REVOLUTIONIZING DISASTER RELIEF: A TALE OF CONVERGENCE
From Peter Diamandis blog this week: Between 2005 and 2014, natural disasters have claimed the lives of over 700,000 people and resulted in total damage of more than US$1.4 trillion. During the past 50 years, the frequency of recorded natural disasters has surged nearly five-fold. In this blog, I’ll be exploring how converging exponential technologies (AI, […]
It Takes a Swarm: These Robots Talk to Each Other, Make Decisions as a Group
From Robotic Tomorrow: That power in numbers is how Michael Otte, an engineer at the University of Maryland, approaches robot decision making. In his research, he wirelessly connects a large number of robots—or, artificial “brains”—into a single, complex computational entity; roboticists call it a swarm. He trains them to [1] connect, [2] communicate, sharing data to […]
Understanding the Potential of Artificial Intelligence
Photograph courtesy of Satalia Understanding the Potential of Artificial Intelligence Daniel Hulme, CEO of the AI solutions startup Satalia, offers other chief executives a primer on the technology that will shape the future of work and business. by Euan Cameron and Deborah Unger In 2008, Daniel Hulme started Satalia, a company that uses data science, […]