You start with the data — the most cherished and valuable piece of the equation. Without large datasets of content, AI doesn’t work.

Two years ago Barney Pell, an AI inventor and investor, gave me some killer advice — when I told him I was working on a ChatBot entertainment product: “always make sure that your users KNOW what your ChatBot understands.” What Barney was saying to me was “It’s impossible to truly…

In our quickly expanding world of technology, things can be roughly divided up into two camps: Apple and everybody else. Its always been that way. That’s why Steve Jobs returned to Apple — so he could show the world that building products — from a singular software and hardware perspective…

Whether it be the NYTimes lying about you, VCs stealing your company or your wife berating you for not becoming a Lyft driver — the life of the entrepreneur is a hard one. We choose this life cause there’s no way in hell we’re working for some BigCo — based…

Apple’s new iPhone announcements (and reaction to it from Om Malik) have convinced me that us 3rd party developers need to be thinking about hybrid AI solutions. We’re not going to get everything we need from one walled garden behemoth. Apple provides us state-of-the-art media smartphones with ML at the…

Bots are evil. They wake you up in the morning, trying to sell you insurance. Bots elected Trump, help Facebook “monetize us”, game Instagram (with fake followers) and do all sorts of other kinds of “evil tasks.” That’s ‘cause Bots do what their masters tell them to do. Bots are…

Who else knows my life story — better than me? In the interests of getting the story right — here are edits which can then be refered to and “cited” — in the spirit of getting the facts right. First off — thank you to the anonymous editor who “cleaned…

Both begin with S. And the word Soul also begins with the letter S as well. Songs have hooks, bass lines, riddim, lyrics, chord progression, solos and song structure. Songs are known for repeatable cycles, chorus and verses. Songs make up the basis of the music industry and popular song…

Since the dawn of time humans have been telling Stories. Nowadays we tell stories with our SmartPhones. Good news is that these super computers in our pockets are full multimedia creation engines. Video shooting, taking photos and audio recording is as easy as email and social media. We document our…