Finally, AI for the Masses?
OpenAI's GPT-3 was recently described as “the most powerful 'language model' ever created" and has the potential to be the poor man's road to AI riches.
Marc Benioff
Thoughts on the Plane to CES
Every January just after New Year's, as if to force upon recently idle strivers the urgency of redoubling their labors, converge hundreds of thousands of tech-focused leaders, strategists, inventors, financiers, retailers, and journalists. CES is...
Four Ways Techonomy 2015 Made News: “Why hasn’t every CEO committed to making sure women and men are paid the same?”
At least four big things happened at Techonomy 2015: Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker announced the department's Digital Economy Agenda, Marc Benioff called for equality as a corporate virtue, social network creator Sean Parker criticized social...
Reflections from Ross: Memorable Quotes from Techonomy 2015
Brought up at Techonomy 2015: Afghan social networks, algorithms, ants, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, biofabrication, blockchain, business accelerators for women and minorities, digital economy, empathy, equality, fashion, Internet of things, ISIS, justice, libraries, neuroscience, neurotech,...
Techonomy 2015: Human Values in An Age of Tech
The transition to a technologized and interconnected society is challenging for everyone, everywhere. As we gain new efficiencies and capabilities, we still need to keep amity and constructive human interaction as our supreme priority. But...
How Techonomy Bio Inspired My Southeast Asian Healthcare Journey
Last year, I watched the inaugural Techonomy Bio conference from a hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. At the time, I was working on my first healthcare consulting project—a market research study for German medical...
Meat Without Animals and Sequencing the Planet at Techonomy Bio
The over 200 people who descended on the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley last week for the second annual Techonomy Bio event learned we were heading toward growing meat, cell phones,...
Marc Benioff and Gates Foundation’s Desmond-Hellmann Agree: Digital Health So Far Is Pitiful
For an onstage conversation at Techonomy Bio 2015 about how science is advancing human progress around the world and where the greatest challenges still remain, Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Marc Benioff might seem an unlikely pair....
Techonomy Bio 2015 Live Webcast
Techonomy Bio is a big-picture exploration of the transformative global social and economic benefits driven by the rapid advances being made in the biological and life sciences. Powered by IT developments and spurred on by new...
