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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Kodex - an AI Utopia

Using AI to solve our bad social habits? Here's an attempt at a democratic, bias-free content moderation utopia. It won't work.

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Microsoft’s Total Recall

Microsoft's 'Recall' will be taking screenshots of your PC all day long. Are you ready to offload your memory? Are you ready for Totall Recall?

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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