They just keep getting better. It only takes 10 Spotpower (SP) to haul a truck across the Boston Dynamics parking lot (~1 degree uphill, truck in neutral). These Spot robots are coming off the production line now and will be available for a range of applications soon.
AdTech in Blockchain
Matt Hrushka, from Kochava, speaks about how blockchain technology is being deployed in digital advertising. Kochava is the industry leader for mobile app attribution and mobile app analytics. They enable top brands to harness their data for growth.
3 Limits of Artificial Intelligence
AI consists of four components:
- Data
- Algorithms
- Compute
- Education
AI has enabled many new opportunities for people to create a positive impact in the world by creating engineering solutions across every industry. However, AI is still evolving and we have to address its limitations as well. This video explains three major limits of AI – a lack of causal reasoning, vulnerability to adversarial examples, and a lack of interpretability. The video also explains ways to solve these limits and earn a profit doing so. The next time someone asks you what AI can’t currently do, share this video with them.
What is a Privacy Coin?
This video outlines the basic premise of privacy coins and why they’re important. It also touches upon some of the mechanisms they use to keep your transactions private, referencing ZCash and Monero. Think of privacy coins like the digital equivalent of cash.
Is Artificial Intelligence the Renaissance of Humanity?
Some people at the annual Eurasian Media Forum believe artificial intelligence will cause the next “renaissance of humanity” but others think this will come at the cost of serious inequality.
Quantum Computers Take Another Huge Leap Forward
Quantum computers continue to advance year over year. Here’s an attempt to round up the biggest quantum computer news in the last year.
Block One Keynote: Intro to Voice Social Media Platform
Brendan Blumer, CEO of Block One, which started 2-1/2 years ago, introduces Dan Larimer, CTO, who outlines the past and introduces “Voice,” their new social media platform.
A year ago they released the EOSIO open source protocol, which Larimer describes as the “fastest, most scalable and most active blockchain software in the world.”
Balaji Srinvasan and Tim Wagner from Coinbase announce that EOS is now available to trade on their platform and that visitors can earn EOS by completing some lessons on EOSIO.
Wagner also notes that Coinbase is the only major crypto exchange that has not been breached.
Larimer announced EOSIO 2 with a “WebAssembly engine designed for blockchain,” which is 12x faster than what it was a year ago when launched.
He also announced WebAuthn to support blockchain private key safety, which was elaborated by Guido Appenzeller, of Yubico. He describes their hardware key as vastly more secure than any passwords.
Blumer comes back to note that “Social media has not been a good friend to us.” He further states, “Our content. Our data. Our attention. These are all extraordinarily valuable things. But right now it’s the companies, not the users, that reaps the reward. By design, they run by auctioning our information to advertisers, pocketing the profit, and flooding our feeds with hidden agendas dictated by the highest bidder.”
He states they are building a transparent social media platform on EOS where what’s good for the platform is good for people, too, with built-in accountability.
They call it VOICE.
Larimer returns to introduce the Voice token. It rewards users via contention creation and discovery. The rewards are then used to magnify your voice on their platform.
The platform authenticates real people as users, eliminating bot armies and anonymous controls.
The authentication of all users on the platform also establishes an EOS-based blockchain identity that can be integrated into other applications in the future.
How Quantum Computers Could Change the World
The reality of subatomic level is different than the reality we are familiar.
One of the possibilities includes the ability of such particles to communicate with each other instantly, from afar (called entanglement).
Quantum computers can find solutions much faster than classical computers. Such may solve problems that cannot be evaluated by classical systems since quantum computers can analyze exponentially more complex data and at much faster rates.
We are still in the infancy of analyzing subatomic particles and the promise of this technology will not be realized for a number of years.
Enterprise AI with IBM Watson Studio & Watson Machine Learning
This IBM video is a promotion for their Watson Machine Learning and IBM Watson Studio, which they describe as a “leading data science and machine learning platform built from the ground up for an AI-powered business.” They further state that it “helps enterprises simplify the process of experimentation to deployment, speed data exploration and model development and training, and scale data science operations across the lifecycle.”
Example: Supply-Chain Blockchain
This brief video by Oracle depicts a food supply chain using blockchain to drive innovation, accelerate business and reduce cost and risk.