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  • Viodi View – 10/29/24

    Viodi View – 10/29/24

    At their best, communities make the individual better and provide true meaning. Breaking bread, sharing the sweat of a hard day’s work, and surmounting the challenges of imperfection are the things that connect humans.   Building a community is a challenge. Living in harmonious community is even more challenging. Of course, communities ebb and flow…

  • From a 56k World to Tomorrow’s Metaverse – A CES2022 Preview

    “We’ll be ducking in and out of the metaverse for these immersive digital experiences, and that’s why I say they will eventually become inextricably linked with our physical reality,” predicts Steve Koenig, VP of Research for the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The above interview provides additional insight into trends to expect from this week’s CES2022,…

  • Automated Driving Technologies – Driving Change in Insurance

    Automated Driving Technologies – Driving Change in Insurance

    It is in the insurance industry’s best interest to use automated driving technology to make things safer through crash avoidance, not just crash mitigation. Unlike crash mitigation, crash avoidance saves the insurance company money. This was Alain Kornhauser’s premise for the Smart Driving Car Summit, Incentivizing Through Insurance. The trillion-dollar question is whether the incentives…

  • Viodi View – 01/20/21

    Viodi View – 01/20/21

    A Digital Talent Multiplier Did the statement, “I could just be here [CES2021] virtually,” jinx 2020? This statement, made last January at CES2020, was a comment on the realistic-looking video models created by HourOne’s Generative AI service. The creation of a digital twin is definitely an appealing alternative to the wear and tear of CES…

  • CORD-19 Initiative, AI, Data Science and Chatbots to Combat COVID-19

    CORD-19 Initiative, AI, Data Science and Chatbots to Combat COVID-19

    On March 16th, researchers from the Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Microsoft, and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health released the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) of scholarly literature about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and the Coronavirus group. Requested by…

  • Summary of IEEE Ethical Standards for Robotics and AI

    Summary of IEEE Ethical Standards for Robotics and AI

    by Alan J Weissberger Introduction: Should robots and artificial intelligence (AI) be used to improve the human condition and enhance productivity or are they only to be used to increase revenue and profits for the companies pursuing those technologies?  Can they be trusted to make decisions without human intervention?  What about robotic or AI accidents/mishaps?…