Zag To The Zig #4 :: AI-defying-breasts + Innovation failures
Hello youse! Thanks for joining Zag To The Zig again. There will be tech-justified nudity in this email. But some other stuff caught my attention too this week…
In the tech room
If you put money on a blockchain, you can make it programmable, whether that’s crypto or digital ‘real’ money. In an Icelandic experiment, a local retailer bought goods from IKEA and settled the invoice through a smart contract. Connecting data with automated payments: I can imagine the supply chain (and related financing) loving that stuff.
“This is a hard problem”. Kick. Open. Door. Inside the intriguing world of Facebook’s 350-strong counter-terrorism team.
The Economy Room
When Trump creates tariffs for car imports, the Chinese up the ante. How a car manufacturer just creates designs and has them 3D-printed in the US.
IMF economists say central banks should partner with blockchain-based stable coins.
When people can make complicated stuff like debt, money and economy sound this simple, I pay attention. Why Reinventing Money, Finance, and Economies is About Climate Change, Not Bitcoin.
The Innovation Room
Two reasons why corporate innovation teams don't work. Counter-intuitive for innovation people. Common sense for others.
The ethics/fairness room
We have all mentioned the trolley problem, when it comes to pointing out the complexities of self-driving cars. Turns out the trolley problem is not the relevant question to ask.
Machine learning analyzed 3.5 million books and turns out adjectives ascribed to women tend to describe physical appearance, whereas words that refer to behavior go to men.
The guest room
A new room, where I feature interesting stuff from friends. If you have something, let me know.
Axel Beelen is running a 1-day seminar on the legal side of AI in Brussels on November 15.
Random ZTTZ
Can you trick Instagram’s algorithm to not recognise a naked female breast? Noortje Palmers turned that question into a gorgeous photo experiment, Taboob.
🏁 End note: 1 thing I’ll be doing this week…
I’ll be running edition 3 of my blockchain workshop for Solvay’s Executive Program in Digital Transformation. Always an intriguing group of business people.