This week: pay with a smile, fake reviews and regulating AI. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week.

 

The stories this week:

You can now pay for fried chicken by just scanning your face

AI has learned to write totally believable product reviews

How to regulate Artificial Intelligence

 

Other stories we bring up:

Face recognition expected in the new iPhone 8

To pay just smile

The smartphone’s future is all about the camera

AI makes it easy to create fake videos

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on fake reviews

Tales of a “fake reviewer”

How to spot fake reviews

Google extracts more money from ads using AI

Fake Russian Facebook accounts bought $100K in political ads

Automated crowdturfing attacks and defences in online review systems

10 simple ways to spot a fake Amazon review

Should AI be regulated?

NAB’s ‘virtual banker’ chatbots to save millions

Faster analysis for astrophysicists thanks to AI

 

Our robot of the week:

Meet the Laundroid

 

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