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What I learned from talking to yet another AI genius every week for six years
I’ve had front-row seats watching AI shake up the life sciences and manufacturing across Europe and the US. While talking with visionary tech heads, they clarified that to understand the chaos, I also needed to speak with academics, entrepreneurs, regulators, funders and – most importantly – the end users. Yes, innovation is all about people – a wildly diverse group of individuals and organisations who must unite to make extraordinary things happen.
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How I roll as a writer in the AI tsunami
I don’t believe that AI is making me irrelevant as a writer. In some ways, it’s helping me become a better one. As a long-lapsed carpenter, I still appreciate what a quality power tool can bring to the worksite. But with GenAI, it’s been more love-hate – like a chainsaw: handy until it turns on you. While I’ll take all the help I can get, I want to keep loving my job.
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12 things AI tech experts wish you knew
I’ve had the pleasure of talking with hundreds of people working in data science and AI. Luckily, since they spend most of their time fiddling with data, they are a patient lot. It’s been one long masterclass. More often than not, I ask the question, ‘What do you wish everyone knew that would make your job easier?’ Specific patterns emerged from their answers…
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AI’s Nobel Prize victory lap: Is Time Magazine next?
AI casually swept two Nobel Prizes this year – not bad for a bunch of zeros… and ones. But is it enough to make Time’s ‘Person of the Year’? Or will the on-the-ball Yuval Noah Harari intervene? Read all about it in this edition of ‘Manufacturing – The News.’
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Hannover Messe 2025: A Euro-Canadian love fest – with robots
Read all aboot it: Canadians were in full force at the world’s biggest manufacturing trade show, while Trump was teasing out his tariff threats. People were confused, but at least they could be confused together.
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25 times Medical Data + Pizza: how carbs are transforming healthcare
“Covering 5 years, the Medical Data + Pizza event series has followed a compelling timeline, encompassing the period when AI came of age, and became sexy. We spoke with AI professor and co-founder Mark Hoogendoorn about the challenging task of bringing AI to the bedside – in Amsterdam and across Europe – and about the power of pizza to get things moving.”
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Seeking truth amid a disinfodemic (and why scientists need better storytelling skills)
Welcome to 2020, where we’re fighting both a viral pandemic and a “disinfodemic”. And yes, social media companies say they “deplatform” obviously false theories. But there’s a loophole: if you wrap your bleach-gargling cure in a larger QAnon narrative about Satan-worshipping pedophiles, you might still get listed.
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Should AI be more like oil or O2?
Who should own the data used for healthcare applications? Is data really ‘the new oil,’ a resource controlled by the few? Or should data be considered a universal human right, like oxygen? After all, we own our kidneys until death, so why not our data? Is there a donor model we can adopt?