By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Have you ever heard of the phrase “citizen scientists”? The phrases first entered into our lexicon in the mid-1990’s, and generally refers to the notion that ordinary everyday people can potentially contribute to the work of science, in spite of the fact that they aren’t professional scientists. We […]
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 Suppose that you invented an innovative device for automobiles that every car owner wanted to eagerly buy so they can put it onto or into their car. Let’s call the invention the thingamabob. Congrats on inventing something that everyone wants. You decide to price the thingamabob at one […]
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 […]
Since its founding by Elon Musk and others nearly two years ago, nonprofit research lab OpenAI has published dozens of research papers. One posted online recently is different: Its lead author is still in high school. The wunderkind is Kevin Frans, a senior currently working on his college applications. He trained his first neural net—the kind of system that tech […]
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 […]
While President Donald Trump was tweeting his “concerns” about Amazon last week, accusing the company of “putting many thousands of retailers out of business,” the Seattle-based e-commerce giant was preparing to give public officials and the press a sneak peek at its first warehouse in Illinois where robots work alongside humans to fill customers’ orders. Amazon’s rapid […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider How would you like to work as a human back-up driver in a state-of-the-art AI self-driving car? Sounds glamorous. You can impress your friends and colleagues by bragging about going around town in the future of automobiles. You are the future. In a sense, you feel like an […]
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 […]
