By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider The law of unintended consequences is going to impact AI self-driving cars. You can bet on it. Actually, as a society, we’re likely mainly interested in the “adverse” unintended consequences side of that natural law, since there are bound to be lots of otherwise “favorable” unintended consequences – […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Have you ever been behind a slowpoke car? It always seems to happen that there’s a car going excruciatingly slow when you are in a rush to get to your destination. You try to look through the rear window of their car to get a sense of what […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider One of the most vital tenets of science consists of the principle of reproducibility. When a scientific result is reported, how do we know that it is something generalizable and not just a happenstance, one-time fluke or possibly even merely the outcome of a mistake made in performing […]
Amazon has followed up on its announcement to build a Fulfillment Center in Oklahoma by announcing plans to build a second such facility in the state. The second FC will be over 600,000 square feet featuring innovative technology from Amazon Robotics. Amazon will use the warehouse to fulfill small items such as books, household items […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider When my daughter was quite young, we would go over to a nearby playground and she would gleefully enjoy going on the swings and the slides. One day, it had been raining, and so we went over to the playground but everything seemed too wet to play on. […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Based on the June 7, 2018 release of the preliminary NTSB report about the fatal car crash of a Tesla on March 23, 2018, I provide in today’s column an initial forensic analysis of the incident. Keep in mind that the just released NTSB report (about three days […]
By Lance Eliot,the AI Trends Insider Towing something behind your car is not as easy as it might seem. When I was in my teens, a good friend had a boat that we used to take with us when his family went on camping outings to the local lake. His father would take charge of […]
AI technology is being incorporated in solutions offered by some of the 11 startups or newcomers to education chosen from a field of more than 40 companies as “emerging partners” by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) for the 2018-19 school year. The program introduces companies to state-level digital education leaders, where they can gain insights into […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider When I get to work each morning, I often see a duel between car drivers when they reach the gate that goes into the workplace parking garage. Let me describe the situation for you. For those drivers such as me that tend to come into the parking garage […]
A new solar-powered weed killer robot that looks like a table on wheels, can scan rows and rows of crops with its camera and zap weeds with jets of blue liquid as soon as they are identified. The liquid will be replaced by a weed killer spray as soon as final tests are complete. This […]
