Cybernetic 8 — Volume 1
8 interesting things from a cybernetic world
What is this all about?
This is an irregular collection of the most interesting news from the tech and startup world I came across in the last weeks, prepared and bite-sized for your reading pleasure.
It will mostly cover topics around #technology #startups #deeptech #neurotech #ai #robotics #decentalization #lifescience #healthtech #complexity #cybernetics #constructivism and #futurism, but also include some funny or otherwise noteworthy stuff from time to time.
Why cybernetic 8? Learn more about this worldview here, here or here.
Here we go — the Cybernetic 8 for May
- How alogithms change taste, choice and personality, and slowly eliminate the coincidential discoveries of your daily life — LINK
- In the chip world, after CPUs and GPUs, specific machine learning chips are the next step — here are the most active companies in that space — LINK
- The way how our manufacturing looks like is about to change tremendously — CBInsights has a great report on that — LINK
- If you like your manufacturing even more futuristic, Singularity University and Deloitte prepared a report on exponential technologies for manufacturing — LINK
- AI and AGI are in everyone’s mouth and brain nowadays. Matt Turck from First Mark Capital analyzed how far away we are from AGI — LINK
- Downsides of AI seem to concern more and more people. The MIT Technology Review has an article on that (LINK) and how the US deals with it (LINK).
- For DeepTech startups, “traditional” VC money might be a difficult thing to take — the Harvard Business Review has an interesting take here — LINK
- How we feed the world is an increasingly disucssed topic, check out the current trends in food and agriculture that Techstars sees — LINK
Anything else?
Universal Basic Income is a highly discussed topic in the tech world, with opinions ranging from devil’s advocates to evangelists. Here is a lenghty but readworthy article highlighting the advantages of UBI — LINK.
Also, while at it, check out what UBI proponent and VC Albert Wenger thinks on the topic, there are several posts on his blog that are worth your time — LINK
