Technology evolves, but not quite like biology. We humans generate supply and demand for innovation, and that creates technological change. The relationship is complicated; it’s true that humans do use technology, but technology also uses us. You could say the human economy is cultivating a new order of intelligence on the planet.
We live in a time of truly historical changes in humanity's relationship with technology, as we stand before a new era of intelligent machines. Humans are now facing difficult and extremely nuanced questions about our relationship with machines, as we scratch our collective heads, puzzling over the emerging new partnership between Humanity and Machine. One of the core themes of the "Intelligent Machines and Us" section of the Vital Edge is that the essential nature of this partnership is the formation of a new container for humanity's collective intelligence.
Reading Time: 4 minutes A new, artificially intelligent design is emerging from the depths of machine learning, and as it does, Nature finds a new medium for expression.
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Autonomous systems generate feedback loops of machine learning and automation that predict, judge and act without human intervention.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes The future of knowledge will be a synthesis of human and machine collaboration, coordinated through organizations, much as today. Any Singularity we may one day experience will, therefore, be shared: the collective destiny of intelligence.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Fighting fake photos, personality as knowledge-discovery, a recall for the Triple Bottom Line, and the application-specificity of machine learning.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The unpredictable nature of technology, the blurring boundaries of the workplace, oh, and why you are a fish.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Psycho AI, emotional machines, AI that can smell, and loss of control over our time and the rise of meaningless work.
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Reading Time: 1 minute Knowledge workers vs information workers and the rights of artificial intelligence.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The time well-spent movement, "ethnicity recognition" software causes a stir, facial recognition software for policing, and an alternative Spotify that treats musicians more fairly.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes A history of Artificial Intelligence, algorithms reinvent the fashion industry, "behavioral sequencing" brought to you by Google, smart classroom behavior management systems, and robots loading Chinese container ships.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes AI and the Vatican's secrets, Big Data becomes Big Indicators, Google's uncanny Duplex AI schedules a haircut, "Digital Well-Being" and AI transparency.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Brain-scanning as corporate and government control, accounting for cloud computing, corporate adoption of AI and the story of Ada Lovelace.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The future of AI, the stupidity of robot personhood, the dangers of a high-tech surveillance state, and automating the construction industry.
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The Vital Edge by Gideon Rosenblatt Work, society and the human experience in an era of machine intelligence.
