It might not look like much, but the world’s first fossil free steel being used to create a truck at Volvo AB is a start. A collaboration between the Swedish steel maker SSAB, iron ore mining company LKAB and energy company Vattenfall is a game changer to a more sustainable steel production. Every ton of […]
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What does a starfish, some thorns from a tangerine tree, chicken eggs and AI have to do with each other? Let me introduce you to the language of cells and how we learn it with the help of AI. I have found books on the latest developments in biomedicine and immunology very insightful. An example
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I love the application of games in the realm of artificial intelligence. From the early start of AI being tested on all kind of games to the need of training algorithms during Reinforcement Learning (RL) in complex environments. Games and AI have always been interwoven. Are there any parallels we can draw from the world
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Who would have thought I would ever take the effort to write about cement? I am by no means an expert in cement production, nor have I ever worked in an industry leveraging concrete (of which the binding glue is cement). Why look at it now? Thanks to Vaclav Smil’s fantastic: “How the World Really
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18 books on my essential reading list #2. Why am I sharing my personal reading list with you? I guess I have always read a lot, but I got truely inspired when I started to take recommendations and looked into what other people are reading. It has broadened my horizon when it comes to topics
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“I am the son of the late king of Nigeria in need of your assistance….” a famous email opener you probably are very familiar with. Why take this obvious approach for SPAM emails? It weeded out all but the most gullible. AI and especially well trained LLMs may change this in 2024. The question is
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What worries the chief scientist at OpenAI? AlphaGo’s move 37 and the possible advent of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). A little update on the latest research developments in the area of Superalignment. What is it? Why will it matter in the future and what are some of the key takeaways for our own use of
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I have always been intrigued by the possible learnings we can derive from the field of social psychology. What makes our customers act in a certain way? What are their beliefs? The work and studies from Zimbardo, Bandura and Milgram all show an interesting side to human psychology. I have also previously written about the
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What do you do during a pandemic in a city under lockdown? You are allowed to leave your home for a radius of 5km? You read. It is not completely true though: I have always read. The only real difference is that I started to read more… It all really changed with the Netflix documentary
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I fly a lot. More than a lot of people I work with can imagine. It is the second year in a row I have earned the Platinum One Qantas frequent flyer membership status, which is 3x as much flying as a Platinum member. I am in the top 5% of all Platinum One travellers
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When I sat down and wrote a list of my notes on travel in 2018, little did I know of the impact it would have. 21k+ views. People bringing up my blog in random encounters at the airport and a lot of great feedback. Well, I hope you liked my first edition (which you can
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This is not your usual chatbot! The Enterprise Business Agent (EBA) is a ‘patent-pending’ approach to machine reasoning – trained to understand special areas of interest, such as Marketing. The main issue with chatbots is their lack of support of the required depth and breadth of complexity in the workplace. What is a marketing campaign?
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