Short update on all the tech stuff I’ve encountered today. I had breakfast with friends who said that they were using AI to read and summarize books for them and that while an expert might do better, DeepSeek was faster and more accurate than a young, just hired employee. I then when to Handshake for an event. Outside Nantou Ancient City, there was a robot sweeping the path to the south gate and a police robot that could take reports and photos. My day concluded with to a virtual exhibit on Pompei. Digital impressions of recent archaeology which allowed for the discoveries to be shown to scale, without giving a sense of the texture of anything. In fact, only the souvenirs were material. So we went through a virtual exhibition and could leave with high quality tchotchkes.
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China’s Troubling Robot Revolution
More about why Shenzhen–and the forms of creativity that are being developed here–has far, far reaching effects. Full article over at the NYTimes, snippet, below.
Image Credit: Kristian Hammerstad
OVER the last decade, China has become, in the eyes of much of the world, a job-eating monster, consuming entire industries with its seemingly limitless supply of low-wage workers. But the reality is that China is now shifting its appetite to robots, a transition that will have significant consequences for China’s economy — and the world’s.
In 2014, Chinese factories accounted for about a quarter of the global ranks of industrial robots — a 54 percent increase over 2013. According to the International Federation of Robotics, it will have more installed manufacturing robots than any other country by 2017.
Midea, a leading manufacturer of home appliances in the heavily industrialized province of Guangdong, plans to replace 6,000 workers in its residential air-conditioning division, about a fifth of the work force, with automation by the end of the year. Foxconn, which makes consumer electronics for Apple and other…
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Shenzhen Noted 