Ranunculus: Stanford - How to Think Critically about Artificial Intelligence - Dear Bill and Li, (Dr. Clancey and Prof. Jiang), By way of example, here's a MIT robot - "Researchers used a simulation to train this robot dog at super-speed" - which when developed virtually with A.I. could learn to go much faster, due to machine learning A.I., Quantum computing?,Re NASA Utah field site - many potential parallels with creating a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs, which is my physical-digital ethnographic field site for actual-virtual anthropological comparison. Could NASA even model both places concurrently, for example? (And re a new STEM and social science method I'm developing and calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, Physical-Digital Lego Robotics

With regards to the NASA Utah field site, I see many potential parallels with creating a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs, which is my physical-digital ethnographic field site for actual-virtual anthropological comparison. Could NASA even model both places concurrently, for example? (And re a new STEM and social science method I'm developing and calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy)?

(As an example, ‘enter’ into this realistic virtual earth here - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg - where you can visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate virtually, and "walk" down the road "4 miles" to Middletown, CA, to "amble" around the streets there, if interested (accessible from: https://twitter.com/HarbinBook and http://bit.ly/HarbinBook) ... the beginnings of a realistic virtual Harbin for soaking :) Part of my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project, this realistic virtual Harbin - and EARTH - will get better and better with time (am thinking this will emerge in Google Streetview with TIME SLIDER and with Streetview/Sansar: re Bernhard Drax – Sansar & Google Streetview? Sansar is a social platform exclusively designed for #VR, inspired by Second Life (SL) with realistic AVATAR BOTS ... with digital-physical correspondence for robotics' development too.) Let's begin to develop molecular biosensors for avatar bots in such a realistic virtual earth. (Gave a talk at UC Berkeley last Oct 26, 2018 about Harbin and Robotics - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/lewis-river-washington-state-uc.html).

Thank you again for your brilliant and inspiring talk, Bill. Appreciating in it too the influences of the 1960s/'70s thinking, a time I'm studying, both re my Harbin project, and in other ways. 

What's your email address, Bill, please, if and when further specific how to think critically about Google's TensorFlow artificial intelligence emerge?

And thank you so much, Li and Bill, for your great Stanford talk. 

Best regards, Scott

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