Blog – Page 66 – Technology vs Humanity: the coming clash of man and machine

Happy new year: here is a nice short video interview with my key messages for 2020 (recorded at Festival de Linkiesta 2019)

Happy 2020: here’s a short video interview with me, with some key messages for 2020 Recorded at Linkiesta Festival 2019 in Italy Read more here (in Italian) Download the PDF with my slides used at this event: linkiesta generatione milano gerd leonhard technology humanity future

Technology vs Humanity: Spanish Overdub of Gerd Leonhard’s keynote at the Colombian Business Conference 2019 in Medellin

Spanish language overdub of my keynote at ANDI CBC Technology and Humanity – Future Keynote in Medellin Colombia 2019 Watch this Video for the Spanish-overdubbed version of my talk at ANDI’s Colombian Business Conference in Medellin 2019. Spanish Audio Version as .m4a Download Keynote as Audio https://www.futuristgerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Gerd-Leonhard-Keynote-SPANISH-4-CEC-Conferencia│-Tecnología-y-humanidad-definiendo-nuestro-futuro-hoy-AUDIO-ONLY.m4a Download Spanish Audio: Tecnología y humanidad, definiendo … Continue reading "Technology vs Humanity: Spanish Overdub of Gerd Leonhard’s keynote at the Colombian Business Conference 2019 in Medellin"

‘Business as usual’ will kill us

"Change is possible, but this would require a revolution in many fields, starting with the way we produce and consume energy. If we continue with business as usual, we’re heading straight into a wall”

Know-how

Machine learning – a kind of sub-field of artificial intelligence (AI) – is a means of training algorithms to discern empirical relationships within immense reams of data. Run a purpose-built algorithm by a pile of images of moles that might or might not be cancerous. Read full Article

Tacit knowledge, robots and AI – good read via AEON

A great deal turns on the status of tacit knowledge. On this much the champions of a machine learning-powered revival of command economics and their critics agree. Tacit knowledge is the kind of cognition we refer to when we say that we know more than we can tell. How do you ride a bike? No one can say with any precision. Supervision helps, but a beginner has to figure it out for herself. How do you know that a spot is a freckle and not a cancer? A specialist cannot teach a medical student simply by spelling out her thinking in words. The student has to practise under supervision until she has mastered the skill for herself. This kind of know-how cannot be imparted or downloaded. Can robots assimilate tacit knowledge? Mid-20th-century arguments against centralised planning assumed that they could not. Some of the achievements of machine learning – such as eclipsing specialist doctors at spotting cancer – suggest otherwise. If robots can retain tacit knowledge, AI-powered central planning might well outperform decentralised market interactions in coordinating economic activity. But there is good reason to believe that the mid-century anti-planners were right. Tacit knowledge will probably remain the preserve of....