2018


Every year since 2001 we’ve picked what we call the 10 Breakthrough Technologies. People often ask, what exactly do you mean by “breakthrough”? It’s a reasonable question—some of our picks haven’t yet reached widespread use, while others may be on the cusp of becoming commercially available. What we’re really looking for is a technology, or…

Source: 2018

The Exponential Medicine Experience – Exponential Medicine | November 2019


The Exponential Medicine Experience A message from Conference Chair Daniel Kraft, MD: Healthcare is in many ways being practiced as it has been for millennium, as ‘SickCare’ — using old, reactive models and mindsets where the FAX machine is the primary mode of sending patient information, where data is still silo’d amongst paper charts or […]

Source: The Exponential Medicine Experience – Exponential Medicine | November 2019

AI could get 100 times more energy-efficient with IBM’s new artificial synapses


Neural networks are the crown jewel of the AI boom. They gorge on data and do things like transcribe speech or describe images with near-perfect accuracy (see “10 breakthrough technologies 2013: Deep learning”). The catch is that neural nets, which are modeled loosely on the structure of the human brain, are typically constructed in software…

Source: AI could get 100 times more energy-efficient with IBM’s new artificial synapses