Soon, organisations both big and small will consist of some combination of smart robots, algorithms, and humans to varying degrees (many do already). Covid-19 will be an accelerant towards digitisation, automation and artificial intelligence as organisations scramble to automate as many tasks as possible before the next lock down. Where does this leave the human as job and skill requirements adapt to what upcoming guest on the Innovation Show Ed Hess calls “The Smart Machine Age”?
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The Chinese Room, The Chaos Room, and Left-Brained Business
Out_of_balance_by_acrylicdreams_contrasts In 1980, American philosopher John Searle proposed a thought experiment known as The Chinese Room. Searle imagined himself locked in a room with a box of Chinese characters he cannot understand and a book…
Data Dolls — We “Ai”n’t Seen Nothing Yet
“By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.”- Eliezer Yudkowsky Animism (from Latin anima, “breath, spirit, life”) is the religious belief that objects, places and…
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us” — Marshall McLuhan
Running with Robots “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us” — Marshall McLuhan “Introducing my robot writing partners that will join me on tour this year.” — Ólafur Arnalds I went to see the phenomenal Ólafur Arnalds play…
Planet of the Ai-PES, Digital Dementia and Digital Zombies
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”― Stephen Hawking In 1967 a group of…
The Boy who cried Robot: The Black Swan Singularity
Alphacoders “There can be no gainsaying of the fact that a great revolution is taking place in the world today. In a sense it is a triple revolution: that is, a technological revolution, with the…
Frenem-Ais or Digging Our Own Graves?
Frenemies Frenemy — One who pretends to be a friend but is actually an enemy Frenem-Ai — Ai who helps us in the short term, but may replace us in the long term Why the squiggly lines? reCAPTCHA You know…
To Be Or Not To Be — Dystop-Ai — Could Terminator Really Happen?
In 1942, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov introduced the “Three Laws of Robotics” in his short story ‘Runaround’ (this formed the basis for the movie iRobot with Will Smith). Wikipedia Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics…
Super Cities, Super Machines, Not Super”Man”
DC Comics All this Ai Stuff, Robots, Economic Singularity, none of it will happen in our lifetime, nor our children’s lifetime, right? Us humans have always underestimated how long it takes for technological adoption and…
Chief Meaning Officer: The evolution of the marketing role
Imagine for a moment that the role of Chief Marketing Officer did not exist… What would happen? Few roles have been disrupted by the internet as much as the role of marketing. The internet and…