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…
The Gods and the Useless — Mental Atrophy & Intelligence Amplification
“I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.” — Claude Shannon (“the father of information theory”) Author and Historian, Yuval Noah Harari predicts that…
Human General Intelligence — HGI Versus HI & The Age of The Polymath
AlphaCoders “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort…
Observing Becomes Believing
‘Give me the child for his first seven years, and I’ll give you the man’ — Aristotle “Chappie” is a South-African based movie about an artificially intelligent law enforcement robot captured and taught by gangsters, who nickname…
Be Careful What You Wish For — When Theory Alone Informs Reality
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way” — Mark Twain I don’t watch much TV, but I am always fascinated by science fiction, especially when a real…
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…
Why we need Public Broadcasters — Trust is the New Scarcity
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” — Voltaire Image: Wikipedia In 1938, CBS radio broadcast an episode of a drama called “The War of the Worlds”, directed and narrated by the…
“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…