Buckle up for the Generative AI gold rush! Will BigTech rule with its picks and shovels? Which startups will strike it rich? Will “copilot for X” be the business strategy to hit pay dirt? How can startups dig moats to keep out other prospectors? …

The AI narrative is moving on from questions to actions, and finding solutions to manage the potential risk and ethics of AI — What do you say to a Nobel Prize winner when discussing how to make AI explainable in a deep neural network with over one billion parameters? This was my first trip to Davos and it coincided with the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) celebration of its 50th annual meeting. The setting…

AI and machine learning is an enabling technology that has a critical role to play in reducing the carbon footprint of energy generation, transportation, food production, industrial manufacturing, and our homes, offices and cities. But is it enough? And can technology alone save us? — The EU parliament declares a climate emergency On Nov 28th 2019, the EU parliament declared a global climate and environmental emergency. They say that all politics is local and across the world climate change seems to be coming home to roost. In the hills around San Francisco the bankrupt PG&E power company pre-emptively shutoff power to homes…

Corporates are battling with technology giants and AI startups for the best and brightest AI talent. They are increasingly outsourcing their AI innovations to startups to ensure they do not get left behind in the race for AI competitive advantage. However outsourcing presents real and new risks which corporates are…

From Silicon Valley to London to Shanghai AI startups are in abundance. But with any gold rush a few chosen will find gold and many others will go home disappointed. To succeed AI startups need to cross the commercial divide from technology into the enterprise. And learn not to move too fast and break things while embracing responsible AI practices. — Welcome to the Global AI Startup Gold Rush AI is in full gold rush mode. Every day we hear headlines of AI companies raising vast sums of capital to give them the resources to prospect the veins of AI gold. The money is flowing to these new frontiers. In the US venture capital funding for AI grew 72%…

We are in the midst of a gold rush in AI. But who will reap the economic benefits? The mass of startups who are all gold panning? The corporates who have massive gold mining operations? The technology giants who are supplying the picks and shovels? …

I tripped blindly out of university and stumbled into an early internet unicorn, MapQuest, that led me to Harvard Business School and a business career that I could not have imagined. So when I was asked to give career advice to students, I reached out to my community to reflect on what we have collectively learned. — I was career clueless When I graduated from Sussex University in England many years ago with a degree in Computing and Artificial Intelligence, describing me as clueless about business would be kind at best. My knowledge of business careers was about as good as my taste in haircuts.

I graduated with a degree in AI when the cost of the equivalent computational power to an iPhone was $50 million. A lot has changed but surprisingly much is still the same. — Stop the madness! When I woke up this morning and checked my daily news feed of AI stories on Flipboard, I felt I should go back to sleep. It was clear that the world as we know it was about to end. In about a third of my personalised news articles the AI…