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The Innovation Show

A weekly show interviewing leaders in their fields, authors, renowned professors, inventors, innovators, change-makers and mavericks to inspire, educate and inform the business world and the curious. This Global show speaks of something greater beyond innovation, disruption and technology. It speaks to the human need to learn: how to adapt and love a changing world. It embraces the spirit of constant change, of staying receptive, of always learning. The show exists to enable people to be fully informed to lead better lives, lives packed with meaning.

Ep 117: The Science behind Science Fiction with Edward M.Lerner: Augmented Humanity, AI, Superintelligence

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Today’s show is with one of the leading global writers of hard science fiction and indeed cyberfiction. He is the author of over 18 titles and what we hope is fascinating for followers of this show is the science he puts behind the fiction. As opposed to fantasy writing, science fiction is based on possible realities and that fact is often lost on many of us.

A physicist and computer scientist, he toiled in the vineyards of high tech for thirty years, as everything from engineer to senior vice president. Once suitably intoxicated, he began writing full time.

We welcome Edward M. Lerner.

The focus of this show is themes from his book: ‘Trope-ing the Light Fantastic: The Science Behind the Fiction’.

We discuss:

  • Augmented Humanity
  • Cyborgs
  • Robots
  • Genetic Therapy
  • Brain Machine Interfaces
  • Autonomous Weapons
  • AI, Artificial Intelligence
  • Super intelligence
  • Neural Networks
  • Dystopia
  • The future skills of humanity
  • What we do when everything automated

More about Edward here: https://www.edwardmlerner.com/

Filed Under: #Innovation, #IoT, AGI, AI, artificial intelligence, Chatbots, creativity, Cyber-Security, Cyborgs, Disruption, Driverless Cars, Drones, ePrivacy, Future of Work, Future Skills, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Podcasts, Robo-Advisers, Robo-Investors, singularity Tagged With: #Ai, #Innovation, AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Humanity, Cyborgs, Dystopia, Edward Lerner Science Fiction, Edward M Lerner, Innovation Show, nano robotics, nanobots, Neural Networks, robotics, robots, Robots v humans, Super intelligence, Tags: Edward M Lerner

EP 99: Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future ― Martin Ford

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“A great many college-educated, white-collar workers are going to discover that their jobs, too, are squarely in the sights as software automation and predictive algorithms advance rapidly in capability.” ― Martin Ford

Martin Ford is a futurist and the author of the New York Times bestselling “Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future” (winner of the 2015 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and translated into more than 20 languages) and “The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future,” as well as the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm. He has over 25 years experience in the fields of computer design and software development. He holds a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an MBA degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

We talk:

The perfect storm of technology, climate change and technological unemployment

The automation wave

Automation replacing human brains as well as brawn

Exponential Growth and Moore’s Law

Universal Basic Income

Job Stagnation

Economic Singularity

Technological Unemployment

His upcoming book ‘Architects of the Artifical Intelligence Revolution’

Filed Under: AGI, AI, artificial intelligence, Attention, Disruption, Driverless Cars, governments, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Podcasts, Robo-Advisers, Robo-Investors, singularity, superintelligence, UBI, Universal Basic Income Tagged With: #Ai, #Robot Revolution #ArtificialIntelligence #JobAutomation #Technology Martin Ford, AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Author, futurist, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, The Lights in the Tunnel, The Triple Revolution Report, UBI, Universal Basic Income

EP 56: A Pioneer in Machine Learning Breakthroughs on Ai, Education and The Future of Humanity

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Professor Naftali Tishby Deep Learning Breakthrough Innovation Show

Professor Naftali Tishby is a professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a Global leader in machine learning research and computational neuroscience and his numerous ex-students serve at key academic and industrial research positions all over the world.

In this week’s show, Naftali discusses his breakthrough in understanding how machines learn. He calls this the “bottleneck technique”.

During our chat, we draw parallels in how we humans learn and the lessons we can draw from his findings in how education might work in the future.

We go off on a tangent after we discuss how part of learning is forgetting. We explore the gifts of ADD and ADHD (Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and how if understood early people can harness the gifts and thrive.

We discuss the future of humanity, the history of machine learning and the present of education.

It is a truly fascinating listen.

Some Interesting points:

4.21 – Then there was a mystery, what can be learned and how can they do it?

4.53
3 different directions:
How do we understand the behaviour or networks
What are the limits? What can be learned? – How do they do it? How much power needed etc.
How does the brain learn, animals and human

39.00
The machine learns like a human does?
Is it a framework to learn more?

41.00
The ADD gift

53.00
The future of Education?

1:01 Ai and the future?

1.06 Humanity must evolve with Ai

Also see:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-theory-cracks-open-the-black-box-of-deep-learning-20170921/

Filed Under: #Innovation, AGI, AI, Attention, autism, Brain Science, creativity, Data, Driverless Cars, Future of Work, Leadership, Machine Learning, Neuroscience, Podcasts, singularity, UBI, Universal Basic Income Tagged With: #Ai, #Innovation, ADD, ADHD, AGI, Artificial Intelligence, Attention Deficit Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, bottleneck technique, computational neuroscience, Computer Science, Deep Learning, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Neuroscience, Professor Naftali Tishby

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