Technology Scientist claims cyborgs will rule the planet within 80 years – with one surprising caveatFox News - The SunBritain's greatest living scientist is convinced cyborgs will rule the planet by the end of this century. James Lovelock is predicting a world where artificial intelligence takes control because they be
Influencer Marketing The Death Of Influencer Marketing As We Knew ItForbes - Daniel SnowOn a July afternoon in 2016, an unforgettable moment happened in my and many others’ lives: I realized that my Instagram news feed was no longer in chronological order. Instagram had finally released timelines
Capitalism Scapegoats: Political Risks For The Rich Are Rising All Over The WorldForbes - Rainer ZitelmannThe psychology of success and wealth and the power of capitalism. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's plans for excessive taxes on the superrich have been met with a great deal of approval. Political risks for
Management This Is the Most In-Demand Skill of the FutureInc Magazine - Ryan JenkinsThe future of work belongs to those who possess emotional and social skills. Here's why. When artificial intelligence (AI) can diagnose a patient's condition with greater accuracy than a human doctor,
Cognitive Computing Why an “AI Race” Between the U.S. and China Is a Terrible, Terrible IdeaThe Intercept - Sam Biddle Perhaps because it lies at the perfect nexus of genuinely-very-complicated and impossibly-confounded-by-marketing-buzzword-speak, the term “AI” has …
CyborgsWhy Britain’s most eminent scientist is convinced cyborgs will rule the planet within 80 years - but don’t worry, they’lldailymail.co.uk - John Gray It is 8.30am and Britain’s most eminent scientist is taking a windswept stroll through Dorset’s rolling hills. It seems hard to believe that James …
Diapers Pampers is making a 'smart' diaper. Yes, reallyCNN - By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN BusinessNew York (CNN Business) — It's come to this: There's about to be an app for your baby's diaper. Pampers this week announced a line of smart diapers that it says will track a child's urine -- but not bowel
Technology Deepfake videos pose a threat, but 'dumbfakes' may be worseAssociated Press - By BEATRICE DUPUY and BARBARA ORTUTAY, Associated PressSophisticated phony videos called deepfakes have attracted plenty of attention as a possible threat to election integrity. But a bigger problem for the 2020 U.S. presidential contest may be "dumbfakes"
Artificial Intelligence High-Stakes AI Decisions Need to Be Automatically AuditedWIRED - Oren Etzioni and Michael Li Today’s AI systems make weighty decisions regarding loans, medical diagnoses, parole, and more. They're also opaque systems, which makes them …
Play buttonPuzzles AI learns to solve a Rubik's Cube in 1.2 secondsEngadget - Kris HoltResearchers at the University of California, Irvine have created an artificial intelligence system that can solve a Rubik's Cube in an average of 1.2 seconds in about 20 moves. That's two seconds faster
Science Elon Musk's robot surgeon will sew electrodes into human brains, starting in 2020Mashable - Caitlin WelshElon Musk’s super-secretive startup Neuralink has finally revealed where it’s at on the whole human-machine mind-meld project, and if the phrase "Elon Musk says a monkey has been able to control a computer
Politics Weaponised AI is coming. Are algorithmic forever wars our future?The GuardianThe US military is creating a more automated form of warfare – one that will greatly increase its capacity to wage war everywhere forever. Last month marked the 17th anniversary of 9/11. With it came new
Mobile Technology Why absolutely everyone should be concerned about facial recognitionMashable - Alex PerryThe tech world moves so quickly that dystopia can arrive without us realizing it. That seems to be the trajectory we're on with facial recognition. Some of the biggest names in the tech space are developing
Artificial Intelligence A mind of its own: Russia unveils terrifying new AI 'superweapon'nzherald.co.nz - Jamie Siedel The race to incorporate artificial intelligence in modern weapons threatens to outstrip the technology's capabilities — and the world's ability to …
Robotics Robots make bridge inspections safer and cheaper, says researchersctvnews.ca - CTV Kitchener University of Waterloo researchers say they have developed a system that will help make bridge inspections more accurate and accessible. The …
Artificial Intelligence A Chinese AI startup is tracking lost dogs using their nose printsThe Verge - Natt GarunMegvii, a Chinese AI startup that supplies facial recognition software for the Chinese government’s surveillance program, is expanding its technology beyond humans to recognize different faces of pets.
Technology Explainer: What is post-quantum cryptography?MIT Technology Review - Martin Giles The race is on to create new ways to protect data and communications from the threat posed by super-powerful quantum computers. This is the third in a …
Blockchain Blockchain Is Here - Are You Ready?Forbes - Jim BlasingameSince the advent of the Digital Age, the number of business model disruptions brought on by new technology has been unprecedented in human history. Legacy paradigms – complete with red-letter rules and
Flipped Classroom Three Reasons Why Active Learning Will Drive The Workforce Of TomorrowForbes - Anant AgarwalActive learning methods result in better outcomes and knowledge retention. Every conceivable industry is being transformed by advances in technology, including artificial intelligence, automation and learning.
Algorithms AI Trained on Old Scientific Papers Makes Discoveries Humans Missed - VICEVICE - Madeleine GregoryScientists used machine learning to reveal new scientific knowledge hidden in old research papers. Using just the language in millions of old scientific papers, a machine learning algorithm was able to
Play buttonTechnology The state of AI in 2019: Breakthroughs in machine learning, natural language processing, games, and knowledge graphsZDNet - George Anadiotis A tour de force on progress in AI, by some of the world's leading experts and venture capitalists. AI is one of the most rapidly growing domains …
Lettuce Machine learning helps robot harvest lettuce for the first timenewatlas.com - Rich Haridy Engineers from the University of Cambridge have developed a vegetable-picking robot that can autonomously identify and harvest iceberg lettuce, one …
Artificial Intelligence Role of Artifical Intelligence in Call Management Systemthestatesman.com Startups and SMEs encounter challenges in their initial phase as they may lack resources, experience, and capital which naturally incline their …
Singularity Is this AI developing a sense of time?ZDNet - Tiernan Ray Researchers at Heidelberg's Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and Montreal's prestigious MILA develop a …
Music Industry The Amazing Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming The Music IndustryForbes - Bernard Marrartificial intelligence (AI) will impact the music industry are over. Artificial intelligence is already used in many ways. Now it's time to consider how much it will influence how we create and consume
Lifestyle (UK) What will the world look like in 20 years’ time? We asked the top trend forecasters and their answers were fascinatingglamourmagazine.co.uk - Elle Turner Remember in Back To The Future II when everyone thought we’d have flying cars and self-tying shoelaces by 2015? While we’re not quite levitating our …
OpenAI Could ‘fake text’ be the next global political threat?The Guardian - Oscar SchwartzIt will just get harder to offer guarantees about the truth of information in the future Jack Clark Earlier this month, an unexceptional thread appeared on Reddit announcing that there is a new way “to
Spyware China is installing spyware on tourists' phonesFox News - PCmagVisitors to Xinjiang in northwest China are experiencing a nasty surprise in the form of a spyware app that's being forcefully installed on their phones. As Vice reports, tourists are being stopped at
Advertising Industry Agency’s Fake Blog Shows How AI-Generated Content Could Spam the Web to DeathAdweek - Patrick Kulp Although much has been written on how recent strides in text-generation technology could bring a new scale to fake news proliferation, less attention …
