Tom HigleyDaniel Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win. How people are going to adjust is a fascinating problem’verified_publisherThe Guardian - Tim AdamsThe psychologist on applying his ideas to organisations, why we’re not equipped to grasp the spread of a virus, and the massive disruption that’s just round the corner
Tom HigleyThought-detection: AI has infiltrated our last bastion of privacyverified_publisherVentureBeat - Gary Grossman, EdelmanOur thoughts are private – or at least they were. New breakthroughs in neuroscience and artificial intelligence are changing that assumption, while at the same time inviting new questions around ethics, privacy, and the horizons of brain/computer interaction. Research published last week from Queen …
Tom HigleyThe AI industry is built on geographic and social inequality, research showsverified_publisherVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersThe arm of global inequality is long, rendering itself visible particularly in the development of AI and machine learning systems. In a recent paper, researchers at Cornell, the Universite de Montreal, the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (U.S.), and Princeton argue that this inequality …
Tom HigleyWhat the hell is an AI factory?verified_publisherTNW - Ben DicksonIf you follow the news on artificial intelligence, you’ll find two diverging threads. The media and cinema often portray AI with human-like capabilities, mass unemployment, and a possible robot apocalypse. Scientific conferences, on the other hand, discuss progress toward artificial general …
Tom HigleyArtificial intelligence finds surprising patterns in Earth's biological mass extinctionseurekalert.org - Tokyo Institute of TechnologyCharles Darwin's landmark opus, On the Origin of the Species, ends with a beautiful summary of his theory of evolution, "There is a grandeur in this …