AI's new brainwave: lab-grown smarts.

A few months ago, I wrote about organoids, and science fiction meets reality a lot faster than expected as researchers blend lab-grown brain organoids with AI, creating neural nets that learn like human brains but with a fraction of the energy. It's early days, but this 'Brain...

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Ensuring a Thriving Digital Future in a Post-Truth World

In a groundbreaking TED talk, Dr. Mark van Rijmenam addresses the post-truth world shaped by AI, deepfakes, and ChatGPT. He outlines a three-tier approach - Education, Verification, and Regulation - to navigate and thrive in this new era, drawing from his experience as an optimistic dystopian.

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Ensuring a Thriving Digital Future in a Post-Truth World

I'm thrilled to share that my groundbreaking TEDx talk, "Ensuring a Thriving Digital Future in a Post-Truth World," is now available online! Starting with a digital deepfake of myself, I dive into the swirling currents of our post-truth era, where AI technologies like deepfake...

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AI's latest puzzle: mastering data lineage

As AI transitions from hype to production, data lineage, tracing the flow and purpose of data, becomes critical. It's like a detective story, ensuring AI doesn't fumble in the dark with data, crucial for compliance and accurate outcomes in an era of stricter regulations and sm...

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Synthetic Minds: My TEDx talk and more AI disruption

This week's Synthetic Minds covers the dynamic intersection of AI and enterprise strategy. Explore AI's impact on jobs, ethical integration, and innovation, including brain organoids and Google's MusicFX. It's a concise journey into AI's evolving role in shaping our digital an...

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Google's new Gemini moves into reasoning

Google has finally unveiled their much hyped answer to ChatGPT and according to the above promotional video it is pretty amazing. It is capable to look at an image and reason what it 'thinks' it is seeing, something that other LLMs have not yet shown to be capable of. I especi...

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Metaverse mania: China's 3-year digital dive.

China's dipping its toes into the metaverse with a three-year action plan that's part tech revolution, part digital déjà vu. Picture VR tours in museums and virtual experiences in education and entertainment, all while Beijing juggles digital job creation and attracts global m...

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