An optimistic energy outlook; the myth of super-human AI; surveillance capitalism; needs humanities; music as medicine; the changing economy and much more. computer science Have great conversations using ! the hashtag #ev111 😍 Celebrate May & s , , . hare this via Twitter on LinkedIn by Facebook 🚀 Forwarded this from a friend? Sign-up to Exponential View here. Dept of the near future 💡 Michael Liebreich’s is always a must read. Plenty of good news: unsubsidised solar below 2.7c/kWh; c. 10% annual decline in Li-ion battery packs to 2030 & increasingly flexible power markets. annual overview of global energy trends Kevin Kelly “when we imagine an “intelligence explosion,” we should imagine it not as a cascading boom but rather as a scattering exfoliation of new varieties.” 👾 The myth of super-human AI. : Every interaction with a computing device leaves a data trail, and whole industries exist to consume this data… we [must] build a better monster.” 🎥 Maciej Ceglowski argues: “The economic basis of the Internet is surveillance. 🎷 Can be a therapeutic intervention to rival pharmaceuticals? . music A conversation between Marko Ahtisaari, CEO of SyncProject, and me 🏭 . Timely reminder from Steve Blank on the different cultural and management ecologies that nurture startups and incumbents. Companies are not startups 🙏 Pope Francis: The only future involves all of us. Dept of the next economy asks Noah Smith. Competing theories suggest “monopoly power, robots and globalization might all be part of one unified phenomenon — new technologies that disproportionately help big, capital-intensive multinational companies.” What is causing the shift of income from labour to capital? I was keen on Juno, the car-sharing company, that shared ownership with its drivers. Network participants, after all, create the value of the network. Yet, as we’ve discovered with Uber, and Google, the platform operators accumulate the bulk of the value. Juno stood out with a stock-ownership plan for its drivers… with close to nothing. Facebook until it was acquired by hailing firm, Gett, leaving drivers : “the outcome [our economies achieve] reflects the framework of economic statistics and their underpinning theory.” Or, you can only manage what you measure. brief and thought-provoking. Diane Coyle EXCELLENT, to fill in for Britain’s Brexit labour shortage. Farm-robots look to step in Is there any apocalypse in store retail? . Several US retailers are struggling to stay solvent. Retail employment in the UK is falling Elsewhere in dominant platforms: fake accounts sponsored by foreign governments were used to . (See also: ). Facebook admits influence US elections A ‘stranglehold’ on data that could explain political extremism ’s user base. (This .) Instagram surpasses Snapchat chart sums it up on the Apple Store. Apple cuts affiliate fees Latest data confirms . Facebook and Google handle 77% of gross digital ad spending Media companies are teaming up . coordinated responses to the dominance of Facebook and Google Dept of AI . Says one: “It made me feel competitive, that I need to keep up and stay ahead of the A.I.” Profiles of five different artificial intelligence trainers Review of the documentary, AlphaGo Inexplicable AI, the so-cold “black box problem” . After all “the mechanism behind aspirin, the most widely used medicine of all time, wasn’t understood for 70 years.” will not be an issue in healthcare A . Mostly physical harm, while under-estimating the impact of poorly designed prediction systems. British survey shows what people fear in AI and robots . Computer science is not enough in an age of AI, argues Emma Pierson. In praise of the humanities If surviving technological unemployment, means a return to craft and appreciating the artisan, . perhaps it is no surprise Lovecraft, a craft community, raised £26m Small morsels to appear smart at dinner parties . Its normalcy is striking. 👀 Rare footage of an ordinary day in Pyongyang 🚡 Google, Uber and Airbus . ( .) trust these startups will bring flying cars to life See video Gender roles and text mining: . 😶 She screams, cries and rejects. He kidnaps, rescues and beats for most of its citizens. U.S. has regressed to a third-world nation 📺 Lytro’s volumetric camera generates 400 Gb of data per second. weather. Mobile phone signals can help predict street-level ⛏️ El Salvador is . the first country to ban metal mining . 250 days of Costa Rica running entirely on renewables r in three years. 🤰 Artificial wombs could be tested on pre-term babies Genes pass down . 😲 ‘environmental memory’ for 14 generations As exoplanets abound, alien life may be close. ? How will religion cope 🦏 💌 Are you on Tinder? “I don’t mean to be too forward, but the fate of my species literally depends on me. I perform well under pressure. I like to eat grass and chill in the mud. No problems. 6 ft tall and 5,000 pounds if it matters.” The last northern white rhino is, too. Events 🔥🔥 We’re hosting an salon on with Professor Luciano Floridi, journalist Carole Cadwalladr, cultural commenter and novelist Hari Kunzru, and civic tech pioneer, Tom Loosemore in London of May 24th. Exponential View Hacking Democracy Sign-up to attend here. EV reader and author of The Business Blockchain, William Mougayar is hosting the inaugural at NYU Stern in New York, May 25th. 40 speakers and 350 attendees will explore the emerging models behind the explosion of cryptocurrency tokens. and receive an 18% discount on tickets Token Summit Use this link to register End note I would love to get hold of the documentary (discussed above), if anyone can help with an intro, I’d be grateful. AlphaGo If you happen to be in London this week, I’m giving an on Thursday evening. If you are in London, . introductory talk on the business and economic implications of artificial intelligence you should try to make it to our evening salon on too Hacking Democracy cheerio! Azeem P.S. You can find me on Twitter here. is how hackers start their afternoons. We’re a part of the family. We are now and happy to opportunities. 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