‘Creative’ AlphaZero leads way for chess computers and, maybe, science
By: Sean Ingle December 11, 2018 Garry Kasparov is not only humanity’s greatest ever chess player but its highest-profile victim of artificial intelligence. His loss to IBM’s super computer Deep Blue in 1997 made global headlines and left him feeling bitter and, well, blue. Yet there is a warm glint in his eye when he […]
City investors call on listed companies to pay living wage
By: The Guardian December 10, 2018 A group of City investors with assets worth more than £180bn has written to listed firms including Vodafone, Balfour Beatty and Severn Trent urging them to pay all employees a living wage. The chief executives of the utilities firms Severn Trent and United Utilities, homeware retailer Dunelm Group and […]
Group led by Thomas Piketty presents plan for ‘a fairer Europe’
By: Jennifer Rankin December 09, 2918 A group of progressive Europeans led by the economist and author Thomas Piketty has drawn up a bold new blueprint for a fairer Europe to address the division, disenchantment, inequality and rightwing populism sweeping the continent. The plan, crafted by more than 50 economists, historians and former politicians from […]
Here are 24 cognitive biases that are warping your perception of reality
By: World Economic Forum December 6, 2018 We are each entitled to our own personal world view. Unfortunately, when it comes to interpreting information and making objective sense of reality, human brains are hard-wired to make all kinds of mental mistakes that can impact our ability to make rational judgments. In total, there are 180+ cognitive […]
globalinequality Why inequality matters?
By: Branko Milanovic December 5, 2018 This is the question that I am often asked and will be asked in two days. So I decided to write my answers down. The argument why inequality should not matter is almost always couched in the following way: if everybody is getting better-off, why should we care if […]
Robot Janitors Are Coming to Mop Floors at a Walmart Near You
By: Pavel Alpeyev December 3, 2018 Robots are coming to a Walmart Inc. near you, and not just as a gimmick. The world’s largest retailer is rolling out 360 autonomous floor-scrubbing robots in some of its stores in the U.S. by the end of the January, it said in a joint statement with Brain Corp., […]
Automation and AI Are Going to Decimate Middle Class Jobs
By: Business Insider December 02, 2018 Artificial intelligence and increasing automation is going to decimate middle class jobs, worsening inequality and risking significant political upheaval, Stephen Hawking has warned. In a column in The Guardian, the world-famous physicist wrote that “the automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of […]
AI INDEX 2018
By: December 2, 2018 Introduction to the AI Index 2018 Annual Report We are pleased to introduce the AI Index 2018 Annual Report. This year’s report accomplishes two objectives. First, it refreshes last year’s metrics. Second, it provides global context whenever possible. The former is critical to the Index’s mission — grounding the AI conversation […]
The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand
By: Daron Acemoglu, MIT & Pascual Restrepo, Boston University AI as a Technological PlatformHuman (or natural) intelligence comprises several different types of mental activities. These include, among others, simple computation, data processing, pattern recognition, prediction, hand-eye coordination, various types of problem solving, judgment, creativity, and communication. Early AI, pioneered in the 1950s by researchers from […]