Technological change has been reshaping human life and work for centuries. The mechanization that began with the Industrial Revolution enabled dramatic improvements in human health, well-being, and quality of life—not only in the developed countries of the West, but increasingly throughout the world. At the same time, economic and social disruptions often accompanied those changes, with painful and lasting results for workers, their families, and communities. Along the way, valuable skills, industries, and ways of life were lost. Ultimately new and unforeseen occupations, industries, and amenities took their place. But the benefits of these upheavals often took decades to arrive. And the eventual beneficiaries were not necessarily those who bore the initial costs.
The world now stands on the cusp of a technological revolution in artificial intelligence and robotics that may prove as transformative for economic growth and human potential as were electrification, mass production, and electronic telecommunications in their eras. Read More
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From artificial intelligence to augmented intelligence
When the disruptors become the disrupted, you know the second wave of technology has come – and that’s just what is happening when it comes to augmented intelligence. This second wave of AI, which has been described as “a human-centred partnership model of people and AI working together to enhance cognitive performance”, according to CMS wire, is changing the way organisations interact with AI and is so powerful that Gartner believes it will create as much as $2.9 trillion of business value and 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity globally by 2021.
While it might sound like mere semantics, augmented intelligence is about the seamless blending of human knowledge and skills with artificial intelligence to solve problems. Read More
Is Augmented Artificial Intelligence Already Disrupting Artificial Intelligence?
If digital workplaces are being disrupted by the ongoing development of artificial intelligence (AI) driven apps, by 2021 those disruptors could end up in their turn being disrupted. The emergence of a new form of AI, or a second wave of AI, known as augmented AI is so significant that Gartner is predicting that by 2021 it will be creating up to $2.9 trillion of business value and 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity globally. Read More
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When the Music Stops: AI and Deflation
Artificial intelligence, the use of computer processes to infer and make decisions on information about the world that is not necessarily explicitly given, has been a hallmark of much of this decade. From word processors that went from simple spell check to office suites that now have a significant hand in the production process, from cruise control to self-driving vehicles, from halting speech recognition software to fully integrated video/audio concept recognition, AI and its related technologies have quietly but perhaps irrevocably changed our relationship with computers far more than most people realize.
Yet as the information revolution continues, the impacts that it is having upon our economy are now reaching an extent where most of the models that economists have formulated about how that economy works are being thrown out. We’re in terra incognita at this stage, and this, in turn, is forcing politicians, policy makers, economists, business leaders and everyday people to rethink many of the fundamental assumptions on which we base our notions of work, value and utility. Read More
J Robot: Could Artificial Intelligence Actually Replace Reporters?
In the film I, Robot, loosely based upon stories from Isaac Asimov, Will Smith confronts a world where robots replace the functions of many humans. Will it happen for publications too, as “J Robots” (journalism robots) replace reporters? The newsroom will certainly never be the same.
If you think about it, the world of publishing has always seen machines take jobs away from humans, ever since the printing press churned out the Gutenberg Bible, eliminating one of the functions of monks who had painstakingly crafted well-scripted copies of books for thousands of years. Electric typewriters made their earlier counterparts obsolete, only to be ousted by personal computers. And how much has been written about the effect of the internet on newspapers and magazines, or digital journalism taking away ratings from radio and television? Read More
Augmenting Human Intelligence
Context is critical. As what was once mere data evolves into actionable intelligence, the context that binds that data becomes ever more essential.
Consider the word “java.” With no context around those four letters, you might not understand the reference or make any sort of connection. But if you add just one word to “java,” such as “development,” “island,” or “coffee,” the reference changes completely—and that’s with just a single word of context.
This is the type of active context and connection that the Brainspace engine provides. Read More
Augmented Intelligence: A Collaboration of Humans and Machines
Cognitive Automation and AI in Business
Cognitive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers businesses an incredible opportunity to rethink traditional processes. By automating rote tasks and accelerating standard workflows, companies can free employees to pursue innovation in other capacities.
But are AI and intelligent automation different than other enterprise technologies? Does AI’s potential pose far more dramatic threats than previous technological innovations? Why are technologists and business leaders so excited and simultaneously apprehensive about a technology that, despite its creation in the 1950s, is still in its relative infancy?In this video, we speak with Fred Laluyaux, CEO and President of Aera Technology and David Bray, Executive Director of the People-Centered Internet, about these critical topics. Read More
Why AI Should Rightfully Mean Augmented Intelligence, Not Artificial Intelligence
Perhaps “artificial” is too artificial of a word for the AI equation. Augmented intelligence describes the essence of the technology in a more elegant and accurate way.
AI has been around for some time, and Dr. David Bray, executive director of the People-Centered Internet, sees the current “third wave” of AI as a convergence of neural networks, deep learning, pattern matching, Internet of Things, and scaling tasks beyond human limitations. AI’s power and potential arises from pairing humans and machines, so that “the human is learning from the machine and, at the same time, the machine is learning from the human. Together, you’re getting better outcomes from them both.” Read More
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