Skydio makes flying tools that free your hands and mind. Their drone/UAV, the Skydio R1, uses computer vision to map the world as it moves (leveraging 13 cameras to build a 3D map of its surroundings that includes trees, people, buildings, and more), and then uses a 4k camera to record the video you want. You control it with simple to use smartphone apps, but can easily set it … [Read more...] about Skydio: The self-flying self-thinking camera has arrived
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What The Board Needs To Know About Artificial Intelligence
No matter what the business, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to have an impact. It is changing the way consumers consume, changing the way companies create and changing the way industries generate value. It is also improving how givernments function including both service to citizens and national security missions. The bad news is that AI is also being used by criminals … [Read more...] about What The Board Needs To Know About Artificial Intelligence
Andreessen Horowitz: Investing in, and nurturing, great capabilities for the enterprise
Andreessen Horowitz has a model unlike any other Venture Capital firm, and that model is paying off for a broad ecosystem of companies, investors and enterprise IT professionals. From the standpoint of an enterprise technologist, the payoff will come by their support of firms fielding capabilities that will make a positive difference for organizations. The best way to learn … [Read more...] about Andreessen Horowitz: Investing in, and nurturing, great capabilities for the enterprise
Generative Adversary Networks: A very exciting development in Artificial Intelligence
For years there has been a growing concern that many forms of machine learning are actually easier to deceive than they should be (and there is good reason to be concerned, for background on why see the paper recommended to me by my friend Lewis Shepherd: "Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled"). Many of us have also raised concerns about the current security frameworks … [Read more...] about Generative Adversary Networks: A very exciting development in Artificial Intelligence
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My favorite podcast, by far, is the a16z Podcast. Every edition provides interesting insights on topics technologists and forward thinking executives should track. The topic I just listed to featured Fei-Fei Li, associate professor at Stanford University, along with the brilliant star of tech trend context Sonal Chokshi and the famous a16z partner Frank Chen. The topic was … [Read more...] about Subscribe to the a16z Podcast to track the megatrends driving us all forward