This week: AI can’t see my cat, predicting is creating, and it’s a Musk. 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

The BBC on Japanese and MIT researchers fooling AI

JC Penney and Macys replace merchants with algorithms 

Elon Musk thinks we live in a computer simulation 

 

Other stories we bring up:

Fooling neural networks in the physical world with 3D adversarial objects

Synthesizing robust adversarial examples

MIT researchers report on how they fooled AI

Google’s AI thinks this turtle is a rifle

Construction worker’s automatic translation nightmare 

Whole Foods food trends

99% Invisible Ep 229 the trend forecast

WGSN

Elon Musking

Bank of America on living in a simulation

Nick Boström’s website

Nick Boström’s simulation argument

Your brain is not a computer

A brief guide to embodied cognition

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the importance of the body

Isaac Asimov 2016 Memorial Debate at the American Museum of Natural History

Does it matter if we live in a computer simulation 

 

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