The people tasked with training AI are outsourcing their work to AI
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans are lazy and by getting AI to do their work for them the people who are supposed to be training AI are opening up a Pandoras box of problems. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
World first as AI officially joins the crew onboard a US military jet
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans will increasingly be working with and alongside AI’s – and the military is no exception. 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 a major technological leap forward for national defense in...
First AI crushed human gamers, now it’s coaching them
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI learns in a different way to beat humans at, literally, their own games. Now it’s being used to coach gamers become better gamers, and it won’t stop with just gaming. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
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....
Futurist Keynote, Paris: I, The Company of 2040, Accenture
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The companies and startups of the future will be very different from today’s, so during this keynote I dive into the rabbit hole. Firstly, thank you to the team at Accenture for inviting me to be their keynote speaker at the annual Accenture Technology...
IBM trials virtual classroom to help students master Chinese faster
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF They say that people learn faster when they are able to live the experiences they’re being taught, and that could make VR a game changer in education. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Often the best way to...
World’s most dexterous robot now solves Rubiks’ cubes one handed
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Training robots new tricks used to take a long long time, now we can cram hundreds of years of training into just days. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently I discussed how a company had managed to...
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,...
Vodafone combines 5G and haptics to let rugby players 100 miles apart tackle each other
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This is just one example of how 5G will let us work and play in new ways, and it’s just the beginning. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Vodafone showed off several demos of its new 5G network...
Amazon trained their delivery bot Scout in the virtual world so it could handle the real one
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Training AI software and robots in the virtual world will dramatically accelerate disruption and the world’s rate of change. Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. Amazon, who are already on their way to becoming a fully autonomous retailer, recently...
OpenAI’s robot hand handles objects with human-like dexterity
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Robots struggle with tasks that involve dexterity, but that problem could soon be solved. Artificial Intelligence (AI) advances are increasingly making headlines as we witness breakthrough after breakthrough, whether it’s in the creation of self-driving cars, or in the creation of the world’s first...
