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...
IBM announces plans to sell a commercial ‘universal’ quantum computer by 2020
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers are hailed as the next evolution of computing that promise immense performance increases over today’s systems and by 2020 they may be ready for prime time. Having laid the groundwork for offerings in other emerging technology categories such as artificial intelligence (AI),...
Microsoft wants to democratise Artificial Intelligence
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Microsoft wants to to give everyone access to artificial intelligence and a supercomputer. Earlier this year, Google’s DeepMind artificial brain conquered a world class champion at the game of Go — a feat that even amazed Elon Musk. But Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is less impressed, at...
Eclipse, the world’s first AI produced short film hits the screens at Cannes
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The worlds first AI produced short film is a portent of things to come. Earlier this year I wrote a thought article showcasing how emerging technology will change how entertainment is produced, distributed and consumed and here I am, just months later, writing another...
Remaking the Financial Services industry
The news that the UK Government is considering introducing legislation that force the Financial Services industry to develop common, publicly available Application Programming Interfaces (API’s) shouldn’t come as a surprise. Initiatives like Level 39, Finance Innovate and Fintech50 have helped position the UK as a Fintech powerhouse and the new...
Monetising the Internet of Everything
Data is the new oil Over the next ten years the Internet of Everything – the ability to use an increasingly broad variety of sensors that can turn any dumb object, from jet engines and cars to cattle and crops into intelligent, interconnected devices on a network that can sense,...
