Facilitators

Recent advancement in robotics, perception, and machine learning, supported by accelerating improvements in computer technology (e.g. GPUs and TPUs ), have enabled a new generation of systems that exceed human capabilities in limited domains or specific tasks. The systems are far more autonomous than people realize, they can learn from their own experience and take actions never contemplated by their designers. In that fact, the widely accepted wisdom “Computers can only do what people program them to do” no longer applies. Here’s everything we need to know to help shape our future.