A Personal Reflection and Business Perspective It’s impossible to explain how quantum computing works in a short article, or even a long article, and this one isn’t even going to make the effort. The problem is twofold. Quantum mechanics is a famously intractable topic. Almost all popular accounts resort to…
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“Evolution is cleverer than you are” Orgel’s Second Rule In 1972, around the time I was giving up piano lessons, the evolutionary biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldridge published a landmark paper, ‘Punctuated Equilibria: an Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism’. They argued that the fossil record didn’t show a steady…
How Do Machines Actually Think? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see. And then, one day, I got in… Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), Tron: Legacy, Disney Movies (2010) The previous article in this series surveyed the strategic context for AI as a trending technology. It was…
Technical Supplement This piece contains supplementary material to our article, Inside Artificial Intelligence. The first, main section, provides a heavily annotated version of the artificial neural network code, explaining what it’s doing step by step, such that it should be possible to follow the gist of the program even without…
Corporate Strategy and Artificial Intelligence Part II In part I we looked at what AI actually is (or might be), and identified the ability to learn dynamically (rather than relying on previously encoded knowledge) as a key characteristic. A computer which is capable of learning for itself might reasonably be…
Business owners often suffer from a lack of confidence about their grasp of technology, especially IT. “Technology should be viewed as a competitive weapon, not a scientific curiosity”. There are three key questions to address.
Pleased to have contributed the lead article to last months edition of the Nixene Journal, a monthly analysis of commercial and technological developments in the world of graphene.
Earlier in the summer, leisure travel giant TUI released a corporate video showcasing their exploration of blockchain technology as a means of managing their committed bedstock, an application they’ve dubbed ‘Bedswap’. CEO Fritz Joussen had previously attracted attention by commenting on the potential for blockchain technology to replace the likes…
Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Strategy, Part I – What is AI? “Artificial Intelligence (also AI) (noun) The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.” Oxford English Dictionary OED’s definition gives us…
Authored by Carl Michel, an Operating Partner of The Strategy Exchange, and originally published at Firedrop.ai. This week, I got an email from a large and well-known online hotel provider offering me some competitive options to book a hotel in Porto. Nothing extraordinary in that and yet it was completely…