SPILL is a community platform app started by Alphonzo Terrell for the ‘marginalized’ amongst us. After being unceremoniously dumped as the main Twitter Social Media Marketing Guy in the early days of the Musk regime, Alphonzo put into play this idea that had been percolating for some time. An online community hall away from the […]
John Smeddle
Flight deck promotions happening five times faster than accepted norms. Commanders of multi-engined, twin-aisle jets now younger by 15 years. Pilots scaling up to larger aircraft with questionable haste. Both pilots on the flight deck with the same level of inexperience; aviators that look like the kids of the passengers. These are issues that hardly […]
So Rishi and his lovely wife Murty were in the mood to watch a movie together on the eve of his Bletchley Park adventure. Rishi voted for the thirty year old classic Tom Clancy’s Clear and Present Danger, his all-time favourite film. Murty wanted to watch Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning. Rishi , ever the gentleman, […]
In a UK survey conducted earlier this year, it was concluded that of the tens of millions of people using ChatGPT, 54% are male and 34%, female. There were a number of reasons given for this imbalance. Firstly, there seems to be a greater degree of mistrust in the generative AI app when it came […]
When Marwan Rashid, a consultant and contributor to Inside Telecom, brought this soft sensor story to my attention, a part of my life flashed before my eyes. Not because I was about to keel over and die. But rather, I was instantly transported back to two different children’s hospitals I visited in Africa about thirty […]
This morning, it was announced that Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly blah blah blah) and founder of etc. etc. etc., will be attending the AI Summit at Bletchley Park. Or rather, may attend the AI Safety Summit. So actually, the world’s most talked-about human being doesn’t have to attend. We can just pretend he’s […]
On November 1st, the first global AI safety summit will commence at Bletchley Park (pictured below) in the UK. The venue is the iconic country estate which housed the codebreakers who shortened World War 2 by years. The summit will focus on the dominant AI narrative amongst business leaders and governments in 2023. Simply, the […]
A few weeks ago, Beta Technologies flew its amazing looking EA (that’s Electric Aircraft, I thought I’d get in first with it) from Vermont to Elgin Air Force Base in Florida. Apparently the miliary wanted to test it out for cargo-carrying purposes. Cargo-carrying purposes. Now there’s a lame duck bit of truth camouflaging that I’ve […]
A division of a major auto manufacturer, which provides the tech for self-driving taxis on the West Coast, has lost its license. Why? Because one of its vehicles ‘misinterprets’ a command from a would-be passenger and runs her over, then reverses back over her, then drags her along the road for a while. Oh sure, […]
They happen to be the biggest automobile manufacturer in the world. Yet Toyota has been strangely absent from the rather robust industry conversation about EVs in the last few years. For a company that spends $13bn annually on research & development and has been at the forefront of advancing tech for eighty years, why haven’t […]