The Roaring 20s: A future-proof economy and the business of adapting to automation
Entrepreneurship and politics for the age of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Today, I’m going to discuss the threats and opportunities presented by automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, because these will be defining themes of the new decade. Businesses big and small have alleged grand ambitions for AI/ML’s incitement of future growth. At the same time, there’s a raging — perhaps evergreen — debate about whether or not automation will replace human workers. So, to start I’ll discuss the technology and business sides of AI/ML; then, toward the end of this, I’ll invariably shift-gears to address the debate about automation, laborforce displacement, and adaptations thereof…
The Platform approach
From where we sit today, we’re still pretty far away from the advent of strong form AI, know as “Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)”:
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the intelligence of a machine that can understand or learn any intellectual task that a…
