Saudi Arabia bestows citizenship on a robot named Sophia Saudi Arabia granted Sophia citizenship, making it the first country to grant a robot the right to citizenship, at least as far as we know Sophia’s capabilities were on display during the Future Investment Initiative summit being OpenAI Director Shivon Zilis explains why AI requires oversight… Read More »
Highlights this week include two major developments from Google, the emergence of Primer from stealth mode and the acquisition of nuTonomy by Delphi for $450mm. On the cultural side of AI, we’ve received news regarding plans for a Black AI workshop in December and another AI chatbot expressing offensive remarks. Personally, these are two examples… Read More »
Lots of great activity this week. Notable developments include Alibaba’s reveal of its massive research arm, the UAE’s Centennial 2070 objectives and Marvelstone Group’s plans for the largest AI hub in the world to be built in Singapore. Company highlights/other Facebook launches two datasets to improve AI video analysis The Scenes, Objects, and Actions dataset… Read More »
Partnerships SparkCognition and British Army Collaborate to Advance Artificial Intelligence Applications for Defense (10/4/17) The AI company’s Defense team will consult with the British Army on the role of machine learning in military applications and contribute to research on future military planning Policy & Regulation DeepMind announces ethics group to focus on problems of AI… Read More »
I’ve compiled a list of developments in AI from last month. List is by no means all inclusive, so if I missed anything feel free to let me know. Partnerships: IBM partnership with MIT (9/7/17) Partnership includes a $240mm investment in the “future of artificial intelligence” from IBM over a 10 year period Lyft and… Read More »
Last November, I decided to take a deep dive into the artificial intelligence industry. With the help of a mentor, I was able to compile a venture capital thesis on the industry. My research and analysis spans over Q1 and Q2 2017. I ended up presenting this thesis a few months ago in early June… Read More »
Thanks to everyone who encouraged me to finally get this up and running. Thought I would do a post on two of my favorite topics, AI and renewable energy. I’d like to highlight how they overlap both now and potentially in the future. These overlaps come from recent news articles, but I plan to take… Read More »