Author: Rauf Aliev

May 13 2018, 12:01

It turns out, on eBay there are one billion (!) “live” listings (ebuyinc). On Amazon – about 600 million. In December last year, Amazon had 200 million visitors per day (comscore), which is roughly one and a half times the population of Russia per day. Revenue in 2017 was $177 billion, and this year it is expected to reach $400 billion (hmm; source-bloomberg). That means, in one year, Amazon will surpass Russia (exports in 2017 were ~$360 billion, of which just over a third were non-commodity non-energy goods).

May 12 2018, 16:04

Am I correct in understanding that those who have taken the free hectare in the Far East will, after five years, be subject to a tax whose amount is still unknown, and which they will need to pay for the rest of their lives, as the land cannot be sold under agreement, and there is yet no mechanism for returning it to the state?)

May 09 2018, 11:45

The future is already here) Duplex is an AI program capable of speaking in a natural language (in the examples – English).

There are demo recordings at the link, and even if you don’t know English, listen to them just as a fresh example of synthesized speech.

Essentially, on the other end of the line, it’s impossible to guess that you’re talking to a robot.

At the link, the developers ordered some so-so food for themselves, sitting pleased)

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html