Here are the makings of an interesting tale. It involves two competing tech spinouts from MIT, and two rival CEOs who were co-authors on a key research paper. And now, each company has raised on the order of $10 million from venture capitalists to win what could become a major race. It’s Lightelligence versus Lightmatter, […]
By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider In my college days, we used to drive from Los Angeles up to the Bay Area so that we could watch our football team play against several of our most bitter rivals. The driving time was about six to seven hours and was quite a journey. Me […]
When I was in my teens, a good friend of mine offered to teach me how to ride a motorcycle. We started out by riding in his backyard, which offered seclusion and allowed me to make mistakes without anyone else knowing. His backyard was relatively small and so it precluded being able to do any […]
By. Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Trends Insider Is it going to rain tomorrow? If you were to answer that question, would you say that it absolutely positively will rain tomorrow? Or, would you say that it absolutely positively won’t rain tomorrow? Here in Southern California, we only get about 15 days of rain during the […]
Google-parent Alphabet’s revenue rose 24 percent year-over-year, to $32.32 billion, exceeding expectations. Net revenue also beat expectations, at $25.9 billion. And because of recent tax legislation in the last quarter, the company faced a net loss of $3.02 billion. But to better illustrate those metrics and potential growth areas for the company, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and […]
By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider When my children were young, I used to teach them various games such as checkers, chess, Monopoly, and other such fun pastimes. In doing so, I would watch in apt fascination as they played these various games. I was interested in how they played the games and […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider During the Cold War era, the Soviet military doctrine was one of strict control by the central Soviet command. All decisions about the use of military force had to be first approved by Soviet commanders at the highest levels of the hierarchy, and there was little if any […]
The ability to register the emotional response of customers or potential customers from their facial expressions or words they speak or write, is a growing business and another instance of how AI is bringing new capability to the table. Emotion AI is the market seen by Affectiva, while emotion recognition is the market described by […]
By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider I am very active in my alma mater. I serve on several alumni boards and committees, and try to support the youth of today that will soon be the inventers and innovators of tomorrow. As a mentor for our campus start-up incubator, it is exciting and refreshing […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider There is an ongoing joke among Southern California drivers that when the rain comes along we freak out and don’t know what to do (this might be as much a local joke as it is an East Coast view of those “crazy” drivers on0 the West Coast). With […]
