Low level task-based AI gets commoditized quickly and more general AI is decades off. In the meanwhile, will new AI startups succeed or will the value accrue to Google, Facebook, and Amazon? While most of the machine learning talent works in big te... (more…)

When it went public in 2021, Babylon Health was valued at over $4 billion. Now it has declared bankruptcy. Insiders say it could never live up to its hype. (more…)

Modern technology has enabled the development and deployment of the pervasive and precise surveillance that may be slipping out of the control of the public. (more…)

An overview of the big AI-related stories of the first half of 2021... (more…)

The differences between peak theoretical computing capacity of a system and the actual performance it delivers can be stark. This is the case with any symm... (more…)