While there’s still a lot of work to do, this is some great news about innovation in the area of communication. Finding a way for computers to understand brain waves and help those who have lost the power of speech due to accident or illness will be invaluable. No one should lose the ability to…
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Too often, albeit with the best of intentions, we can be guilty of prescribing when it comes to young people and their future. Even indirectly, popular culture, science fiction and the news dictates what adults think is important for the next generation. This piece from Nominet is about a fifteen-year-old who’s changing this narrative. It…
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We’ve recently seen how AI can increase empathy, and now a video game might be able to do the same. With the prevalence and central role these games have in children’s lives, they could be an essential route into learning. In the first in a series of pieces on the outlook for AI, Greater Good Magazine…
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Exciting news about our 2019 Cultural Residency, exploring the Imagination Matters theme – Empathy. Each year here at the Institute of Imagination we run a residency inspired by one of our Imagination Matters themes. Through our Imagination Lab in Lambeth, the residencies deliver collaborative, interdisciplinary projects with visitors. Following 2018’s Places to Imagine residency and the wonderful…
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Much of what allays our fears about the ‘rise of the machine‘ depends on knowing that there are some functions that machines can’t replicate. In this piece from Salon, Sam Natapoff, President of Empire Global Ventures, looks at the magnificent commercial possibilities of AI, while also studying its limitations. Essentially, if humans can’t codify a feeling,…
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This is the perfect example of STEAM; the meeting of art and science. Teaching artificial intelligence (AI) and programming it to create shows the potential for machine learning. Making AI art, something that’s like what we recognise yet original, is the bridge between our understanding and that of computers. AICAN is a program designed by…
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Among the many insights into free play in this article from Quartz is the possible relevance of this experience for the future. There’s a lot of talk circulating about ‘surviving’ artificial intelligence‘s takeover, especially in the world of work. Some of the thinking behind free or ‘risky’ play is that it develops the uniquely human characteristics…
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A thought-provoking piece from John Kennedy at Silicon Republic on the oft-debated future of work. Emerging from the automation lament, there is an argument for shifting the focus. If we’re looking at responding to changes in the world of work, why don’t we take the opportunity to evaluate our emotional connection? Leaders need to understand…
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We’ve talked a lot and often about AI and its emergence into the world of work, and how we’ll co-exist with it. This article from TechRadar looks particularly at the idea of using AI to augment our current processes. Fascinatingly, Isaac Asimov imagined this concept in the 1940s, detailed in his novels. With technology’s rapid…
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Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) have been dominating the conversation around future work for some time, and understandably so. However, as with any change and development, it’s worth taking in all angles on the issue. We’ve been reading this great piece from Wired on why the ‘rise of the machines’ might not mean that the…
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