By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider I’m hoping that you have not tried to do the so-called Shiggy Challenge. If you haven’t done it, I further hope that my telling you about it does not somehow spark you to go ahead and try doing it. For those of you that don’t know about it […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Julius Caesar is famously known for his radical act in 49 BC of defying authority by marching his army across the Rubicon river. Unless you happen to be a historian, you might not be aware that the Roman Senate had explicitly ordered Caesar to disband his army, return […]
A little more than three-and-a-half years ago, Cory Kidd founded Catalia Health based on the work he did at the MIT Media Lab and Boston University Medical Center. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company’s overarching goal is to improve patient engagement and launch behavior change. But the way it goes about meeting that mission is unique. Through Catalia […]
The other drivers wouldn’t have noticed anything unusual as the two sleek limousines with German license plates joined the traffic on France’s Autoroute 1. But what they were witnessing — on that sunny, fall day in 1994 — was something many of them would have dismissed as just plain crazy. It had taken a few […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Did you realize that apparently more than half of all United States medical doctors are suffering from burnout? You might at first glance not be overly surprised, since you’ve likely seen how harried most medical doctors are. Often, their patient load is at the max and they barely […]
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 […]
