This week: update my car, your phone will see you now, and power to the hackers. 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:

Tesla issues an over-the-air update to drivers to outrun Irma

iPhone face recognition

Hackers gain direct access to US power grid controls

Other stories we bring up:

Your car becomes more like an iPhone and receives software updates regularly

Why the car industry has a problem with over-the-air updates

Planned obsolescence from BBC

Apple gets rid of the iPhone home button (and fingerprint scanner)

iphone X launch

Is the new iPhone face recognition a gimmick or the future of smartphones?

Privacy and security concerns of Apple’s FaceID

Face recognition is getting more powerful and controversial

Meet Mike in our TFTW podcast

Real time Mike

Michal Kosinski and Yilun Wang face recognition study from Stanford University

An algorithm deduces the sexuality of people

The company that is shaping China’s face recognition technology

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

Germany’s election software is dangerously hackable 

Equifax’ epic security breach

Alexa and Siri can be hacked with inaudible voice commands

Join us September 22 for DISRUPT.SYDNEY™ 2017 

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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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This week: privacy (what privacy?), mind control games, and boring innovation. 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:

Facebook figures out family secrets

A game you can control with your mind

Y Combinator bets on boring business problems

Other stories we bring up:

Facebook recommends psychiatrist’s patients to befriend each other 

Facebook doesn’t tell users everything it knows about them

More on Facebook’s privacy 

How does Facebook work with data providers?

With a few bits of data, researchers identify ‘Anonymous’ people

Unique in the shopping mall: on the reidentifiability of credit card metadata study

Gawker NY taxi reidentifying rider data

2013 Harvard study demonstrated that researchers able to reidentify patients

The dominance of Google and Facebook in the online ad market

SIGGRAPH 2017: Neurable

Neurable video

Braincontrolled VR game

Join us September 22 for DISRUPT.SYDNEY™ 2017

DISRUPT.SYDNEY™, in its 5th year, is Australia’s first and oldest disruption conference. Join our speakers and facilitators in imagining the future of business and society, what implications emerging technologies bring and how organisations can cope with and be managed in such environments.

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This week: what’s up with the hype, computer says no, and the power of playlists. 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 hype around the Gartner hype cycle

Computer says no

How Spotify playlists create hits

Other stories we bring up:

Trends in Gartner hype cycle

Gartner lifecycle

Gartner methodology

8 lessons from 20 years of hype cycles

Why Gartner dropped big data off the hype curve

When government rules by software

Algorithmic transparency for the Smart City paper 

Irish engineer who failed Australian visa English fluency test

The numbers game behind Spotify cover songs

Are Spotify’s ‘fake artists’ any good?

Spotify denies filling popular playlists with ‘fake artists’

Our robot of the week:

Massive robot dance – Guinness World Records

More dancing robot

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What does automation, machine learning and AI mean for the future of mining, agriculture, cities, the future of jobs and the risks of a polarised society? Sandra Peter recently sat down with a leading robotics scientist and the Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK Ministry of Defence, Hugh Durrant-Whyte, to explore the next 10-15 years.

Hugh Durrant-Whyte is also a Professor, ARC Federation Fellow and Director of the Centre for Translational Data Science at the University of Sydney.

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This week: the myth of the lone genius, can life compete with Instagram, and is coal still cheaper? 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 myth of the loner genius nerd

Can real life compete with Instagram?

Is coal still cheaper than renewables as an energy source? 

Other stories we bring up:

Deming’s paper on the growing importance of social skills in the labor market

HBR on the idea of the lone genius innovator

Scientific progress is usually collaborative on BBC

Excerpt from Q&A, July 17, 2017 

Instagram’s Kevin Systrom wants to clean up the &#%$@! Internet

Instagram was first called ‘Burbn’

Instagram restaurant design

More Instagram restaurant design

#VANLIFE

Australian pollution would be illegal overseas

New natural gas power plants are automating out jobs

Solar thermal power plant announced

Join us 22 September for DISRUPT.SYDNEY™ 2017

DISRUPT.SYDNEY™, in its 5th year, is Australia’s first and oldest disruption conference. Join our speakers and facilitators in imagining the future of business and society, what implications emerging technologies bring and how organisations can cope with and be managed in such environments.

More information and registration

You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard, Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au.

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