We live in a time of immense and often rapid change. Being in the midst of all of this, it’s easy for us to see much of the world in negative terms. Perhaps nothing illustrates this tendency so much as AI doomerism. Certainly, there’s been some degree of this alarmist […]
Announcing a new keynote program from Futurist Richard Yonck – Program Title: ChatGPT, Generative AI and the Future of Digital IntelligenceProgram Type: Keynote, Workshop, Leadership SummitLength: 30-90 minutes with Q&A option The world of AI is transforming before our eyes, bringing us new tools and capabilities that sometimes feel like […]
One of the biggest concerns about AI is how it is rapidly developing without suitable understanding or safeguards. Now Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI (AI2) is creating an open generative language model “by scientists, for scientists.” The initiative will benefit the research community, as well as the public, by providing […]
Artificial intelligence has experienced tremendous advances and change over the past year. ChatGPT, GPT-4, Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion and a growing number of new generative-AI tools are just a few of the recent developments. One feature that all of these share is that they’re either built on or are themselves […]
I’ve been sitting back for a bit letting the dust settle around all of the noise and breathless speculation regarding several advances in generative AI, particularly ChatGPT. Generative AI based on large language models (LLMs) has tremendous potential – from code generation and copy writing to recommendation systems and AI […]
After defeating the all-time human champions of the game show, Jeopardy in 2011, IBM’s Watson supercomputer was scheduled for an upgrade. Wanting to give it access to a broader vocabulary, its programmers introduced the AI to the Urban Dictionary, a web-based collection of cultural phrases and slang. Unfortunately, because of […]
In writing my latest book, Future Minds: The Rise of Intelligence from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe, it was essential to properly define intelligence in an appropriate context. However, my research led me to over 200 different definitions of this nebulous word, most of which were […]
There’s something very satisfying about waking up in the morning to find you’ve been featured in a New York Times article. Writer, consultant and workplace expert, Alexandra Levit spoke with me earlier this summer about some of the ways increasingly emotionally aware technology will change our work environment. Given the […]
I haven’t been writing articles or posting for a good few months, because I’ve been head down completing my new book. Heart of the Machine is now complete and going through final edits with my publisher, Skyhorse Publishing, one of the fastest growing independent publishers in the country. Toys that […]
Since the advent of the computer age and quite possibly before, popular media has seized on the idea of a superintelligent machine and turned it into a clichéd tale of warning. Too often a monolithic mind with an ill-defined need for global destruction or domination is eventually thwarted because a […]