Recurrent Patterns
Recurrent Patterns is a venture exploring strategies and insights around leading-edge companies, technology and cultural trends. Vaclav engages with leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists, authors and others who can share their perspectives in long-form conversations.
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Will XAI save self-driving cars?
Wayve, the London-based AI self-driving startup, has raised $1 billion again, defying doubts about self-driving tech. Or is it money well wasted?
How do you measure AI’s real impact?
The question is not how AI works. The question is how well it works for your customers. Do they know? Do you? That's what we're discussing in the latest Recurrent Patterns.
AI in search of (enterprise) customers
Some AI companies think venturing into the enterprise market is a gold mine. They are more likely to end up with a lump of coal.
Hard to compete with free
Open source software is supposed to help companies innovate and collaborate. I question whether the biggest tech companies in the world are using the open source framework to actually stifle competition from startups.
Oil and data. There will be blood
Are we running out of data the same way we are running out of oil? Media reports suggest we are exhausting our supply of data to train AI. It turns out those stories have a lot in common with past predictions that we would run out of oil.
The bragging about foggy AI
Are we asking the right questions or tracking the most important metrics when discussing AI? Does it make sense to use non-deterministic models where accuracy is critically important?
Which energy juggernaut is worse AI or Al?
While discussing AI and its energy intensity, people should remember that Al consumes much more and nobody talks about it.
Hive, the new Pied Piper?
Hive is a startup that just announced a €12M Series A to transform cloud data storage with a secure and sustainable distributed cloud. I examine whether their strategy is sound enough to survive or even go up against the likes of Dropbox.
Bad Apple or sore losers?
The DOJ and some of America's top names in tech are trying to take Apple down a peg with lawsuits. I’d argue that there are better ways to keep competition alive and healthy.
The EU AI Act. An orgy of bureaucracy
Will the EU's new Artificial Intelligence Act boost safety, innovation and even keep AI compliant with human rights? In this issue of Recurrent Patterns, I look at whether this can possibly work, when they can't even define what AI actually is.