As artificial intelligence and extensive automation invade our daily lives, what are the implications for our economic systems? Can artificial intelligence help us with the grand challenge of the 10 hour work week promised at the beginning of the 20th century? Or will ever more automation in finance and production lead to the destruction of the very financial system that’s created them?
This will be the focus of this year’s AI Festival held Friday the 11th of November at Reykjavík University.
The keynote speaker at this year’s festival is Prof. Dr. Doyne Farmer who has advocated for reforms in economic research and theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yUqM75SLIU
Alþingi, the Icelandic parliament, voted last week to have the minister of foreign affairs apply, on Iceland’s behalf, for membership to the European Space Agency (ESA).
IIIM supports Parliament’s application and believes it would open up new opportunities in research and co-operation in the high tech sector.
Space agencies around the world are at the forefront of designing and utilizing high technology. Astrological research, space travel, the design and management of space stations, energy research and theories about the origin of the universe all build on the latest technology, especially software. In space science software is necessary for data collection and data processing, the making of simulations, autonomous steering of vehicles, laser beams, telescopes and measuring equipment.Continue reading Iceland to become a member of the European Space Agency→
In this issue we cover the benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary research. Interdisciplinary research empowers researchers to have more than one viewpoint on a problem and tackle the questions that remain unanswered in a particular field from new angles bringing scientific disciplines forward.
Dr. Ipke Wachsmuth, professor of Artificial Intelligence and former director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University in Germany, shares his experience on interdisciplinary research undertaken at the institute.
Also get acquainted with IIIM’s collaboration model for startups and high-tech companies and hear what our collaborators have to say about us.
CADIA lecture: Embodiment versus Memetics Intelligence: Language, and the Place of Robots in Human Society
Speaker: Joanna Bryson When and where: Friday the 16th of September at 14:00 in room M109
The last few years have seen a growing public awareness of the pervasiveness of artificial intelligence (AI). Yet somehow this awareness has translated into a fear projected into the (near) future rather than an understanding or concern about how the world is already being changed by our technology. Continue reading LANGUAGE, AND THE PLACE OF ROBOTS IN HUMAN SOCIETY→
Catalyzing innovation and high-technology research in Iceland
As artificial intelligence and extensive automation invade our daily lives, what are the implications for our economic systems? Can artificial intelligence help us with the grand challenge of the 10 hour work week promised at the beginning of the 20th century? Or will ever more automation in finance and production lead to the destruction of the very financial system that’s created them?
