Author: Nigel Pereira

Ever wish you could smell what’s cooking on your screen? Smells imprint in our long-term memory like nothing else and while these AI devices currently add smells to video games, they could be used for a variety of applications in the future. Have you ever been walking or driving through some random location and you suddenly smell something that immediately transports you back in time with an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia? That’s the power of the sense of smell, it can trigger deep emotional responses and is often used to help people remember emotional memories. This is probably because the…

While most people expect Quantum computers to be the ones that disrupt our conventional hardware, there’s still a lot of work to be done before they go mainstream. Neuromorphic computers, on the other hand, have a very real chance of upgrading us from our binary system of 1s and 0s. The main difference between ChatGPT 3 and ChatGPT 4 is the scale (or number of parameters). In a recent JRE podcast, Jeremie and Edouard Harris, co-founders of Gladstone AI, talk about how every major player is throwing computational resources at its models in order to scale them up. They also…

In the present day, you age about a year but get back about 4 months, so you effectively age only 8 months. In 5 years, however, he predicts we will get back the full 12 months and even more, effectively reversing the aging process. In a recent Joe Rogan podcast, Ray Kurzweil, computer scientist, inventor, futurist, and author of recent titles like “The Singularity is Nearer,” talks about human beings achieving what he calls “longevity escape velocity” in the next 5 years. He then goes on to explain that in the present day, you age about a year but thanks…

How did a Bhopal-based startup with one solitary car in its inventory achieve something that eludes Elon Musk’s Tesla with virtually limitless resources at its disposal? According to Anand Mahindra, Chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra, the answer is complex mathematics! When testing an autonomous driving system, the chaotic streets of India would probably be the hardest challenge. That being said, last year, Bhopal-based startup Swaayatt Robotics announced it had achieved the world’s first autonomous level 5 driving system. Considering Tesla was stuck at level 2 at the time (and probably still is), that’s a pretty bold statement from a small…

The world’s first fully autonomous AI-powered restaurant is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of Nvidia’s presence in the food industry, where it aims to make AI as commonplace as burgers and fries. While Jensen Huang started Nvidia in a Denny’s Breakfast Booth over 20 years ago, the world’s first fully autonomous restaurant was just launched in Pasadena, CA, powered by Nvidia’s latest AI chips. In a recent post, we talked about Nvidia’s Project GR00T and how robots can now mimic human actions purely by observation (as opposed to programming through code). In this post, we’re talking about…

According to a patent filed by Apple on the 21st of May ’24, a folding phone could well be in the works, with the added ability to repair itself from “minor” scratches and dents. The self-healing screen will either cover the entire display or just the bendy bit, and will work autonomously. Flip phones were all the rage in the early 2000s, with the convenience of being able to fold them shut along with the ability to stylishly flip them open to take calls, almost everyone had one. While they’ve disappeared for a while, they’re coming back in a big…

Helping people overcome disabilities is probably one of the most noble causes you could use AI to tackle. In this post, we look at AI-powered glasses for the blind, as well as AI-powered gloves, and throat patches for the hearing and speech impaired. While the internet is flooded with stories about AI doing everything from writing code to making music, helping people overcome disabilities is probably one of the most noble causes you could use AI to tackle. Not every blind person has access to a seeing-eye dog, and a person who is deaf or hearing impaired doesn’t always have…

While this could be either good or bad depending on which side of the fence you live on, it’s safe to say that most of us alive today will end up interacting with humanoid robots at some point during our lifetime. In a post that you may have missed last month, we covered Nvidia’s new L4 GPUs, a cost-effective solution for generative AI tasks and other entry-level AI operations. A lot has happened since then including Jensen Huang walking on stage at the GTC conference in California accompanied by two Disney humanoid robots. The robots nicknamed Green and Orange, mark…

While there’s really nothing like the quantum world to make you feel unintelligent, it’s good to know that there are scientists around the world to whom this stuff makes sense. Quantum physics is hard to understand, harder to explain, and much easier to define as “just magic.” That being said, the world of quantum computers is on the brink of making a lot of that magic a reality, at room temperature. While binary bits are the base units of traditional computation and they can be 1s and 0s, qubits can be 1s, 0s, or a combination of both which opens…

This new generation of AI assistants seems to be able to do everything except say “No,” a problem that we will cover soon in an upcoming post. Generative AI refers to AI applications that can generate original content like text, speech, images, audio, and video. An example is this AI camera that takes pictures without a lens which we covered in a previous post. Now while every enterprise seems to be integrating a ChatGPT-style AI assistant into their toolkit, Salesforce’s new conversational AI aims to improve customer relationships by integrating with your CRM and training itself on your company’s unique…