First Wholly AI-Developed Drug Enters Phase 1 Trials
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February 25, 2022
Insilico Medicine today announces the start of the world’s first Phase 1 clinical trial of a drug developed from scratch using Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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AI And Optimism: Jim Mellon Wants Us All To Live Longer
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January 27, 2022
The longevity industry today is like the internet industry of 20 years ago, when it was still in its dial-up phase, and downloading information was like sucking jelly through a straw.
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Putting AI to Work in Longevity Research
The Yuan
September 13, 2021
Profile of Alex Zhavoronkov, a leading longevity researcher
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The Impact of AI on Healthcare
LinkedIn
October 01, 2020
Healthcare is an obvious sector to deploy AI in. It generates tsunamis of data, vast amounts of money are spent on it, and there are plenty of opportunities to improve the quality of its products and services by making them more intelligent and intelligible.
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Workspaces
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August 31, 2020
Artificial intelligence will change everything - even big office real estate
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The Impact of AI on Journalism
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August 24, 2020
AIs write hundreds of thousands of the articles that are published by mainstream media outlets every week. What next?
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“The Price Of Tomorrow” by Jeff Booth - Book Review
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August 18, 2020
“The Price of Tomorrow” is a warning about two dangerous trends: technological unemployment, and global debt
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The Impact Of AI On Call Centres
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August 10, 2020
Call centre traffic has shifted from voice to digital in recent years, but contrary to expectations, employment has risen gradually. That may not last.
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“False Alarm” By Bjorn Lomborg – Book Review
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August 03, 2020
Is optimism about an AI-powered future compatible with fears about extinction from global warming?
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Thucydides And The Dragon: Artificial Intelligence And Sino-US Rivalry
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June 30, 2020
From Cold War between two nuclear superpowers to Code War between two AI superpowers?
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The Impact Of Artificial Intelligence On Influencer Marketing
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June 22, 2020
Digital marketers have to deploy AI. They also have to defeat it
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Artificial Intelligence, & Fully Automated Luxury Capitalism
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June 15, 2020
How we can all benefit from cognitive automation
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Three Lessons To Learn From The Virus Crisis
LinkedIn
April 30, 2020
“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” This wise injunction is often attributed to Winston Churchill, but apparently that is a case of “Churchillian drift” – the mis-attribution of a quote to someone already famous for their quotes.
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Transhumanism vs humanism
LinkedIn
April 24, 2020
Had a great fireside chat and debate with Gerd Leonhard last night, with valuable contributions from transhumanist stalwarts like Natasha Vita-More and David Wood. Video here.
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Transhumanism vs humanism
LinkedIn
April 17, 2020
A couple of years ago, I recorded a podcast with Gerd Leonhard, one of the world's most successful futurist keynote speakers, and the founder of The Futures Agency. It was a lot of fun, and you can listen to it here. Gerd and I disagree about many things, but he has that rare talent of making disagreement amiable.
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Ten lasting impacts of the virus
LinkedIn
April 06, 2020
We’re all wondering how to survive the virus: how to stay alive, and also solvent.
Assuming we manage that, what will be its lasting impacts?
1. Appreciation of exponentials
The rising death tolls in many countries has been shocking to watch. Many people are getting their first up-close-and-personal view of the astonishing power of exponential growth. We have seen it for decades in the dramatic growth of computing power described by Moore’s Law, but like the mythical boiling frog in the saucepan (it really is a myth: frogs are not that daft), we acclimatise to improvements on that timescale, and take them for granted.
Exponential growth accelerates, and it is going to transform our lives in amazing ways over
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Book review: “A World Without Work” by Daniel Susskind
LinkedIn
February 06, 2020
Technological unemployment and economists
The term “technological unemployment” was popularised in the 1930s by the celebrated economist John Maynard Keynes. Fifty years later, another renowned economist called Wassily Leontief warned that jobs for humans might follow the same path that jobs for horses did in the early 20th century. So the idea has a respectable economic heritage, but economists are still arguing about whether it will actually happen.
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Sobreviviendo a la IA: La promesa y el peligro de la Inteligencia Artificial (Spanish Edition)
Three Cs
August 15, 2021
Surviving AI, first published 2015, third edition published 2020, translated into Spanish.
Este es el siglo de las dos singularidades: la singularidad económica (desempleo tecnológico) y la singularidad tecnológica (la explosión de la inteligencia). Ambas presentan enormes oportunidades y enormes desafíos. Si las manejamos con éxito, nuestro futuro como especie será más que maravilloso. Si fallamos, podría ser miserable, y quizás breve. El impulsor es la inteligencia artificial (IA), la tecnología más poderosa de la humanidad. El software que resuelve problemas y convierte los datos en valiosa información ya ha revolucionado nuestras vidas, y la revolución se está acelerando. En 2015, la inteligencia artificial ocupaba las primeras planas, y con justa razón. Se está acercando a un punto de inflexión en el que las máquinas pueden realizar mejor que nosotros muchas tareas que antes se consideraban exclusivamente humanas. Los sistemas de aprendizaje profundo están a punto de reconocer imágenes y comprender el lenguaje natural mejor que los humanos. El argumento de este libro es que debemos monitorear los cambios que están ocurriendo y adoptar políticas que fomenten los mejores resultados posibles. La gama de posibles resultados es amplia, desde los terribles hasta los maravillosos, y no están predeterminados. Serán seleccionados en parte por suerte, en parte por su propia lógica interna, pero en parte también por las políticas adoptadas en todos los niveles de la sociedad. La automatización y la superinteligencia son los dos desarrollos que ya podemos prever causarán grandes impactos. La automatización podría conducir a una singularidad económica y la evolución a un tipo de economía completamente diferente. Si nos equivocamos, una élite podría poseer los medios de producción y reprimir al resto de nosotros en un autoritario régimen tecnológico distópico.
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The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism
Amazon
July 18, 2016
Artificial intelligence (AI) is overtaking our human ability to absorb and process information. Robots are becoming increasingly dextrous, flexible, and safe to be around (except the military ones!). It is our most powerful technology, and you need to understand it.
This new book from best-selling AI writer Calum Chace argues that within a few decades, most humans will not be able to work for money. Self-driving cars will probably be the canary in the coal mine, providing a wake-up call for everyone who isn’t yet paying attention. All jobs will be affected, from fast food McJobs to lawyers and journalists. This is the single most important development facing humanity in the first half of the 21st century.
The fashionable belief that Universal Basic Income is the solution is only partly correct. We are probably going to need an entirely new economic system, and we better start planning soon - for the Economic Singularity!
The outcome can be very good – a world in which machines do all the boring jobs and humans do pretty much what they please. But there are major risks, which we can only avoid by being alert to the possible futures and planning how to avoid the negative ones
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Surviving AI
Three Cs
July 29, 2015
“Surviving AI” is a concise, easy-to-read guide to what's coming, taking you through technological unemployment (the economic singularity) and the possible creation of a superintelligence (the technological singularity).
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Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence
Amazon
July 29, 2015
Artificial intelligence is our most powerful technology, and in the coming decades it will change everything in our lives. If we get it right it will make humans almost godlike. If we get it wrong... well, extinction is not the worst possible outcome.
“Surviving AI” is a concise, easy-to-read guide to what's coming, taking you through technological unemployment (the economic singularity) and the possible creation of a superintelligence (the technological singularity).
Here's what some of the leading thinkers in the field have to say about it:
A sober and easy-to-read review of the risks and opportunities that humanity will face from AI
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Surviving AI
June 01, 2015
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Pandora's Brain
Amazon
February 04, 2014
Around half the scientists researching artificial intelligence (AI) think that a conscious AI at or beyond human level will be created by 2050. If they are right, the consequence could be an intelligence explosion, in which the AI rapidly and enormously exceeds human cognitive ability.
Pandora's Brain is a techno-thriller by best-selling writer Calum Chace. It uses the issues raised by the coming machine intelligence explosion as a platform for a fast-paced and thought-provoking adventure story.
Set in the near future, it features Matt, a shy but engaging and resourceful student who discovers that his recently-deceased father was involved in research that could enable the construction of the world's first conscious machine.
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3Cs: Chair // Coach // Consultant
3Cs
March 05, 2005
Do you sometimes worry that you may be missing something important? Do you have nagging uncertainties about your finances, staff, marketing, sales, or operations? Do you have specific questions, but don’t know where to get advice that is backed by deep experience, fairly priced, and isn’t tainted by sales patter?
Could you use a critical friend?
I can help
I chair and consult to growing businesses. My contributions vary from one-off conversations, to regular meetings over a period of years, tackling every conceivable issue a growing business can face.
Elsewhere on this site you can find out about my background (“About”), the services I offer (“Services”), and what other people say about working with me (“Testimonials”). On the “Interview” page I’ll be sharing the insights of some of the smart people I have met down the years.
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Our future with AI
Calum Chace
March 20, 2023
Transformer AI and two singularities, Times Network, Delhi
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10. Superintelligence and Hollywood
