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...
Prophesee and Qualcomm partner to bring neuromorphic computer vision to smartphones
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Neuromorphic computers are very different to traditional computers, they can learn. As a result they have the ability to change many industries. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
AI finally aces motion capture without all the mocap gadgets
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Motion capture is going to be even more important in the future, just think content creation, healthcare, sports tracking, Metaverse avatars, and this breakthrough makes it much easier. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
This revolutionary AI image enhancement system is revolutionising CCTV
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The vast majority of video imagery is low quality which makes identifying criminals and events hard if not impossible, but now that’s not the case. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Amazon unveils its new range of fully autonomous warehouse robots
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Amazon faces a worker shortage and cost pressures so it’s trying to solve both with robots. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
This optical brain like computer chip analyses almost 2 billion images per second
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future machine vision will capture even more videos and images than it does today, and synthetic content will create even more, and we need computer chips that can process this insane volume of graphical data. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential...
Europe’s new Artificial Intelligence Act can demand AI models are retrained and deleted
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Regulating AI, which is often seen as a black box is at best incredibly difficult and at worst impossible especially as we see AI’s spontaneously evolve as we have several times now. But it needs to be regulated. Love the Exponential Future? Join our...
New AI computer vision system detects malware with staggering accuracy
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The use of machine vision, using computers to “see” malware and cyber threats, is revolutionary and possible game changing. 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....
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...
Samsung’s new robot does all your housework and serves you wine
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Housework is boring, robots are awesome, and soon you can bring that awesomeness home. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. When I was compiling Samsung’s centennial Life in 2070 report to celebrate...
Black box AI’s learn to express themselves so researchers can read their minds
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Some AI’s are black boxes which means people don’t know how they do what they do, or how they reach their decisions, and that’s a major issue for different industry use cases. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with...
The US military found a way to use AI to turn humans into living sensor networks
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This sounds like science fiction, again, but turning humans into living sensor networks that are monitored and controlled by AI is technologically possible now. 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 Griffin Emerging Technology Starburst 2020 Edition, 2020 to 2070
Technology is a blank slate, but when it is combined with human or machine based creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship it is a tool that can help us transform the world, and as new powerful emerging technologies become increasingly affordable and democratised our ability to transform culture, industry, and society, at...
Radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans don’t need to be told what everything is to understand it, we have a “natural” ability, now AI is gaining that ability too. 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. Machine...
Apple iPhone 12 packs in Lidar to bring physical and virtual worlds closer together
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Lidar sensing systems used to be an incredibly large and incredibly expensive, and now they’re in your phone. 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. This week Apple introduced its latest line...
Flying high Airbus shows off its 2030 and 2050 concept cabins
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of aviation will be electric, and involve hypersonic aircraft and rockets. But there’ll be room for more conventional aircraft too and they’ll be able to take advantage of new technologies to create amazing new experiences. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential...
BHS’s recycling robot is coming to help save the planet
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We throw away far too much waste and most of it goes to landfill, but AI and robotics are increasingly powerful tools we can use to help us recycle more of it. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with...
Futurist Keynote, Greece: The Future of Privacy, Boussias
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future you’ll be able to buy Privacy as a Service, because today your online and offline privacy is being eroded like never before in new and unbelievable ways. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from...
Futurist Keynote, UK: Full Speed Ahead, WIRED
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world was already changing rapidly before COVID-19, and post COVID the rate of change is set to accelerate. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Firstly, I’d like to thank Catherine, Greg, and the team at Condé Nast and WIRED...
As Covid-19 lockdowns ease companies begin tracking employees with in-house tracking apps
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New technologies and innovations are eroding people’s privacy like never before, for better and worse … Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The current Coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, has spurred people everywhere around the world to come up...
