Online Reputation: How Sesame Credit Changes the Concept of Privacy

The internet has a problem. On the one hand, we have the ‘Western internet’ where everyone can do as they like, where you can be anonymous and say/do whatever you want, but where reputation [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/blockchain-matters-online-reputation/] and online trust is difficult. As the famous saying goes:

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AI: A Force for Good or Bad?

This week, Elon Musk praised the work of OpenAI after a team of five neural networks had defeated five humans, who ranked in the top 99.95 percentile of players worldwide, in the popular game Dota 2. The five bots had learned the game by playing against itself at a

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What the Convergence of AI and Blockchain Means for Organisations

AI and Blockchain [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/organisation-tomorrow-data-organisation/] are two of the hottest technology trends hitting the market today. Blockchain stands to revolutionise communication and transaction recordation, building trust between strangers and enabling increased provenance, transparency and privacy. AI takes on incredibly complex tasks and applies tremendous computing power to

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Why We Should Ban Lethal Autonomous Weapons

A few days ago, some of the world’s most renowned entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists in the technology industry warned for the dangers of artificial intelligence and that of lethal autonomous weapons. Over 150 companies and 2400 individuals from 90 countries signed the lethal autonomous weapon pledge [https://futureoflife.org/

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Why We Should Embrace Technology to Change Globalisation

We live in a world where increasingly globalisation is under threat. The biggest threat comes from trade wars, started by Mr Trump, that could significantly harm the world economy. This week, the International Monetary Fund warned that Trump’s trade war could cost the global economy $430 billion in 2020

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How AI Can Unlock the Intelligent Internet of Things

The algorithmic organisation [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/top-7-technology-trends-2018/] is an organisation built around smart algorithms. Algorithms that define company processes [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/organisation-tomorrow-data-organisation/], that deliver customer services, that take action when necessary and as such define the way the world works. Thanks to machine learning and deep learning,

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Thanks to Emerging Technologies, the Future Will Never Be Slow Again

The fast-changing, uncertain and ambiguous environments that organisations operate in today, require organisations to re-think all their internal business processes and customer touch points. In addition, due to the availability of Emerging Information Technologies such as big data analytics, blockchain and artificial intelligence, it has become easier for startups to

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How to Develop Conversational AI for Your Business

Since a few years, chatbots are here, and they will not go away any time soon. Facebook popularised the chatbot with Facebook Messenger Bots, but the first chatbot was already developed in the 1960s. MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed a chatbot called ELIZA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA]. The

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AI is Like Lego; Why You Should Hire a Chief AI Now

Artificial Intelligence is like Lego; to build something nice, you need to combine the right pieces in the right way. Most of us have played with Lego when we were small. I did at least and I absolutely loved it. I can remember the days when my friends and I

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