I was the first venture investor in OpenAI. The weekend drama illustrated my contention that the wrong boards can damage companies. Fancy titles like “Director of Strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology” can lead to a false sense of understanding of the complex process of entrepreneurial innovation. OpenAI’s board members’ religion of…

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The deliberate collision of two game-changing technologies has the potential to upend the technology industry and bring about a new era of business disruption and innovation. Few industries will be spared this transformation, and it will create completely new value and risks. Hyperbole? I don’t think so. Artificial intelligence is soon to be supercharged by…

The glorious past of Catholic Europe and the technological sophistication of the future are merging in a project of unprecedented scope funded by the European Commission.  Through its Horizon Research and Innovation grant, the commission has allocated no less than 3 million euros to the Repertorium project, which aims to develop artificial intelligence (AI) tools…

The Pentagon’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, Craig Martell, is alarmed by the potential for generative artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT to deceive and sow disinformation. His talk on the technology at the DefCon hacker convention in August was a huge hit. But he’s anything but sour on reliable AI. Not a soldier but…

Minnesota group uses artificial intelligence to aid monarch butterflies Published 8:22 am Monday, November 20, 2023 Herald file photo By Dan Gunderson St. Paul-based Monarch Joint Venture has a faster, more accurate method for measuring the reach and quality of pollinator habitat on the landscape. An artificial intelligence program called POLLi can count milkweed plants…

Artificial intelligence has been a hot, if not heated topic that has been discussed for much of 2023. Due to things like facial recognition, deep fakes and automation of jobs, among other issues, it has become an item of concern in the African American community.  Those concerns prompted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to sit…

LOADINGERROR LOADING The new interim CEO of OpenAI suggested earlier this year that artificial intelligence holds a level of potential risk for humankind that “should cause you to s**t your pants.” Emmett Shear, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitch, was appointed over the weekend to lead OpenAI after its board of directors ousted its…