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Top Drone: The Future of Fighter Pilots

In 1986, the film Top Gun debuted as a straight-faced depiction of competition among Navy fighter jocks at the pinnacle of American Cold War airpower. Thirty years on, in the iPhone era, the film’s contest between two rival aviators — Tom Cruise’s aggressive but unpredictable “Maverick” and Val Kilmer’s…

Hollywood AI: Her

In this series, we’ll look at a piece of popular art and ask whether its fictional portrayal of technology could exist. First up, the 2013 movie by writer-director Spike Jonze, Her. The Best Picture Oscar-nominated and Best Original Screenplay winning film features actor Joaquin Phoenix as a nerdy mustached…

The Lenovo Way: Yolanda Conyers on Transforming Corporate Culture

On a hot afternoon in August, Yolanda Conyers is shown around the headquarters of Austin tech firm SparkCognition. As the tour moves from one department to the next, she chats with employees about their various projects. A group of engineers working for SkyGrid, the AI company’s new joint venture…

SparkCognition Combats COVID-19 With In-House PPE

Five years ago during his highly watched TED Talk, Bill Gates stated that the world was not ready for the next epidemic. “If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus, rather than a war. Not missiles,…

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s AI

The only sounds drifting from Hagrid’s hut were the disdainful shrieks of his own furniture. Magic: It was something that Harry Potter thought was very good. Uh, what? Readers who spend considerable time on nerdier corners of the internet probably already know what’s going on. To everyone else: No,…

Automatic for the People: Automated Model Building Is Changing the Game

How will artificial intelligence go beyond rhetoric and toy projects to real, enterprise deployments that yield significant business benefits across a large number of different industries? What are the key considerations to keep in mind when attempting such transformations? And how can understanding the fundamental economics of AI help propel…

Into the Swing: Callaway and Other Golf Industry Leaders Are Embracing AI

Improving a golf club is a process that’s long demanded as much patience as playing the game itself. Even for a company as sophisticated as Callaway, the dominant consumer sales leader and club maker on the pro tour, reimagining something as simple as a driver face once meant pouring…

Hack the Vote: Is AI on the Ballot in 2020?

Even though the November U.S. elections are still months off, artificial intelligence already has emerged as a potent technology that can sway voters all the way until the moment the polls close that fateful Tuesday. Yet just how AI is used in the election’s contest between truth and disinformation…

Meet the Mind: Sumant Mandal, March Capital Partners

IN BASEBALL, THEY say if a batter fails 70 percent of the time, he’s a future Hall of Famer. In venture capital, maybe we should be viewing the numbers similarly. Actually, VC success is probably harder: as recently as 2017, 75 percent of venture-backed startups were failing, according to…

Peter Stone Leads the Way at the University of Texas

FRANKLY, IT DOESN’T look like much. Eight robots you might have once found on Toys ‘R’ Us shelves occupy a small field. They collectively move with the grace of a toddler, just at the pace of someone much, much older. (If one bot goes down, it might be a…