In under 7 minutes and with just $1 these autonomous chatbots built a software company
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We think that humans will be the only entrepreneurs in the future, but I’m already seeing AI’s that can ideate new products, and build, launch, scale, and operate fully autonomous companies – and they’re just getting started. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential...
HSBC London successfully tests a hackproof quantum network to secure trades
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum networks are allegedly the ultimate in network security, and London is ahead of the curve in adopting them. 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....
Amazon starts using AI to summarise reviews and save shoppers time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF How much time do you spend reading all those reviews? Well, now AI can summarise them all for you. 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....
The people tasked with training AI are outsourcing their work to AI
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans are lazy and by getting AI to do their work for them the people who are supposed to be training AI are opening up a Pandoras box of problems. 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...
US Government to start giving IOT devices a cyber security rating from 2023
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most IOT connected devices have little to no security which means they can be hacked, abused and used, so this rating hopes to solve that and raise IOT security awareness. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
Blue Origin’s Orbital Reef space station gets the green light from NASA
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the ISS starts getting retired we need replacements, and those replacements are coming from the private sector. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Amazon unveils its new range of fully autonomous warehouse robots
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Amazon faces a worker shortage and cost pressures so it’s trying to solve both with robots. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
This super realistic virtual world is a training school for self-driving cars
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF You can train all kinds of things faster in simulation – often billions of times faster. Which then accelerates the overall rate of innovation. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has kept the same message to Wall Street for 22 years
WHY THIS MATTER IN BRIEF In a time when most companies focus on the short term at the expense of the long term Bezos’ focus on the future shows what you can accomplish if you shun the status quo. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof...
Amazon’s AI reassigns workers to prevent injuries in bid to create a better workplace
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI might be becoming a Big Brother that’s hiring, managing, and firing workers, but it has health benefits in the workplace too … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
Zoox unveils what could be Amazon’s first robo-taxi
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Amazon has a reputation of being a pioneer, and soon they could be the first company to roll out autonomous delivery vehicles en masse. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. It seems...
Researchers show stealing an AI is ridiculously easy
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is the electricity that powers the world’s digital fabric, and stealing another companies AI is easier than you might think. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In the field of...
US Air Force announces plans to update fighter jet software in mid flight
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Updating any software over the air is difficult, but when it’s a $175 million lethal weapons system, and in the age of autonomous AI’s, the stakes and rewards are much much higher. Love the Exponential Future? Join our FREE XPotential Community, enjoy exclusive content, future proof...
Microsoft AI that discovers 97 percent of critical software security flaws released
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The digital world is reliant on software that contains bugs and security vulnerabilities that all need identifying and patching, this new AI automates the task. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. I’ve written extensively before about a new...
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....
Amazon trained their delivery bot Scout in the virtual world so it could handle the real one
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Training AI software and robots in the virtual world will dramatically accelerate disruption and the world’s rate of change. Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. Amazon, who are already on their way to becoming a fully autonomous retailer, recently...
Amazon’s AI reportedly tracks, monitors and automatically fires hundreds of employees
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As we entrust machines with more decision making powers it brings both pros and cons, and being fired by an AI is definitely a con. There’s been a lot of news coverage about how Artificial Intelligence (AI), robots and Robotic Process Automation (RPA), will,...
A teenagers revolutionary algorithm busted quantum computings greatest promise
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers promise amazing performance gains over classical computers, but a new algorithm just put the ball back in the classical computer’s court. A teenager from Texas has single handedly taken one of the biggest advances promised by the first generation of quantum computers...
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