By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Do you care about the privacy of your data? Most of us do, at least when we are asked a question as bluntly as whether we care about the privacy of our data, but the reality of our behavior frequently seems to belie how much we really […]
By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider With the advent of ride sharing, passengers are increasingly interacting with the hired or rented driver of the car. In the past, we were used to getting into a taxi and other than mumbling where we wanted to be taken, the actual conversation was usually either nonexistent […]
FOR LONGTIME RESIDENTS of Pittsburgh, seeing self-driving cars built by Uber, Argo AI, and others roam their streets is nothing new. The city’s history with robot cars goes back to the late 1980s, when students at Carnegie Mellon University caught the occasional glimpse of a strange vehicle lumbering across campus. The bright-blue Chevy panel van, chugging along at slower than […]
When my daughter first started to drive a car, I was excited for her due to the aspect that she’d have a new found sense of independence and would be able to go places without having to constantly find someone to give her a lift. I knew she was a very responsible teenager and had […]
By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider I lived in Germany for a year and “fondly” recall one of the most terrifying driving experiences in my life, which involved being on an autobahn in the middle of a snow storm. When I left my apartment in my rented car to head out to work […]
Though its time horizon can’t be predicted, artificial intelligence (AI) promises to foundationally influence modern society, for better or worse. A sub-genre of AI — machine learning — has garnered particular attention from the pundits for its potential impact on the world’s most important industries. Due to the resulting hype, massive amounts of talent and resources are entering […]
By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider In my college days, we used to drive from Los Angeles up to the Bay Area so that we could watch our football team play against several of our most bitter rivals. The driving time was about six to seven hours and was quite a journey. Me […]
When I was in my teens, a good friend of mine offered to teach me how to ride a motorcycle. We started out by riding in his backyard, which offered seclusion and allowed me to make mistakes without anyone else knowing. His backyard was relatively small and so it precluded being able to do any […]
By. Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Trends Insider Is it going to rain tomorrow? If you were to answer that question, would you say that it absolutely positively will rain tomorrow? Or, would you say that it absolutely positively won’t rain tomorrow? Here in Southern California, we only get about 15 days of rain during the […]
By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider When my children were young, I used to teach them various games such as checkers, chess, Monopoly, and other such fun pastimes. In doing so, I would watch in apt fascination as they played these various games. I was interested in how they played the games and […]
