OpenAI's marketplace
Each week we look at 10 new uses of technologies from any of the 30+ industries and the 25+ technology domains we watch. Get smart about the tech you bring into your products, your organization and your life.
OpenAI's Marketplace
| Data applicability | Data bias | User goals |
| Artificial Intelligence |
| Enterprise software, B2B software, SAAS | Banking and Financial |
OpenAI plans to launch an AI marketplace for developers to sell what they've built on top of their technology. Read more...
- What does this signal about OpenAI's business strategy?
- Is this a quicker route to algorithm commodification?
- Does such a marketplace need to be curated?
Battery Danger
| Public safety |
| Clean Tech |
| Personal and public transportation, ride sharing, micromobility |
Recent fatalities in an e-bike fire underscore the safety risks. Read more...
- Can these battery systems be modified to ensure safety?
- Is there a rapid response system that could mitigate damages?
- Should cities provide safe parking infrastructure for ebikes?
AI ingredients
| Public trust | Regulatory | Environment/Climate change |
| Agtech and cultured food |
| Food and drink, restaurants, meal delivery |
Shiru commercializes OleoPro, a groundbreaking AI-powered plant protein-based fat ingredient. Read more...
- What is the viability at scale of goods using these new ingredient options?
- How will the consumption at scale have an impact on our infrastructure?
- What marketing challenges will these foods face?
Canadian Social News Restrictions
| Algorithmic influence | Misinformation | Regulatory |
| Web 2.0 |
| Social Media |
Facebook and Instagram will restrict news access in Canada after the passage of a controversial online news bill. Read more...
- What will be the unintended consequences?
- How should outlets react?
- What does this mean for citizen journalism?
Drone Weeding
| Environmental impact | Physical reliability | Right to repair |
| Robotics, drones | Artificial Intelligence |
| Agriculture |
Saskatchewan startup provides an alternative to the spray-it-all approach and reduce chemical use. Read more...
- How will drone companies address the right-to-repair of their hardware?
- How much human involvement is needed in the normal operation and service of these drones?
- What is the risk that crop yield is affected by a software malfunction?
AI for Storage
| Environmental impact | Legacy infrastructure | Lumberjack effect |
| Artificial Intelligence | Web 2.0 |
| Enterprise software, B2B software, SAAS |
AIOps optimizing data storage management. Read more...
- How does the value of data and the costs in keeping it stored change over time?
- Who determines the value of data?
- Can the cost of storage be reliably predicted to decrease?
AI in the Ocean
| Environmental impact | Environment/Climate change | Incentives |
| Artificial Intelligence | Robotics, drones |
| Corporate social governance |
"Discover the potential of artificial intelligence to revolutionize the ocean's health, sustainability, and ecosystem management." Read more...
- How do we square AI approaches to marine management with traditional scientific based approaches?
- How do we align incentives to maintain ocean quality and diversity?
- What feedback loops might be created?
Chore Learning Robots
| Partial automation | Adoption | Babysitting |
| Robotics, drones | Artificial Intelligence |
| Consumer goods |
"Robots are learning by watching YouTube videos. Read more...
- What is the logical extension of this approach?
- Would these robots be susceptible to adversarial exploits?
- What does fine-tuning look like for a robot in your home?
AI outsourcing
| Trust calibration | Data quality |
| Artificial Intelligence |
| Enterprise software, B2B software, SAAS | Other |
Gig workers training AI models may be outsourcing their tasks to AI. Read more...
- Will certification of training datasets be required?
- What errors are likely being amplified in this process?
- Are there ethical crowd-sourcing alternatives?
AI for Peace
| Incentives | Human informational needs |
| Artificial Intelligence |
| Government, defense, policing, law |
AI supporting peacebuilding efforts. Read more...
- How would Western specific biases be addressed?
- How would early warning systems that use AI impact policy?
- How does AI output and guidance get translated to public perception?
The Crossfactors Newsletter
Each week we look at 10 new uses of technologies from any of the 30+ industries and the 25+ technology domains we watch. Get smart about the tech you bring into your products, your organization and your life. Pig hearts | Ethics | Adoption | | Medical and biotech | | Healthcare, Medicine, Digital Health | Company pioneers gene-edited pig heart transplants, conducting trials on baboons as a potential solution for babies with severe heart defects. Read more... How can parents in a position to...
Lots of food content this week. Not sure why. Maybe I was hungry. Review Response | User goals | Incentives | | Web 2.0 | | Food and drink, restaurants, meal delivery | A discussion of how restaurants should approach online reviews. Read more... Is there a better outlet for retaliatory reviews? Is there a growing or diminishing dependence on online reviews? How should a restaurant maintain an online personality? Cultivated Meatballs | Public trust | Consumer trends | | Agtech and cultured...
Each week we look at 10 new uses of technologies from any of the 30+ industries and the 25+ technology domains we watch. Get smart about the tech you bring into your products, your organization and your life. Metaverse Guardians | User trust | User safety | | Web 2.0 | VR | | Data protection and cybersecurity | Social Media | Undercover content moderators play a big role in ensuring safety and protecting users within the metaverse. Read more... Where does the balance lie between safety and...