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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
