{"id":2416,"date":"2020-08-17T03:56:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T03:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2021\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2020-08-17T07:45:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T07:45:47","slug":"vaughan-robertson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/nzgs2021\/dinner-speaker\/vaughan-robertson\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaughan Robertson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Are robots really scary or the best friend we never had? What is the Singularity &#8211; and Quantum Computing &#8211; and BCI? \u2026 and will Artificial Intelligence take over from humans?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In today\u2019s world we are continually assailed with increasingly rapid changes in technology and software applications. 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