The trust shift
Rachel Botsman talks about changing perceptions of trust and explains how traditional ideas of banking, media, politics and consumerism are being radically transformed in our society.
The Future, This Week 22 December 2017
The Future, This Year: the most interesting, the weird and the wonderful, what's in store for 2018, and a Christmas story.
The Future, This Week 08 December 2017
This week: building the digital Silk Road, brands in the age of Amazon, and my robot friend.
The Future, This Week 24 November 2017
This week: is the ivory tower asleep at the wheel, city experiments, and Uber...again.
Watson’s health problems
IBM’s medical artificial intelligence program Watson for Oncology is merely rudimentary.
Are we living in an alien’s computer game? Elon Musk thinks it’s probable
Elon Musk reckons it’s probable that humans are just characters in someone’s computer game.
AI can’t see my cat
Adversarial examples reveal AI weakness in machine learning process.
The Future, This Week 10 November 2017
This week: AI can't see my cat, predicting is creating, and it's a Musk.
The myth of the thinking machine
Why do we believe in the existence of intelligent machines? Why do we believe that computers can do inherently human activities, such as decision-making, better than we do?
The Future, This Week 27 October 2017
This week: scary tales about superhuman robots, a global waste blockage, and tricking cars.
The motor car: love in a digital age
Carlos Ghosn, CEO of the Renault–Nissan Alliance and one of the world’s most influential business leaders, predicts what we can expect from the future of the automotive industry.
How China’s AI experts can beat Google and Microsoft by 2030
China is more than capable of reaching its goal of global AI leadership, but it will require a change in mindset to carry out and support groundbreaking research, not just follow existing technology.