Mike Elgan

More than 400 clients, including police departments, universities, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and others, are already using Track, Veritone says. Track is part of Veritone’s iDEMS (Intelligent Digital Evidence Management System), […]

If you’re familiar with my views on anthropomorphization (i.e., “humanizing”) of robots and AI, you might guess what I’m about to say. Amazon says its Vulcan robot can feel (without quotation marks). This isn’t true.  When a robot like Vulcan “feels” something,

Perplexity’s great leap forward Perplexity AI is a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system launched in 2022 that answers questions directly by searching the web in real time, pulling from news sites, academic journals, and databases, then writing up a summary with accompanied search

The feature does what I described for the Apple AirPods: It delivers translated foreign-language speech through the Pixel Buds while outputting translated English words through the phone speaker. That’s what happens in Conversation Mode. When users switch to Transcribe Mode,

As a result of this LLM grooming, the watchdog group Newsguard found that when asked about Russia-related content, the 10 leading chatbots — ChatGPT-4o, You.com, Grok, Pi, Le Chat, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, Claude, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity — produced

Inspections made easy  Look at how drones have radically improved just one task performed by many industries: inspection.  Construction and real estate, energy companies, and many other industries used to send a worker climbing slowly to high, low, cramped, or

Meta announced Project Aria in September 2020 as a research initiative to develop advanced AR glasses. The glasses have five cameras (including monochrome, RGB, and eye-tracking), Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), microphones, and environmental sensors. The project also has privacy safeguards

The experimental lamp robot I wrote about recently uses humanlike “body language” but is shaped like a lamp. It’s “anthropomorphic” but not “humanoid.” Apple is investing in a systematic exploration of “robots” that express themselves in reaction to a human user without

Pixar Animation Studios has an unusual logo. The basic logo is the word “Pixar.” But sometimes, an animated lamp named Luxo Jr. hops into the frame and jumps on the letter “i.” The lap exudes personality and represents Pixar’s ability

The Silicon Valley hype cycle follows a familiar pattern: an emerging technology or tech product or service is hinted at, rumored, leaked, reported on, announced, and then shipped.  That’s the cycle for what actually happens. At any point during this