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Baidu Create – Steady showing

Hangs onto the global No. 2 slot. Baidu’s developer conference kicked-off with a demonstration of the company’s supremacy in Chinese AI but stopped short of providing convincing data that would...

Apple – Baby driver.

Drive.ai adds nothing to Apple’s proposition. Apple certainly needs to make an autonomous driving acquisition, but whether drive.ai is the right asset and the logic of pursuing autonomous driving at...

Facebook – The long hard road

Signs of AI progress. More needed. Facebook’s ability to spot fake accounts is improving, but it is still making much longer than it should to detect these bad actors and...

Amazon vs. Google – Stealing thunder

In a timely fashion, Amazon touts Alexa’s superiority. At the same time as Google was launching a new and improved version of Google Assistant at Google i/o, Amazon was quick...

Tesla – Leaky bucket

The assumptions do not hold water It looks like Tesla has been successful in raising money for its autonomous driving ambitions but I find its commentary to be somewhat misleading...

Google i/o 2019 – Innovation not revolution

Incremental improvements hallmark a rather humdrum keynote. With less to say about AI and Android, Google added hardware launches and pushed a privacy agenda in its keynote in a sign...

Tesla – Fact or fantasy

Tesla’s bold claims do not hold up to scrutiny. Elon Musk has made some pretty bold claims on Tesla’s behalf regarding the state of its autonomous driving solution but with...

Autonomous driving – Full stop ahead.

Whack-a-mole is not good enough. A Chinese demonstration of the inadequacies of Tesla’s autopilot also clearly shows that the current methodology of rushing out software patches after the event is...

Autonomous Autos – From Russia with love.

Deal with Hyundai Mobis is a big credibility boost for Yandex.  Yandex’s agreement with Hyundai Mobis is a big endorsement for Yandex’s autonomous driving solution. This deal provides both a...

Artificial Intelligence – Cognition conundrum

Deep Learning’s limitations laid bare. Work on analysing how deep learning neural networks work clearly shows that these systems have no real understanding of what it is they are doing....