told me that if it had calculated my scores it would have done so on behalf of…my insurance company. So, I couldn’t have them. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/17/629441555/health-insurers-are-vacuuming-up-details-about-you-and-it-could-raise-your-rates ‘Scraper’ Bots and the Secret Internet Arms Race — “Companies are waging an invisible data war online…[using] software to scan rival websites and collect prices, a process called ‘scraping’…[with] machine-learning algorithms to help…decide how much to charge for different products…. . Google and Bing scrape web pages…for their search engines. Academics and journalists use scraping software to gather data… [ But] scraping can be a two-way street…[with] defenses to subvert scraping …. ….[ …. [One’s] showing different prices to real people than to bots ….[So some] mask bots to avoid detection…[or] appear to be coming from smartphones Users] choice: View ads or allow the app to use ‘some of your device’s resources Sometimes bots actually tell the sites they’re visiting…[but] can also lie. One technique for detecting bots is the frequency with which a visitor hits a site….Captchas can help, but…an inconvenience for legitimate users …. . [Trouble’s] is the need to allow some, but not all, bots to scrape a site If websites blocked bots entirely, they wouldn’t show up in search results. Retailers also generally want their pricing and items to appear on shopping comparison sites…. .” [Amazon] ‘prioritize humans over bots’….[Publishers] make sure advertisers are showing a site’s viewers the same ads that they show to the publishers….[Recently] Chrome extension was accused of being used to steal passwords https://www.wired.com/story/scraper-bots-and-the-secret-internet-arms-race/ DARPA Wants Your Insect-Scale Robots for a Micro-Olympics — “[Large robots] capable in some very specific situations, but…smaller, cheaper, more specialized robots is much more efficient…[especially] with data collection as opposed to manipulation…. [ …. DARPA] program called SHRIMP: SHort-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms…goal is ‘to develop and demonstrate multi-functional micro-to-milli robotic platforms [Tech] advances in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), additive manufacturing, piezoelectric actuators, and low-power sensors have allowed researchers to…to create the strength, dexterity, and independence of functional microrobotics platforms…. ] DARPA expects…systems that weigh less than one gram and fit into one cubic centimeter….[to . High Jump… vertically from a stationary starting position…and survivability…>5cm Long Jump… horizontally from a stationary starting position…and survivability…>5cm Weightlifting… progressively larger masses until…>10g. . Shotput_…_ >10cm @ 1g, >5cm @ 2g … Tug of War… connected to a load…> 25mN . Rock Piling… travel to, lift, and stack weights…in a minimum of two layers without human interaction…2g, 2 layers . Steeplechase… traverse the course without human interaction or recharge between each obstacle … 2 obstacles, 5m Biathlon… traverse to a series of beacon waypoints to create an open circuit without human interaction or recharge between each waypoint…2 beacons, 5m. Vertical Ascent… traverse up two surfaces, one with a shallow incline (10º) and the other with a sharp incline (80º) … 10m at 10°, 1m at 80°.” https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/darpa-wants-your-insect-scale-robots-for-a-micro-olympics DARPA Plans a Major Remake of U.S. Electronics — “[T]o make small groups of engineers capable of feats that would take 100 engineers to achieve today…aiming for 2025 to 2030… around chip architecture…of deep neural nets and other implementations**….** [A] program called Hive …[is] making associations across data sets which aren’t densely connected…doing things like updating memory access patterns, updating the type of cores that would be doing the processing, and working across the software stack to do a hardware/software codesign for a variety of applications…. ’…[ [Next] is something we call ‘software-defined hardware where] hardware is smart enough to reconfigure itself to be the type of hardware you want, based on an analysis of the data type that you’re working on ….[The] hard thing is…how to do that data introspection, how to reconfigure the chip on a…millisecond timescale…monitor whether you’re right…[and] constantly evolving toward the ideal solution…. … …. [Lastly] is the ‘domain specific system-on-chip starting with the software-defined radio…[then] to machine vision and machine learning and other domains to see if you can still have simplified programming models running on top of hyperspecialized hardware [Work] showed that two to three student designers can do full system-on-chip designs by abstraction and automation …. … Idea is really the intersection of machine learning and electronic design automation (EDA)…to capture the capabilities of the designer inside the EDA itself…[so] every time you use an EDA package, it gets smarter and…next design [easier] envision a cloud resource where multiple people are sharing and can all get better simultaneously…. …. [Today] rare to go to GitHub, find high-quality hardware blocks that are available, and have the verification tools and everything you would need to trust that…it is in a state that is useable for your design. Posh is…about the verification tools…[and] IP blocks that will be freely available As the abstraction of the hardware design gets higher and higher, it gets closer to the software community’s mentality…[and] a methodology to understand how good something is at a deep level before it’s used …. .” [Also] look at where memory is stored and ask: Can those same materials be used for processing information?…. Next-generation nonvolatile memory, for example, that switches very fast and with a low write energy https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/darpas-planning-a-major-remake-of-us-electronics-pay-attention.html Find more of my ideas on Medium at, . A Passion to Evolve Or click the Follow button below to add me to your feed. Prefer a weekly email newsletter — free, no ads, no spam, & never sell the list — email me with “add me” in the subject line. dochuston1@gmail.com May you live long and prosper!Doc Huston

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The topic of 1% keeps resonating because its both tantalizing to the masses but also very divisive. As Apple launches the latest iPhone priced even higher than earlier Apple phones, its a good time to revisit why that makes a great strategy. Apple has launched yet another product that many critics call over-priced and focused on the 1%. I posit in this blog post that that is an excellent product strategy. Apple Watch Edition: The Gold Watch for the 1% of the 1% There are some very interesting startups that are taking the technology to the masses and solving problems for . The mobile phone has allowed innovations like mCommerce to reach banking and healthcare where not earlier possible. the bottom of the pyramid But I believe that often times, the right answer for an entrepreneur is to do the exact opposite and in stead focus on the relatively wealthy. In fact, innovations like iPhone started out by solving a problem at a price point that could only be afforded by the relatively wealthy. Same for Tesla. And August. Car for the Rich Elites. The 1%. Let’s look at why this seems to work so well, and for what kind of innovations. One way to imagine what goods and services we all will have access to two to three years out is to look at what the relatively rich are doing today. Electric cars are going to be affordable for all as Tesla builds scale and moves down market and competitors license its technology or build their own versions. We will all get access to slim Macbook Air like computers in years to come as it becomes the industry de facto. Innovation at the Top of the Pyramid — The Future is Rich and Lives in Kansas The Lock Suitable for Kings. Only $199 for a lock. As an entrepreneur, you can essentially project into the ‘future’ by catering to the needs of those who ‘live’ in the future — due to their ability to spend more. In fact, income is just one way to project into the future — you can also target certain geographies. For example, cities with , and high bandwidth wireless cities in Korea and Japan where the future has arrived early. When you build a product that meets the needs of these ‘future cities’ and ‘future people’, you are solving a problem that will eventually be relevant to the masses and you would have multi year lead over your competitors. Google Fiber in US Well, we all know that this is not a true statement in the literal. But if you look at how even the modest among live today, we have a life style that would be the envy of the rich from a few decades ago — airconditioning was rare, access to good entertainment (or any entertainment) was rare, travel was difficult and slow, beds had bugs and no one was immune to the diseases we all have magical immunity to today thanks to vaccine and antibacterial drugs. You don’t have to go 100 years back to feel good. Just compare what you and I can do with a modest smartphone today compared to even 10 years ago. In the Future, Everyone is Rich (Metaphorically Speaking) The Moore’s law and its partners — have essentially lowered the cost of access to all kinds of amazing innovations and inventions. Essentially rendering us rich. Just yesterday, I was interrupted by a minimum wage security guard who was just doing his job — by taking pictures of the shared BBQ areas on his Android phone with an app to do his job! What this means to you in practical terms is — if you build the product at a price point that is only accessible for the relatively rich, your product over time should get cheaper and become accessible to a much larger market. I believe this will be true of over-priced connected locks, of personalized medicine, of 3D printing, of driverless cars, of learning thermostats and so many more amazing innovations. They all look a bit expensive today — even outrageous when you compare them to their mass produced competitors. But its easier for prices to magically go down (scale & time do that) than it is for your low end product to magically become better (never happens on its own). The income gains of last few decades have all gone to the relative few.The number of households making more than $100K in the US has actually gone up a lot in the last 20 years. So while our median household income is not rising as fast at least here in the US, the number of high income households is exploding. The rich though are getting created through income growth not exactly reproduction — in fact, the fertility rates go down as incomes go up. The Rich are Multiplying like Rabbits Now if you take into account the new millionaires in China and India, the number of people worldwide with high net worth and high disposable incomes is growing very rapidly as pointed out by this . BCG report We have an opportunity to build products that meet the needs of the affluent mass market. Just as Starbucks raised the average price of coffee from less than a dollar to three to five dollars, the affluent are happy to spend money on products that deliver value. In technology, we can see this in how how well products from Apple do — not just in volume (which is respectable) but more importantly in profitability. To me, the following products represent the products that meet the ‘needs’ of the affluent mass market.- Apple iPhone- Apple iPad- Starbucks- Tesla (early and at the top end)- Prius- Organic foods (we all want good food, only some of us can afford it) — see - The Trunk Club China Consider building products that may only seem to appeal to those that may be making $250K per year or more. Or if you want to go little more mass affluent, target household income of $100K which in places outside of San Francisco and New York still gets you a lot of disposable income. Target: $250K What would you build if you focused on the rich?- Better rental car service? Like Silvercar.com- Better travel service?- Better air travel? NetJets.com? Clearme.com?- Home health care? OneMedical.com? Concierge medical service?- More devices connected to my body?- Better Sleep? Sleep Number bed? Foam?- Faster internet? Google Fiber- Better locks?- Better Baby Monitors? The best part about this is you can now think in a new constraint. (No constraint is usually a bad idea). Take the products you don’t like and think what you could build for 2 to 10x the price!

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