Automated Service Platforms and the Future of Work
Automated service platforms don’t just lead to large-scale unemployment in the services economy; they also redefine the nature of work.
Humans are the Heart of Synthetic Intelligence
A merger between humans and machines is coming, and it’s not what you might think.
Intelligent, Automated Self-Service
Automated self-service is Silicon Valley’s trick for automating the service economy and for fueling machine learning and the knowledge economy.
Artificial Intelligence as a Force for Good
Stanford Social Innovation Review article on mission-driven artificial intelligence aimed at solving societal and ecological challenges.
Technology and the Distribution of Wealth
Technology plays two critical roles in the distribution of wealth, cutting jobs and income from below, while concentrating profits for investors from above.
Artificially Intelligent Design
A new, artificially intelligent design is emerging from the depths of machine learning, and as it does, Nature finds a new medium for expression.
The Interest Graph Maps Our Connections to Ideas and Things
The Interest Graph is software for connecting us to our interests. Today, it makes us better shoppers. Tomorrow, it could change the nature of work.
Machine-based Collective Intelligence and the Human Experience
Artificial intelligence is changing humanity’s relationship to knowledge with profound implications for the future of the human experience.
Automated Self-Service is Taking Over. Here’s How it Happened.
The seeds of our primary interface with machine intelligence rest in the humble origins of the vending machine. Here is the brief story of this evolution of self-service.