AI tutor trounces human experts at teaching students neurosurgery
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI will take jobs, but it’s also going to improve employee training dramatically to improve employees skills. 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 we...
Flippy the burger flipping robot just got hired in 100 burger joints in Cali
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are a lot of jobs that can be automated, and robots are coming to automate 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. You...
John Deere’s new autonomous tractor is automating farming all over again
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Agricultural jobs have been in decline for a long time, and now there’s more new tech on the block … 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...
AI is starting to manage its own data and replacing data scientists
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The volume of information in the world is growing exponentially and humans can’t keep up with managing or sorting it all, but AI can … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Robot waiters get bussing in Silicon Valley’s newest hot restaurant
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans do a lot of things that we shouldn’t bother with, like carrying dishes around, so now we have robots to do it for us. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Tesco selects central London for it’s first walk in walk out store
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We have had the technology to let customers walk in, grab what they want, pay, and leave without stopping at the checkout for a long time, but it’s now rolling out. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
Githubs Copilot AI has written over 30pc of all new code on the platform
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The art of programming is being automated and while it will take a while AI’s off to a good start. 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...
People are hiring out their faces as DeepFake clones for marketing
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Deepfake tech is getting more advanced – and now your face can launch a thousand products in entirely new ways. 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...
Artificial intelligence gets a seat in the boardroom in Hong Kong
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is increasingly being used as a strategic decision making tool, and in this case the company decided to give it a literal seat on the board. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
This new chemical programming language could revolutionise digital chemistry
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By converting chemistry into a chemical programming language it opens up a huge range of new possibilities. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In June, the US government purchased the vast majority of world’s...
Fedex signs Nuro partnership to bring autonomous deliveries to your doorstep
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future one of the things missing from your delivery vehicles will be the driver … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Over the past few years Nuro has been taking...
For the first time the UN believes a hunter killer drone autonomously killed humans in battle
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We already have the technology to create fully autonomous weapons systems that can hunt and kill targets, as well as the ability to create fully autonomous kill chains, but this is the first example of one being used. Possibly. Love the Exponential Future? Join...
This robotic lab assistant is 1,000 times faster than humans
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you can conduct experiments thousands of times faster then you can make breakthroughs thousands of times faster – and that’s a game changer. 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...
Overwatch starts using AI to identify the world’s best players
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is going from beating human gamers to coaching them to finding them … and this is just the beginning. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In the past couple of years...
A giant 25 tonne prototype deep sea mining robot is stuck at the bottom of the ocean
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are more raw materials and minerals on the ocean bed than in all the world’s mines – but mining it isn’t easy … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. One of...
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)...
IBM announces their AI can recode legacy software so it can run in the cloud
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world runs on legacy code, and it’s hard for people to maintain, operate, secure, upgrade, and de-bug so using AI to modernise it could solve lots of problems. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch...
Facebook’s TransCoder AI converts code from one programming language into others
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world runs on legacy code, and it’s difficult to modernise and secure. TransCoder could one day be the AI equivalent of a universal language translator but for code. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch...
AI replaces more fast food jobs to make your drive thru experience better
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is increasingly able to automate more cognitive work, and fast food workers are in the firing line. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. First Travis Kalanick, Uber’s founder and ex CEO...
NYPD sends in their robot DigiDog to spy on perps in the Bronx
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly powerful technologies let individuals and organisations do increasingly powerful things, and that worries many people who might be on the receiving end. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. One day robots...
