Gerd Leonhard on: The 3 Revolutions reshaping Manufacturing & Sustainability. EIT Vienna (Insight PDF)
The 3 Revolutions shaping the future of manufacturing – via ...
The 3 Revolutions shaping the future of manufacturing – via ...
Gerd Leonhard, Heather McGowan, and Elina Hiltunen filled a day with inspiration at the "Steering Education: From Engagement to Empowerment” forum.
I'm super-worried after reading Marc Andreessen's latest piece (June 6, ...
Generative AI: Autocomplete for everything? By Noah Smith Snipping done ...
This was my first large REAL-LIFE (i.e. not virtual) event since late February 2020 (when the Covid19 crisis started)
I've been a follower and ‘fan' of Elon Musk for ...
The future of work and jobs is becoming a hot-potato topic as the Megashifts such as automation, cognification, robotisation and virtualisation loom large - and now these trends are seriously accelerated by the Covid-19 crisis, as well
The potential goes beyond diagnosis and treatment. Getting appointments, paying ...
COVID19 is becoming a major disaster for event and conference organizers, and of course for keynote speakers like myself. Pretty much every event is being cancelled right now. Maybe this is a good time to reboot the idea of doing entire events 100% online
“Officials across the EU and North America are finally realizing ...
‘It could well be that we passed the peak in global automotive production,’ says the CEO of Robert Bosch, the world’s largest car parts supplier
Futurist Gerd Leonhard's notes on Stuart Russell's powerful new book on AI: Human Compatible
This article accompanies today's release of my new film “How the Future Works”. First, I’ll show what’s happening right now, and why I think it’s urgent to ponder the future of work, jobs, education and training. Then I’ll talk about what we, personally, can do: and lastly I’ll lay out what governments and societies need to do to ensure that our future will be mostly heaven.
A great deal turns on the status of tacit knowledge. On this much the champions of a machine learning-powered revival of command economics and their critics agree. Tacit knowledge is the kind of cognition we refer to when we say that we know more than we can tell. How do you ride a bike? No one can say with any precision. Supervision helps, but a beginner has to figure it out for herself. How do you know that a spot is a freckle and not a cancer? A specialist cannot teach a medical student simply by spelling out her thinking in words. The student has to practise under supervision until she has mastered the skill for herself. This kind of know-how cannot be imparted or downloaded. Can robots assimilate tacit knowledge? Mid-20th-century arguments against centralised planning assumed that they could not. Some of the achievements of machine learning – such as eclipsing specialist doctors at spotting cancer – suggest otherwise. If robots can retain tacit knowledge, AI-powered central planning might well outperform decentralised market interactions in coordinating economic activity. But there is good reason to believe that the mid-century anti-planners were right. Tacit knowledge will probably remain the preserve of....
Technology to work less and live better aeon.co/ideas/we-have-the-tools-and-technology-to-work-less-and-live-better via Instapaper
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Above: Arthur C. Clarke on ‘the hazards of trying to ...