Last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced “Facebook’s plan to bring the global community together.” A few months earlier, a Swedish billionaire, LászlĂł Szombatfalvy, established the Global Challenges Foundation and announced a $5-million-dollar...
Read moreChatbots Are Coming
We are living in an age where chatbots and bots are in use in many areas of our lives. Bots have been around for a long while. I have experimented with Twitter bots for years, and as a gamer, I have played against bots as AI characters, and used...
Read moreExperts might have an alternative to basic income
At Brain Bar Budapest, a large hall that was plastered in dark and leafy plants struggled to hold a sea of attendees. The crowd gathered to watch Steve Fuller, author of Humanity 2.0 and the Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology at Warwick...
Read moreFive Questions You Can Ask Instead Of ‘How Are You?’
The only reason most of us ask this question is because it would appear impolite not to ask. We usually ask it as a greeting rather than with the intent of actually acquiring information about the other person.
Read more3 ways to reboot globalization
ast week, Mark Zuckerberg announced “Facebook’s plan to bring the global community together.” A few months earlier, a Swedish billionaire, LászlĂł Szombatfalvy, established the Global Challenges Foundation and announced a $5-million-dollar...
Read moreUnderstanding Customers by Blending Human Insight and Machine Learning
How can companies use machine learning to efficiently understand the needs and wants of their customers, without sacrificing the insights that come from employees’ intuition and empathy? My company is in the business of helping other firms create...
Read more12 ways to get smarter – in one chart
The level of a person’s raw intelligence, as measured by aptitude tests such as IQ scores, is generally pretty stable for most people during adulthood. While it’s true that there are things you can do to fine tune your natural capabilities, such...
Read moreThe technology coming in 2018: a realistic analysis
 Artificial intelligence and its ramifications, such as machine learning, were the great success stories of 2017, and everything indicates that the technologies that teach machines to think like humans will shape the future. But entities such as...
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