The Ghost In The Machine
In nature, the foundation of intelligence for animals, humans and even plants is based on objective data such as neurotransmitter chemical signals, heart rate, sun intensity, etc. This type of data is gathered through observation and measurements regardless of the feelings and opinions of the person selecting, presenting, or receiving the data. Nature has well-established…
The Evolution of Algorithms
Algorithms, similar to species, evolve over time. The Transformer algorithm, our most current model for Generative AI, has been a work in progress for the last few decades. It is not just an outcome of 2023. There are hundreds of new models and algorithms in the AI pipeline that will help us bring efficiency in…
Climbing The Corporate Ladder
We celebrated the end of summer with a hiking trip to the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina. A highlight of the trip was meeting a trail connector, someone in our group who knew how the mountain peaks are connected through hidden trails. Rather than following a single path all the way up a mountain…
The Orchard
Summer is finally here, and for those of us living in the southern-most tip of the United States this means that we are in peak tropical fruit season. This is the time when our kitchen counters are perpetually covered with mangos, longans, and lychees. Seldom is the time that we go out to walk our…
The Rise Of The Algorithms
In 300 bc Euclid, a Greek mathematician and philosopher, documented what is considered to be the first algorithm in his 13-book compilation “Elements”. The Euclidean algorithm serves as an effective method for finding the greatest common divisor of two whole numbers. The algorithm has been a building block for computational and mathematical applications; it is…
The Comfort Zone
If there is one thing I learned throughout my career, is that it takes a lot of courage to step away from your comfort zone, where you feel safe and in control, in search of growth. It’s even more difficult when you don’t have a clear roadmap to guide you. I remind myself often that…
When Technology Imitates Life
“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly till they take firm root in our personal experience.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The history of computers is usually told as a history of products. I prefer to think about…
The Long And Winding Road To Artificial General Intelligence
As a young graduate student in the mid 1990s I became fascinated by the work of Yann LeCun. Yann, one of the original innovators in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the creator of Deep Learning, had already been thinking about AI for over a decade. His original paper on Convolution Neural Networks introduced the idea that…
When The Community Responds
Unless you have been entrenched in smart contracts development, or working with blockchain or crypto environments, you probably didn’t hear much about a monumental event that took place last week. This was a true engineering feat, many years in the making. Monumental for many reasons, one of those being the transformative way in which it…
A Question Every Board Member Should Be Asking
A recent study by McKinsey found that the average lifespan of companies listed in the S&P 500 was 61 years back in 1958, and only 18 years today. According to the study, longevity of companies will continue to decline, with 75% of current companies disappearing altogether from the S&P 500 by 2027. The trend shows…
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Dr. Julieta Ross 