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AI Is Not the Future, It’s the Present
“If you’re an iPhone user, you’ve come across Apple’s AI, and not just in Siri’s improved acumen in figuring out what you ask of her....
Slide-deck and video of my keynote: DSAG 2016 summit in Nürnberg Germany (digitale Transformation 2021 – in German)
DSAG-digitale-transformation-2021-zukunft-gerd-leonhard-web PDF 11MB Die nächsten fünf Jahre bringen mehr Veränderungen als die letzten 50, denn exponentielle technologische Veränderungen – die sog. Megashifts – stehen überall...
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Sep 2016
Via Technology Review: most experts say AI isn’t as much of a threat as you might think – what do you think?
“Bostrom aggregates the results of four different surveys of groups such as participants in a conference called “Philosophy and Theory of AI,” held in 2011...
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Sep 2016
When your boss is an algorithm – great read via the FT
“There are no good estimates on the global scale of the gig economy but in the US there are about 800,000 people earning money this...
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Sep 2016
Do no harm, don’t discriminate: official guidance issued on robot ethics (via The Guardian)
“Now the British Standards Institute has issued a more official version aimed at helping designers create ethically sound robots.The document, BS8611 Robots and robotic devices,...
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Sep 2016
The slide-deck from today’s IDC CIO Summit in Frankfurt
…. here they are. More about the IDC CIO Summit Download the PDF 20MB : exponential-cio-idc-frankfurt-futurist-gerd-leonhard-public-web ... Read more
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Sep 2016
Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming. But Why Now? – NYTimes.com
“How will we know when the A.I. revolution has taken hold? A technology truly matures when it disappears. We don’t marvel at houses with electricity...
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Sep 2016
What artificial intelligence will look like in 2030 (Harvard)
“Now is the time to consider the design, ethical, and policy challenges that AI technologies raise,” said Grosz. “If we tackle these issues now and...
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Sep 2016
Robots will eliminate 6% of all US jobs by 2021, report says (good read via The Guardian)
“By 2021 a disruptive tidal wave will begin. Solutions powered by AI/cognitive technology will displace jobs, with the biggest impact felt in transportation, logistics, customer...
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Sep 2016
My slides from Cognition (HfS) 2016 New York: digital ethics and the future of business
Here is the deck from today's fabulous event in New York. Thanks to Phil Fersht for inviting me! digital-ethics-and-the-future-of-business-cognition-ny-gerd-futurist-public-web 11MB PDF Update: here is the MP3...
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Sep 2016
Technology Vs Humanity: Forbes intervista Gerd Leonhard. Nice Italian translation of my themes
“Tecnologia Vs Umanità: cosa ci aspetterà in futuro?Dici che l'umanità cambierà più nei prossimi 20 anni rispetto ai 300 anni precedenti. Perché pensi che questo...
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Sep 2016
So this is what VIRTUALIZATION really means: Apple EarPods 2020 (have a laugh)
Just saw this on LinkedIn and thought it makes a great example for what I have come to call THE MEGASHIFTS — in particular, virtualization,...
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Sep 2016
What are androrithms (Gerd Leonhard’s neologism from the Technology vs Humanity book)
One of the powerful key memes from my Technology vs Humanity book are androrithms. What does it actually mean? This is a key neologism in the book...
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Sep 2016
Slides from my presentation at the London Futurists event Birkbeck College: Technology versus Humanity
Thanks for having me at this event. Here is the slide-deck: technology-versus-humanity-gerd-leonhard-presentation-futurist-london (20MB PDF) Futurist Gerd Leonhard's new book has the provocative title “Technology vs. Humanity: The coming clash...
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Sep 2016
On Facebook’s ‘universal’ censorship rules (guest post by Rudy de Waele)
By Rudy De Waele 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...
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Sep 2016
Will humanity need its own protection agency? Scenes and slides from the Technology vs Humanity book launch event in London
Thanks everyone for coming to this event – here is what happened :)) The actual slide deck from last night (PDF): technology-versus-humanity-futurist The book is now available...
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Sep 2016
Audio and Video of my keynote at Mercedes Benz Vans Innovation Campus in Stuttgart Sept 7, 2016: the future is already here!
Event details. Thanks to Mercedes Benz Vans for asking me to speak and for making this video available me! This was a pretty amazing event,...
09
Sep 2016
The Next Industrial Revolution Is Coming and It Could Destroy Millions of Jobs #mademethink !
“I think the digital revolution is probably going to be as important and transformative as the industrial revolution. The main reason is machine intelligence, a...
