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...
Google’s AI is now helping chip designers design faster AI chips
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As AI becomes more capable of innovating and designing new products the global rate of innovation and disruption is going to exponentially explode. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been getting better for some...
DeepMind’s protein folding AI targets Covid-19 to help find vaccines
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you want to develop a vaccine for a virus you need to be able to analyse and model it, and that’s where protein modelling comes in. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In late December last year, Dr....
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....
DeepMind’s powerful AlphaZero AI makes the leap to quantum computing
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today’s Artificial Intelligence agents will one day evolve to run on super powerful quantum computers, and that evolution has begun. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A new study suggests Google DeepMind’s amazing game playing algorithm AlphaZero, that...
Google says its chatbot is capable of near human conversation
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today you can’t have a conversation with your AI assistant, but in the future you will be… Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with the leader of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence...
Google gave an AI intuition, then it drove a race car without being taught
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans and animals learn many things intuitively, like walking, and now researchers have found a way to embody this same trait within AI. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Animals are lucky, after all they’re born with innate...
World leaders can rest easy for now after researchers find new ways to reveal DeepFakes
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are now locked in a war as nefarious actors find new ways to weaponsise deepfakes and fake news, and defenders try to figure out how to discover and flag it. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. An...
Google DeepMind’s AI helps researchers translate ancient languages
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While AI is being used to help translate modern day languages from one to another, it’s now getting to the point where we can see true universal translators emerging. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is...
Universal translators edge closer after Google Assistant gets “Interpreter Mode”
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One of society’s greatest challenges is the ability to simply talk with one another, but universal translators are getting closer to solving that issue. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As Artificial Intelligence (AI) gets increasingly skilled in translating...
Google Stadia’s AI lets game developers instantly change the style of their games
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Up until now if a games developer wanted to change the look and style of a game they’d have to crack open its code, but now they can just apply a style in real time without having to. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download...
DeepMind’s AIphaStar achieves Starcraft II Grandmaster status, signals “advanced” AI has arrived
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Starcraft is a game of strategy and as such is a much more complex game for AI to master, but now one of the world’s most advanced AI’s has done just that. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
A Google intern built a shockingly good synthetic image generator
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Researchers are trying to create a new form of AI, or Creative Machines, that can generate their own content from scratch, and the systems are improving all the time. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. For years, artists...
Google Project Loon wins contract to connect remotest parts of the Amazon
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Only half the world’s population have internet connectivity, so companies are finding new ways to connect the remainder. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Today the fact that over half the world’s population don’t have access to...
Former Go world champion retires after declaring “AI is invincible”
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It is inevitable that AI and robotics will continue to automate more human jobs and tasks, and society has to have answers and solutions for what’s coming. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation...
World first as Google achieves Quantum Supremacy, but IBM tries to spoil the party
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Until today the world’s most powerful computer was Summit, a US supercomputer, now all that’s changed and a new era of computing has begun. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Almost exactly two years after Google said it...
Google’s quantum computer allegedly achieves quantum supremacy milestone
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum supremacy is the point at which quantum computers become the most powerful computers on the planet. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. This could be the dawn of a new era in computing. Literally. After years in...
Google quantum controller breakthrough will usher in massively scaleable quantum computers
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today’s quantum computers have less than 100 qubits and generate huge amounts of heat that reduce their computing accuracy, so we need new tech if we’re going to create bigger quantum computers with thousands or millions of qubits. Interested in the future and want...
Future quantum computers could crack 2048 bit RSA encryption in 8 hours
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF All of our vital communications and data are encrypted, and powerful quantum computers will be able to crack almost all of it. Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. Many people, quite rightly, worry that quantum computers will be able...
