When famed mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing proposed the idea of the Turing test in the 1950s, he was pondering if a computer program could be viewed as intelligent. The question was part data science and part philosophy. Can a machine make us believe they are human, and could there be a point in time when it is … Continue reading Does Chat AI need a Turning Test?What you Need to Know about ChatGPT and Generative Models →

Everywhere I go, I am being followed. You probably are too and I am not sure how I feel about it.  Back in 2009 Google had this idea, a convenient tool really, that would allow people to share their location with others. Novel and useful they thought. No more nagging, “when will you be home?” or “where are … Continue reading Google Has an Eye on You: Is that Ok? →

Spoiler alert:  If you filled out a NCAA Basketball bracket it is busted.  So is mine.  A few years ago, Google’s Alpha Go and its AI machine learning protégé Alpha Go Zero did something incredible.  They won a complicated game called Go against a world champion in a tournament.  It was another milestone for the … Continue reading The Incredible Odds: Why AI can Never Pick the Perfect Bracket →

Sometimes there is nothing better than a shared moment. The Olympic games are a cultural event and one that often brings us together – at least in conversation of the previous day’s highlights. However, events like the Olympics are increasingly rare as a bonding experience and we can only wonder if AI is to blame.  Streaming video … Continue reading AI is Actually Keeping Us Apart: Thankfully the Olympic Games are Here →

I found a phone. That in itself is not too unusual, millions of phones are lost every year. What is unusual is due to privacy, the difficulty I am having in trying to return it to its owner. Privacy has its pluses and minus and is a growing topic amidst the analytics revolution. How much data is too much … Continue reading When Privacy Has Gone Too Far: A Lost iPhone and Pandemic Implications →

Rent. Not the play (although now I can’t get that song out of my head), but rather the cost of commercial workspaces may be the first casualty of the post-pandemic world. If you have been lucky enough to be employed through all the shutdowns, home isolations, brief reopenings, and shutdown 2.0, then you probably experienced “working … Continue reading The Argument for Rent →

I write a lot about the Analytics Revolution (aka 4th industrial revolution), the proliferation of data and how skilful data scientists can distill information into better recommendations and decisions that will not only propel companies but also improve our everyday lives. The Analytics Revolution is as powerful as the industrial revolution in terms of how … Continue reading Analytics and Robots in a Post Pandemic World →