Toyota used AI to supercharge EV battery development and saved years of effort
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI can try millions of different chemical permutations a day, and dramatically accelerate product development. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Scientists and researchers around the world are increasingly turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI)and so called Robo-Scientists to...
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...
First of a kind attack as criminals clone a CEO’s voice and con UK energy firm out of $243,000
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As AI’s get better at creating fake content, or synthetic content, this type of attack will be the start of a new worrying trend. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. After Google’s Duplex demonstration last year it’s clear...
Futurist Keynote, London: Investing in the Future, Bloomberg
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are increasingly reaching the point where we can disrupt global industries within the space of weeks and days, and that has a significant impact on investors and investment strategies. Firstly, thank you to Parker and the team at Bloomberg for inviting me to...
AI gets busy helping human scientists create the world’s first spray on solar panels
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Trying to find the right formulations to create new materials is a long and arduous process, so scientists are turning to AI to help them speed the process up. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As we see...
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...
Alphabet’s Everyday Robot project creates robots that learn without programming
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If we had to code every behaviour a robot needs to learn it’d be a never ending task, but if robots can learn like humans without needing to be coded then that’d be game changing. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch...
The “world’s most dangerous AI” is now helping automate coding
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Inventions in one area often get repurposed or re-jigged to help solve problems in another area, and this is a prime example. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Over the past year I’ve discussed a couple of Artificial...
New Facebook AI de-identifies you in videos to protect you from facial recognition tech
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Privacy is becoming a battleground, and just as we can use AI to identify people we can also use it to anonymise people. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. It might sound counter intuitive and perhaps slightly self-destructive,...
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...
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...
OpenAI’s MuseNet AI can generate 4 minute songs across a wide range of genres and styles
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI’s are getting better at creating and generating synthetic music, and some of them are starting to get signed by major record labels. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The number of so called creative machines capable of...
Today’s virtual bloggers and influencers are dumb, AI will change that
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As more researchers and companies experiment with creating life-life, interactive digital humans today’s bloggers and influencers could soon be replaced. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. One of Instagram’s hottest influencers is a fake 19 year old virtual...
An AI learned to surf and use tools after playing 500 million games of hide and seek
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI researchers applied human evolutionary philosophies to train their AI, and witnessed a breakthrough that saw the AI’s create and use their own tools. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In the early days of life on Earth,...
This AI dreams up new text based adventures as you play the games
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today we’re increasingly used to AI’s producing content, such as DeepFakes, but tomorrow they’ll be able to create stories and content that adapts in real time to the users requests and behaviours. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
An AI designed 30,000 drugs in 21 days and came up with winners
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Drug companies are trying to find new ways to discover new blockbuster drug treatments faster, and AI is beginning to answer the call. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently I wrote about an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that...
New DeepFake app lets you edit yourself into blockbuster movies
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the technology to create DeepFakes and synthetic content gets easier and cheaper to use it won’t be soon until people everywhere are using it. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Zao, a Chinese face-swap app that seems...
AI researchers clone dragonfly brains to create better missile defences
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Nature manages to pack intelligence into lean, small packages – or brains – and researchers are trying to copy it. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories led by computational neuroscientist Frances Chance are...
