What I’d Do With an Optimus Robot

Elon thinks Optimus is the perfect household assistant. He envisions a future where humanoid robots are performing many of the tasks that we spend our day doing today — cleaning your house, cutting the grass, tending the garden, grocery...

Would You Want an AI Version of Yourself?

More creatives are signing open letters to stop training LLM models on their content without proper licensing (i.e., financial compensation). Fundamentally, this is a legal copyright issue (i.e., money). Not a “stop the AI from taking...

If the Robot Can…Should You?

If the robot can drive the car, should you?If the robot can harvest the corn, should you?If the robot can serve the drinks, should you? But what if the robot can negotiate border disputes? Should you?Or what if the robot can decide value? Should you?What if the robot...

AI Doesn’t Understand Risk

It’s easy to type the code. It’s hard to figure out what the code should do. That’s also true for writing books, creating value propositions, and developing spreadsheets. The typing is usually the easy part. AI is a very good typer. But the value is...

Would You?

I saw one. Then another. Then I had an idea. I’m talking about driverless taxis, of course. I’ve been in Austin this week, and Waymo’s white Jaguars with futuristic sensing pods adorning their outsides are not hard to spot.  I would. I...

The Push and Pull of Humans and Machines

What is the most expensive asset in your company, organization, or team? Your people, of course. When executives, bosses, and number-crunchers look at the spreadsheets, and especially if those spreadsheets get shown to the shareholders, the human...

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