🔮 Automation & deglobalisation; attention taxes; the blockchain lie; rethinking cities; dandelions, Alzheimer assets, quiet Finns++ #188

Cities, bots, brains

Dept of podcasts

Today AI is a technology, but in the future it will be its own species.

I discuss the future of artificial general intelligence, its merging with blockchain-based projects, as well as the state of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship with serial entrepreneur and investor Elad Gil. Listen to our conversation:

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Dept of the near future

🚧 Deglobalisation could be an ongoing theme, and Britain's Brexit shenanigans could hint at early patterns. After leaving the EU, British firms will have a smaller labour pool to draw from across many different skill sets (from casual farm hands to advanced medical and computing workers). One outcome we can see so far is an increase in automation investments. Imports of industrial robots increased 72% year-on-year to July 2018. The UK has long-lagged its G7 peers on robotisation, partly due to a relatively smaller manufacturing sector. (Graph here & also good analysis f…