Googles new quantum safe security keys thwart future quantum hackers
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As quantum computers come on line we need new ways to defend against these monstrously capable and fast machines. 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....
DeepMinds new AI designed a new algorithm to speed up global computing
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world needs more computing power, like alot more, so companies are trying to find ways to boost it. 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....
Stanford researchers created a ChatGPT clone for $600 then shut it down
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI LLM’s from big companies have guardrails and filters, but cheaper open source LLM’s don’t or won’t which means they could be more easily abused. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
OpenAI makes it easier to create 3D objects from text prompts
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In time we will move from Text to 2D image to Text to Video and Text to 3D, VR, and all kinds of other content. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Devs used hacks to create AutoGPT an almost fully autonomous AI and open sourced it
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Even though OpenAI didn’t create a fully autonomous AI capable of creating, executing, and updating its own software and many other things developers have found a way to hack it ant turn it autonomous which will give future regulators and others big issues. Love...
Hackers inject Trojans and Ransomware into open source AI models to hack you
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This is a completely new kind of attack that generally can’t be detected, and it’s only the beginning. 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. In...
As Web 3.0 gets going Jack Dorsey just announced Web 5.0
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are many that hope Web 3.0 will be a decentralised censor free internet, but that’s unlikely to be the case, so Dorsey is now looking ahead to Web 5.0. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof...
Microsoft AI that discovers 97 percent of critical software security flaws released
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The digital world is reliant on software that contains bugs and security vulnerabilities that all need identifying and patching, this new AI automates the task. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. I’ve written extensively before about a new...
Ownerless companies on the rise as startups experiment with new business models
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Blockchain will let us build new types of companies in new ways, including ownerless companies where funds and profits are divided automatically between individuals. Slowly, very slowly, we’re seeing the emergence of the world’s first fully autonomous companies, from small hedge funds in Hong...
Walmart improves public safety by putting pork on the blockchain
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Global supply chains are complex and can be easy for criminals to exploit by putting pork onto the blockchain Walmart are able to ensure and query the integrity of their supply chains, identify problems and pull tainted batches off of the shelves faster. Walmart...
Intel cosies up to ARM and stalks Apple
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Intel wants to dominate the next generation of “Things” and it’s joined forces with ARM the industrys’ dominant player. In a move that would have been jaw dropping a few years ago, Intel’s factories are soon going to be churning out chips based on ARM’s open sourced architectures...
Google is making its own custom AI chips
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many of the breakthroughs in artificial intelligence have only been made possible because companies now have access to previously unimaginable amounts of computing power, but now there is an arms race to create the “best” AI infrastructure stack. Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced today...
Inside OpenAI, the company setting AI free
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the formation of OpenAI, a multi billion dollar non profit artificial intelligence research company way back in December and we’re now seeing the results of it. On Wednesday the company released the beta of OpenAI Gym, a toolkit for comparing and developing reinforcement learning algorithms –...