What if you knew what your coworkers really thought about you and what they were really like? Ray Dalio makes the business case for using radical transparency and algorithmic decision-making to create an idea meritocracy […]
Ten years ago, researchers thought that getting a computer to tell the difference between a cat and a dog would be almost impossible. Today, computer vision systems do it with greater than 99 percent accuracy. […]
Why do so many companies make bad decisions, even with access to unprecedented amounts of data? With stories from Nokia to Netflix to the oracles of ancient Greece, Tricia Wang demystifies big data and identifies […]
Anab Jain brings the future to life, creating experiences where people can touch, see and feel the potential of the world we're creating. Do we want a world where intelligent machines patrol our streets, for […]
Attention isn't really practically exactly what we concentrate on– it's likewise about exactly what our brains filter out. By investigating patterns in the brain as people try to focus, computational neuroscientist Mehdi Ordikhani-Seyedlar hopes to […]
We must face our fears if we wish to get the most out of technology– and we need to conquer those fears if we wish to get the very best out of mankind, states Garry […]
How can we harness the power of superintelligent AI while also preventing the catastrophe of robotic takeover? As we move more detailed toward creating all-knowing makers, AI pioneer Stuart Russell is dealing with something a […]
Hacking, fake news, info bubbles … all these and more have actually become part of the vernacular recently. However as the online world expert Laura Galante describes in this disconcerting talk, the genuine target of […]
Giorgia Lupi uses information to tell human stories, including subtlety to numbers. In this captivating talk, she shares how we can bring personality to information, envisioning even the mundane details of our every day lives […]
MIT college student Happiness Buolamwini was dealing with facial analysis software when she noticed a problem: the software application didn't identify her face– because individuals who coded the algorithm hadn't taught it to determine a […]
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