Neuralink has been working on connecting the brain to a computer for some years now. It has made a number of announcements over the past two years demonstrating the workability of their ideas and prototypes on animals (to take a look at their technology watch the clip). Now they are …
Read More »Smile, AI is watching you!
Have you ever switched off your computer camera when joining a video conf because you did not feel at ease with people watching your room or the way you have dressed up? Well, now you might have a further reason to keep your computer camera off: artificial intelligence based software …
Read More »Biggest cat (photo) ever
I remember 20 years ago looking in awe at a new Nikon digital camera: it embedded a 5 Mpixel sensor, 5 million pixels! At that time I had a 1.3 Mpixel camera. Now my smartphone has a 12 Mpixel camera (plus another one for selfie). However, even my current 12 …
Read More »Roadmap towards electric vehicles – II
As any major transformation, the shift from ICE to EV creates ripples all around it. I mentioned in yesterday’s post the need for a re-thinking of the energy infrastructure as gasoline is replaced by electricity. This is an obvious impact, but it goes well beyond that. Refuelling today means stopping …
Read More »Roadmap towards electric vehicles – I
In the last ten years the number of cars sold in the developed countries has seen a decrease (or at best a flattening out). The increasing number of sales per year worldwide has been sustained by the emerging markets, most notably China and India. The pandemic struck a blow on …
Read More »A pervasive sensor network, under and above all of us
That the telecommunications network can be used as a gigantic, and pervasive, sensor is not a news. As an example the mobile network has to track the movement (and position) of cellphones to be able to connect them. Get those data and you can have a very accurate map of …
Read More »AI in the mirror
When I was a kid it used to be: Mirror mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all? Time has gone by and now it seems that you can ask (a similar question) Artificial Intelligence to get an assessment on your “beauty”. Go on the Qoves website …
Read More »AI is really getting pervasive
OK, I guess there should be something wrong with me. I was watching a soccer match on my television, Germany vs Italy, and my attention was drawn on the advertisements that were shown around the play field. What puzzled me was that in spite of the game being played in …
Read More »Is AI “sentient”?
Since a Google engineer made the newspapers headlines by suggesting that an AI powered chatbot has become “sentient” I have received a number of mails and calls to get my opinion on the matter. HEnce I decided to share it broadly through this post, also considering that in our Digital …
Read More »A glimpse on 2025 – IV
7. Augmented creativity Under this “augmented creativity” label Huawei is looking at the adoption of artificial intelligence in large companies and foresees that by 2025 97% of them will be using it in their services and operation. As a matter of fact recent surveys, like the one made by KPMG …
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