Category: Extreme Automation

It’s a beautiful feeling when a song “hits your chord”. You belt out the lyrics as if they were written about you. Your entire body reacts as if the groove is coded in your DNA. What if every song you listened to had that effect? This is the goal of Adaptive Music. Adaptive music is… Continue reading The Future of Adaptive Music – Soundtracks that Monitor and Match Your Mood

Whatever happened to budgeting? Getting a spreadsheet, a calculator, and planning your life. My grandpa showed me once, I did it until I was 18, and then it all went out the window. The simple fact is that spending has gotten messier. It’s more sporadic because we’re always an advertisement and a one-click buy away… Continue reading Can Autonomous Finance Apps Free Us from All Our Money Problems?

39% of straight couples report meeting their partner online. And according to a bold claim with evidence from the Wall Street Journal, Dating Apps are Making Marriages Stronger. What if “the machine” is actually quite good at this job? What if it creates more lasting relationships than we ever could through our friends’ connections? That… Continue reading The first dating-app-turned-AI-Wingman

With each decade comes new tools that make creative expression more approachable than before. The electric piano, loaded with sounds and light up keys became the instrument and the lessons all in one. The Adobe Creative Suite digitized the entire artistic editing process – relieving the possibility for accidental error in art. The next evolution… Continue reading The AI Tools Aiming to Dethrone Adobe Photoshop

It’s unrealistic to think that a technology can create impact immediately after its release. Most would say it’s ludicrous. Look at a technology like mesh networking. Established 2012, every future-thinker could see its societal relevance. But it took an event seven years later – the riots in Hong Kong – to bring the tech into… Continue reading A $243,000 Deepfake Heist, a $10M Deepfake Competition, and More Deepfake News

40% of AI startups don’t even use AI… Sounds preposterous, right? Well, a venture capital firm in Europe studied more than 2,830 European companies classified as AI companies. And came to the conclusion that 40% of them didn’t use AI in a way that was material to their activities, focus, and funding. This is what… Continue reading How eBay used AI language translation to boost sales by nearly 11%

From books to blouses, who would’ve guessed that Amazon would ever dominate the retail clothing business. But at every turn, they’ve silenced the doubters. And their steady investments in the Amazon Fashion Technology lineup continue to raise eyebrows. The latest is a machine learning algorithm called the Amazon Personal Shopper which will help stay effortlessly… Continue reading Amazon wants their AI Stylist to choose your daily outfit

Your eyes take the first bite of every meal. It’s the first judgment every diner makes. Which is why restaurants care so much for the presentation of a meal. Even the chain restaurants must present their food consistently and appetizingly. Naturally, we’re not far from restaurants using AI to assist in this department. One of… Continue reading How Domino’s uses AI for pizza quality control

What would happen if someone created an AI writer that could create at the rate of the entire staff of The New York Times? What if it were equivalent to that of 10 complete staff? Or 100? Naturally, we all fear the worst – a complete crumbling of public media. This belief is what led… Continue reading My AI co-founder is getting smarter