AI is coming to help Hollywood pick future blockbusters
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans are pretty rubbish at picking future big blockbusters, and as it turns out AI is twice as good … 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 turning to synthetic data to fill in gaps in their AI models
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When you don’t have real data to work with why not create some? That’s synthetic 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 blog. Deep learning...
OpenAI’s conversational ChatGPT AI is over confident but otherwise brilliant
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly people can type text into an AI and the AI will auto-generate all kinds of content, from articles and scientific papers to code and even drugs … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
From AI lawyers to AI judges courts are embracing tech for better and worse
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What would happen if your AI lawyers case was heard by a biased AI judge? And other questions noone has answers to yet … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
The White House publishes its first Bill of AI Rights
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Decades after AI became a “thing” no government has any real idea of how to regulate its development and that’s an issue. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Europe’s new Artificial Intelligence Act can demand AI models are retrained and deleted
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Regulating AI, which is often seen as a black box is at best incredibly difficult and at worst impossible especially as we see AI’s spontaneously evolve as we have several times now. But it needs to be regulated. Love the Exponential Future? Join our...
In bizarre twist AI gets a job coaching call center staff compassion and empathy
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI might not have compassion or empathy, but it can still coach people to improve theirs. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Most computers and Artificial Intelligence (AI) lack compassion and empathy,...
IBM Watson filters public opinion to help Bloomberg debate redistributing wealth
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most humans are good at debating, and now AI is getting better at it too, but its ability to analyse huge volumes of data in real time makes it a formidable tool and opponent. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof...
UK government ditches biased algorithm that downgraded hundreds of thousands of students exam grades
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our futures will increasingly be dictated for us by algorithms, and that could be very dangerous for us all. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As the debate around the benefits...
OpenAI debuts massive GPT-3 AI upgrade with over 175 billion parameters
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The human brain has nearly 100 trillion synapses, OpenAI’s newest AI has 175 billion “synapses” so there’s a long way to go before the two are on parity, but it’s off to a great start. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future...
An AI hiring company says it can predict job hopping based on your interview
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Ironically at a time when companies should be hiring “creative explorers” and “disruptors” those are the same people that this company’s AI will tell you not to hire … Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential...
Google unveiled a new type of AI that spontaneously mutates and evolves all by itself
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today’s AI models are riddled with bias, plus they’re hard to develop, so Google have built an AI where evolution is the “Master Algorithm” in order to overcome these and other challenges. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
Our Algorithmic Society, the deadly consequences of unpredictable code
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF With AI regulation so far behind the curve, and as our society and decision making becomes increasingly reliant on automated algorithms and not human decision making what happens when algo’s go bad? Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
Insane AI listened to peoples voices then created accurate photofits
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As AI’s use becomes ubiquitous, from surveillance to crime fighting, innovations like this are a double edged sword. Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now becoming the foundational technology that’s helping create a host of...
Two algorithms left to their own devices ended up colluding with one another
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It’s nearly impossible to predict the impact that competing, or even collaborating, algorithms will have on business, and as our society depends on them more, that’s a problem. Last year Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents made up their own language to talk to one...
MIT trained an AI to spot fake and biased news stories
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to detect and weed out fake news is quickly rising up the political agenda, and companies are in an arms race to try to find solutions fast. Any fact-checker who works in the media has a straightforward but challenging job – make...
World’s first AI government policy maker gives China a diplomatic advantage
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI will play an increasingly central role in both government policy making and governing as China rolls out their first AI policy maker. If you’re a foreign policy maker with a government then, whether you like it or not, you’ll soon be working with...
AI recruiters are using advanced surveillance like tech to interview job seekers
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The same technologies that are helping us catch and profile criminals, or surveil civilians at scale, AI, biometrics, machine vision and so on, are also helping companies find, interview, analyse and categorise job seekers faster and more effectively than ever. Companies, like RBS and...
Biased AI’s are becoming a problem, this startup is fighting back
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The rise of the “Algorithmic society” coupled with biased AI’s and machines means that increasingly bias, if left unchecked, can change the course of people’s lives, as well as viewpoints, both with potentially life changing and harmful consequences. Today there is a huge amount...
