By Shelly Fan ..read more

In a world of increasing opportunities, how do you decide what to focus on? What to say yes to, and what to ignore ..read more

IQ Unmasked: Are You Smarter Than an AI?   To understand the implications of this breakthrough, it helps to recap what exactly IQ is. According to Mensa, the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world:   The term “IQ” was coined in 1912 by psychologist William Stern. Originally, IQ was represented as a ratio of mental age to chronological age x 100. Today, IQ tests are designed so that the average score of the norming sample is defined as IQ 100, with standard deviations up or down.   Mensa admits individuals who score in the top 2% of the population, which means scoring ..read more

Your Weekly Dose of “Data-Driven Optimism ..read more

By Jason Dorrier   After years of overly aggressive forecasts about self-driving cars, here’s a statistic that snuck up on us: People are now hailing 100,000 automated rides a week—a number that’s double the 50,000 weekly rides provided a few months ago. These rides are courtesy of Waymo, the self-driving car project incubated by Google and spun out as its own company under Alphabet. Waymo has been developing and testing its technology on public roads for over a decade. For much of that time, rides were free for willing guinea pigs and included a safety driver. But Waymo has ..read more

Automating food is unlike automating anything else. Food is fundamental to life—nourishing body and soul—so how it’s accessed, prepared, and consumed can change societies fundamentally. Automated kitchens aren’t sci-fi visions from The Jetsons or Star Trek. The technology is real and global. Right now, robots are used to flip burgers, fry chicken, create pizzas, make sushi, prepare salads, serve ramen, bake bread, mix cocktails, and much more. AI can invent recipes based on the molecular compatibi ..read more

Your weekly dose of “Data-Driven Optimism ..read more

By Jason Dorrier   Recent progress in AI largely boils down to one thing: Scale ..read more

“Data-Driven Optimism” in action: My goal is to offer you an antidote to all the pessimistic news you’re bombarded with every day.  ..read more

“Data-Driven Optimism” in action: My goal is to offer you an antidote to all the pessimistic news you’re bombarded with every day.  ..read more