{"id":11913,"date":"2023-10-20T23:37:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T21:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/20\/robot-dogs-tech-bros-and-virtual-geisha-girls-when-sxsw-came-to-sydney\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T23:37:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T21:37:24","slug":"robot-dogs-tech-bros-and-virtual-geisha-girls-when-sxsw-came-to-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/20\/robot-dogs-tech-bros-and-virtual-geisha-girls-when-sxsw-came-to-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot dogs, tech bros and virtual Geisha girls: when SXSW came to Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The famous Austin festival picked the Harbour City for its first foray overseas, bringing an eclectic mix of AI, celebrities and cutting edge ideas <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A simultaneously familiar and slightly terrifying robot dog wanders through the audience of a session at the Sydney edition of South by South West. On stage, the panellists opine about a future increasingly defined by artificial intelligence and automation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to get much, much more significant,\u201d says Ed Santow, the former human rights commissioner and current director of policy and governance at the UTS Human Technology Institute. \u201cAnd for many people that will be a good thing, [but] for a lot of people it\u2019ll be really, really hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2023\/oct\/21\/robot-dogs-tech-bros-and-virtual-geisha-girls-when-sxsw-came-to-sydney\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/590f32f67f331f3c2a83102fc90600dbd4a79c5c\/0_41_5284_3170\/master\/5284.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6c38d2028794daa0ccf5b610602c4365\" title=\"Robot dogs, tech bros and virtual Geisha girls: when SXSW came to Sydney\" \/>The famous Austin festival picked the Harbour City for its first foray overseas, bringing an eclectic mix of AI, celebrities and cutting edge ideas<br \/>\nGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nA simultaneously familiar and slightly terrifying robot dog wanders through the audience of a session at the Sydney edition of South by South West. On stage, the panellists opine about a future increasingly defined by artificial intelligence and automation.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s going to get much, much more significant,\u201d says Ed Santow, the former human rights commissioner and current director of policy and governance at the UTS Human Technology Institute. \u201cAnd for many people that will be a good thing, [but] for a lot of people it\u2019ll be really, really hard.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous Austin festival picked the Harbour City for its first foray overseas, bringing an eclectic mix of AI, celebrities and cutting edge ideas Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A simultaneously familiar and slightly terrifying robot dog wanders through the audience of a session at the Sydney &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/20\/robot-dogs-tech-bros-and-virtual-geisha-girls-when-sxsw-came-to-sydney\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robot dogs, tech bros and virtual Geisha girls: when SXSW came to Sydney<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11913"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}