June 2nd, 2021 by
Category: Technology and Humanity

Fellow futurist David Houle and I spoke with Julian Treasure on his Sound Business Podcast and shared our perspectives on the technology behind the current wave of natural language applications and on how voice interfaces may impacts brands and organizations. We discussed the opportunities and threats of this new voice-based world and how we’re moving towards interfaces based on speaking and listening rather than typing.

In this talk I comment on how I believe AI technology is on the cusp of being as good as human understanding in terms of context, connotation, and semantics; and on the social-cultural changes we can expect as smart technology continues to advance. Understanding AGI (artificial general intelligence) and how we can avoid dehumanization as a possible side-effect.

Listen to the Business Sound Podcast here

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Author: Gerd Leonhard

In the words of American poet John Berryman, “the possibility that has been overlooked is the future”. Most of us are far too busy coping with present challenges to explore the future in any depth – and when we do our own cravings and fears often run away with us, resulting in utopias or dystopias that are not very helpful in terms of planning and decisions. Today’s professionals, leaders and their organisations need a dedicated, passionate long-term understanding of the future if they are to successfully navigate the exponential waves of change. For countless individuals and organizations that intelligence is called Gerd Leonhard.

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