🔮 AI & the blockchain; automation & jobs; big tech vs big government; racism & bots; parking, cities & certainty++ #175

Another joke, sent by Felix Lauchenauer: 

Werner Heisenberg is driving very fast on a country road when he gets pulled over by the Police. 

The policeman asks him, "Sir, do you know how fast you were driving?"

Heisenberg’s reply is at the foot of this missive.

Dept of near future

💡 Matt Turck provides a clear overview of how the blockchain and AI intersect and why we’re likely to see interesting developments in the overlap.

[Y]ou can imagine a fully decentralized AI marketplace where people provide their data, developers compete to provide the best machine learning models, and the whole system works as a self-reinforcing network that attracts more and more participants and creates better and better AI.

📈  PwC, an accountancy firm, reckons AI will create 7.2m jobs in the UK, more than the 7m displaced by automation. This joins the collection of long-range forecasts which sadly don’t expose their models for wide scrutiny. Taken at face value it suggests a massive dislocation, both geographic…