{"id":57171,"date":"2017-05-03T03:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T10:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/in-case-you-missed-it-the-themes-that-echoed-through-ted2017"},"modified":"2017-05-03T03:02:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T10:02:30","slug":"in-case-you-missed-it-the-themes-that-echoed-through-ted2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/in-case-you-missed-it-the-themes-that-echoed-through-ted2017","title":{"rendered":"In Case You Missed It: The themes that echoed through TED2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-case-you-missed-it-the-themes-that-echoed-through-ted2017.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past five days, the TED2017 conference has explored the theme \u201cThe Future You.\u201d This has spanned an incredible number of ideas on a huge array of topics. Below, a tour through some of the key themes that emerged \u2014 through the week and in the double-stuffed session of day 5.<\/p>\n<p><b>All eyes on AI. <\/b>How will artificial intelligence reshape our world? TED2017 brought many answers. The conference kicked off with a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/the-talks-of-session-1-of-ted2017\/\">dance between a robot and human<\/a>, followed by chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/humans-must-face-our-fears-garry-kasparov-speaks-at-ted2017\/\">call to add human purpose and passion<\/a> to intelligent machines\u2019 ability to calculate and parse. Then, in a session called \u201cOur Robotic Overlords,\u201d Noriko Arai showed the secrets of an <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/our-robotic-overlords-the-talks-of-session-2-of-ted2017\/\">AI that can pass a college entrance exam<\/a>, Joseph Redmon <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/our-robotic-overlords-the-talks-of-session-2-of-ted2017\/\">revealed an algorithm<\/a> (called YOLO) that lets AI identify objects accurately, Stuart Russell outlined a plan for <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/our-robotic-overlords-the-talks-of-session-2-of-ted2017\/\">aligning AI values with our own<\/a>, and Radhika Nagpal imagined AI based on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/harnessing-the-intelligence-of-the-collective-radhika-nagpal-speaks-at-ted2017\/\">the collective intelligence of schools of fish<\/a>. Later on, Martin Ford warned that, with AI mastering the ability to learn, humans are headed toward a future without work \u2014 which will <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/a-fundamental-threat-to-the-market-economy-martin-ford-at-ted2017\/\">require radical adjustments in society<\/a>. And Robin Hanson brought us to a trippy possible future where \u201cems,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/mind-and-meaning-the-talks-of-session-5-of-ted2017\/\">emulations or uploaded human minds<\/a>, run the world.<\/p>\n<p>The need to erase the boundary between \u2018me\u2019 and \u2018us.\u2019 Some cultures worship many gods, others one. Us? We worship the self, said Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks \u2014 we think in terms of self-realization and partake in \u201cthat newest religious ritual: the selfie.\u201d Sacks challenged us to replace the word \u2018self\u2019 with the word \u2018other\u2019 and see what happens. \u201cThe only people that will save us from ourselves is we.\u201d That thought boomeranged through the week. His Holiness Pope Francis delivered a beautiful message of solidarity: \u201cIf there is an \u2018us,\u2019 there is a revolution.\u201d Anna Rosling R\u00f6nnlund took us to \u201cDollar Street,\u201d where the world\u2019s poorest people live on the left and the richest on the right. \u201cThe person staring back at us from the other side of the world actually looks like you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/in-case-you-missed-it-the-themes-that-echoed-through-ted2017\/\">http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/in-case-you-missed-it-the-themes-that-ec...h-ted2017\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past five days, the TED2017 conference has explored the theme \u201cThe Future You.\u201d This has spanned an incredible number of ideas on a huge array of topics. Below, a tour through some of the key themes that emerged \u2014 through the week and in the double-stuffed session of day 5. 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