
What’s the most used shared feature in your family?
Will Family specific apps take off? Ask around and most people only need their regular comms and organization apps. However, maybe there are new needs because of Covid. What unique problems could it solve. What features do we need?

What new tech should we have had by now?
The title says it all. What is the next big technology that we should be working on? Is it Virtual Reality or Quantum or Neuro brain chips or something else? Maybe it’s something to help us with climate change or

What makes innovation labs fail?
Innovation labs are often set up in a corporates. They’re used to test and learn new products or technologies. These Labs is usually small and their output is prototypes and demos. The question is do they deliver the outcome as

Explorations in the Application of AI and Personalization
Guest post by Paul Golding, Full Stack Engineer and AI Specialist at Meta With recent advances in AI towards language understanding (LU), there is increased enthusiasm for digital marketing applications. I recently explored an application in personalization of financial

A New Kind of Machine Learning is Inspired by Neuroscience and uses Time as a Component
There is a new kind of Artificial Intelligence emerging that is closer to the human brain. Today’s AI is likely to be built with Machine Learning that uses Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). The ‘Deep’ is due to the multiple layers

Open letter from a Machine, How do you explain a Human?
I’m a machine and I cannot understand humans. Some mysterious element drives them to do things that have no reasonable explanation. This element, they call it the ‘human spirit’, it drives them to attempt the impossible. Sometimes it’s magnificent and

Beware of Social Media Empathy Burnout Fatigue Syndrome
Every few months I have to delete my twitter app off my phone. Otherwise I might fall prey to ‘Social Media Empathy Burnout Fatigue Syndrome’. This isn’t really a thing. It’s a combination of ‘empathy burnout‘ and ‘social media fatigue‘.

Chatbots should pay more Attention to what you don’t Say
Chatbots can benefit from paying attention to what is not said. In any conversation there is a skill to reading between the lines. The way you say something is just as laden with information as the content being conveyed. There

What is Human Intelligence and Why Would Machines Need It?
What is human intelligence? A formal definition is ‘the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills’. It turns out an all encompassing definition for intelligence is not easy to find as it can be defined in many different ways.

A Summary of an Event that Debated ‘Are Machines Conscious?’
Yesterday I attended an event titled ‘Are Machines Conscious? Debating AI’s Final Frontier’. I didn’t have to read much more of a description to sign up, I was intrigued. The event was a zoom call hosted by AI LA where

What could be done to prevent bias in AI?
This question has no easy answer. It requires diverse opinions and development of ideas. The technologies used for Artificial Intelligence (AI) today i.e. machine learning or deep learning are prone to bias. The techniques are designed for pattern recognition and

Instead of Assistance, how about an Artificial Intelligent ‘Agent’ to do your Bidding?
There are assistants and then there are agents. The way they behave is different. Even among agents themselves there are differences. Some agents simply ‘act on someone else’s behalf’ but then there are the kind of agents that ‘take an