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Artificial Intelligence is the headline on everyone’s lips and it’s a massive opportunity. The popular picture though is that AIs will soon replace most tasks (read ‘our jobs’). But if that’s all you are hearing, you are missing the much bigger opportunity. AI is about much more than the economics of replacing people. It’s about leveraging new kinds of intelligence …
What is AI? Quick video summary of the blog. What is artificial intelligence? Is that AI? RandomStartup.ai told me they use AI, but that’s not really AI…is it? I know neural nets are AI. But I want the one with the deep learning, right? What’s deep about it any way, does it write poetry? Speaking of, why does AI play …
Small step for Humans, Giant Leap for Machines This is the first installment of an ongoing series in which we seek inspiration for improved AI by studying strategies from humanity’s brilliant minds. For the introduction to the series see here. The human being is the most fearsome technology in known existence. We can often accomplish much more by simply giving our …
You are reading the first installment of a blog series that goes through five steps that brilliant people use to be brilliant, in an attempt to make useful connections with actual and potential methods of improving Artificial Intelligence(AI). In each installment, I break down one thing that brilliant people do and attempt to connect it with actual, or potential AI …
“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” — Warren Buffett. Road tested learnings from running Seldn, an AI startup. For the genesis of this series, read this. My dear enterprise, for your artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, look to Warren Buffet circa 1965. Shortly after publishing ‘AI Startups: Be Goldilocks’ several companies have been reaching out to XLabs with a …
The hype — it obfuscates: Landscape’s morphing. What’s possible is hidden And what’s there is amiss.
Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it. — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. Road tested learnings from running Seldn, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup. Read about the genesis of this series here. The Goldilocks Offering Not too low; not too high; your product’s value needs to be just right. Enterprise sales are …
‘In a lot of ways, his failures were more wonderful than his successes.’ — G. Hardy on mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan (For a brief intro to the Seldn series, read this introduction). Between 2014–2016, I ran an ambitious predictive artificial intelligence (AI) startup Seldn (yes, named after Asimov’s hero). 5 highly distilled key learnings from that adventure follow. These lessons …
The story of an artificial intelligence (AI) startup from Silicon Valley. In early 2014, my cofounder Travis Dirks and I started Seldn — an artificial intelligence (AI) startup based in Palo Alto, Ca. Back then, there were no big waves in AI. Only whispers. My 6 months of globe trotting had just exposed me to some of the most violent …
Here is How Data science is evolving from a kludgy mess held together by spit, tape and constant effort, into something better. However, there are some fundamental problems at it’s heart that MUST change in order for the field to fulfill its promise of wresting understanding from the ever expanding universe of data we create. For the past 3 years, …