AI Lessons | TED Conference | Apr 2023: The Good, Bad & Ugly!

Last week [Apr 17-21] the Annual #ted2023 Conference was held in Vancouver [Canada], with the theme of ‘Possibility’ and Artificial Intelligence featured prominently on Day-2, as well as being a common thread throughout the five-day conference. #openai President, Chairman & Co-Founder Greg Brockman gave a riveting presentation on the latest advances of the yet unreleased version of GPT-4 and what it means to the future …

Expected Job Losses to AI + Automation are Overblown!! Here’s Why…

There is no shortage of news articles, Youtube videos, and other publications making the somewhat compelling but extremely simplistic argument that AI and Automation will take most of our jobs, up and down the value chain. Five to ten years ago the prevailing argument was that white-collar workers were somewhat immune and that mostly blue-collar worker jobs would be impacted …

Financial Technology Innovation & Start-ups

A recent study shows that a growing number of start-up companies are using Peer-to-Peer solutions, Social Media and advanced Data Analytics to develop products, manage risk, and improve services in the Financial Services industry — mostly in payment transactions, with some advances in credit and risk scoring areas. While it appears that they are mostly staying away from large corporations and …