Category: Rudy deWaele
Hyper Reality by Keiichi Matsuda
Feeling a bit disconnected from the latest Pokémon Go craze? Don’t worry, if you’re still mostly living in the real world, Pokémon Go players tend to look like lost zombies searching for the virtual Holy Grail. If you dig virtual worlds, it’ll probably get worse. To get a glimpse of how a not too distant future may look like for consumers through … Continue reading "Hyper Reality by Keiichi Matsuda"
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About Trump and biased machine learning algorithms
A very interesting article by Cathy O’Neil on the relationship of machine learning in our political and policy spheres. She makes a quick, but to the point observation on Donald Trump: He is not like normal people. In particular, he doesn’t have any principles to speak of, that might guide him. No moral compass. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a … Continue reading "About Trump and biased machine learning algorithms"
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How to see the future (podcast interview with Glen Hiemstra)
How to think like a futurist. Glen Hiemstra, founder of futurist.com, explains what he looks at when spotting trends and how to see the future. In this 30-minute podcast interview, Glen discusses the 3-part filter he uses to judge the future likelihood of a particular development. The podcast is part of the Popular Mechanics longer series How … Continue reading "How to see the future (podcast interview with Glen Hiemstra)"
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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"
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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"
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Blockchain Futures
Blockchain is the ingeniously simple technology that powers Bitcoin. But it is much more than that, too. It is a public ledger to which everyone has access, but which no single person controls. It allows for companies and individuals to collaborate with an unprecedented degree of trust and transparency. It is cryptographically secure, but fundamentally open. … Continue reading "Blockchain Futures"
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The Internet is not evil (interview with Werner Herzog). New film: Lo and behold
Very much inline with Gerd Leonhard‘s vision in Technology Vs. Humanity: the new film Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World of Werner Herzog (to be released later this week on Amazon Video and iTunes). In this long, feature-length documentary, the 73-year-old director tackles the most expansive project of his career: the Internet. Herzog is considered one of the greatest figures … Continue reading "The Internet is not evil (interview with Werner Herzog). New film: Lo and behold"
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Gross Domestic Product vs Gross National Happiness (GDP vs GNH)
Here’s an overview of interesting articles why Gross domestic product (GDP) is an out-dated measure to compare the economic performance of a country or region, and to make international comparisons. Looking at international politics and economies today, it seems urgent to suggest Gross National Happiness (GNH) as a better mechanism to measure the wellbeing of a country’s people. Gerd Leonhard dedicates an … Continue reading "Gross Domestic Product vs Gross National Happiness (GDP vs GNH)"
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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?"
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Social media echo chambers and democracy
In 2009, I spoke at a conference in Madrid with Jim Margolis, who served as a Senior Advisor to Barack Obama in both his 2008 and 2012 campaigns for the White House. In his talk Jim explained how the 2008 campaign was the first presidential campaign where social media was decisive to win the elections. That success was later … Continue reading "Social media echo chambers and democracy"
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Let’s rewrite the business rules where people matter (via Tim O’Reilly)
One of the big reasons we’re moving back into a more socially polarised society – as seen recently in some countries of the EU, the UK and the US – is the continuous dilution of the middle class in many economies over the last 20-30 years, and tensions are rising around the globe. Aristotle wrote it down more than … Continue reading "Let’s rewrite the business rules where people matter (via Tim O’Reilly)"
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10 dystopian scenarios for the future (via George Dvorsky)
We usually have a tendency to see the dangers far before they come and we are usually able to solve issues. However, we never seem to be able to get rid of utopian visions and dystopian warnings. George Dvorsky recently listed 10 Predictions About the Future That Should Scare the Hell Out of You on Gizmodo. Here are … Continue reading "10 dystopian scenarios for the future (via George Dvorsky)"
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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"
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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?"
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Machines and human replacement (McKinsey report)
McKinsey analyzed the detailed work activities of more than 800 occupations from across the US economy to assess the percentage of time spent on activities with the technical potential for automation by adapting currently demonstrated technology. Read the detailed results on the technical potential for automation in various sectors. “While automation will eliminate very few occupations entirely in the next … Continue reading "Machines and human replacement (McKinsey report)"
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Neuromorphic chips coming on your mobile device
IBM Research in Zurich has created the world’s first artificial nanoscale stochastic phase-change neurons to store and process data. This demonstration marks a significant step forward in the development of energy-efficient, ultra-dense integrated neuromorphic technologies for applications in cognitive computing. Read more about this exciting discovery and understand more about artificial neurons in this interview with Manuel Le Gallo, … Continue reading "Neuromorphic chips coming on your mobile device"
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