🔮 AI is just beginning; global governance; the returns on deep learning; AI pay goes exponential, dolphin people & ketamine++ #162

😎 Summer is here! And you’ve got a bumper issue of Exponential View. Find a hammock in some shade, and enjoy it! Get all the way to the end, you won’t be disappointed.

Dept of the near future

🔮 The AI revolution hasn’t happened, yet. Long, must-read: we need a 'human-centric engineering discipline' to ensure that what we develop helps humans flourish.

💸  Advanced AI techniques (such as deep learning and reinforcement learning) could unlock around $5 trillion of value annually across multiple industries according to the McKinsey Global Institute. (See also, demographics matter: in low-population growth nations, like those of Eastern Europe, robots are filling gaps in employment.)
 
🔑 Steve Sinofsky: New breakthroughs can’t do new things in old ways. What incumbents and commentators get wrong about step-change innovations.

🔥 We must regulate modern cyber warfare before these e-skirmishes turn into hot wars (and before our AI systems get more capable), argue Luciano Floridi & Mariarosaria…