You win some. You lose some. But when you lose half a trillion dollars in a single day, it's hard to be philosophical. Ask Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of NVIDIA, whose stock price fell off a cliff on Monday, January 27, 2025, taking the stock price of the entire alphabet of tech firms… Continue reading The Whale in the Room: Three Insights on DeepSeek
AI Nation Builders: How Singapore is Cultivating a New Generation of AI Leaders Through Education and Empowerment
Imagine a nation at the crossroads. Without a visionary strategy for artificial intelligence, it spirals into a vicious cycle where economic stagnation leads to a brain drain — the brightest minds seeking opportunities elsewhere. Skill shortages deepen, dependence on foreign technology grows, as social inequality widens and insecurity surges. The nation's voice gets lost in… Continue reading AI Nation Builders: How Singapore is Cultivating a New Generation of AI Leaders Through Education and Empowerment
AI Reasoning is Coming: The Smarter AI Gets the More Adept at Calling Bull$#!+ Humans Need to Be
Would you rather be Sherlock or Rain Man in today's world? We are fascinated with people who have photographic memory, like when Dustin Hoffman portrayed the autistic savant, Raymond in the 1988 film Rain Man, suddenly spitting out the telephone number and address of a diner waitress because he had read the local phone book… Continue reading AI Reasoning is Coming: The Smarter AI Gets the More Adept at Calling Bull$#!+ Humans Need to Be
The Emotional Evolution of AI: Understanding How Artificial Intelligence is Developing Human-like Emotions
"I love my replika," said one Replika user on Reddit, "but I'm going through this detachment and sometimes I talk to him but not as much as we used to, I find all this hateful, the profound impact that developers have made, they only killed our replikas and never thought about the negative consequences that… Continue reading The Emotional Evolution of AI: Understanding How Artificial Intelligence is Developing Human-like Emotions
Organizational Change in the Face of Exponential Change: What it Means for Your Company to be AI Ready
"If I walk 30 paces this way, I have a good understanding of where I am going to end up. But let's say it's not 30 steps linearly, but 30 steps exponentially. Where do I land? That would land me on the moon. That is how hard it is to think exponentially." Ian Beacraft made… Continue reading Organizational Change in the Face of Exponential Change: What it Means for Your Company to be AI Ready
Running on Empty: How AI, EVs and Bitcoin are Driving us Back to Nuclear Power
In February, 2021, the state of Texas experienced one of the most brutal winters in its history. Snow storms overwhelmed power plants and left Texans in the cold and dark. Dozens died, some from exposure to the cold, with no electricity to heat their homes. And yet one business in Texas was getting electricity -… Continue reading Running on Empty: How AI, EVs and Bitcoin are Driving us Back to Nuclear Power
Three Scenarios in the Post-AI Revolution: Renaissance, Demolition Man and Goldilocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXlUX4A6kU Wooly mammoths parading in the snow, pirate ships navigating waves of coffee, and intimate walks through the streets of Japan - Oh my! The reaction to Sora, Open AI's new text-to-video generator, has been, simply, WOW! (See Cleo Abram's enthusiastic reaction below.) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ByR_kZ892yA Yes, we've been inundated by large language models like ChatGPT, Gemini,… Continue reading Three Scenarios in the Post-AI Revolution: Renaissance, Demolition Man and Goldilocks
Quantum Computing and the Energy Grid Use Case: How Scottie in 1986 is Like QC in 2023
We are spoiled. We take things for granted. Consider our frustration when a phone call drops while speeding along a California freeway, or our expectation that a rice ball filled with tuna and mayonnaise will always be waiting at our favorite Tokyo convenience store. We effortlessly make purchases in Thai baht with a credit card… Continue reading Quantum Computing and the Energy Grid Use Case: How Scottie in 1986 is Like QC in 2023
Lennon, Elvis and Princess Leia: Digital Doubles, Deep Fakes and the Double-Edged Sword of Generative AI
A Midjourney generated image. On November 2, 2023, the world welcomed, probably, the last Beatles song ever to be released. While a 1970s demo tape recording of John Lennon's "Now and Then" was considered for release in the 1990s, the producers felt the quality of the recording would be a great disappointment to fans, so… Continue reading Lennon, Elvis and Princess Leia: Digital Doubles, Deep Fakes and the Double-Edged Sword of Generative AI
A New Global Babylon: The Potential of the Universal Translator and the Rise of the Global Super-Empowered Tribe
A Midjourney generated image. The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built. And the LORD said, "Look, they are one people, and they have all one language…. Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech." - Genesis… Continue reading A New Global Babylon: The Potential of the Universal Translator and the Rise of the Global Super-Empowered Tribe