John Werner

Waco

Sports Writer at Waco Tribune-Herald‎

Contributor at Freelance

Recently retired Waco Tribune-Herald sports writer. Ambition to become full-time hiker, part-time writer.

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Pushing The Limits Of Modern LLMs With A Dinner Plate?

3 days ago | forbes.com | John Werner

If you’ve been reading this blog, you probably know a bit about how AI works – large language models parse enormous amounts of data into tiny manageable pieces, and then use those to respond to user-driven stimuli or events. In general, we know that AI is big, and getting bigger. It’s fast, and getting faster. Specifically, though, not everyone’s familiar with some of the newest hardware and software approaches in the industry, and how they promote better results.
AIを用いたウソ発見器は革命か？新たなリスクか？研究成果と「信頼」への課題

3 days ago | forbesjapan.com | John Werner

現在のAI（人工知能）ができることを考えると、これらの技術が、「人間による疑わしい発言（つまり、「ウソ」）」を分析する分野に革命をもたらすかもしれない、と考えるのは自然なことだ。現在のウソ発見器（ポリグラフ検査機）は、どう考えても時代遅れだ。体にセンサーを取り付け、生体反応を読み取る装置は、ウソを発見する精度が特に高いわけではない。そのため、よく知られていることだが、ウソ発見器の結果は法廷で採用されないことが多い。歴史的に見ると、ウソ発見器はこれまで、無実の人をだいぶ刑務所送りにしてきた。一方、AIは、総合的な観察をベースにした強力なデータエンジンだ。これは、研究者がAIを真実の追究に応用する方法はいくつもあることを意味する。ひとつ目の方法は、ウソ発見器と同じように容疑者の生体反応を分析するが、はるかに精密な比較分析を行うやり方。もうひとつの方法は、論理的推論を用いて、実際の発言を分析するというものだ。...
An AI Space Company Is Born

4 days ago | forbes.com | John Werner

For a while, we’ve been hearing about how AI can create its own companies, or take over most of the roles in a given enterprise. You could call it an AI-driven company or an AI-native company, or you could theorize that humans will be completely out of the loop. Now we’re getting some first implementations that show us how this works. Let’s take an example related to space:Perhaps the most famous private space company is SpaceX.
Personal Hacking Will Be A Pretty Fierce Bear

5 days ago | forbes.com | John Werner

Have you ever heard from the Nigerian prince? You know – some disembodied person shows up on text or email or some other channel, talking about a big financial opportunity through which you personally can benefit by just sending a bit of money or your financial details. It’s all the rage right now, but it’s likely that all of this will be seen as a landmark of the past decade pretty quickly.
AI HR Is Going To Rock Our Worlds As AI Adoption Soars

6 days ago | forbes.com | John Werner

BASED ON IIA Vinay Gidwaney E14-633 -AH - Google DriveHow do you deal with a human resources department that’s run by robots? It’s a big question that one that many of us will have to consider as the weeks and months go on. AI automation is now a fact of life. It’s not science fiction. It’s not theory. It’s happening. And that is being felt in the field of human resources – by the people who run these departments, and by the people who trust them to manage their affairs as employees.
The World’s Most Powerful Health Wearable

1 week ago | forbes.com | John Werner

New science on wearables is poised to help us to better understand very important aspects of our health. Too many of our vital signs and health markers are left unanalyzed, until we visit a doctor’s office. Tons of data that would be actionable falls through the cracks. WHOOP and similar tools are going to change all that. A New Era in Health MonitoringWith the launch of WHOOP 5.0 and WHOOP MG (Medical Grade), WHOOP is introducing a new way to support patient health with home care.
When Trust In AI Leaps Up, Productivity Follows

1 week ago | forbes.com | John Werner

Ask the proverbial man on the street if he trusts AI, and you’re likely to get an earful. Many of us sort of know that intuitively. But how does that translate into the business world? Well, it turns out that trust is deeply important in using AI for business. That’s partly because we have teams of people working on business processes. They’re people. So they’re going to have a lot of these same concerns that anyone else would have about artificial intelligence, and how it is used.
Forbes JAPAN 公式サイト（フォーブスジャパン）

1 week ago | forbesjapan.com | John Werner

多くのビジネスリーダーはまだ気付いていないが、オンラインで情報を見つける方法は根本的に変化している。Bain & Companyが2025年2月に発表した調査によると、消費者の80％が検索の少なくとも40％でAIによる要約を利用しており、従来のウェブサイトへのクリック数が最大25％減少している。この変化を主導しているのはグーグルだ。同社の「AIによる概要」機能は、すでに100カ国以上で展開し毎月10億人を超えるユーザーに利用されており、結果リンクをクリックせずとも回答を提供する。ほかのプレイヤーも急速に台頭している。ChatGPT、マイクロソフトのCopilot（コパイロット）、Perplexity（パープレキシティ）は、従来の検索結果を完全に迂回する「アンサー（回答）エンジン」という新たなカテゴリーを生み出している。もし自社のビジネスが、こうしたAIが生成する回答に含まれていなければ、従来の検索結果で上位にランクしていても、潜在顧客がまったく見つけられない可能性がある。 SEOから「GEO」へ──それは何を意味するのか...
As Windsurf Soars, OpenAI Pounces

1 week ago | forbes.com | John Werner

OpenAI’s acquisition of Windsurf is making big headlines in the tech media world. It’s the biggest such activity by the household-name model company responsible for ChatGPT, and it has big ramifications for AI development in general. It’s a $3 billion deal, too. However, a lot of the reporting stops at a very surface level. If you’re trying to figure out what Windsurf is all about, you might or might not get what you want from the syndicated content that shows up at the top of the Google SERP feed.
Backing The Bold: Future Ventures’ Transformative Innovation Playbook

1 week ago | forbes.com | John Werner

Viewing the AI revolution through the lens of the investment world can show us quite a lot about what this technology means for the future and how the business world integrates these cutting-edge advances. One example is a brand-new fund set up by Future Ventures that has some interesting strategies, interests, and partnerships in a space so new that there’s still a lot for investors to figure out. Like their previous funds, Future Ventures Fund IV just closed another oversubscribed $200M fund.