Google trials new home robots that do your bidding and your housework
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As AI gets more robust and better at handling everyday tasks Google is setting its sights on your home as their next frontier. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Top Google AI expert goes public claiming his AI is sentient then gets fired
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What is sentience? So far AI is getting better at copying and mimicking human behaviours and skills, but to claim one is sentient is another level … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses...
Quantum computers are already becoming awesome at simulating chemistry
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Everything in our world is based on chemistry and chemicals, and quantum computers that can create new compounds and materials in seconds will revolutionise everything. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Google Earth’s new upgrade is a 37 year timelapse of the entire Earth
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our planet changes all the time, and now you can see exactly how it’s changing and the impact we’re having on our world. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Satellites are doing...
A Google AI just designed a computer chip as well as a human engineer
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI has come full circle – designing new types of AI computer chips that accelerate the development of new AI’s … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. AI has finally come full...
Google’s Chrome update uses AI to change privacy and the rules of the web
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to our online and offline activites privacy is at the top of most people’s minds, and now Google are embedding Federated AI to try to redress the balance. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
This AI created its own lesson plans to learn faster then smashed other AI’s out the park
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Noone learns in the same way, but optimising lesson plans for students as well as AI’s, would help all of us learn new skills faster. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The...
Google just built a record breaking 1.6 Trillion parameter AI language model
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The theory goes that the larger the AI language model the better that AI will be at translating languages and holding natural human-like conversations. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Parameters are...
DeepMind’s protein folding AI conquers biology’s 50 year grand challenge
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to accurately model and predict how proteins fold has revolutionary implications for how fast we can create everything from new vaccines to new materials. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Google’s...
Deepmind’s AI learned to create its own synthetic videos after watching YouTube
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI’s are being trained to create all kinds of their own synthetic content, from books to movies, and in time they’ll transform the creative industry. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Perhaps...
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...
Researchers unveil Google maps for the human body
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The cellular and genetic make up of our bodies influence what illnesses we get and how ill we get, so better understanding it will help us create better cure-alls. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, enjoy exclusive content, future proof yourself with XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote,...
DeepMind’s AI now programs itself to make all the right decisions
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans can’t always predict the outcome of their code and the effect that it will have on decisions, so now AI’s are being given the ability to write their own algorithms. Love the Exponential Future? Join our free XPotential Community, enjoy premium content, futureproof yourself with XPotential...
Covid-19 lockdown is straining networks and it’s AI to the rescue
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF With over half the world’s population in some form of lockdown everyone’s smashing the networks so companies are using AI to keeping those networks fast and reliable. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As the Coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19,...
IKEA becomes the first retailer to let customers pay for goods with time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The concept of value is fluid, and new tools and technologies are letting companies re-imagine how their customers pay for goods. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Over the past few years we’ve seen lots of amazing new...
DeepMind’s newest AI studies humans to exploit weaknesses in their strategies
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Everyone has their weaknesses, now researchers have developed AI’s that can identify and exploit them, one day though these AI’s will be able to identify and exploit any human flaw, as well as flaws in other AI’s, for better and worse. Interested in the Exponential...
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....
Google built a four legged robot that then taught itself to walk
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If we have to teach robots how to do everything the rate innovation in the field is going to be lethargic, but if robots can teach themselves it’ll dramatically accelerate their rate of development. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote,...
AI bests human experts at detecting Breast Cancer to help save lives
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the quality and reliability of new AI models improve the technology’s power to revolutionise healthcare is becoming clear. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been getting better at diagnosing everything from dementia...
