Futurist Gerd

All about Gerd Leonhard: Keynote Speaker, Futurist, Author & Blogger, Strategist, Idea Curator, Occasional Heretic, CEO of The Futures Agency, Founder of Green Futurists, Visiting Professor at Fundacao Dom Cabral (Brazil). Based in Basel, Switzerland. Find out more: about.me/mediafuturist futureof.biz mediafuturist.com Twitter: @gleonhard Loading google.load('search', '1', {language : 'en'}); google.setOnLoadCallback(function() { var customSearchOptions = {}; var orderByOptions = {}; orderByOptions['keys'] = [{label: 'Relevance', key: ''},{label: 'Date', key: 'date'}]; customSearchOptions['enableOrderBy'] = true; customSearchOptions['orderByOptions'] = orderByOptions; var imageSearchOptions = {}; imageSearchOptions['layout'] = google.search.ImageSearch.LAYOUT_CLASSIC; customSearchOptions['enableImageSearch'] = true; customSearchOptions['imageSearchOptions'] = imageSearchOptions; var customSearchControl = new google.search.CustomSearchControl( '007076837144016709598:5qirwzhijfc', customSearchOptions); customSearchControl.setResultSetSize(google.search.Search.FILTERED_CSE_RESULTSET); var options = new google.search.DrawOptions(); options.enableSearchboxOnly("http://www.google.com/cse?cx=007076837144016709598:5qirwzhijfc", null, true); customSearchControl.draw('cse-search-form', options); }, true); Gerd Leonhard

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The Collapse of the American Ideal: A Gerd Leonhard Perspective

I fear that the current United States leadership and government has abandoned a positive future by prioritizing power and exponential techno

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Beyond AI: What really matters for The Good Future?

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With great power comes great opacity

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Alan Cross has seen the future of music and says it’s all about ‘Web3’ and the metaverse

SINGAPORE — If you want to kill a conversation quickly, just bring up words like “metaverse,” “crypto,” and “blockchain.” Eyes glaze over followed by some version of “Oh, look at the time. I must go.” I can relate.. Read More: https://globalnews.ca/news/9158244/web3-metaverse-music/

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Americans Are Gobbling Up Takeout Food. Restaurants Bet That Won’t Change.

America’s biggest chains test digital-only restaurants and more drive-throughs, gambling that heightened consumer demand for food to go will last well beyond the pandemic McDonald’s Corp.. Read More: https://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-are-gobbling-up-takeout-food-restaurants-bet-that-wont-change-11674882022

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How ChatGPT Kicked Off an A.I. Arms Race - The New York Times

But two months after its debut, ChatGPT has more than 30 million users and gets roughly five million visits a day, two people with knowledge of the figures said. That makes it one of the fastest-growing software products in memory. (Instagram, by contrast, took nearly a year to get its first 10 million users.)https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/chatgpt-openai-artificial-intelligence.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/chatgpt-openai-artificial-intelligence.html

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Google poised to release chatbot technology after ChatGPT success | Google | The Guardian

Alphabet CEO says company well positioned in AI field, as analysts say ChatGPT has reached 100m usershttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/03/google-poised-to-release-chatbot-technology-after-chatgpt-successhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/03/google-poised-to-release-chatbot-technology-after-chatgpt-success

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How ChatGPT Kicked Off an A.I. Arms Race - The New York Times

Even inside the company, the chatbot’s popularity has come as something of a shock.https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/chatgpt-openai-artificial-intelligence.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/chatgpt-openai-artificial-intelligence.html

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“Have you been worried that…

“Have you been worried that ChatGPT, the AI language generator, could be used maliciously—to cheat on schoolwork or broadcast disinformation? You’re in luck, sort of: OpenAI, the company that made ChatGPT, has introduced a new tool that tries to determine the likelihood that a chunk of text you provide was AI-generated.” ChatGPT Is About to Dump More Work on Everyone https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/chatgpt-ai-detector-machine-learning-technology-bureaucracy/672927/ via Instapaperhttps://teamgerd.dropmark.com/759623/31694680https://teamgerd.dropmark.com/759623/31694680

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AI and Jobs

“He also did not believe that future approaches to achieving generative AI would be based on neural network approaches and that alternative new approaches are needed. So this must be in a follow-up interview with the Godfather of AI, Yann Lecun. I can hardly wait to speak to him, hope I can be fortunate to capture his attention.” Why Meta’s Yann LeCun Is An AI GodFather And Why ChatGPT3 Is Not Revolutionary. https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2023/01/27/why-yann-lecun-is-an-ai-godfather-and-why-chatgpt3-is-not-revolutionary/?sh=565663b17a64 via Instapaperhttps://teamgerd.dropmark.com/759623/31694639https://teamgerd.dropmark.com/759623/31694639

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“As OpenAI explains, the tool…

“As OpenAI explains, the tool will likely yield a lot of false positives and negatives, sometimes with great confidence. In one example, given the first lines of the Book of Genesis, the software concluded that it was likely to be AI-generated. God, the first AI.” ChatGPT Is About to Dump More Work on Everyone https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/chatgpt-ai-detector-machine-learning-technology-bureaucracy/672927/ via Instapaperhttps://teamgerd.dropmark.com/647013/31694682https://teamgerd.dropmark.com/647013/31694682

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ChatGPT is about to dump more work on everyone - The Atlantic

Artificial intelligence could spare you some effort. Even if it does, it will create a lot more work in the process.https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/chatgpt-ai-detector-machine-learning-technology-bureaucracy/672927/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/chatgpt-ai-detector-machine-learning-technology-bureaucracy/672927/

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Can Aviation Ever Be Sustainable? | Condé Nast Traveler

Introducing the Future of Travel column, a monthly series exploring the innovations and bold ideas moving travel forward.https://www.cntraveler.com/story/sustainable-aviation-future-of-travelhttps://www.cntraveler.com/story/sustainable-aviation-future-of-travel

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ChatGPT’s Mind-Boggling, Possibly Dystopian Impact on the Media World | Vanity Fair

Is artificial intelligence “useful for journalism” or a “misinformation superspreader”? With CNET mired in controversy, Jonah Peretti promising “endless opportunities,” and Steven Brill warning of AI’s weaponization, the industry is only just coming to grips with this jaw-dropping technology.https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/01/chatgpt-journalism-ai-mediahttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/01/chatgpt-journalism-ai-media

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ChatGPT could make these jobs obsolete

The rise of the machines leaves many well-paid workers vulnerable, experts warn.https://nypost.com/2023/01/25/chat-gpt-could-make-these-jobs-obsolete/https://nypost.com/2023/01/25/chat-gpt-could-make-these-jobs-obsolete/