NZ must prepare to be disrupted, futurists warnSUPPLIED A computer successfully contested 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York, said Singularity summit organiser Kaila Colbin. The future is a foreign country, a conference in Christchurch learned this week. SUPPLIED We must be careful or risk creating "angry, violent people", said artificial intelligence expert Neil Jacobstein. He and Jacobstein were among more than 20 speakers who spoke about the future at a three-day conference called SingularityU NZ Summit. The conference was brought to Christchurch by Kaila Colbin, co-founder of TEDx Christchurch and the Ministry of Awesome, a post-quake networking NGO.

Source: Stuff November 16, 2016 07:11 UTC