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Keep Your AI in Captivity or Release It into the Wild?

SparkAI can help navigate risk so you can confidently move AI applications from lab-scale to fleet-scale.

The Empty Promise of Data Moats

"Treating data as a magical moat can misdirect founders from focusing on what’s really needed to win"

Specification Gaming: The Flip Side of AI Ingenuity

"A reinforcement learning agent can find a shortcut to getting lots of reward without completing the task as intended by the human designer."

Robots Welcome to Take Over, As Pandemic Accelerates Automation

"Broad unease about losing jobs to machines could dissipate as people focus on the benefits of minimizing close human contact."

The End of Starsky Robotics

"Whenever someone says autonomy is 10 years away that’s almost certainly what their thought is. There aren’t many startups that can survive 10 years without shipping."

Where Are All the Robots?

"What if the question of how to build a fully autonomous agent is the wrong question to ask?"

The Scramble for Delivery Robots Is On and Startups Can Barely Keep Up

Adoption of robots and drones carrying goods speeds up as a frightened world craves safe delivery of everything from medical supplies to food.

Systems Resilience in Times of Unprecedented Disruption

"Augment that which cannot be completely automated with digital co-workers"

What’s Next for Marketplace Startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion Service Economy

"A new age of service marketplaces will emerge, driven by unlocking more complex services"

This Was Supposed to Be the Year Driverless Cars Went Mainstream

"Perfecting the technology has taken longer than expected."

Robot Manufacturers Work To Meet Demand Led By COVID-19

"Startups developing autonomous robots have seen their usage rise [and] have naturally had to expand operations to meet demand"