What investors want to know when you are pitching your startup — There is no one-size-fits-all pitch deck, as the content of a pitch deck will adjust to the business you are pitching and the investor you are pitching too. However, there are some common elements that many pitch decks include. Here are some key slides that you may want to include…

Here are some steps you can take to change careers and break into user experience (UX) design: Research the field: Learn as much as you can about UX design by reading articles and blogs, taking online courses or workshops, and joining online communities of UX designers. This will help you…

I asked an AI how AI might harm humanity, these are its ideas. — From the AI: Here are seven ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) could potentially harm humanity: Job displacement: As AI becomes more advanced, it may be able to perform tasks that are currently done by humans, potentially leading to widespread job displacement and economic disruption. Bias and discrimination: AI systems…

Changing careers can be a challenging but rewarding process. Here are some steps you can take to successfully make the transition: Assess your current situation: Before you begin the process of changing careers, it’s important to take a step back and assess your current situation. Consider your skills, interests, and…

In the wake of major cyber security breaches at Optus and Medicare, the Australian government has announced new mega financial penalties for victims. — Imagine your home is broken into. While in your home, the thieves steal your address book, your family’s passports, driver’s licences, medicare cards and medical receipts. The government had required you to collect some of these documents because your family members had stayed in your house one night. Others were…

Canva Visual Worksuite marks the end of Canva’s blue ocean and a farewell to its disruptive innovation roots. — Canva’s launch of what it has branded ‘the Visual Worksuite’ marks the end of the beginning for Canva. Since its start in 2013, the design app startup has grown to amass over 85 million users. Putting that in perspective, the current population of Canva users is 3.27x the current population…

A Collection of Self Portraits by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 Artificial Intelligence. — In an earlier article I wrote about an experiment I ran to see what an AI programme would do when requested to create a self portrait. It was somewhat of a visual arts version of the Turing test. A Visual Turing Test Where the Turing test seeks to establish the ability of a programme…

Many of the world’s largest economies are currently experiencing substantial spikes in inflation. In basic terms, the prices of the goods and services that people, businesses and governments buy are mostly going up in most major economies right now. Prices going up is not necessarily a bad thing and there…

How does artificial intelligence see itself? — Two things happened recently. In June, a (now former) Google Engineer, Blake Lemoine, publicly claimed an Artificial Intelligence program called LaMDA created by Google was sentient (Lemoine’s employment was terminated by Google in July). In July, DALL-E 2, an artificially intelligent visual design programme created by OpenAI that generates original…