Avengers director predicts AI will be able to make movies within two years

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...

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Andrew Ng launches LandingLens to democratise AI development for everyone

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...

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Researchers replace blood tests with a 5 second pulse of light to detect Malaria

Researchers replace blood tests with a 5 second pulse of light to detect Malaria

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By being able to replace blood tests with a pulse of light from a smartphone connected device researchers have just made a major breakthrough.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...

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Soon you’ll be able to measure blood pressure with just a selfie

Soon you’ll be able to measure blood pressure with just a selfie

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are getting closer to the time when our smartphones become tricorders and this is just another step in that direction.   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,...

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Non invasive wearable tech monitors cholesterol levels through the skin

Non invasive wearable tech monitors cholesterol levels through the skin

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cholesterol can be a killer but detecting and measuring it is normally invasive and tricky, but soon your smart watch could measure it for you.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...

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Diagnosing Type 2 diabetes is now as easy as taking a selfie

Diagnosing Type 2 diabetes is now as easy as taking a selfie

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Diabetes is a killer, and the earlier people can detect it the sooner they can seek potentially life saving treatment and advice.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our free XPotential Community, enjoy premium content, futureproof yourself with XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Forget about...

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Your smartphone can now use your voice to predict heart attacks

Your smartphone can now use your voice to predict heart attacks

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Democratising access to high quality healthcare is of critical importance globally, and increasingly all you need is a smartphone.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Exponential technologies are helping us achieve amazing new things, from helping wean the world...

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A revolutionary $100 kit can now detect any pathogens in under an hour

A revolutionary $100 kit can now detect any pathogens in under an hour

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Figuring out if you’re ill or not is the easy part, but figuring out what disease you have is difficult until now.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The combination of the cameras, microphones, and sensors in smartphones...

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This new prototype Covid-19 test requires just a smartphone and your voice

This new prototype Covid-19 test requires just a smartphone and your voice

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Getting millions of people tested for coronavirus has become increasingly problematic and contentious, but to take this new test all you need is a smartphone or a computer.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. What do you get...

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US CDC launches a Cornoavirus self-checker bot to ease pressure on front line staff

US CDC launches a Cornoavirus self-checker bot to ease pressure on front line staff

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As governments around the world tell people with COVID-19 like symptoms to self isolate a shortage of testing kits mean self-diagnosis is a guessing game, this helps alleviate the problem.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As the...

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Doctors get a powerful new AI tool to help them diagnose ADHD faster

Doctors get a powerful new AI tool to help them diagnose ADHD faster

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Artificial Intelligence is helping doctors diagnose more and more syndromes that were previously hard to diagnose.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming a powerful new tool in the fight to properly identify,...

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Futurist Keynote, Austria: The Future of Artificial Intelligence, ReComm

Futurist Keynote, Austria: The Future of Artificial Intelligence, ReComm

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of Artificial Intelligence is not what you think it is… it’s not digital, it’s biological.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Firstly, I’d like to thank the team at Re:Comm for inviting me to be this...

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An AI has learned to predict people’s moods from the way they walk

An AI has learned to predict people’s moods from the way they walk

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When we think of biometrics most people think fingerprints and facial recognition, but the way you walk is a rich source of information too.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently I discussed how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is...

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An AI learned to identify PTSD symptoms better than human experts

An AI learned to identify PTSD symptoms better than human experts

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF PTSD is an incredibly difficult condition to diagnose even for humans, now an AI has mastered it and even taught the humans a thing or too.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently I discussed how Artificial Intelligence...

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Promethean AI lets games developers use their voices to automatically create new game environments

Promethean AI lets games developers use their voices to automatically create new game environments

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Developing games worlds takes up a huge amount of money, time and effort, but now even newbies can generate realistic environments in seconds and for free.   Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. Recently Nvidia showed off an Artificial Intelligence...

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Blockchain startups are trying to break big tech’s hold on AI

Blockchain startups are trying to break big tech’s hold on AI

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Companies with better brand recognition, and deeper pockets, are cornering the market for AI talent, but now companies want break that hold, and they have a way to do it.   Despite how easy the combination is to mock, the idea of applying the Blockchain...

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Nvidia’s GauGAN turns your crappy sketches into masterpieces

Nvidia’s GauGAN turns your crappy sketches into masterpieces

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly AI is being used as a tool to help democratise creativity and unlock people’s creative potential.   It’s long been known that I’m a crappy artist – despite my best efforts at school it was evident early on that I was just never cut...

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Researchers have created a digital nose that can sniff out disease

Researchers have created a digital nose that can sniff out disease

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are many ways to detect disease, and one of the most effective ways is using smell, so scientists have developed a digital nose.   An electronic nose typically identifies odours by detecting the “fingerprint” of a chemical compound across an array of sensors that are...

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Futurist Keynote, Germany: Life in 2030, RWE

Futurist Keynote, Germany: Life in 2030, RWE

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A lot has changed in the last ten years, and even more will change in the next ten. Are you ready?   Firstly, a big thank you to Kathrin and the team for inviting me to be the keynote at this years RWE Leadership meeting...

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Decentralised hedge funds take aim at Wall Street elite

Decentralised hedge funds take aim at Wall Street elite

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Services and industries are increasingly becoming decentralised, and the financial services industry is no exception.   A little while ago I discussed how one hedge fund, Aidyia, is now fully autonomous, a decentralised autonomous organisation run by an AI without humans, and how another, Numerai,...

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