This week: re-cycling data, Watson’s health problems, and shop the look on Spotify. 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.

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This week: re-cycling data, Watson’s health problems, and shop the look on Spotify. 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

How bike share schemes make money

IBM Watson – mechanical turk

Now you can buy makeup through Spotify

 

Other stories we bring up:

City planners tap into Strava data

Citylab on using Strava data in city planning

Strava Insights

Strava Metro

Strava Labs

Research paper on the use of Strava

IBM Watson versus cancer on Statnews

IBM Watson hype meets reality

IBM’s Watson for Oncology website

The Memorial Sloan Kettering Watson Oncology website

Spotify expands to beauty products

How much do artists earn on Spotify?

Artists sharing data on the steaming earnings

The Future, This Week 23 June 2017 (our previous bike-sharing episode)

 

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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.

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sbi.sydney.edu.au/future-week-10-november-2017/.

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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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Machine learning and robots are moving from providing invisible customer services like stacking shelves into providing frontline customer services.

We talk to Andrew Baxter, the Chairman of Publicis Communications for Australia and New Zealand, about how cutting edge technologies in customer service are transforming marketing and what this means for the consumer.

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This week: electrify everything, crows nipping butts, and ethical German 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.

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sbi.sydney.edu.au/future-week-03-november-2017/.

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This week: electrify everything, crows nipping butts, and ethical German 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

To battle climate change, electrify everything

A crazy plan to bribe crows to clean up cigarette butts

Germany first to adopt ethical rules for automated vehicles

 

Other stories we bring up:

Every object can be a solar generator

Transparent solar panels

The crowbar project

Crows are intelligent animals

From imagination to innovation

The original ethics guidelines document (in German) 

The ethics guidelines document in English

Germany drafts world first ethical guidelines

 

Robot of the week:

Sophia, Saudi citizen

Pretending to give a robot citizenship helps no one

NEOM – Saudi Arabia’s futuristic city

 

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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.

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Show notes and links to this episode, including the news stories of the week, other stories we bring up and more are available at:
sbi.sydney.edu.au/future-week-27-october-2017/.

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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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This week: why exponential growth is big, remember eBay? and is Uber changing cities. 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.

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sbi.sydney.edu.au/future-week-20-october-2017/.

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