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Yanny vs. Laurel: Sensory Illusions and AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, AI Trends Insider Are you a Yanny or a Laurel? Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you likely know about the recent craze over an audio clip that has created a social media frenzy and sparked a debate among both friends and foes alike. A short audio clip that was posted […]

Federated Machine Learning for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Machine Learning (ML) is essential for the advent and further progress of AI self-driving cars. The nature of how Machine Learning is being undertaken today for AI self-driving cars will undoubtedly evolve and become more sophisticated over time. One crucial aspect for Machine Learning in the context of […]

Non-Stop AI Self-Driving Cars: Truths and Consequences

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider How often do you use your car? I am betting you likely use your car in the morning to drive to work, and it then sits there, parked, until you drive home after work. For much of the time, you aren’t actively using your car and instead it […]

Self-Adapting Resiliency for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Have you ever seen a brittle star? I’m not talking about stars in the night time sky – I’m referring to the ocean-going type of star. The brittle star is an ophiuroid that crawls along the sea floor. The crawling motion is undertaken by the use of its […]

Pre-Mortem Analysis for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider I’m sure that you are familiar with the term post-mortem. We see in the news all the time that when someone dies, and if there are suspicious circumstances, there is a post-mortem done to identify what happened and how the person died. Did the bullet enter into the […]

Richard Liu, Founder of JD.com, China’s Largest Retailer, Envisions A ‘100%’ Robot Workforce

“I hope my company would be 100% automation someday … no human beings anymore, 100% operated by AI and robots.” That’s Richard Liu’s audacious goal, which he outlined to my colleague David Roth* in a rare, just-released interview conducted in English at the World Retail Congress in Madrid last week. Liu is the 44-year-old founder, CEO and […]

Cognitive Timing for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider How fast can you think? If I give you a jigsaw puzzle and ask you to assemble it, you would likely take some amount of time to look at the puzzle pieces and mull over in your mind which piece might go where. You might create a kind […]

Citizen AI for AI Self-Driving Cars

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 […]

Idealism and AI Self-Driving Cars

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.” […]

Kits and AI Self-Driving Cars

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 […]