This week: scary tales about superhuman robots, a global waste blockage, and tricking cars. 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

Google’s AI ‘no longer constrained by limits of human knowledge’

The Chinese blockage in the global waste disposal system

Car bullying

 

Other stories we bring up:

Artificial intelligence: learning to play Go from scratch paper in Nature

DeepMind’s Go-playing AI doesn’t need human help

What will happen to the world’s recycling

China tries to keep foreign rubbish out

Antenna Documentary Film Festival

Historian Josh Goldstein on China’s economy and the international recycling trade

The Future, This Week 24 March 2017

 

Robot of the week:

The Octopod Clock

The Octopod Clock on Hodinkee

 

Join us together with AmCham at our research breakfast series on:

The future of health: reimagining healthcare

 

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