Snapchat’s ChatGPT chat bot is creeping out kids and parents
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Artificial intelligence is not controllable, the consequences are often unpredictable, and as these models get better at adapting to the user the consequences could be dire. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
Mastercard starts testing quantum computers to hyper personalise rewards
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many in the payments industry believe that what makes their cards unique and relevant is the rewards they offer, so Mastercard are hyper personalising those rewards using QC. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Mastercard launch their first quantum computer proof contactless card
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers could hack 70% of the world’s encryption faster than you can read this article, so our payment cards need to be ready. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
EU mulls offline CBDC transactions to help users maintain privacy
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF CBDC’s would let the government see every transaction you make, which could be used to stimulate the economy, cut fraud, and “spy” on people, so the EU is thinking hard about how to please privacy critics. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community,...
These sonar enabled smart glasses can listen in on silent voice commands
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Some people can’t speak and others don’t want to speak out loud in certain situations, but now your silent words can be heard. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
BritCoin could arrive in the next decade says BoE
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Countries will eventually embrace Central Bank Digital Currencies, and several are moving ahead already. 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. The UK is pushing ahead...
Thanks to AI your WiFi can now sense when you’re struggling to breathe
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Often some of the best breakthroughs, but also the oddest in terms of “privacy invasion” come from odd sources … 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...
Jack Dorsey launches BlueSky Social a completely new kind of decentralised social network
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most companies and social networks are run and managed centrally but decentralised platforms and protocols using DLT’s completely change the game. 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,...
The White House publishes its first Bill of AI Rights
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Decades after AI became a “thing” no government has any real idea of how to regulate its development and that’s an issue. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Privacy advocates cry foul after WEF publishes plans for personal carbon tracking
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Some people want to know what their carbon footprint is, and we have the technology to track it, but the initiative’s seen as another major privacy invasion by some. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
AI recreates hyper realistic human faces by reading people’s minds
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A few years ago this technology was “alright” and now it’s “good.” Next comes great and that will be revolutionary. 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....
Web 3.0 data wallets might solve users data privacy problems
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF You have a wallet for payments and tickets, what about data? 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, or browse my blog. We’ve all heard...
Smartphones could one day identify you by your grip
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are many more ways to identify who you are – for all sorts of purposes – than you might think. 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,...
The UK Government creates one government login to rule them all
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you want to surveil, or serve, a society better as a government the best way to do that is to join all your systems together. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
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 US AI project will identify bots and individuals behind disinformation campaigns
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today anyone can create a bot that generates huge volumes of disinformation and misinformation, the modern equivalent of PsyOps, this AI program will identify the perpetrators. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
First of a kind Chinese smart city to put AI in control of meeting citizen’s needs
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There is a difference between managing a smart city and being responsible for meeting the needs of that city’s residents and now AI is doing both. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
Researchers networked animal brains together to create an organic computer
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF People have always said the brain is like a giant computer, and now we can network them together just like computers. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Imagine a future where computers...
Apple announces plans to scan every iPhone for child abuse images
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This strikes at the heart of people’s moral conundrums when it comes to the ethics of privacy – on the one hand the idea is to be praised, and on the other demonised … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof...
Elon Musk turns his eye to disrupting the out dated global auto insurance industry
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The more data insurers have about a driver and their habits the more accurate the insurance premiums can be – and Tesla has all the data. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
