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Nestlé CIO, Filippo Catalano, offers top-level AI strategy advice for business leaders (VB Live)

November 12, 2019
Presented by Hypergiant It’s time to break down siloes and harness AI as a transformative technology. Learn how a horizontal approach can help you squeeze out the promise of AI, how leaders can build a strategic vision around elevating every part of your enterprise, and transform your company, in this VB Live event. Access on demand for free right here. “Business leaders are often exposed to…
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AI designed this gin, but would you drink it?

November 11, 2019
Two years ago, I owned a bar with over 300 different gins — one of the largest collections of juniper-flavored spirits at any establishment in the United States. None of those gins was designed by a computer, a fact that my bartenders would likely have explained was for…
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As AI grows, users deserve tools to limit its access to personal data

November 11, 2019
My name is John. My name is John Connor, and I live at 19,828 Almond Avenue, Los Angeles. My name is John Connor, I live at 19,828 Almond Avenue, Los Angeles, and my California police record J-66455705 lists my supposedly expunged juvenile convictions for vandalism, trespassing, and shoplifting. Which of these levels of personal detail do you feel comfortable sharing with your smartphone? And…
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AI ethics is all about power

November 11, 2019
At The Common Good in the Digital Age, a tech conference held in Vatican City recently, Pope Francis urged Facebook executives, venture capitalists, and government regulators to be wary of the impact of AI and other technologies. “If mankind’s so-called technological progress were to become an enemy of the common good, this would lead to an unfortunate regression to a form of barbarism…
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When AI is a tool and when it’s a weapon

November 11, 2019
The immense capabilities artificial intelligence is bringing to the world would have been inconceivable to past generations. But even as we marvel at the incredible power these new technologies afford, we’re faced with complex and urgent questions about the balance of…
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The pitfalls of a ‘retrofit human’ in AI systems

November 11, 2019
Stanislav Petrov is not a famous name in the computer science space, like Ada Lovelace or Grace Hopper, but his story serves as a critical lesson for developers of AI systems. Petrov, who passed away on May 19, 2017, was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Union’s Air Defense Forces. On September 26, 1983, an alarm announced that the U.S. had launched five nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic…
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