For a platform, how much control is too much control?
Commercial platforms that grew on the internet—from Facebook to Twitter, Airbnb to Oyo, Uber to Ola, Swiggy to Zomato—are struggling to find a balance
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This Week in Disruptive Tech
The man and the machine
August 19, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: AI-assisted app development, solar roads, biofuels, micro ATMs and brain-AI integration
What leaders need to do to capture value from innovation in the digital era
Innovation is easier in the digital era. Yet, capturing value from innovation is becoming more challenging. This calls for the leader’s role to change to that of chief experimenter
Not AI alone but AI + ethics
AI systems may be making important decisions that will fundamentally affect the lives of Indians. For AI to be truly transformative though, its ethical biases need to be rooted out
Algorithmic War is upon us
China and the US are already locked in a race to become the AI superpower. China seems to have a lead. It is creating an ecosystem for AI through state sponsorship and the innovations by entrepreneurial ventures
Virtuoso
The unintended consequences of technology and why it matters
In this podcast, Wharton professor Kartik Hosanagar talks about how automated decisions affect billions and what consumers can do to take back control, can a VC firm be a Pixar of VC firms, and the organisational changes Google made to become AI-first
‘As machines become more intelligent, they also become unpredictable’
In 2016, Go world champion Lee Sedol lost to AlphaGo, Google’s Go-playing AI program. How did the program do this? And why does this feat matter? Kartik Hosanagar answers that in this extract from his book, ‘A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence’
What, me trust?
June 24, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Deepfakes, Facebook’s Libra, CRISPR, Slack IPO and Oxford University
The cobra effect and other stories
June 8, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Clean energy, AI ethics, Facebook, gene editing and more
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