Or — how to create concepts? Consider a robot hand exploring its environment by touch alone. Add visual aspect, or a camera. Then there is verbal side, written and spoken, text seen and voices heard. The hand is given a bunch of objects, the camera is viewing the action and the verbal – bot, chatgptContinue reading “Balls, cubes and pyramids”
Author Archives: Aarne
How to build a Barista Robot of parts?
Ainolabs’ search for Holy Grail is to build sufficiently advanced system to can replace an experienced professional. That Holy Grail is challenging for several reasons, but mostly because the way to do that would be to collect an immense amount of multi-channel data about professional environment and then to process that into a single, all-encompassingContinue reading “How to build a Barista Robot of parts?”
Innovation is Change
Innovation is change, change in making a new product, new feature, new market need – change in supply and demand
Who can you trust?
Setting computers and technical gadgets aside for a moment – who and what can you trust? If you trust something to happen – sunrise tomorrow – you perhaps rely on substantial past experience. A philosopher might point out that past experience does not guarantee future: It is somewhat possible that the sun has collapsed 8Continue reading “Who can you trust?”
Procrastination
So many people have written about procrastination. So many people have delayed and postponed writing about procrastination, so why oh why would I bother. Isn’t it better to play one more round of Clash Royale, maybe clean the cupboards, fold linen or whatever. Professionally procrastination comes into play when you lose inspiration. An inspired mindContinue reading “Procrastination”
Innovation and change
What is an innovation? And what is a change in business? Is it a change if prices go up and then down (discount sale)? Under what circumstances would the customers see price changes as something new, as an innovation? How small a change can be to count as novel? The answers depend on the specificsContinue reading “Innovation and change”
Innovation and Black Friday
Black Friday innovation is usually seen mainly from retail, channel and shopper experience perspective. That it is, similar to singles day and other similar established seasonal shopping sprees. There is an underlying innovation cycle, too. The products are current, latest and greatest, new models and the roll-out is recent so that customer perception of newContinue reading “Innovation and Black Friday”
Cathy in trouble
Cathy in trouble
AI is a good tool
Opinion piece in NYT confirms once again Ainolabs bias about the immense usefulness of ML and fundamental futility of human equivalent AI. “… there is no such thing as disembodied understanding. Your neural, chemical and bodily responses are in continual conversation with one another, so both understanding and experiencing are mental and physical simultaneously. “Continue reading “AI is a good tool”