Apart from the potential for harmful misuse of a powerful Natural Language Processing tool like GPT 3, we also recognize the risk of stumping the growth of human creativity by making a creative process like writing much easier with the help of AI. How easy is too easy? And we recognize the small but potentially dangerous risk of loss of human jobs. We understand the risks that come with the incredibly powerful technology we use, but we also understand its limitations. At our core, we truly believe in human potential, and human potential for growth, creativity and ingenuity.

A recent Accenture report found that just 7% of organizations can be considered'future-ready'. I ... [ ] spoke with Manish Sharma, Group Chief Exec of Accenture Operations, about what this means for the near future of work and promoting human potential. Business leaders have been banging the drum of digital transformation for some time now, but some have galvanized that enthusiasm into practice much more effectively than most. In fact, according to a recent Accenture report, 7% of organizations (considered'future-ready') are around twice as efficient and three times as profitable as their peers. So how have these companies shot so far ahead of the rest, and what does this mean for organizational structures and employment as we transition into a more digitized future?

Lama Nachman, is an Intel Fellow & Director of Anticipatory Computing Lab. Lama is best known for her work with Prof. Stephen Hawking, she was instrumental in building an assistive computer system to assist Prof. Stephen Hawking in communicating. Today she is assisting British roboticist Dr. Peter Scott-Morgan to communicate. In 2017, Dr. Peter Scott-Morgan received a diagnosis of motor neurone disease (MND), also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. MND attacks the brain and nerves and eventually paralyzes all muscles, even those that enable breathing and swallowing.

Asia Pacific Assistive Robotics Association (APARA), a non-profit organization founded to facilitate adoption and augmentation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics, today announced AIBotics Go-Digital Series 2020, an AI and Robotics event themed around'Augmenting the Human Potential', will be launched between August and November 2020, aiming to facilitate the increasing dependency on AI technology into improving human lives. An international event endorsed and supported by the International Alliance of Robotics Associations (IARA) and a number of global and regional partners including the University of Oxford, the ASEAN Smart Cities Network, Japan Science & Technology Agency, the Malaysian Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Association, among others, AIBotics Go-Digital Series 2020 reviews ethical and responsible AI and robotics innovations through webinars and a virtual exhibition 24 hours a day, seven days a week from August for four months, bringing together renowned industry experts as well as a number of projects and innovative solutions from all around the world. To enable a smart, seamless and sustainable digital conferencing experience, APARA is collaborating with Tencent Cloud, the official conferencing solution provider of AIBotics Go-Digital Series 2020, to bring visitors and delegates a series of power-packed webinars and a virtual exhibition through Tencent Cloud Conference (TCC) solutions which have been widely adopted by local and overseas organizations and enterprises at online and digital business conferences, annual meetings, road shows, lectures, industry forums, among others. "As we adjust to the'new normal' brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, AI has also become much more mainstream while allowing gatherings and business meetings to be held amid current circumstances. We are excited to present AIBotics Go-Digital Series 2020, highlighting how AI and Robotics can truly augment human potential, which is a timely message in light of the virus-related disruptions globally," said Shanlynn Lee, President of APARA.

"With AI," Cisco's Joseph Bradley said, "we're at a crossroads for a new kind of moral compass of human equality, at a level literally of the civil rights movement. Because when you think of the number of people that AI can impact and the speed at which it drives decisions, you understand how important it is for us to get it right." That importance will only grow, as artificial intelligence and machine learning take over key decisions in everything from enterprises and public safety to battlefields and operating rooms. Depending on how it's developed and deployed, AI can support a future that's inclusive, sustainable, and rife with opportunity for even for the most disadvantaged in society. Or it can widen the divide, eliminating jobs and basing key decisions on biased programming.

Renowned theoretical physicist and futurist Steven Hawking was torn on the value of artificial intelligence. At one point, he said, "AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization. We don't know if we will be helped by AI … or conceivably destroyed by it." But just before his death earlier this year, Hawking appeared to change his AI calculus: "Perhaps we should all stop for a moment, and focus not only on making our AI better, but also (focus) on the benefit to humanity." There, in a nutshell, from one of the most brilliant minds of the century is the AI conundrum.

Can AI really help us win the war for talent?Forbes library If you make a living identifying human potential, recruiting talent, or are interested in hiring the right people for the right role, there are good reasons to be enthusiastic about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) as a recruitment tool. Anywhere in the world - and at any given point in time - labour markets are inefficient, with disengaged and underperforming employees in jobs that are a poor fit for their abilities, interests, and personalities; critical roles that remain vacant for a long time despite no lack of investment to attract and find suitable candidates; and people with real talent and potential who struggle to find work. Although such inefficiencies are partly structural, they are also the product of organizations' limited understanding of human potential, or at least their inability to translate their understanding into effective hiring practices. Here's where AI could help: by looking at a wider range of signals - including deeper signals, which escape even trained human observers and traditional talent tools - it may reveal the hidden connections between a person's background and their career potential, identify the fundamental "grammar" of talent, and ultimately upgrade the quality of our hiring decisions, making the job market less inefficient (and people less miserable about their careers). However, a prerequisite to enable this would be to first address five big hiring problems that we shouldn't really expect AI to solve: To conclude, there's no doubt that AI could vastly elevate our ability to fix our hiring problems, so long as we can first acknowledge and address some of the main historical limitations to our staffing processes, which are still very much alive today.

Am I the only one who feels a tad underwhelmed by Google Duplex? My social media feeds are filled with gushing platitudes over the virtual assistant's handling of a simple haircut appointment. Some are even claiming the Turing Test has been passed. Putting aside the ethical ramifications of abdicating such tasks to the robots (a topic worthy of its own post), I'm left wondering: is this how low we've set the bar for human conversation? Google Duplex may score top marks for authentic tone and delightful mannerisms, but the topic of conversation was hardly riveting.

This has been the life work of neuroscientist and entrepreneur Dr Vivienne Ming, who spoke at the SingularityU South Africa Summit, in Johannesburg last week. The summit focused on how exponential technologies can solve global challenges such as energy, security, prosperity and global health. Ming spoke about artificial intelligence (AI) and the future of human potential. She said while currently there is no AI that can think like a sentient human, it is not impossible that it will be created in the future. However, she noted it will not come from deep neural networks.

I suppose I could sit here and fret over a day in the not-too-distant future when a robot powered by artificial intelligence(AI) will spit out newspaper columns like this one, rendering redundant columnists like me. After all, there have been reports that computers can already churn out news reports that read almost as well as those written by journalists, and in a fraction of the time taken. The thought of being replaced by software is depressing and, I might add, self-defeating. That is why I disagree with the way technological advances and the future of work are all too often framed in either-or terms: either robot or human worker, either AI or human brain. Here are a few recent examples of headlines in local media that fall into this category: "AI may replace a third of graduate jobs: Study", published on April 6; "Evidence that robots are winning the race for American jobs", published on March 30; and "Robots may take over 10 million jobs in Britain in 15 years", published on March 25. Such reports reflect how automation and AI are more often than not viewed - not just in Singapore but in other parts of the world too - as threats to jobs and human well-being.