Recent AI squabbles are distracting and completely unhelpful. To our benefit and to our peril, technology has become a mantra, a hurrah–word, and often is seen as the balm to all our problems. In most environments, engineers take the stance with technology of ‘the more the better’, and ‘it’s all about how you use it’. Especially in…
Soon, AI will be taken more and more for granted as a foundational building block of technology. For future startups, that means that AI will almost certainly be essential to their solutions, and questions will be raised if it’s not. But I don’t share the view that VCs should assume every startup will use the best…
Intel’s acquisition of Mobileye is a reminder that fundamental transformations to the infrastructure of the auto industry are underway — mostly caused by the drastically increased ability of computing to perceive, understand, and act on the physical world. Where huge companies previously dominated, new startups are bubbling up that are challenging the way we think of automotive…