Every technological transitions replaces or eliminates existing jobs but also creates new ones; the challenge is transitioning those who are left behind because they’ve become experts at doing things that are no longer needed.…
Tag Archives: Artificial intelligence
When A.I. Serves As A Mafia Capo
in Podcast
What happens when crime scales, exponentially; thanks to artificial intelligence? Welcome to the world when A.I. serves as a Mafia Capo.
Continuing our discussion from last week’s episode on humanizing virtual assistants, the next step is for those virtual assistants to act on our behalf; or on their own. …
Do We Really Want Our Virtual Assistants To Be More Human?
in Innovation, Podcast
Apple, Amazon, Google, and others are pushing us to use our voices rather than our fingers to interact with their products. But do we really want our assistants to be more human?…
The Future Of Work With Annalie Killian
How will work change in the future? It is a broad topic that includes many topics including freelancers, corporate culture, co-working, technology and collaboration, people analytics, leadership, change management, holacracy, artificial intelligence and data mining.…
Bill Gates: The Three Phases Of The Robot Revolution
in Innovation
We can all agree to disagree with much of the discussion about robots displacing our jobs in the very near future. It is happening, that’s a fact. What’s hard to predict is when and how fast it will happen.
In previous episodes of my podcast (here and here) we talked about the rise of the machines and what it might mean for society. The way I think about the evolution of artificial intelligence is that it will evolve in phases: easy and complex.…
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Are we creating the future in our image?
in Innovation, Podcast
Nick Bostrom calls artificial intelligence the modern day Doomsday invention. Luminaries such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking agree with him. Why? Because the possibility of creating thinking machines raises a host of ethical issues.
For example, we’re designing software that works like us, that learns like us, and that we can even fall just a little bit in love with. We’re making computer programs that can kill like us, too.
In short, we’re creating the future in our image.…
The Future Of Intelligence: Robots Vs Augmented Humans
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Imagine a world where robots and humans are fighting for dominance, each editing the very building blocks of their beings to outcompete the other.
Sound too far fetched?
It could happen. …