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Google’s core search business is feeling the heat from ChatGPT
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly people are finding using Bing and ChatGPT are better than using traditional Google search, so Google is loosing share but also fighting back. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
NASA’s hypersonic Rotating Detonation Engine passes first crucial tests
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Explosions are normally bad in engines, but done in the right way they are the future of jet engine design and hypersonic vehicles. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Move to Earn Solana app is crypto’s latest gaming craze
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to the future of money we could be talking about moves, reading articles, or any kind of “value” – not just the US Dollar or Sterling. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
JPMorgan used ChatGPT to analyse decades worth of Fed speeches to find signals
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The way that organisations and leaders talk can often give Wall Street subtle clues on the future of stocks, so banks are using new tools to analyse more financial data. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
Bloomberg used 1.3 Million GPU hours and 600 Billion documents to train BloombergGPT
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Creating even “small” AI models takes up extraordinary amounts of computer power, but as computers get more powerful and cheaper, and as AI learning algorithms get more efficient this “effort” will drop. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with...
ChatGPT’s creators say AI Super Intelligence is impossible to stop
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Since we haven’t created an ASI yet we could stop AI development today to prevent one from appearing so what the creators mean is that we (Humanity) won’t stop. And that’s different from can’t. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof...
New brain decoding tech lets researchers see through the eyes of Mice for first time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you thought that being able to see life through someone else’s eyes was impossible well not it isn’t … are humans next? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
AI is helping design new drugs from scratch using text prompts and Zero Shot design
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is increasingly designing from scratch using zero shot learning and in the future doctors could just use text prompts to design new drugs. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Virtual reality helps bell Helicopter design new aircraft 90 percent faster
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to create new concepts and products in 10% of the time it used to take radically accelerates the rate of global innovation. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
The USAF’s Project VENOM is turning old F-16’s into drone wingmen
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In military terms over match refers to military superiority, and the US is worried it’s loosing its over match capability to China. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Nanorobotic swarms get busy shredding brain tumors from the inside
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Brain tumors are incredibly difficult to kill, but there are more breakthroughs coming to move the dial. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. When it...
Crypto scammers are using AI to create fake CEOs to land big bucks
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI’s ability to create increasingly photo real and authentic human-like content is great news for scammers, and bad news for trust. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
Snapchat’s ChatGPT chat bot is creeping out kids and parents
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Artificial intelligence is not controllable, the consequences are often unpredictable, and as these models get better at adapting to the user the consequences could be dire. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
Zimbabwe launches a gold backed cryptocurrency to diminish the Dollar
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are many countries that are trying to reduce their reliance on the US Dollar, and they’re using all kinds of means to achieve it. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Electrifying Nanochips help reverse dramatic muscle loss in patients
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if you could turn one cell into another to repair muscle or tissue damage? That’s what this tech does. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
These new engineered super plants clean the air better than 30 regular plants
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF People are looking at ways to use nature to help clean the environment, and air purifying plants is one way especially if they’re covering the outside of a skyscraper … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
NASA explores brain training to help astronauts live on the Moon
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In education circles we increasingly talk about neuro diversity and neuro training, and now NASA is tapping into the potential of these to help prepare astronauts for the unknown. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Futurist Keynote, London: Limitless with the University of Greenwich
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how technology is redefining human potential, human learning, and opening the door to the greatest era Mankind has ever seen … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Futurist Keynote, Australia: The Future of Rail 2070 with RISSB
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how technology is and will continue to change how we travel whether it’s by road, rail, sea, or space … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Futurist Keynote, Malaysia: The Future of Food 2.0
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how technology is changing how and where we produce food, and how new technology could sustainably feed everyone on the planet. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Futurist Keynote, Paris: The Future of Supply Chains with BuyIn
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session with the global leadership team of BuyIn futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how technology is changing the future of supply chains and procurement, and the impact they will have on company operations. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future...
OpenAI makes it easier to create 3D objects from text prompts
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In time we will move from Text to 2D image to Text to Video and Text to 3D, VR, and all kinds of other content. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
The popular MiamiCoin experiment is crashing hard
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The experiment to see if the city could use cryptocurrency to eliminate taxes on its citizens has been a success but it’s crashing hard. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Mastercard starts testing quantum computers to hyper personalise rewards
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many in the payments industry believe that what makes their cards unique and relevant is the rewards they offer, so Mastercard are hyper personalising those rewards using QC. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Mastercard launch their first quantum computer proof contactless card
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers could hack 70% of the world’s encryption faster than you can read this article, so our payment cards need to be ready. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Elon Musk targets full global energy transition with Master Plan 3
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world is at the beginning of a massive energy transition, and Musk wants his companies to play a central role. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
Check Point says Russian hackers are trying to break into ChatGPT to get up to no good
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The power of ChatGPT is both good and bad, and criminals want to gain access to it to create malicious malware, scams, and all manner of dastardly things. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Tokenised gold surpasses $1 Billion in market cap for the first time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Tokenised gold is a new form of Web 3.0 digital asset that’s backed by gold, and it shows just how much technology is changing assets and money. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...
Chinese government announces more workers will be paid using its new CBDC
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF CBDC’s let governments cut fraud, track transactions, and increases financial surveillance, and China is at the forefront of deploying the technology. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
Longevity clinics are popping up in the US to lengthen people’s healthspans
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF People often talk about longevity but healthspans – the amount of time you live a healthy “functional” life – is arguably just as important. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
EU mulls offline CBDC transactions to help users maintain privacy
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF CBDC’s would let the government see every transaction you make, which could be used to stimulate the economy, cut fraud, and “spy” on people, so the EU is thinking hard about how to please privacy critics. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community,...
DAO’s could soon get legal standing under new California law
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF DAO’s are a “newish” form of decentralised or “headless” organisation and California wants to profit and benefit from them so is introducing new legislation to approve and regulate them. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Predicting cyber attacks is the new cyber defense as Forta predicts $200 Ml Euler crypto hack
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Its’ possible to watch data on the dark web and from other sources to predict who’s going to be the next cyber victim and the tech’s getting better … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Avengers director predicts AI will be able to make movies within two years
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We have already seen AI try to make movies, and it made very short awful ones, but the tech will get better quickly … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Andrew Ng launches LandingLens to democratise AI development for everyone
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today AI models are hard to create, but what if there was a tool that could let anyone create one? That’s the purpose of Andrew Ng’s latest venture. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
MidJourney’s founders launch their first generative video app on iOS
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Getting an AI to generate great video is alot harder than getting it to generate great images, but Runway’s founders are up to the challenge. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
MIT and Stanford ChatGPT study shows low skilled workers benefit the most
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to new technologies and work it’s often the lowest skilled workers that suffer first and are automated, but this time they could be the biggest beneficiaries. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Luma AI brings photo realistic virtual worlds closer to reality
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We’re all used to the cartoon like VR worlds that dominate the Metaverse, but photo realistic worlds aren’t far away now … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Molecular barcodes help suppliers keep track of Cannabis shipments
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Barcode and tracking technologies are changing, it’s becoming organic and smart, and they can be used to track everything everywhere … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
Scientists double the speed of quantum storage devices for quantum computers
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers calculate and solve problems billions of times faster than today’s fastest supercomputers, but what about storing this data? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
Companies are creating space based energy grids that beam electricity to anywhere Earth
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if you could just beam energy from space to anywhere on Earth? It would change global energy generation … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
Smart bandages could one day monitor and medicate chronic injuries
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most bandages protect, but there are a lot of new bandages coming onto the market that also accelerate healing. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
These sonar enabled smart glasses can listen in on silent voice commands
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Some people can’t speak and others don’t want to speak out loud in certain situations, but now your silent words can be heard. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
This new in vivo glucose powered fuel cell turns humans into batteries
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Technology always pushes boundaries and at the edge we’re finding new ways to generate electricity using the human body … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
China’s space agency tests a first of a kind Stirling Engine
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Stirling engines have many advantages over other forms of electricity generation, especially in space, and China have beaten NASA again to the first tests. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
