Many people believe that artificial intelligence (AI) will be an unprecedented disruption. I believe it too. But most of us had also been annoyed by automated customer service at some time point. Of course, the experience of workers displaced by automation is even much worse. Corporates know it but…

To remain valuable and relevant to their lines of business (LOB), in-house IT organizations have to be able to deliver private cloud services that are competitive with public cloud services. Correspondingly, the community has been developing private cloud solution such as OpenStack, which mimic public cloud services by offering virtual…

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), especially ChatGPT, captures everyone’s attention. The transformer based large language models (LLMs), trained on a vast quantity of unlabeled data at scale, demonstrate the ability to generalize to many different tasks. To understand why LLMs are so powerful, we will deep dive into how they work…

Self-driving cars are approaching us quickly. Google, Apple, and traditional automakers are racing to bring self-driving cars to us by 2020. Imagine a large fleet of self driving cars under the coordination of a Uber-like system. Whenever you need car service, you just tap your phone and get into a…

Cheetah, the world’s fastest land animal, can reach the top speed of 64 miles per hour. But Cheetahs spend a large percentage of their day resting or sleeping, sometimes up to 16 or 18 hours over a 24-hour period. Your mighty cars can run much faster but also rest longer…

Automobile insurance is a big industry with $199 billion revenue and more than 250,000 employees. Given more car purchases and higher interest rates, auto insurance providers will enjoy some good time in next few years. The pricing competition is also set to cool as the economy slowly improves. Everything seems…