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Will robots one day satisfy our need for love?
Look into the future of pleasure, lust and connection
Until now, scientists and developers have pushed to discover whether artificial intelligence can love humans, and vice versa. Welcome to the age of robot relationships.
AI loves me; AI loves me not
In Steven Spielberg's 2001 blockbuster science fiction film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, a highly advanced robot boy pursues a loving foster human who abandoned him. At the time it seemed far fetched. Today, it looks more like reality.
Imagine Beyond: Build me Somebody to Love looks at how AI is changing the way we look at love, lust and human connection. Could you marry a robot? Will a hunk of metal look after you in your dying days? Let's see how human machines could become.
Why listen to these tech high-flyers about your work future?
Because they know what they're talking about.
The prevailing wisdom is that the fast pace of automation, digital change and AI (artificial intelligence) will soon leave most of us jobless. Talking with some of the most successful tech entrepreneurs around the world, not one agreed with this dark premonition. Rather, they pointed to a different kind of future we should prepare for.
A new two-part video series, The Future That Works, probes the minds of people who are harnessing AI and emerging technologies to help solve some tough problems. They see work changing beyond recognition in the future, but it's not all bad.
Watch The Future That Works, Part 1:
AI and robots will take all our jobs? Tech leaders don't think so - Part 1 youtu.be
Why listen to these people when it comes to predicting our technological future? Let's take a look at some of the innovative businesses they front.
Breaking our addiction to devices and social media
Simby is a fully personalized, wearable AI technology that aims to break our addictions to our devices and social media while still giving us all the benefits of being digitally connected. Co-founder and head of product Andrew Doherty believes technology should benefit our lives and do no harm, and that users should have full control of their data. This 'sassy best friend' is still under development but coming soon.
The buzz around Beep
Organizations can be as buggy as bad software, with minor frustrations putting a damper on everyone's concentration and creativity. Doing something about these problems can feel like swimming upstream, especially when management doesn't understand how much energy small annoyances suck out of their staff.
Katz Kiely is part of the team behind Beep, a system that rewards and recognizes people for raising problems and finding solutions in their business. It puts leaders in touch with their employees' real challenges, flattening the hierarchy and reconnecting people with meaning in their work.
Growing a business like a garden
Author and tech entrepreneur Aaron Dignan knows exactly how hierarchy and bureaucracy hold back progress in business. He gleaned this wisdom from in-depth study of organizations known for adapting to change and getting fast results, like Spotify, Burning Man and Basecamp.
He's not only published these findings for the benefit of other entrepreneurs in his popular 2019 book Brave new work: Are you ready to reinvent your organization? He's also founder of The Ready: An 'operating system' that helps businesses change their culture and see themselves more as a garden than a machine.
Smartening up the factory
CloudNC is bringing safety and accuracy to factories with AI and autonomous manufacturing. Their clients manufacture parts for air travel, space exploration and defense, among other industries, where perfection is necessary every time.
Full automation in manufacturing also allows for on-demand production. This option is in high demand since COVID-19 has made the global market and labor supply hard to predict. Co-founder Theo Saville says making manufacturing more environmentally sustainable is also top of CloudNC's agenda.
Blockchain on the farm
Agriculture is one of the fastest-changing industries on the planet, while soil depletion, habitat loss and methane emissions come to the fore in the public consciousness. Farmers often face little choice in how they operate because they're time-poor, isolated and face high set-up costs for change.
AgriLedger Founder and CEO Genevieve Leveille wants farmers to get the best price for their hard work, giving them more choice and making sure doing better for people, animals and the environment pays dividends. Using blockchain, AgriLedger brings users benefits like supply chain traceability, market information and access to finance.
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AI won’t steal all our jobs – tech entrepreneurs predict something different.
With COVID-19, businesses have changed fast, but leaders see bigger changes coming.
Entrepreneurs in cutting-edge tech don't believe AI, robots and automation will replace all human jobs, leaving us nothing to do. A new two-part video series, The Future That Works, looks at how work is about to change beyond recognition.
Forcing an economic rethink
As automation changes the workplace, ever-increasing output is leading us to another crisis. Technology entrepreneurs argue we must make fundamental changes in why businesses exist and how economies work to reduce the inequality that threatens to destabilize society.
Watch the film to explore how experts including Aaron Dignan (Founder, The Ready), Katz Kiely (Founder, Beep) and Theo Saville (CEO, CloudNC) are imaging a future that works.
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