DeepMind’s New Research Plan to Make Sure AI Is Safe
Making sure artificial intelligence does what we want and behaves in predictable ways will be crucial as the technology becomes increasingly ubiquitous. It's an...
Leading Transformation in a World of Uncertainty
Whether creating a disruptive business model, developing a radical innovation, or executing a cultural makeover, leaders know that their job is to drive organizational...
This Robotic Warehouse Fills Orders in Five Minutes, and Fits in City Centers
Shopping is becoming less and less of a consumer experience—or, for many, less of a chore—as the list of things that can be bought...
This Week’s Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through October 13)
ROBOTICS
Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Shows Off Parkour Skills
Erico Guizzo | IEEE Spectrum
"The remarkable evolution of Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ most agile robot, continues. In a video...
Reimagining Education in the Exponential Age
The future of humanity will be radically different than what we see today. As Ray Kurzweil put it, “We won’t experience 100 years of...
How the Most Successful Leaders Will Thrive in an Exponential World
We live in challenging times. Geopolitical turmoil, local and national social unrest, cycles of deadly natural disasters, cyber hacks, rising distrust of media and...
Could Tech Make Government As We Know It Irrelevant?
Governments are one of the last strongholds of an undigitized, linear sector of humanity, and they are falling behind fast. Apart from their struggle...
No Safety Driver Here—Volvo’s New Driverless Truck Cuts the Cab
Each time there’s a headline about driverless trucking technology, another piece is taken out of the old equation. First, an Uber/Otto truck’s safety driver...
What If Your Data Was Valued Like Currency? At This Cafe, It Is
At the Shiru Café close to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, students can get a cup of coffee without spending a dime. The...
How BrainNet Enabled 3 People to Directly Transmit Thoughts
For a remarkably social species, we’re not particularly effective communicators.
Finding the right words to clearly, efficient transmit our thoughts to another consciousness—even something as...
The 7 Wild Energy Technologies That Just Got a Billion-Dollar Boost
It's touch and go whether current efforts to curb carbon emissions will avert catastrophic climate change. That's why a group of billionaires have pledged...
