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The Future of Humans? One Forecaster Calls for Obsolescence
HOMO DEUS A Brief History of Tomorrow By Yuval Noah Harari Illustrated. 449 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $35. “Organisms are algorithms,” Yuval Noah Harari asserts in his provocative new book, “Homo Deus. Read full Article
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The rise of the useless class
Historian Yuval Noah Harari offers a bracing prediction: just as mass industrialization created the working class, the AI revolution will create a new unworking class. Read full Article
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Facebook, Social Media and technology needs to be fixed for the good of humanity
Social media and other attention-based internet platforms have certainly captured our attention: adults in the U.S. spent nearly six hours per day on digital media last year. Read full Article
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AI Will Put 10 Million Jobs At High Risk — More Than Were Eliminated By The Great Recession
Automation is coming after jobs, from fast food workers to accountants. We analyzed which jobs are most — and least — at risk, given factors including tasks involved, the current commercial deployment of technology, patent activity, regulations, and more. Read full Article
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How will automation impact jobs?
AI, robotics and other forms of smart automation have the potential to bring great economic benefits, contributing up to $15 trillion to global GDP by 2030 according to PwC analysis. Read full Article
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The world’s most powerful supercomputer is tailor made for the AI era
Since 2013, Chinese machines have occupied the number one slot in rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Now America is back on top again. Read full Article
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5 AI Clouds You Can Use Today
The sensationalist hype around AI has a lot of people believing that the technology may be too advanced or too technical for their businesses to take advantage of. This is false. AI is here now and you can start using it today. Read full Article
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California lawmakers just adopted tough new privacy rules targeting Facebook, Google and other tech giants
California lawmakers on Thursday adopted sweeping new rules that restrict the data-harvesting practices of Amazon.com, Facebook, Google and Uber, a move that soon could spur other states, and even the U.S. Congress, to take aim at the tech industry. Read full Article
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Microsoft’s next act
CEO Satya Nadella talks about innovation, disruption, and organizational change. In 2014, Satya Nadella was appointed CEO of Microsoft, making him only the third leader in the software company’s 40-year history, following Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Read full Article
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Futurist Keynote Speaker Gerd Leonhard: die 7 Zukunftsprinzipien: ÖBB Executive Update
Mein gesamter Vortrag beim 2018 Executive Forum der OEBB (GERMAN language): die Zukunft von Transport, Logistik und Mobilität (Wien).Thanks to Habegger Austria for ÖBB Executive UPDATE 2018Thanks for visiting GerdTube!Gerd Leonhard Futurist, Author and Keynote Speaker Zürich / Switzerland http:/ Read full Article
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10 Charts That Will Change Your Perspective On Artificial Intelligence’s Growth
These and many other fascinating insights are from Stanford University’s inaugural AI Index (PDF, no opt-in, 101 pp.). Read full Article
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Google is Reportedly Looking to Take Over Call Centers With Its Duplex AI Assistant
When Google introduced Google Duplex, its AI assistant designed to speak like a human, the company showed off how the average person could use the tech to save time making reservations and whatnot. Read full Article
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Let’s make private data into a public good
The internal-combustion engine has been dominant for over a hundred years—not because it’s the best possible engine, but because it gained an initial advantage through historical accident. Read full Article
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AI Learns the Art of Debate
Today, an artificial intelligence (AI) system engaged in the first ever live, public debates with humans. Read full Article
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Could You Sue Diagnostic Algorithms or Medical Robots in the Future?
What if a deep learning algorithm misses a diagnosis, the doctor accepts the judgment and the patient dies? What if a surgical robot injures a patient during a procedure? Who will be held liable in the future when robots and artificial intelligence (A.I. Read full Article
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‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice
“Almost all of them raised their hand and got dreamy looks in their eyes,” she told me. They talked about it “like a tidal wave would sweep over them,” he said. Sploosh. Huzzah! It’s accounting! Would they have unlimited motivation for their passion? They nodded solemnly. Read full Article
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Inside the Binge Factory
“What do you think about gas in the tank for the long term?” asks Cindy Holland, Netflix’s vice-president of original content. Read full Article
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Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras
ZHENGZHOU, China — In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station. Read full Article
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A growing number of people think their job is useless. Time to rethink the meaning of work
A great deal has been written in recent years about the perils of automation. With predicted mass unemployment, declining wages, and increasing inequality, clearly we should all be afraid. By now it’s no longer just the Silicon Valley trend watchers and technoprophets who are apprehensive. Read full Article
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Use of Technology: Every Step He Takes
In a first of its kind case, the Kerala police nabs a man who helped his lover keep track of her husband in real time by secretly installing an app on his mobile phone ~By NV Ravindranathan Nair in Thiruvananthapuram Life sometimes may look stranger than fiction, and the seemingly unreal may tran Read full … Continue reading "Use of Technology: Every Step He Takes"
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