Today I received copies of the Chinese Edition of my book "In Our Own Image: the history and future of Artificial Intelligence" sent by my Chinese publisher China Citic Press. To celebrate the arrival of the books a good friend send me this, in Chinese: 正如中国有一句讲到:要想富先修路 - it means (I m...
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The back flipping robot
I know you've seen a robot walk, but have you ever seen one do a backflip? pic.twitter.com/1ch3vnFu7U — Alex Whitcomb (@AlexWhitcomb) November 16, 2017
The fallacy of thinking intelligence as software
During the Enlightenment the human body was thought of as a kind of clock. That was because the dominant technology of the day was mechanical engineering.Christiaan Huygens invented the pendulum clock in the 1600s, and in the following decades and centuries, all across Europe, the miraculous ticking of interconnected gears...
The impact of AI on work
[slideshare id=66410297&doc=fourthirzarkadakis-160926075257] This is my full deck on ideas about the future of work as the fourth industrial revolution changes the economic and social landscape.
AI and the C-suite
Full transcript of my interview with Lisa Morgan for her Information Week article. Generally speaking, how aware of AI does the average C suite have to be these days and why? What should their attitude about it be? The C-suite is becoming increasingly aware of the impact that AI will have...
The trouble with deep neural networks
In October 2015, and in relative secrecy, a major milestone in Artificial Intelligence was reached. AlphaGo, an algorithm developed by Google to play the game Go, beat Fan Hui, the Go champion of Europe, by five games to zero. The results, as well as an insight to the algorithm, were...
Talking about robots, androids and the future of humans
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Share me, like me, retweet me, be me: the digital reincarnation of Narcissus
Like in Byzantium there will always be iconoclasts; the breakers, haters and enemies of images. As then, now and forever: for the iconoclast of every age there is something deeply disturbing in the worship of the human image; he feels that humans ought to be humble, walk the earth...
How to rethink IT systems for the workplace
[slideshare id=55605976&doc=digitalemployeeengagement-151128161849-lva1-app6891] Sharing my thoughts on how HR Tech systems fail to enable employee engagement, and how to rethink their design by applying principles from the Integrated Digital Engagement Model that I have developed for Towers Watson.
No, I’m a Roman
I just finished reading "The Byzantine Republic", a wonderful book by historian Anthony Kaldellis. In the book the author argues that "Byzantium" should be viewed as the continuation of Rome, and indeed that the republican polity of Rome survived in the politics and life of Constantinople as well as the...