Before we become overrun by automatons, come join us for the big day out! Here's a press release the team has sent out for the upcoming Fast Forward Tour (More info on the tour here: http://bit.ly/FFyBNow - Also, if you missed it, Singularity made the front cover of TIME Magazine this month here: http://bit.ly/FFyBTime )
The future will be run by robots, but will they be Australian robots?
The future will be run by robots, but will they be Australian robots?Sydney, Australia. – Will you be clever enough to have a job in the future? Earlier in February an IBM ‘artificlal intelligence’ computer beat the world’s best human contestants in the TV game show ‘Jeopardy’. Ken Jennings, the previously undisputed king of Jeopardy commented on his loss “’Quiz show contestant may be the first job made redundant by Watson, but it won’t be the last”.
Ray Kurzweil, futurist and co-founder of the Singularity University, said of Watson “It is going to be more difficult to seriously argue that there are human tasks that computers will never achieve.” The United States and Japan has traditionally led Australia in technological innovation, so will we be living in a future where we no longer have jobs, because foreign machines have taken them all on less pay and benefits? Or will our boss be a home-grown Australian robot?
Kurweil believes our salvation lies in harnessing the future by preparing for it. Together with the founder of the ‘X Prize’, Peter Diamandis, he has assembled the world’s experts in artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology and other exponential technologies under one roof. The University, based in the NASA research centre in Silicon Valley, prepares students and business leaders for the opportunities and challenges in a radically different future.
For the first time, Australians will get a first-hand peak into this future, when Roger James Hamilton, a social entrepreneur, speaker and Singularity University Graduate meets with business owners and entrepreneurs in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth from 20th to 28th March. Hamilton will be speaking on the ‘Fast Forward you Business’ tour on how the trends in our global economies and technologies are affecting Australians directly.
Hamilton hopes the tour will inspire Australian entrepreneurs to take a leading role in global innovation, and plans to take a group out to Silicon Valley in April, prior to the launch of the Australian Innovation Festival beginning on 26th April. Asked if Australian businesses have what it takes to be on the leading edge, he said “Australians have invented everything from pre-paid postage, the photocopier and pacemaker to the fridge, the black box in every airplane, and more recently wifi and Google Maps. It was even an Australian back in 1902 who came up with the idea of sticking note paper together and calling it a notepad. I think we’re up to the job of creating the future.”
To attend the Fast Forward event in your city, visit: http://bit.ly/FForward
To learn more about Singularity University, visit: http://www.singularityu.org
For more information, contact: Penny Wee on +61 487 755 238
>> Look forward to seeing you there!
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I think yes, they will be Australian couse there are many young and successful engineers come from Australia. I have heard a lot about young and successful entrepreneur coming from Australia and recently, there have been a talk about a guy called Paul Deuchar from Western Australia. He is a young and low profile CEO who runs Argon. The future seems very good for him and his business.
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