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 […]
A look at the surprisingly quarrelsome field of artificial intelligence
By: Kaveh Waddell November 28, 2018 Machines as intelligent as humans will be invented by 2029, predicts technologist Ray Kurzweil. “Nonsense,” retorts roboticist Rodney Brooks. By that time, he says, machines will only be as smart as a mouse. As for humanlike intelligence — that may arrive by 2200. Between these two forecasts — machines […]
This Game Uses Artificial Intelligence to Recruit New Players
By: Futurism November 16, 2018 Since the days of ELIZA, the rudimentary computer “therapist” who represented one of the earliest versions of interactive AI, the dream of artificial intelligence has captivated futurists, technologists, and science fiction writers. But when the artificially intelligent machines of the future come into their own, how will the world change? […]
Will humanity survive this century? Sir Martin Rees predicts ‘a bumpy ride’ ahead
By: Denise Chow November 12, 2018 Humanity is under threat. At least according to Sir Martin Rees, one of Britain’s most esteemed astronomers. In his new book, “On the Future,” Rees turns his focus closer to home, examining the existential threats that face humanity over the next century. From cyberattacks to advances in biotechnology to […]