Central, Intelligent Agents “In a few years, autonomous artificial-intelligence ‘agents’ could be performing all sorts of tasks for us, and may replace entire white-collar job functions, such as generating sales leads or writing code. … The implications of unleashing them on the world are likely to be small at first, but eventually they could realize…
An Inconvenient Truth: Smoke Signals Your cell phone has smokestack emissions. So too does your electric vehicle. The simple reason for this is that, here in the US, only 3.6% of energy supply in 2023 came from renewable sources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric and geothermal. Fossil fuels remain our predominant way of generating electricity.…
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” – Mark Twain (maybe) AI Generates Pink Elephant In the present day, Mark Twain’s (or Benjamin Disraeli’s?) supposed quote might better be recast as, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and hallucinations”. In our age of generative AI, the technology’s propensity…
OpenAI Whiplash One day, there’ll be a movie, or at least a Harvard Business Review analysis, about the board vs. CEO drama that unfolded at OpenAI in the autumn of 2023. Perhaps the conflict was simply a matter of office politics. Or, as has been more darkly hinted, perhaps the matter was due to the…
“Someday” is Today To understand generative AI’s potential in the enterprise, it helps to read Isaac Asimov. Yes, science fiction from way back in the 1940s and 1950s. For example, Asimov was the one who predicted Big Data. In his Foundation Trilogy, a certain mathematics professor by the name of Hari Seldon develops a large-scale…
Envy with Green Even before the US Senate’s historic passage of 2022’s $430 billion climate bill, climate tech start-ups were on an envious tear, raising well over $30 billion in investment in 2021. In the current year we’ve seen investments in everything from companies that re-imagine air conditioning refrigerants to electricity procurement to aviation fuel. While…