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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Given that our leading scientists and technologists are usually so mistaken about technological evolution, what chance do our policymakers have of effectively regulating the emerging technological risks from artificial intelligence (AI)? The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Even social media started with the promise of information triage: for each person, a unique feed of updates from only the friends they had chosen to follow. In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. The market was maturing.

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To Transform, Trade Ego for Humility

The Agile Manager

Each had come to prominence in the handset market differently: Nokia was a mobile telephony company, Blackberry a mobile email company, Apple a personal technology company, Google an internet search and advertising company. Neither strategy paid off. That strategy worked for GE in the 1990s. Its defining need is protection.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver. Marketers use big data and artificial intelligence to find out more about the future needs of their customers.