By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider You might have seen in the news that Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and its CEO, recently testified before Congress and included these key points: “Facebook is an idealistic and optimistic company. For most of our existence, we focused on all the good that connecting people can bring.” […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider I feel the need, the need for speed. But, then again, some say that speed kills. We have speed limits on our roadways, and I am sure there’ve been some days when you wished that there wasn’t any limit at all, so that you could get to that […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider What is common sense? There was a story in the news the other day about a man that got his arm stuck in a toilet while trying to reach in and fish out his smartphone that he had dropped into the privy. Some immediately said he had no […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider What do these aspects have in common: Roswell, Area 51, JFK assassination, moon landing, AI self-driving cars? They are all considered by some to be conspiracies. Most of us are familiar with Roswell, New Mexico and the claims of a UFO that landed there. Likewise, most of us […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider In my column published on April 27, 2017 (nearly a year ago), I stated this: “I expect that we will soon have a self-driving car crisis-in-faith because some self-driving car will plow into a pedestrian. It is bound to happen.” Sadly, prophetic. You might be aware that in […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider The puff adder, a venomous snake, became an invading species in Florida after it was imported into the state as a pet but then was let loose into the local native environment. The Asian long horned beetle was inadvertently brought into the United States when it hitchhiked on […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider When I was initially out of college with my bachelor’s degree in computer science and electrical engineering, I took a job at a small electronics company that made customized electronic systems using real-time microprocessors for all sorts of interesting and unusual uses. As a new buck into the […]
TEMPE, Ariz. — Police say early indications show an Uber self-driving SUV may not have had time to stop or avoid hitting a pedestrian who was killed Sunday night. Uber suspended all testing of its autonomous vehicles after the crash, which is the first-known pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving car. Police say 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Mankind creates a monster. Monster runs amok and kills. Mankind is threatened or overtaken. This is a typical plot found in popular movies such as Terminator and The Matrix. We see over and again science fiction stories that warn us about overstepping human bounds. We are repeatedly warned […]
By. Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. You might remember or have heard this famous quote which was uttered by Muhammad Ali in 1964. He was referring to his boxing prowess at the time. He was young (age 22) and a boxer that delighted in being […]
