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Fill her up is what you used to say to have your car tank topped with gasoline and it conveyed the idea of something that was done in the time you went to the kiosk to get some candy. This does not fit with the recharge of an electrical vehicle …

At the turn of the century a difficult ethical dilemma raged: on the one hand researchers could vastly speed up their work in leading edge medicine and cure of several ailments by using stem cells, on the other hand harvesting stem cells from embryo meant killing the embryo (or doing …

During this long series of posts that I started in 2004, almost 20 years ago, I have addressed several times the concerns generated by new technologies. These concerns are particularly vivid in the education area, an area that I have come to perceive as one of the most conservative (at …

I read a nice article by Melissa Heikkilä on The Algorithm, MIT Technology Review, making a point that part of AI is already “boring” and the exciting one, like today’s Generative AI, will soon become boring too. With “boring” Melissa meant an AI that has disappeared from our perception, and …

As Generative AI keeps making the headlines we are seeing more and more companies adopting it in various parts of their operation and biz. This is also generating a growing concern that the increased reliance on machines results in jobs cut. A very recent report by McKinsey, The Future of …

Autonomous flying aircraft are no news. We are reading every day, unfortunately, of autonomous drones used in combat in Ukraine and Russia. These are basically robo-craft with flying “intelligence” embedded in the aircraft itself. Quite a different challenge is to have a robot sitting in the cockpit acting as pilot. …

For most of its history, human kind have lived in a market of one world. That is, most products (all in the very beginning of our history) were custom made. You wanted a pot? You build it yourself exactly the shape and size you needed/fancied (or were able to …). …

I got used to claims of AI everywhere, including in a toothbrush. Many of these claims are just marketing, riding the wave of AI (in a way isn’t this curious? Many people are scared of AI, yet commercials are riding the AI wave to sell merchandise…), others have a sprinkle …

This is the “news“: a team of researchers at UCSF Berkeley has managed to “decode” the brain intention to pronounce a sentence into a spoken sentence. The feat involves a patient, Ann, that had a stroke several years ago and lost the use of the voice (along with several other …

The tale of the Babel Tower that couldn’t be completed because God confused the workers by having them speaking different languages thus making mutual understanding impossible is rooted in the variety of languages that were spoken by different tribes in the Middle East relatively small area. That was the consequence …