The first consumer neural interfaces will be boring, and that is the point
Forget mind reading. The shipping devices detect intent to click, and that narrow promise is what makes them viable.
Machine Learning Correspondent
Omar Adel
Omar reports on applied machine learning, with a stubborn habit of asking vendors for reproducible benchmarks.
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Stories by Omar Adel
On-device inference gets good enough to change product decisions
When a model fits in 3 watts, the interesting question stops being accuracy and becomes what you no longer have to send anywhere.
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Two shifts inside a warehouse running humanoid robots
We filmed a full pick-and-place line for eight hours. The robots were impressive; the choreography around them was the real engineering.
Voice assistants got fluent and still cannot be trusted with a calendar
Language quality solved the easy half. Reliable action on real accounts is the half that keeps failing.
