What is the right balance between innovation and regulation in AI? Long views on AI, Part 1

What is the right balance between innovation and regulation in AI? Long views on AI, part 1

What AI model maker would take the risk to make any powerful model if they could be responsible for anything someone might possibly do with it? This question is posed by Dan Jeffries – author, futurist, engineer, and systems architect. I’ve had the pleasure of conversing with him a couple of times. First about the […]

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Useful Sensors launches AI in a Box, aiming to establish a different paradigm for edge computing and TinyML

Useful Sensors launches AI in a Box, aiming to establish a different paradigm for edge computing and TinyML

Would you leave a Google Staff Research Engineer role just because you want your TV to automatically pause when you get up to get a cup of tea? Actually, how is that even relevant, you might ask. Let’s see what Pete Warden, former Google Staff Research Engineer and now CEO and Founder of Useful Sensors, […]

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AI politics: From pausing to regulating AI, it’s all about winning hearts and minds

AI politics: From pausing to regulating AI, it’s all about winning hearts and minds

“The Letter” was just the beginning. Welcome to the AI politics show. Grab some popcorn, or better yet, get in the ring. “I got a letter from the government Future of Life Institute the other day I opened and read it, it said they were suckers They wanted me for their army or whatever Picture […]

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Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave looks at the technology’s past, present and future

Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave looks at the technology’s past, present and future

Quantum computing could be a disruptive technology. It’s founded on exotic-sounding physics and it bears the promise of solving certain classes of problems with unprecedented speed and efficiency. The problem, however, is that to this day, there has been too much promise and not enough delivery in the field, some say. Perhaps with the exception of D-Wave.

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Salesforce’s AI Economist research wants to explore the equilibrium between equality and productivity

Salesforce’s AI Economist research wants to explore the equilibrium between equality and productivity

Economic theory is known to be constrained by a number of inefficiencies in its modeling. Salesforce researchers claim AI can help address that, leading to more robust economic policies. 2016 was a pivotal year for Salesforce. That was when the company acquired MetaMind, “an enterprise AI platform that worked in medical imaging and eCommerce images […]

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