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DeepMind AlphaGo: Machines Aiding Humans

Yes, DeepMind’s AlphaGo’s winning against the world’s leading Go champions in 2017  was absolutely a clear win for DeepMind. No question. However, something more magical happened! AlphaGo (Neural net, machine learning, deep learning) was not bound by traditional moves.  On several occasions it made moves which the Go global community were stunned about. Go is…

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AI Research: China & US Leading Research- US Falling Behind!

US and China lead the world of research in AI. This article shows the number of deep learning publications by US and China since 2007.  While most were at par in 2007, the landscape changed and US was leading the pack with a significant margin until 2013 when China has gotten ahead. Unless we are…

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The Inversion Factor, How to Thrive in the IOT Economy

Had a great time speaking at this fireside chat at MIT Enterprise Forum with my co-author Sanjay Sarma and talking about The Inversion Factor. Excellent moderating by Gideon Lichfield, Editor-in-chief at MIT Technology Review. You can watch the full talk below.

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The Immersion of Things

Following my blog post of last week about why IoT is hot now and the link between IoT and AI, as promised, here is further discussion. In The Inversion Factor,  we see a clear progress in IoT from Things, to IoT , to The Intelligence of Things, followed by The Immersion of Things. Today we…

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Why Is IoT Hot Now?

In 2001, my startup in Cambridge and several others started the IoT movement via RFID and devices on the net. My first white paper on this topic was called “IoD, Internet of Devices.” At the same time, colleagues at MIT AutoID Center, were propagating IoT. Now almost 18 years later, I am delighted to see…

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2018: INVERSION And Going From AI Hype To Reality

2018 will be an exciting year for artificial intelligence. Not because every company will have sorted their AI strategy out and not because AI deployments will have sky rocketed. Not because we will have solved the lack of skillset shortages or have figured out exactly what to apply AI to. We are still at the…

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