How AI is Radically Transforming Our Urban Lives
How AI is Radically Transforming Our Urban Lives
How AI is Radically Transforming Our Urban Lives
How AI is Radically Transforming Our Urban Lives
AI Top Trends
Metaverse
It's coming up .... you will be spending part or a lot of your time in the Metaverse in some years! Might as well get with the program!
ChatGPT Just Answers Anything
Just Answers Anything
Articles, essays, blogs, marketing copy... AI writes it all! Frightening ... if you are a journalist or logger! If you have writer's block, just get it written by AI!
“The pace of progress in artificial intelligence is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast – it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year time frame. 10 years at most.”
Elon Musk
Entrepreneur & Business Magnate; Founder, CEO & Chief Engineer at SpaceX; CEO & Product Architect of Tesla;
Founder of The Boring Company; Co-founder of Neuralink & OpenAI
AI at Home
Smart Appliances
AI has come home – in many ways! And it's doing the mundane, thankless, and dispensable work around the house ... thank God for that!
Robotic Toys
From the loveable Lego-man a generation back – to Robotic Toys in the current! And, these integrate STEM and coding skills, also making learning fun!
“Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029.
Follow that out further to, say 2045, and we will have multiplied the intelligence
– the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization – a billion-fold”
Ray Kurzweil
American inventor & futurist; Thought leader in AI - optical character recognition,
text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, & electronic keyboard instruments
AI in Health & Well-Being
AI-Based Medical Chat-bots & Consultation
AI-based software applications are providing medical consultation – sparing long waiting times for common ailments consultation.
AI-Based Cancer Monitoring
Drawing on extensive historic medical databases and machine learning algorithms, AI is being used in early detection and monitor cancer from scans.
“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google.
The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web.
It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing.
We’re nowhere near doing that now.
Larry Page
American computer scientist & internet entrepreneur; Co-founders of Google
AI in Mobility
Autonomous Vehicles
As one of AI’s most popular applications, not considering over $100 billion invested already, autonomous vehicles (AV) are getting mainstream!
AI in Micro-mobility
It's suddenly everywhere! Micro-mobility has re-defined neighbourhood-level transit with dedicated micro-mobility lane appearing in cities globally!
“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race … It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.”
Stephen Hawking (1942 - 2018)
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author;
Was director of research at Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at University of Cambridge
AI in Energy
AI in Energy Transition
It's all about carbon - rather de-carbonization now! With the energy sector being central to this, AI promises a significant shift in accelerating this global transition.
AI-Based Smart Grids
AI is enabling a whole new system-change in energy supply with the transition to AI-based systems balancing local renewable energy sources with dynamic demands.
“We must address, individually and collectively, moral and ethical issues
raised by cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and biotechnology,
which will enable significant life extension, designer babies, and memory extraction.”
Klaus Schwab
German engineer & economist; Founder & executive chairman of World Economic Forum
AI in Urban Management
Digital Twinfor Urban Areas
for Urban Areas
Imagine planning, monitoring, maintaining, and improving urban areas by simulating the real thing digitally - its digital twin!
AI-Based Traffic Management
AI-based traffic and road management systems are enabling transport authorities planning, monitoring, and maintenance control over their streets.
“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight,
maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. I mean with artificial intelligence we’re summoning the demon.”
Elon Musk
Entrepreneur & Business Magnate; Founder, CEO & Chief Engineer at SpaceX; CEO & Product Architect of Tesla; Founder of The Boring Company; Co-founder of Neuralink & OpenAI
AI in Socio-Economics
AI Impact on Global Economy
AI is actually expected to boost global economy with increased productivity, efficiencies, and many new job profiles in future.
Job Market Transformation by AI
It's called the 4th Industrial Revolution and regarded as the most impactful one by industry leaders - AI will radically disrupt and transform job markets.
“We have seen AI providing conversation and comfort to the lonely; we have also seen AI engaging in racial discrimination. Yet the biggest harm that AI is likely to do to individuals in the short term is job displacement, as the amount of work we can automate with AI is vastly larger than before. As leaders, it is incumbent on all of us to make sure we are building a world in which every individual has an opportunity to thrive.”
Andrew Ng
British-born American computer scientist and technology;
Co-founder and head of Google Brain; Former chief scientist at Baidu