Daily Archives: May 29, 2019
Imagine A Facebook Without Facebook: How A.I. Will Soon Disrupt Social Media
There is an episode in Black Mirror, the popular Netflix series, in which the scariness of today’s social media comes to life. We are used to hearing slogans from tech companies such as: “Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life.” Sounds innocuous enough, right? But as the main character discovers firsthand in the Nosedive episode, platforms designed to enhance social affiliation can be perverted to exaggerate our worst human impulses.
To understand how social media could be used in such a diabolical way, it’s helpful to understand the concept of utilitarianism developed in the 1700s by philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Similar to today’s social media sphere, utilitarianism seems to be an inoffensive way to organize people for their higher good. After all, Bentham held that “The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.” Read More
How China is winning the AI race, one real-life application at a time
Andrew Ng has called it the “new electricity” while Google CEO Sundar Pichai even went beyond that: “artificial intelligence is going to have a bigger impact on the world than some of the most ubiquitous innovations in history”, like electricity (sorry Andrew…) and even fire.
So, I feel pretty confident to state that AI will lie at the basis of the (re-)development of business, and even society in general. If the world wide web built the substructure of the age of networks and disruption, then AI will drive the same type of revolution in the cognitive age.
Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Alibaba, IBM: everyone is racing to get a piece of that very delectable and rich pie.
But who will win the race? Read More
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