This intriguing talk lifts the covers off artificial intelligence and describes in plain terms what AI is, what it does and what it one day may be capable of doing. Without hype or hyperbole, James Whittaker quickly gets to the core of AI and no matter how technical you are or aren’t, you will...

The metaverse is stuck in neutral and all the combined spending of top tech companies isn’t shifting it into a forward gear. Despite its almost magical promise of augmented reality and digital teleportation, the jury is out on whether the metaverse is the next big platform for the apps of the...

Creativity is the one universal ingredient of success. Creatives report higher job satisfaction and lead more fulfilling lives than any other class of people. And yet our school curricula focus on rote learning and test taking at the expense of creativity, problem-solving and higher-order...

Boredom. Nowhere does it manifest more aggressively than in corporate conference rooms where speakers struggle to get an idea across in an engaging way. That boredom is killing those ideas, sapping audience energy and slowing down progress. Microsoft Distinguished Engineer James Whittaker has...