Gigaom Change: In the news

IN THE NEWS. So much is happening in the world of technology over the course of a week we thought it would be insightful to aggregate all of the business intelligence we're uncovering into a once a week newsletter that keeps you up to date with information and innovations specific to seven key technologies we'll be featuring at our Gigaom Change 2016 Leaders Summit. Enjoy! The Gigaom Change Team A trip to Mars or Galapagos in your lunch break? Not as far-fetched as you might think, Google ‪#Expeditions‬ is delivering field trips to you. Think autonomous industries are still a long way off? Rolls Royce plan to launch at least one fully autonomous ship within 10yrs. What's the future of security? As the level of security breaches and cyber attacks rise, so to do the stakes. Quote of the week... "Never before have corporations been so large, so wealthy, so powerful, and so rich in human creativity and endeavor. It is critical to our success and to the livelihood of our global population for them to understand that their future is entirely caught up in their ability to find solutions." —Dr. Lynda Gratton, British organizational theorist, consultant, and Professor of Management Practice at London Business School Will AR become a real world replacement for mobile devices? Projected to be a $90B industry, at the very least it's set to be a major disruptor. What are quantum dots and why do I want them in my TV? They're transforming the lens through which you view things. The next big thing in hardware computing is also the cutest It may look and act like a toy, but Cozmo is driven by an "emotional engine", that belies its complexity.   Book Now   WHEN September 21 - 23 2016 WHERE AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center Copyright © 2016 Knowingly, Inc., All rights reserved.

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Manoj Saxena talks Artificial Intelligence with Gigaom

Manoj Saxena talks Artificial Intelligence with Gigaom Manoj Saxena is the executive chairman of CognitiveScale and a founding managing director of The Entrepreneurs' Fund IV, a $100m seed fund focused exclusively on the cognitive computing space. Saxena is also a Special Advisor to IBM senior leadership where he focuses on operationalizing IBM's $100m Watson Cloud Ecosystem Fund and making side-by-side investments with the TEF IV fund. Saxena is also the chairman of two other startups in the cognitive computing space, WayBlazer and SparkCognition. Prior to joining TEF, Saxena was general manager, IBM Watson, where his team built the world's first cognitive systems in healthcare, financial services, and retail. He received the IBM Chairman's award for Watson commercialization and helped with the formation of Watson Business Group in January 2014 with a $1B investment from IBM. Saxena will be speaking on the subject of artificial intelligence at Gigaom Change Leaders Summit in Austin, September 21-23rd. In anticipation of that, I caught up with him to ask a few questions about AI and it's potential impact on the business world. Byron Reese: How intelligent do you think a computer can become? Manoj Saxena: I think they can become super intelligent. They already are. They have in certain areas, they have far exceeded human brain capacity. Now they are super intelligent, they are not super conscious. So I separate intelligence from awareness and consciousness. So I think intelligence is here, has been here for decades and you know with the advent of cheaper computing power in the cloud and more access to cloud through mobile, I think that intelligence is going to get more and more pervasive and will basically be woven into all aspects of our life, you know how we work, how we live and how we play is all going to be changed through computer intelligence surrounding us. I actually talked about this notion of as a species Homo Sapiens are dead. Homo Digitus is the future because we will be surrounded by intelligence and amplified and augmented by intelligence. Do you believe that in AGI, general intelligence is possible to build? I think it is possible but we are probably at least 40 or 50 years away from it. You know artificial general intelligence which essentially you could argue that you know parts of it. Google, you could argue as the beginning of an AGI kind of like a mega brain or Watson in certain domain is the beginning of an AGI but through AGI covering all forms of human knowledge and human pursuits, I've read a study on it that even if you ask the specialist in the AI field, the average response was that we are looking at 2050 or 2060 by the time we will attain AGI. I think the most exciting part is not AGI but ASI, Artificial Specific Intelligence. How so? Well I think a little bit of AI can go a long way. There were few big revelations when I was running IBM Watson. First, you don't need to build an AGI to drive humanity forward or to transform businesses. A little bit of AI when applied to targeted consumer engagement or industry specific business processes can have exponentially huge impact. The second insight I had when I was running Watson is, the real interesting part about AI and machine intelligence is not asking the question of a machine, but it's the machine telling you what question to ask. You know there is three types of information in this world: there is stuff you know, there is stuff you know you don't know, and there is stuff you don't know that you don't know. The real interesting part of machine intelligence is the third bucket where the machine taps you on the shoulder and says, hey you got to check this out. Continue Reading Artificial Intelligence, and its impact on business, will be one of seven topic areas covered at the Gigaom Change Leader's Summit in September in Austin. Join us. Early registration discount available!   Limited time only. This event will sell out. Register Now - $1300 Full Price - $4000 September 21 - 23, Austin, Texas   WHEN September 21 - 23 2016 WHERE AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center

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Structure News: Whaddya think it will take to put you in this public cloud today?

This week, we'll talk about how the public cloud market needs to evolve with the times, why container security is so important to its adoption, and what it will take to get to 100 exaflops.pre-header text   Where The 2017 Golden State Warriors Look Halfway Decent July 8th, 2016 / by Tom Krazit This week, we'll talk about how the public cloud market needs to evolve with the times, why container security is so important to its adoption, and what it will take to get to 100 exaflops. BIG PICTURE It’s 2016: do you know where your applications are running? Fortune took a look this week at a new survey of 100 CIOs conducted by Morgan Stanley in which 53 of those CIOs declared they had no workloads running in the public cloud. The conclusion? Those 53 executives are either kidding themselves about the rogue IT projects in their midst being run in the public cloud or, worse, trying to impose a "no cloud" policy on their organizations that makes their developers roll their eyes every time they charge something on the corporate account to Amazon Web Services. This is an interesting year for public cloud services providers, as the market continues to mature. Cloud computing is an accepted strategy -- arguably a best practice -- for new businesses unwilling to spend big bucks on servers and older companies looking for a place to host workloads that spike seasonally or randomly. But too many people still see cloud computing as an all-or-nothing choice, both on the buying side and the selling side. As we get ready for Structure 2016, we’re thinking about the need for greater flexibility when pitching customers that want to employ hybrid cloud strategies for cultural, regulatory, or proprietary reasons. Morgan Stanley predicted those 53 cloud objectors (or deniers) would dwindle to nine within a few years, which makes sense. Cloud computing is going to be a multi-hundred-billion market by the end of this decade, and cloud companies will turn those 53 holdouts into customers either way. They might do it faster, however, if they start meeting customer demands for flexibility and pricing transparency halfway. And CIOs can help themselves by taking an honest account of where their workloads are best positioned; an amnesty policy for rogue IT projects that obviously are better off in the cloud, maybe? STRUCTURE NEWS Last year CoreOS founder and CEO Alex Polvi (pictured) joined us at Structure 2015 to talk about containers, Kubernetes, and managing next-generation software projects. We’re thrilled to announce that he’ll be joining us at Structure Security this September in San Francisco to talk about container security, one of the hottest topics circling around the container revolution. We’re still finalizing the details for Polvi’s session, so stay tuned, but in the meantime you can find more information about the Structure Security lineup (which has not been finalized!) right here. INDUSTRY NEWS AVAST TO BUY AVG FOR $1.3 BILLION TO ADD SECURITY SOFTWARE Two security companies born in the Czech Republic are back together with Avast’s $1.3 billion purchase of AVG. Bloomberg reports that Avast is interested in using AVG’s technology to shore up its products for securing the internet of things, one of the most-referenced topics we’ve heard from people interested in participating in Structure Security. GOOGLE’S DEEP MIND TO USE 1 MILLION NHS EYE SCANS TO SPOT DISEASES EARLIER Sure, Go was an entertaining challenge, but Google’s DeepMind unit has signed up for something far more significant with plans to analyze health records for signs of eye disease. Ars Technica says the five-year research project involving eye scans conducted by a U.K. hospital will apply machine learning techniques in hopes of detecting diseases that cause vision loss before the damage is done. HOW AWS CAME TO BE Techcrunch has a nice roundup of AWS CEO Andy Jassy’s recent appearance in Washington, DC, where he went into some detail recounting the origin story of Amazon Web Services. Some of this has been covered before, but it’s worth reading to understand why it takes some companies a long time to realize they’ve hit upon something transformational, and why some companies never translate that realization into a business. INSIDE GOOGLE AND MICROSOFT’S RACE TO CATCH AMAZON IN THE CLOUD Speaking of AWS, its foresight has allowed it to dominate cloud computing to a huge degree, even ten years after it first launched. Forbes has another one of those can-Google-catch-AWS? profiles that have been making the rounds since Diane Greene took day-to-day control of Google’s cloud strategy, but give it a click for the anecdotes and focus on the Big Three. KUBERNETES 1.3 STEPS UP FOR HYBRID CLOUDS Google rolled out a new version of Kubernetes this week that Light Reading believes will make it easier for users to deploy containers across a variety of clouds. The container-management battles of the next couple of years should be very interesting as Docker rolls out its own container management product and more and more companies embrace the lightweight software development strategy. DREAMING OF 100 EXAFLOPS IN 2030 The Next Platform has another dispatch from this year’s International Supercomputing Conference in Germany, and this one focused on the scaling challenges that will face the enterprise computing industry as it continues to grow. Intel’s Al Gara focused on how memory and interconnects will have to bear as much of this load as the CPU, and how some fundamental engineering will have to take place to make these breakthroughs.   QUOTE OF THE WEEK Lock-in is a question we get a lot, and it’s very understandable. We feel like we need to earn your business every hour, every month, every year.” — Andy Jassy, Amazon Web Services CEO     Identify Management: They Are Who We Thought They Were @toddmckinnon @Okta September in San Francisco https://t.co/iB4wHId9sh12:15PM How does @Android balance openness and security? Adrian Ludwig of @google will explain: https://t.co/iB4wHId9sh12:15PM Are your connected sensors Bethany Mayer's security nightmare? Hear what she thinks at #structuresecurity @IXIAcom https://t.co/iB4wHId9sh11:50AM   Click here to unsubscribe from this list. 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Will the robots take all the jobs?

Will the robots take all the jobs? This article is part of a continuing series leading up to Gigaom Change, which will be held in September in Austin, Texas. Humans have always had a love/hate relationship with labor saving devices. Generally speaking, the owner of the device loves it and the person put out of work by it hates it. This tension periodically takes the form of violent rejection of industrial technology in all of its forms. The cotton gin "did the work of twenty men" which meant that after it was installed, one fella loved it, but the nineteen newly-unemployed workers probably shook their fists at the infernal gin, wishing all manner of evil to befall that Eli Whitney troublemaker. While this "technological unemployment" has been cited as the cause of our economic woes for two centuries, the issue has taken on a new since of urgency as their has emerged a general fear that the wave of technical innovation we are currently in will capsize the economy and produce a new category of workers: The permanently unemployed. Is this another example of the "boy who cried 'no jobs'?" or are we witnessing a true transformation in our economic world? The question is fundamentally unknowable because it hinges on three independent factors, each of which is also unknowable. The three factors are: How many jobs will the robots/AI really take? How quickly will that happen? What new jobs will be created along the way? Let's dive in: The tipping point of widespread permanent unemployment is thought by many to be the driverless car taking all the jobs away from the truck drivers: Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck One Oxford study claims that 47% of US jobs could vanish in 20 years. While consulting giant McKinsey & Company says 45% of all work activities could be automated right now. But at the same time, there is a chorus of voices urging calm and pointing out that in spite of radical transformations of virtually every industry, the US has maintained near-full employment. How can this be? Continue Reading Robotics, and its impact on business, will be one of seven topic areas covered at the Gigaom Change Leader's Summit in September in Austin. Join us. Early registration discount available!   Limited time only. This event will sell out. Register Now - $1300 Full Price - $4000 September 21 - 23, Austin, Texas   WHEN September 21 - 23 2016 WHERE AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center Copyright © 2016 Knowingly, Inc., All rights reserved.

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