By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider API’s have become the darling of the high-tech software world. There are conferences devoted to the topic of API’s. Non-tech business-oriented magazines and journals gush about the importance of API’s. Anyone that makes a software package nowadays is nearly forced into providing API’s. It’s the rise of the […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider You might find of interest the social psychology aspect known as the actor-observer effect. Before I explain what it is, allow me to provide you with a small story of something that happened the other day. I was chatting with an AI developer that is creating software for […]
When you think of artificial intelligence (AI), you might not immediately think of the healthcare sector. However, that would be a mistake. AI has the potential to do everything from predicting readmissions, cutting human error and managing epidemics to assisting surgeons to carry out complex operations. Here we take a closer look at three intriguing […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider At an annual auto show there was a Tesla Model 3 chassis shown on the convention floor, being displayed by a company other than Tesla. Notice that I said it was just the chassis, and not the entire car. You might be wondering why would somebody be showing […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider AI of today is considered narrow, brittle, and not at all near to what any of us might reasonably agree is a true sense of intelligence. Today’s AI is exciting and helping to advance the role and capabilities of computers, but do not mistake this advancement with becoming […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider The United Nations has now declared officially that video gaming can be an addiction. Indeed, video gaming addiction will now be listed in the International Classification of Diseases by the World Health Organization (WHO). It’s been a long time coming, some say, and they are relieved that formal […]
We’ve reached a critical point in the development of robots. As robots become more and more common in our everyday lives, scientists and researchers are beginning to ask if we’re adequately preparing the machines for co-existing with humans. If we’re to live peacefully alongside robots, and if robots are to reach their full potential, there are […]
A ball-shaped artificial intelligence robot nicknamed the “flying brain” because it is trained to follow and interact with a German astronaut blasted off on Friday (June 29) toward the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon cargo ship. A spare hand for the station’s robotic arm, an experiment to measure plant stress and a study of a new cancer treatment […]
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 […]
