(Continued from The Case for Embodied AI – Part 1)For most of its history, artificial intelligence has existed behind a screen. It has analyzed, predicted, generated, and optimized, all without ever touching the world we wanted it to understand. That’s beginning to change. A new generation of systems are emerging […]
A continuing series on the next stages of AI in the coming post-LLM era. For earlier entries see here and here. Modern artificial intelligence stands at a crossroads. The enormous success of large language models (LLMs) built on transformer architectures has given computers a form of linguistic fluency once thought […]
In the previous edition of “What’s Right with the Future?”, I discussed Spatial AI, a relatively recent approach for extending and improving artificial intelligence. Spatial AI marks a turning point in the story of AI, not because it makes pattern recognition systems faster or large language models more lifelike. Instead, […]
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Given the recent launch of my novel, Mindstock, I guess it’s no surprise that I’ve been doing a lot of podcast interviews lately. Two episodes I wanted to share today are actually with hosts I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with in the past. On FuturePod, Peter Hayward and I […]
Innovation Week in Prague has grown to become one of Europe’s tech business conferences and this year as one of their keynote speakers, I had the pleasure of talking about the future of innovation. As our world continues to accelerate, how will innovation itself need to change in order to […]
Every year, GLOBSEC, the central European think-tank, gathers many of the world’s security leaders and policy makers for a summit to influence the future by generating new ideas and solutions for a better and safer world. This year, I had the honor of presenting a talk on the “Security Challenges […]
It was great to join Stewart Alsop on his podcast, Crazy Wisdom recently. In our hour together, we did a deep dive into a broad range of topics around AI. Some of the highlights included: The importance of narrative and storytelling as a tool for exploring the future of AI, […]
Helping to kick off Digitální Česko – the 10th annual Digital Czech Republic–was an incredible opportunity! Not only was I able to gain new insights about the priorities and concerns in this part of the world–I also got to meet a lot of amazing people who are helping shape the […]
Clearly, China is placing a lot of focus on AI, so I’m very excited to see the Chinese edition of my book, “Future Minds: The Rise of Intelligence, from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe” is finally available. Published January 1, 2024, it challenges our assumptions about […]