Artificial Intelligence

The Concept of a Tugboat Computer by Caleb Eastman

Above: A picture of a screen grab of Caleb Eastman made into an NFT and then cast through a TokenFrame.

Caleb Eastman is a friend and colleague. His LinkedIn profile says he’s ‘always worried about time and timing’. He is busy, but it’s also a play on words that only control engineers get.

Simply put Caleb spends a lot of time getting data from different types of hardware and software to talk on time, in a way that everyone, including the machines, understands.

It can be frustrating and tedious – yet data acquisition is also the limiting factor in organizations truly harnessing the power of data (See: Data is the New Oil).

Which is why he’s busy.

I was coming back from a refresh in the wilds and got a text from him with a link from his Medium blog.

He has a great analogy about computers and tugboats. It’s not actually what you think – but worth the read.

(Oh and Tom originated it.)

If you are interested in the future of A.I. and distributed computing you are going to want to check out the full article here.

October 3, 2022 by Artificial Intelligence Education Entrepreneurship Industry News

Sending Clear Signals vs a Smokescreen to Feed the Machines

You may not realize the impact A.I. is having on your business. It’s not about what is coming, it’s what is already happening. Let’s take a look at very common example: Search Engine Optimization. What does SEO have to do with A.I. you ask?

Basically it is one of the original algorithms on the web. And it powers a lot. In simple term, engines like Google work to serve the best possible results and that is based on signals it receives. How fast is the site? Do people engage with it? What are the underlying meta tags?

All of these things lead to whether or not a site ranks well, which can lead to almost overnight gains or losses in traffic.

For example, take a look at PressureWashNow.com. It experienced a change drop in rankings after moving the website to a new host. Now it is starting to gain rankings after articles like this link to it – or send Google a signal that it’s important. The same things applies to new shopping sites and any kind of content you put on the web. The likes, comments, traffic and speed of the page all send a signal that the machines then use.

September 26, 2022 by Artificial Intelligence Basics of Robotics

Your Business Won’t Survive – Without Automation & Intelligence

Above: Robauto built systems and technology for – KrystalKlean.com – helping them grow from a family owned window cleaning company to the leading building care company in the Southeast.

 

There used to be a time when you could build a business with a rolodex. I still have an actual rolodex, which I have not looked at in years. It seems – and is – an archaic practice. While relationships still do matter, they cultivate in a different way now. Especially in the year 20https://www.acecashhomebuyer.com/20, we need automation. Digital. Smart business.

Data can help determine business trends. What business will you start in 2020? McDonald’s exec used real estate data to launch AceCashHomeBuyer.com, which provides easy and fair cash offers for homeowners to get out of mortgages. His experience selecting sites for future McDonalds, combined with automation and market data allows for efficient deal flow, giving Asa a significant advantage over competitors.

The automation and intelligence can go on and on. And it will. Many of the systems we work on are very complex.

But they are all the same: a data-centric strategy combined with seamless and smart tech. It’s time to get your businesses automated, streamlined and working for you.

July 5, 2020 by Artificial Intelligence Industry News

Harness Your Data

You may have seen the Daniel Day-Lewis movie There Will be Blood. If not, the plot goes like this: It chronicles the life of a man and his oil drilling business. In the movie, he travels around the Western United States looking for crude oil deposits. He then strikes deals with the local property owners to drill and transport the crude oil to ports and processing plants.

He specializes in taking that crude oil and turning it into profit and allows poor farmers to capitalize on it in the process.

We’re at a similar point in humanity and innovation. Except that this time oil itself sort of this messy commodity. Dirty and expensive but probably going to be phased out.

The future is digital and mechanical. Intelligent devices. Smart software. The ability to see what is going on in your business immediately and easily. Sorting, querying, displaying, and correlating data is the beginning of Artificial Intelligence. And it’s complicated and expensive. But worth it – data is the new oil.

Need help? We offer free data analysis and Machine Learning, Business Intelligence, and A.I. Insight to Qualified Businesses. Email support@robauto.ai for more info.

June 30, 2020 by Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Wing Drone Delivery

Wing.com – a Google project – is now live. One thing about acrisis – it drives innovation by removing barriers. Something that seemed a ways off a few months ago suddenly is very useful. Drones that can deliver medication, food, and supplies anywhere with zero human interaction is pretty useful as providers like Instacart and DoorDash are hit with sick workers and skepitcal consumers.

April 14, 2020 by Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneurship Industry News

UV Disinfecting Robots

We’ve been watching new innovations – from COVID-19 testing, to social distancing techniques and 3D printed masks and new innovations in respirators. Some of our business partners are on the front lines doing sanitization at hospitals and schools as a way to help out. We want to help – but how?

This robot-powered UV disinfection device claims to kill up to 99.99% of airborne pathogens. Does anyone want to collaborate?



April 1, 2020 by Artificial Intelligence

Inside Robauto’s Innovation Lab

2020 has already been a busy year at Robauto. With multiple new team members, ongoing robotics pilots and a busy product development year ahead with partners, we wanted to pause and update (and showcase) some of our research and development.

Featured Q1 2020 AI and Robotics Projects
Working with Coropilo to finalize their AI-enabled smart pillow.
Working on a stealth augmented reality device with Augment World.
Building an intelligent platform with Perfect Audience.
Building version 4.0 (and the consumer-ready version) of the BiBli OS.
Helping to visualize and optimize a 20-year-old services company‘s recurring and marketing data.

We are excited to be a part of all of these projects. We ‘bring technology to life’. Both in the sense of we make it smart – and bring it to market. If you are a startup or enterprise with an interesting or challenging technology concept, we’d love to hear from you.

February 15, 2020 by Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneurship

Lex Fridman’s Deep Learning State of the Art 2020

Lex Fridman gave a great comprehensive 2020 look at Artificial Intelligence in his lecture on deep learning. It’s clear the market is starting to mature. TensorFlow and PyTorch are both stable and more and more breakthroughs are happening.

But we still have a ways to go. AI doesn’t really yet learn. It’s not Hollywood. Lex’s predictions: We’ll have to soon worry about the ethics of harassing AI while AI-powered recommendation engines (advertising and news) will become the most important artificial intelligence of this decade.

January 16, 2020 by Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

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