so I have a confession to make
I’m not technology optimist and I was
always like that so I think it all
started when I was around 10 years old
and my sister would studies she came
down home from the University of
Technology from the Faculty of control
engineering and robotics and she said to
me you know I was some very strange
lecture where they were saying about the
automatisation the robot ization and the
artificial intelligence and I was
horrified I didn’t understand that at
all and furious later when I was little
bit older I did understand the
difference between us
so she’s Generation X and I am the
Millennial Generation so even though
it’s only eight years apart between us
we are quite different
so she was growing up with the classical
knowledge with the books and with the
classical information system I was
growing up with the Lego bricks and the
growing Internet bubble so the
disruption of the Internet in the and
disruption of the digital world is
something that I got used to and you
probably would not be surprised that I
ended up as a student of Robotics at
sheena ended up as a student of physics
and actually the second battle that i
had about the technology optimists side
was on that studies because you know
when you’re going for the technology
university you’re expecting to meet
people like you this crazy freaks that
are all about the technology and I did
there was plenty of them but on the
other side there were more pragmatic
professors and they were saying to me on
all of my three universities where I
went they were saying you know you will
be the future you will be causing the
future but you will be causing the job
loss and I wasn’t re I wasn’t good about
it I wasn’t happy about it and I was
arguing with that and you probably know
that it’s not the best thing to argue
with your professor but I finally
graduated and I did start working I be
and this third battle started five years
ago so when I was working in IBM I get
known about IBM Watson and you probably
heard about it because IBM Watson is
this piece of technology that beat up
the two the best guys in Europe are the
game from all over the world and it
started the revolution of artificial
intelligence but it’s not the new
revolution at all it started 70 years
ago
and it started with the famous Alan
Turing he showed the Turing test
so saying if you have the artificial
intelligence system and you cover it the
human will be not able to tell whether
is speaking to the human or to the
machine until that day today we are not
able to do that but even though we have
five or three or many ups and downs of
this technology saying we are very very
close to that and when I was starting to
work with the Watson with this narrow
artificial intelligence so the
artificial intelligence system that is
specific to the some tasks and can act
as a human in specific tasks I was
thinking where there is real this time
so I found the Gartner hype curve and
this is the report that is done yearly
and station of Technology and in 2007
this technology was showing the things
that we already have like the OLED TVs
and at least or everything from that
from that Gartner hype curve from 2007
is now implemented in 2012 so five years
ago there was first glance of artificial
intelligence so that language
question-answering and there are other
things like crowdsourcing big data or
NFC which are implemented now and the
more interesting part starts in 2016 so
the latest report that we have yet and
it shows many things around the
artificial intelligence so we have
smarter robotics we have general
artificial intelligence that’s supposed
to be in the next 10 years so it is
happening at least from the
technological point of view but the
second point whether the cause the job
loss so when I was working for IBM I was
the watson and i was teaching about
watson I was telling dozens of people
about it and discuss it with them with
the architects with the enterpreneurs
with the execs with the directors and
they were all happy about it they were
all saying yes this is the future we
want to do it we really really want to
be in the part of this wave that stars
that but the best that side for me was
starting when we were focusing on the
business case because actually the
business case was always always almost
almost always the same we were saying
about cost savings and the cost savings
in this work though
it means the job loss so my technology
optimistic side was defeated I was
really feeling very sad about it and I
thought maybe I’m doing something wrong
maybe you know I’m looking for the bad
things maybe in poor and maybe all
around the world you are looking for
other things so I started to look for
the reports about the job loss and
McKinsey says that from 8% to 78% of the
tasks of human can be optimized even the
worse is from the Oxford because they
say that in next 25 years
47% of jobs will be destroyed and last
but not least the World Economic Forum
the future of jobs report says next
three years the most disruptive things
in next two years will be the robotics
the nanotechnology and biotechnology and
the robot ization
and the artificial intelligence so it
seems that is happening and if we were
thinking about the reports let’s think
about the bright minds of our world so
for example Stephen Hawking he’s saying
the powerful AI can be the worst thing
that ever happened to the human race and
the same thing of very similar things
says the co-founder of Apple Steve
Wozniak and founder of Microsoft Bill
Gates and even the big bad companies
like Google like IBM like Microsoft are
working on a foundation called
partnership on AI to focus on the
positive sides of the artificial
intelligence to not
go into the wrong direction but does it
mean that we are going to some kind of
dystopia that there will be no longer
the human race like it used to be oh
there will be no human intelligence so
technology optimist
please remember about that I have to say
yes unless we will think about it
differently because actually what
Stephen Hawking said quite different
he said the rise of powerful AI can be
the worst or the best thing that ever
happened to the human race and we simply
don’t know it yet and the same thing
says rykors Vale who is the one of the
biggest futurist of our times and he is
working for Google in this Innovation
Lab in Google and he created a book
singularity is near and by technological
singularity he means something similar
to the singularity point in a black hole
and you know black hole is a very dense
structure that you put above in the
universe and it’s so dense that causes
that the light to not come out and that
singularity point we don’t know what
happens because probably the laws of
physics collapse and we don’t know
what’s next and he’s saying about the
singularity in technological singularity
in the same way so he says a point where
the super intelligence will be created
the laws of physics and the laws of our
humanity will be destroyed it will be
different but whether it will be good or
bad it’s out of our case to focus on and
we are focusing now to be able to put it
in a good world so he created the
singularity University which is a kind
of big movement all around the world and
he’s gathering people from all around
the world to solve the global humanity
challenges with the uses of exponential
technologies so artificial intelligence
robotics nanotechnology and
biotechnology and it’s quite successful
with that so this is one approach the
second approach shows a long mask and
you probably Ellen mask he’s the guy
from Tesla from the SpaceX and from the
paper and the next thing that he’s
working on is the neural lace
so the chip that you can implement in
your brain and have the perfect
combination so the human intelligence
and the computing power of a computer
system and if you think yeah
transhumanism is a little bit too much
for me but I think twice because
actually all the people that were
hearing aids all the people that were
pacemakers all the people that were
truckers like myself we are partially
cyborgs and we’ll be going that way if
we want or we don’t want to for example
Swedish startup is now implanting the
chips into their employees it’s like
news from the last month and they’re
doing it just because it’s easier to
entrance the office or easier to pay so
if you are talking about jobs at all
should we think that this technology
will really disrupt it so much that will
be the jobless future and if you want to
think about it let’s think why we work
like we work now so why do we have
eight-hour working day and you’ll be
probably surprised that it happened
because every one man and one slogan
eight-hour work eight-hour recreation
and eight-hour rest and this slogan was
seen by Henry Ford and he putted it in
their companies and now we have
eight-hour working day there’s no
scientific evidence nothing at all and
actually if you look on the scientific
evidence of that it’s quite different
there are many people writing about it
one of them is Tony Schwartz and in his
book he says about managing your energy
and not your time and he’s saying about
the ultra Dian cycles where you worked
90 minutes and you rest 30 or 20 minutes
and you repeat that so actually from
this eight-hour working day you have
only six and I don’t believe that it
will change without the rise of the
powerful AI and the technology we cannot
change that simply because saying of
that and maybe I’m saying that because
I’m a millennial and you know what they
say about millennia we are entitled we
are lazy we are not listening to our
bosses and we are hard to manage but
what they do say about us which is
positive is that we are looking for
purpose and this purpose
is what drives us we are looking for
this Hawaiian accompanies so my story
started with this why and I millennial
was looking for a purpose and I had a
great manager when I started in IBM and
she showed me something called gulps
trans finder which is a report that you
are doing based on your questions and it
shows you the five top strengths that
you should focus 80% of your time and
based on that my top three strands were
activator arranger and achiever and you
know when you’re looking for a
consultant you are not looking for a
ranger or achiever or activator you’re
looking for achiever and I was like that
I was achieved at that time but myself
was focusing on this top three strengths
so you know I found what song and then I
was able to arrange activate and achieve
but my positive side my technology
optimistic was very sad about it so
that’s why I change this second time and
now the place where I am so Medical is a
perfect place to be it’s a perfect place
for my passion because as a co-leader of
Qin lab there is no better place for the
technology optimistic guy like myself
which is focusing on achieving arranging
and activating so do I think that we all
can be like that yes and if you look on
the garden report from this year about
the work and engagement is horrifying
because only 30% to 35% of people is
engaged at their work and it not depend
if they’re whether they are Millennials
the the X Generation or Y generation we
all not engage of their work so can we
change that I believe yes and I believe
that that the usage of the powerful
technology can support us in that and if
you think yeah but probably part of the
people don’t want to work it’s not their
passion they prefer to you know fishing
or hunting yes so the best idea yet to
have is a basic income so the idea of
basic is really simple you are living in
a country you are getting paid
for living in that country simple as
that and yes Switzerland rejected it
lately but the Finland the South Africa
and the Canada is running the programs
around it and I believe it will be
happening more and more
why because with that so with the basic
income with the change in the mindset of
the young population with the
Millennials and the white generation and
with the powerful technology we can
change the American Dream this old not
working for 40 years American dream of
owning a car owning a apartment and a
great paid job and instead of that we
can create the new American Dream which
is more about having a passionate life
and fun so whether I think we should
fear I think it’s an opportunity for
better work instead of a fear and based
on that I think this is opportunity and
if I want to have something that you
will leave after the dead I want to say
to you should you be afraid of a jobless
future I would say don’t be afraid
thank you very much
[Applause]
I’m not technology optimist and I was
always like that so I think it all
started when I was around 10 years old
and my sister would studies she came
down home from the University of
Technology from the Faculty of control
engineering and robotics and she said to
me you know I was some very strange
lecture where they were saying about the
automatisation the robot ization and the
artificial intelligence and I was
horrified I didn’t understand that at
all and furious later when I was little
bit older I did understand the
difference between us
so she’s Generation X and I am the
Millennial Generation so even though
it’s only eight years apart between us
we are quite different
so she was growing up with the classical
knowledge with the books and with the
classical information system I was
growing up with the Lego bricks and the
growing Internet bubble so the
disruption of the Internet in the and
disruption of the digital world is
something that I got used to and you
probably would not be surprised that I
ended up as a student of Robotics at
sheena ended up as a student of physics
and actually the second battle that i
had about the technology optimists side
was on that studies because you know
when you’re going for the technology
university you’re expecting to meet
people like you this crazy freaks that
are all about the technology and I did
there was plenty of them but on the
other side there were more pragmatic
professors and they were saying to me on
all of my three universities where I
went they were saying you know you will
be the future you will be causing the
future but you will be causing the job
loss and I wasn’t re I wasn’t good about
it I wasn’t happy about it and I was
arguing with that and you probably know
that it’s not the best thing to argue
with your professor but I finally
graduated and I did start working I be
and this third battle started five years
ago so when I was working in IBM I get
known about IBM Watson and you probably
heard about it because IBM Watson is
this piece of technology that beat up
the two the best guys in Europe are the
game from all over the world and it
started the revolution of artificial
intelligence but it’s not the new
revolution at all it started 70 years
ago
and it started with the famous Alan
Turing he showed the Turing test
so saying if you have the artificial
intelligence system and you cover it the
human will be not able to tell whether
is speaking to the human or to the
machine until that day today we are not
able to do that but even though we have
five or three or many ups and downs of
this technology saying we are very very
close to that and when I was starting to
work with the Watson with this narrow
artificial intelligence so the
artificial intelligence system that is
specific to the some tasks and can act
as a human in specific tasks I was
thinking where there is real this time
so I found the Gartner hype curve and
this is the report that is done yearly
and station of Technology and in 2007
this technology was showing the things
that we already have like the OLED TVs
and at least or everything from that
from that Gartner hype curve from 2007
is now implemented in 2012 so five years
ago there was first glance of artificial
intelligence so that language
question-answering and there are other
things like crowdsourcing big data or
NFC which are implemented now and the
more interesting part starts in 2016 so
the latest report that we have yet and
it shows many things around the
artificial intelligence so we have
smarter robotics we have general
artificial intelligence that’s supposed
to be in the next 10 years so it is
happening at least from the
technological point of view but the
second point whether the cause the job
loss so when I was working for IBM I was
the watson and i was teaching about
watson I was telling dozens of people
about it and discuss it with them with
the architects with the enterpreneurs
with the execs with the directors and
they were all happy about it they were
all saying yes this is the future we
want to do it we really really want to
be in the part of this wave that stars
that but the best that side for me was
starting when we were focusing on the
business case because actually the
business case was always always almost
almost always the same we were saying
about cost savings and the cost savings
in this work though
it means the job loss so my technology
optimistic side was defeated I was
really feeling very sad about it and I
thought maybe I’m doing something wrong
maybe you know I’m looking for the bad
things maybe in poor and maybe all
around the world you are looking for
other things so I started to look for
the reports about the job loss and
McKinsey says that from 8% to 78% of the
tasks of human can be optimized even the
worse is from the Oxford because they
say that in next 25 years
47% of jobs will be destroyed and last
but not least the World Economic Forum
the future of jobs report says next
three years the most disruptive things
in next two years will be the robotics
the nanotechnology and biotechnology and
the robot ization
and the artificial intelligence so it
seems that is happening and if we were
thinking about the reports let’s think
about the bright minds of our world so
for example Stephen Hawking he’s saying
the powerful AI can be the worst thing
that ever happened to the human race and
the same thing of very similar things
says the co-founder of Apple Steve
Wozniak and founder of Microsoft Bill
Gates and even the big bad companies
like Google like IBM like Microsoft are
working on a foundation called
partnership on AI to focus on the
positive sides of the artificial
intelligence to not
go into the wrong direction but does it
mean that we are going to some kind of
dystopia that there will be no longer
the human race like it used to be oh
there will be no human intelligence so
technology optimist
please remember about that I have to say
yes unless we will think about it
differently because actually what
Stephen Hawking said quite different
he said the rise of powerful AI can be
the worst or the best thing that ever
happened to the human race and we simply
don’t know it yet and the same thing
says rykors Vale who is the one of the
biggest futurist of our times and he is
working for Google in this Innovation
Lab in Google and he created a book
singularity is near and by technological
singularity he means something similar
to the singularity point in a black hole
and you know black hole is a very dense
structure that you put above in the
universe and it’s so dense that causes
that the light to not come out and that
singularity point we don’t know what
happens because probably the laws of
physics collapse and we don’t know
what’s next and he’s saying about the
singularity in technological singularity
in the same way so he says a point where
the super intelligence will be created
the laws of physics and the laws of our
humanity will be destroyed it will be
different but whether it will be good or
bad it’s out of our case to focus on and
we are focusing now to be able to put it
in a good world so he created the
singularity University which is a kind
of big movement all around the world and
he’s gathering people from all around
the world to solve the global humanity
challenges with the uses of exponential
technologies so artificial intelligence
robotics nanotechnology and
biotechnology and it’s quite successful
with that so this is one approach the
second approach shows a long mask and
you probably Ellen mask he’s the guy
from Tesla from the SpaceX and from the
paper and the next thing that he’s
working on is the neural lace
so the chip that you can implement in
your brain and have the perfect
combination so the human intelligence
and the computing power of a computer
system and if you think yeah
transhumanism is a little bit too much
for me but I think twice because
actually all the people that were
hearing aids all the people that were
pacemakers all the people that were
truckers like myself we are partially
cyborgs and we’ll be going that way if
we want or we don’t want to for example
Swedish startup is now implanting the
chips into their employees it’s like
news from the last month and they’re
doing it just because it’s easier to
entrance the office or easier to pay so
if you are talking about jobs at all
should we think that this technology
will really disrupt it so much that will
be the jobless future and if you want to
think about it let’s think why we work
like we work now so why do we have
eight-hour working day and you’ll be
probably surprised that it happened
because every one man and one slogan
eight-hour work eight-hour recreation
and eight-hour rest and this slogan was
seen by Henry Ford and he putted it in
their companies and now we have
eight-hour working day there’s no
scientific evidence nothing at all and
actually if you look on the scientific
evidence of that it’s quite different
there are many people writing about it
one of them is Tony Schwartz and in his
book he says about managing your energy
and not your time and he’s saying about
the ultra Dian cycles where you worked
90 minutes and you rest 30 or 20 minutes
and you repeat that so actually from
this eight-hour working day you have
only six and I don’t believe that it
will change without the rise of the
powerful AI and the technology we cannot
change that simply because saying of
that and maybe I’m saying that because
I’m a millennial and you know what they
say about millennia we are entitled we
are lazy we are not listening to our
bosses and we are hard to manage but
what they do say about us which is
positive is that we are looking for
purpose and this purpose
is what drives us we are looking for
this Hawaiian accompanies so my story
started with this why and I millennial
was looking for a purpose and I had a
great manager when I started in IBM and
she showed me something called gulps
trans finder which is a report that you
are doing based on your questions and it
shows you the five top strengths that
you should focus 80% of your time and
based on that my top three strands were
activator arranger and achiever and you
know when you’re looking for a
consultant you are not looking for a
ranger or achiever or activator you’re
looking for achiever and I was like that
I was achieved at that time but myself
was focusing on this top three strengths
so you know I found what song and then I
was able to arrange activate and achieve
but my positive side my technology
optimistic was very sad about it so
that’s why I change this second time and
now the place where I am so Medical is a
perfect place to be it’s a perfect place
for my passion because as a co-leader of
Qin lab there is no better place for the
technology optimistic guy like myself
which is focusing on achieving arranging
and activating so do I think that we all
can be like that yes and if you look on
the garden report from this year about
the work and engagement is horrifying
because only 30% to 35% of people is
engaged at their work and it not depend
if they’re whether they are Millennials
the the X Generation or Y generation we
all not engage of their work so can we
change that I believe yes and I believe
that that the usage of the powerful
technology can support us in that and if
you think yeah but probably part of the
people don’t want to work it’s not their
passion they prefer to you know fishing
or hunting yes so the best idea yet to
have is a basic income so the idea of
basic is really simple you are living in
a country you are getting paid
for living in that country simple as
that and yes Switzerland rejected it
lately but the Finland the South Africa
and the Canada is running the programs
around it and I believe it will be
happening more and more
why because with that so with the basic
income with the change in the mindset of
the young population with the
Millennials and the white generation and
with the powerful technology we can
change the American Dream this old not
working for 40 years American dream of
owning a car owning a apartment and a
great paid job and instead of that we
can create the new American Dream which
is more about having a passionate life
and fun so whether I think we should
fear I think it’s an opportunity for
better work instead of a fear and based
on that I think this is opportunity and
if I want to have something that you
will leave after the dead I want to say
to you should you be afraid of a jobless
future I would say don’t be afraid
thank you very much
[Applause]
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