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I want AI to go well. You should too. Read the summary – then read the rest. Universal High Income? I’ve been thinking about writing this post for awhile. In fact, the entire existence of Cleary Intelligent is basically predicated on the ideas contained within this post. I’ve debated on waiting until I had a…
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I think about AI every day. It’s often difficult to orient the sheer volume of thinking I do about AI in a structured way. When I do, they come out in the form of a blog post here at Clearly Intelligent. The New York Times conducted a panel with eight AI leaders to grill them…
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This post is not going to focus on AI. It’s probably going to be more political than I would have previously thought my writing here would be. But I don’t have a problem with that, because in this post, I’ll be arguing for a political philosophy that every American should cherish and work hard to…
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In 2026, AI will undoubtedly continue to be a huge part of our social, economic, technological, and political progression as a species. Here are a few things I think we’ll see in 2026 in the world of AI and elsewhere. Autonomous Driving Accelerates and Runs Into the Real World Waymo is planning to aggressively expand…
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It’s been awhile (~2 months) since my last post and a lot has happened in the world of AI. The White House unveiled America’s AI Action Plan which has generally been received warmly by parties across the political spectrum. Waymo and Tesla have expanded their self-driving offerings and promised additional cities later this year and…
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Every day in the United States, commuters, parents, children, and workers enter their vehicles and travel an astonishing 8,750,000,000 miles per day (for those counting, that’s 8.75 billion miles per day). Most of those trips are routine — going to the grocery store, a doctor’s appointment, or to the office. But for roughly 40,000 people…
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Science is incredible. The practice of observing the world around us, stating hypotheses, designing experiments, collecting data, analyzing results, and sharing the work with peers has propelled our civilization forward in countless ways. Ancient Babylonian astronomers tracked the movement of celestial bodies and used this information to refine their calendar’s accuracy and generate the first…
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People have been concerned with new technology’s impact on the areas of labor and work for as long as the concept of labor and work have existed. Take for example the humble plow, a tool that shifted the measure of a person’s ability to extract value from the earth from the amount of work they…
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Last week, Google hosted their annual I/O conference at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. They announced a slew of new ideas and products that range from AI mode for search to a tool that allows users to virtually try on outfits to a prototype homework tutor that sees what a student sees and…
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Welcome to Clearly Intelligent. I’m Mike Cottone, a consultant by day and an artificial intelligence commentator and communicator by night. I’m embarking on this project because I believe that we are in the early days of a period of profound technological change. I have two main goals in mind with this endeavor. Goal #1 Expand…