How generative AI made Nvidia a giant of the S&P 500

5 May 2023Risk Commentary, TechnologyAI, artificial intelligence, equities, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, semiconductorsNick Dunbar

11 years ago, Geoff Hinton and two grad students used a pair of GPU chips to win an image classification contest. Now these chips are powering the generative AI boom and have doubled Nvidia’s market cap.

Did Bayes’ theorem kill a woman in Arizona?

23 March 2018Technologyartificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, Google, UberNick Dunbar

The death of a pedestrian hit by an Uber self-driving car highlights the need to understand the decision-making of autonomous vehicles. The story goes back 17 years to when the technology was first refined.

Moonshots, moonshine and AI’s inflection point

2 April 2016Technologyartificial intelligence, deep learning, Geoff Hinton, Google, machine learning, neural networksNick Dunbar

Artificial intelligence is booming and technology companies are pouring billions into AI research. But has AI really got to a take off point, and what does the history of the field have to tell us about the prospects for success?