Stephen Hawking once said “Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history” Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft also agree that “Humans should be worried about the threat posed by artificial Intelligence” First, the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern The SpaceX and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk described AI as our ‘biggest existential threat’ and likened its development as ‘summoning the demon.’

1. Yogesh Malik
Future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed. Technology Evangelist and Digital Futurist
Aug 12 · 5 min read
A Journey From Information Overload to Digital
Overload to Algorithm Overload
Information Overload
Back in 1945, Vannevar Bush was already feeling the threat of “Information
Overload”
Vannevar Bush was inventor and science administrator during World War II -
heading all wartime military R&D. He was concerned that information
overload might inhibit the research efforts of scientists.
ast forward few decades, monumental progress in the field of
computation and internet made us always-on and we were multi-tasking
like never before
Then we started complaining about the loss of productivity and creativity.
ew solutions to “Death by Information Overload” came—like self-
discipline, task prioritization .
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2. People were always expecting more information, and decisions were delayed
while waiting. Every 3 minutes people were switching tasks.
Information Overload or Filter Failure
Clay Shirky, a New York University new-media professor said “It’s not
information overload. It’s filter failure”. More likely people have fear that
they might miss something and ready everything that comes on the screen,
even it is totally unrelated—or they keep looking for information that
matches their mood.
don’t need to read everything and watch all videos, you just can’t
complete—so create intelligent filters -use tools and alerts
Instead of you searching all the web let the content nd you
There are just two things missing from this new ecology of media distribution:
first, we need a way to share those signals of interest and context with publishers
—with privacy well-protected—so publishers can build relationships with and
better serve users. Second, we need the means to reward not just content-creators
but also audience-creators, to motivate them to build these new means of bringing
people to what interests them.
Digital Overload
Then came “Digital Overload”.
many online platforms, always multi-tasking, compelled to fill idle
time with hyper-linked lives, filled with digital distraction
those beeps and notification sounds
and the feeling what if you missed something.
you check your inbox and then click on some video because the headline
was so tempting.
Every company out there is desperate to grab our attention
“We have been seduced by distraction,” says psychologist Daniel Goleman, the
author of Focus: the Hidden Driver of Excellence. “We are being pulled away
from paying attention to the things that enrich our lives.”
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3. Fear of Missing Out ( FoMO )
“Always-on” and “ and “chronic vigilance” started creating FoMO (Fear of
Missing Out) syndrome, which was not a good thing.
ur wish to be happier than others rather than with to be happy is
keeping us consuming all unnecessary Facebook feeds. So stop
constantly measuring your life against a friend’s life event and get a real life
If you wake up in the middle of the night and read your feed—you have
“Digital Overload” problem
Some solution to Digital Overload—prioritize stuff, schedule your email
check, don’t take your smartphone to the bed.
echnology has become an essential part of today’s lifestyle, you can’t avoid
it -but you don’t need to become slaves of technology. Learn new tools and
apps that organize all incoming information.
We all understand that every business is a digital business but you as an
individual are unique, and you deserve real-life experiences -to have an
enriched full-filling life
Algorithm Overload
Technology media is shouting that algorithms will soon rule our lives and we
better understand it well.
Algorithms, driven by vast troves of data, are the new power brokers in society
In the #AlgorithmEconomy, Algorithms will
transform insurance
predict at birth if a person will be a criminal
help judges in Sentencing
Write movies
Make investor switching from humans to algorithms
train your dogs
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4. determine if people are lying to you in emails
transform talent acquisition
help to crunch data on customer preferences and increase sales
capture crime
audience targeting
he problem is -there are too much of redundancies, How one is different
from another? We don’t know.
What we know is that algorithms are shaping our experiences of the real
world.
oon algorithms will be everywhere -in education, politics, healthcare ,
finance, cultural and social systems, but we don’t know
How is it done?
What standards are maintained?
What is visible and what is not?
How data is classified and what logic applies to various decisions and
actions taken.
hat will you do if algorithms are wrong? Who do you blame? Who
to sue?
Don’t forget -Algorithms represent the coders’ value—and usually it’s only
about maximising profits
Can an algorithm run the US government? May be, in the next few
decades.
But those will not be transparent—the ghost in the machine.
Will there be a “manual override”? No.
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5. othing comes easy. Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could
end mankind
Stephen Hawking once said “Success in creating AI would be the biggest event
in human history”
Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft also agree that “Humans should be worried
about the threat posed by artificial Intelligence”
First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That
should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though the
intelligence is strong enough to be a concern
The SpaceX and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk described AI as our ‘biggest existential
threat’ and likened its development as ‘summoning the demon.’
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