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• New ‘Smart Region’ Scheme Is Regionalism To Dictate Smart City Makeovers

  13-02-2019 16:07 via technocracy.news
  The Phoenix area Smart Region Initiative is a pilot program to see how much sovereignty can be stripped from member cities without a mass uprising by disenfranchised citizens. With no elected officials, SRI seeks domination over 22 cities and 4.2 million people to dictate uniform implementation of Smart City policies and technology.  ⁃ TN EditorImagine a perfect day in metro Phoenix: no traffic congestion and autonomous vehicles glide commuters through the streets, hitting nothing but
  
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• OECD Says Nations Must Boost Adult Training In Face Of Automation

  13-02-2019 15:48 via technocracy.news
  Globalist-led OECD foresees a human crisis if adult training is not provided for workers displaced by robotics and AI. The Technocrat solution is to just give them money via Universal Basic Income and forget the expense of training.  ⁃ TN EditorDeveloped countries need to “urgently” boost adult training and education programmes to deal with future mass job upheaval brought on by automation, the OECD said Wednesday.
  The OECD’s latest analysis found that one in seven
  
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• IBM’s ‘Debater AI’ Loses Debate To Human

  13-02-2019 15:26 via technocracy.news
  Now computer AI can argue with you. IBM again pushes the envelope with its advanced AI software/hardware to take on a champion human debater, but it lost. The next debate may turn out differently. ⁃ TN EditorThe subject under debate was whether the government should subsidize preschools. But the real question was whether a machine called IBM Debater could out-argue a top-ranked human debater.
  The answer, on Monday night, was no.Harish Natarajan, the grand finalist at the 2016 Wor
  
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