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The Great AI Blabbermouth

Artificial intelligence has exploded like an artificial H-bomb, leaving a mushroom cloud of hype in its wake. But here’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit: What we call “artificial intelligence” is neither artificial nor intelligent. It’s essentially a sophisticated human-made pattern recognition system with some degree of self-modification and a notorious inclination to hallucinate. Read…

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Automobiles must be immediately outlawed

We frequently hear about self-driving cars that make mistakes and cause accidents. Some of those accidents are deadly. However, the assumption that self-driving cars are the wrong idea and should be – both by definition and by law – forbidden misses the larger picture. Let’s look at it from a historical perspective. Read…

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The Future Car Design

The wind of change has become a sea change in the car industry. It is now clear that the future of individual mobility will be electric and self-driving. We have gone a long way from the early car design, as we can see in the above picture. How could a future car look like? Read…

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The Greatest Business Idea Ever

Many immensely successful business ideas once appeared ridiculous. For example, self-driving electric cars were deemed crackpot ideas, yet Tesla Motors is now is more valuable than all legacy carmaker stocks combined. But there is a larger industry waiting for the next revolution, and the size of this industry is many times that of the auto industry. Read…

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Quo Vadis, Atlassian?

Atlassian has become a very attractive vendor of project management applications. An acquisition of Atlassian would have numerous implications to business across many engineering-centric industries. The question may be not “if” but “when Atlassian will become acquired?” Read…