Category: Artificial Intelligence

New video: Exponential transformation? Why the future is better than we think – and why humans will still matter (Acquia Engage London 2018)

Brand-new talk from Acquia Engage London 2018!  Thanks to Acquia for making this video available, and for inviting me to speak at their amazing event. Download the slides used in this talk: acquia London gerd leonhard futurist keynote the future is better than we think public deck low res Download the MP4 file for offline viewing … Continue reading "New video: Exponential transformation? Why the future is better than we think – and why humans will still matter (Acquia Engage London 2018)"

Google’s data centers with DeepMind-powered AI

In our category “good tech”, we applaud the news that DeepMind began applying its advanced AI to Google’s data centers, in order to find ways to reduce the company’s sizeable energy bill. Two years ago, Google spent over half a billion dollars for the London-based artificial intelligence startup DeepMind. Since then, the unit became an Atari gaming pro player and … Continue reading "Google’s data centers with DeepMind-powered AI"

On Facebook’s ‘universal’ censorship rules

Brilliant important statement, by editor-in-chief Espen Egil Hansen, of the Norwegian daily newspaper Aftenposten, in reply to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s demand to remove a picture of a naked Kim Phuc, fleeing from the napalm bombs – one of the world’s most famous war photographs. Facebook deleted the article as well as the image from Aftenposten’s Facebook page. If you will … Continue reading "On Facebook’s ‘universal’ censorship rules"

Only the privileged fear a robot revolution (I don’t quite agree but … read this anyway)

Stanford University One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence 2016 Report (AI100)

“As a society, we are underinvesting resources in research on the societal implications of AI technologies. Private and public dollars should be directed toward interdisciplinary teams capable of analyzing AI from multiple angles.” The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, launched in the fall of 2014, is a long-term investigation of the field of … Continue reading "Stanford University One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence 2016 Report (AI100)"

About artificial intelligence and strategic management

“Anything that can be digitized or automated, will be – and anything that cannot be digitized or automated will become extremely valuable”, mentions Gerd Leonhard in his Technology Vs. Humanity manifesto. Since IBM started using artificial intelligence for its Mergers & Acquisitions program five years ago, the major consulting firms are all positioning and investing in machine intelligence to … Continue reading "About artificial intelligence and strategic management"

The Ethical Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence

“Digital ethics will evolve into a burning, un-ignorable issue for every individual and organization as technology permeates every aspect of human life and activity.” – Gerd Leonhard in Technology vs. Humanity (released on September 8 2016) The US Federal Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recently stated that Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies “offer great promise for … Continue reading "The Ethical Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence"

Work and Happiness in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Ffifth-century Athens (also called Periclean Athens) is the Greek city-state of Athens in the time from 480 BC-404 BC. This was a period of Athenian political hegemony, economic growth and cultural flourishing formerly known as the Golden Age of Athens with the later part The Age of Pericles. Guided by statesman and orator Pericles, Athens produced … Continue reading "Work and Happiness in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"

How AI is disrupting the world’s largest industries

Intel’s acquisition earlier this month of Nervana Systems is another example of how startups are preparing to disrupt the worlds largest industries using Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is undergoing a massive acceleration driven by rapid growth in available data and rapid evolution of algorithms. DCVC, a venture capital fund that invests in entrepreneurs applying cognitive computing, big … Continue reading "How AI is disrupting the world’s largest industries"

Who Should Control Artificial Intelligence?

Great interview by Jack Clark on Bloomberg with Google’s AI wonder boy Demis Hassabis, on using artificial intelligence on everything from climate change to aging. Demis was the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, a neuroscience-inspired AI company, bought by Google in Jan 2014. He is now Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind and leads … Continue reading "Who Should Control Artificial Intelligence?"

Moral Machine

From self-driving cars on public roads to self-piloting reusable rockets landing on self-sailing ships, machine intelligence is supporting or entirely taking over ever more complex human activities at an ever increasing pace. The greater autonomy given machine intelligence in these roles can result in situations where they have to make autonomous choices involving human life … Continue reading "Moral Machine"

Will smarter machines cause mass unemployment?

The idea that manual work can be carried out by machines is already familiar; now ever-smarter machines can perform tasks done by information workers, too. What determines vulnerability to automation, experts say, is not so much whether the work concerned is manual or white-collar but whether or not it is routine. Machines can already perform routine … Continue reading "Will smarter machines cause mass unemployment?"

AI Ethics and the Fate of Humanity (Gerd Leonhard quotes from CommunicAsia 2016)

READ MORE HERE  Mr Gerd Leonhard, Futurist, Author and Chief Executive Officer of the Futures Agency, flashed this screen capture of a mobile app to illustrate his point: Mr Gerd Leonhard, Futurist, Author and Chief Executive Officer of the Futures Agency: Technology has no ethics. “Technology has no ethics”. But human societies depend on ethics, he said. So … Continue reading "AI Ethics and the Fate of Humanity (Gerd Leonhard quotes from CommunicAsia 2016)"

The Telegraph interview with Gerd Leonhard, on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation

… just went live; visit Gerd’s blog to read the summary and review the essential images from the Tata CEO event. Related video: