When I think about artificial intelligence, my mind goes straight to the movies. Blade Runner, The Terminator, RoboCop, and of course, Johnny Five from Short Circuit. “Johnny Five is alive!” Still one of the best lines. More recent films like Ex Machina and Her push the idea even further, showing AI as something deeply embedded…
A Noteworthy Conference with Strong Messages There has been a lot of chatter regarding the recent Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) annual Update Conference on Export Controls and Policy, which took place recently in March. This year’s conference was particularly noteworthy as it marked the first time Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick addressed export controls…
Eighteen years before he wrote Jurassic Park, the novelist Michael Crichton penned a different story titled The Terminal Man. It’s about a computer scientist who undergoes surgery to cure his seizures – having 40 different electrodes embedded in the amygdala part of his brain and connected to a small computer in his shoulder. Spoiler alert! …