From a purely technical point of view, we are quite well advanced in bionics. We are getting a lot of progress, better computer technologies, better battery powers. But our benchmark is the performance of healthy people. And from that point of view, we are still far away, says Robert Riener in conversation with Maciej Chojnowski
We should embrace drones, but also question it as we go forward, says James Rogers from London School of Economics in conversation with Maciej Chojnowski.
For us, it’s not only the matter of technical but also mental innovations. It’s about a new approach. This is our motto. Justyna Orłowska and Anotni Rytel, GovTech Polska, in conversation with Maciej Chojnowski
If enhancing humans proves successful, each of us will have to be enhanced. Otherwise, we will face widening social disparities, says professor Stuart Russell.
Technology shouldn’t take anything away from us, make us lazy or dependent on it. Instead, it should be our motivation to act and to develop good habits, says Konrad Maj, PhD, a social psychologist from the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, in conversation with Monika Redzisz.
Jan Chorowski, a man who is training artificial intelligence with the use of logbooks kept by the captains of the 17th century Dutch fleet, in conversation with Monika Redzisz.
So you’re saying you’re not going to get into a self-driving car but you are not afraid of using an elevator? Szymon Wierciński, PhD, Department of Strategy, Kozminski University, in conversation with Tomasz Jurczak.
We were in our early twenties and we were bold. We knew that everyone in the world was working on speech synthesizers of better quality. And there was us: five guys from Gdańsk struggling to make ends meet, recalls Łukasz Osowski, a co-creator of the Amazon voice assistant, in conversation with Monika Redzisz.
The question about the future of artificial intelligence should be looked at in a broader context: Where is this all going? Why do we need it? Do we do that only to make money or to improve the quality of life? Conversation with Jarosław Protasiewicz, PhD, director of the National Information Processing Institute.