Tag: Robotics

More on AI and our Future [with video] & a note on this blog

You may have seen my TEDx Manchester talk on AI & The Future of Work. It went down a storm (over 175,000 views at the time of writing) and you can re-watch it here. It triggered a number of talks over this past year and the talk evolved a bit:

I am seeking to give a very high-level (so be gentle with me) overview on the crossroads some of today’s and tomorrow’s meta-trends bring us. These are data, sensors (which are data nodes) and AI & machine learning. The combination of the three will likely be amongst the biggest contributors to the fundamental changes the next few decades will bring, and it is of vital importance we all make ourselves familiar with them and address them proactively rather than wait and see what might be.

Here is the latest iteration of this (WordPress says “it will do all the work” but apologies if it’s only a link):

https://vimeo.com/user4193632/review/244384629/d957dda0ab

Aside from this, you will have noticed that I am not blogging very actively these days. Besides not having the time anymore to be as dedicated to it as I used to be, I feel that the time of a siloed, single-destination blog might have run its time. You will find me more often on Twitter or Facebook (and, very occasionally, on Medium).

The pages on here I am keeping updated are 1) the info on my speaking gigs (though some of the corporate ones cannot be posted) and 2) my bio. Keep checking it. I still love you! 🙂

TEDx Manchester: AI & The Future of Work [VIDEO]

A few weeks back, I gave a talk at TEDx Manchester (see this post for slides and some background info). Now, TEDx have also posted the video to the talk. I hope you will enjoy it:

TEDx Manchester: AI & The Future of Work [SLIDES]

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of opening this year’s TEDx Manchester with a keynote on AI & the Future of Work.

The thesis was (compressed into a frantic 15 minutes marred by a disobedient clicker) that in today’s day and age, mere knowledge is not necessarily power any longer because we have access to so much of it. At the same time, computers and AI and machine-learning algorithms make such quick advances that even tasks that were previously thought to be firmly in the domain of man are now being disrupted by machines. This has potentially very profound impacts not only on how we will live but also on how our society can work: if large parts of the population is no longer in the position to earn a living and lead a dignified life, we need to think afresh.

I focussed here on what is there already (with a somewhat crude shock-and-awe approach to wake everyone up) and offer a few hints on where we can focus to inoculate us and future generations (to an extent).

Here’s a link to the slides (SlideShare awarded them their “SlideShare of the Day”, so if nothing else, they’re pretty):

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