Important Innovations

  D AILY INNOVATION BRIEF                                                                                                          By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane MCMURTRY'S SPECTACULAR NEW E-FAN CAR                                          Source:  McMurtry Automotive Iconic British automaker McMurtry has unveiled a customer version of its record setting, electric fan race car, Speirling Pure That race car set the hill climb record at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK at 39.08 seconds last year The consumer version is designed for the track and is said to be more powerful than the official race car Key details: 2 electric motors on rear axle HP:  1,000 hp Top Speed:  190 mph 3 G-force cornering Price:  $1.08 million Designed with Batman-like cabin with one seat Deliveries in 2025 Street legal version is also on the way. ROBOTS LEARNING NEW TASKS FROM VIDEOS                                                                                                    Sour

  D AILY INNOVATION BRIEF                                                                                                          By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane MCMURTRY'S SPECTACULAR NEW E-FAN CAR                                          Source:  McMurtry Automotive Iconic British automaker McMurtry has unveiled a customer version of its record setting, electric fan race car, Speirling Pure That race car set the hill climb record at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK at 39.08 seconds last year The consumer version is designed for the track and is said to be more powerful than the official race car Key details: 2 electric motors on rear axle HP:  1,000 hp Top Speed:  190 mph 3 G-force cornering Price:  $1.08 million Designed with Batman-like cabin with one seat Deliveries in 2025 Street legal version is also on the way. ROBOTS LEARNING NEW TASKS FROM VIDEOS                                                                                                    Sour

  D AILY INNOVATION BRIEF                                                                                                          By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane AI COMMENTARY DEBUTS AT WIMBLEDON                                                       Source:  Wimbledon Generative AI is making its debut at the world-famous Wimbledon tennis tournament and will provide game commentary on Wimbledon's app and website The All English Club announced daily highlight clips will be done by AI as well as text captions, rather than by humans The technology comes from IBM's watsonx and Wimbledon finds it an exciting way to take the commentary way beyond the tennis courts The AI will also be using ball tracking data and information on the types of shots being made by the players and their positions on the court The tech has been trained to use the unique language of tennis IBM Sport Partnership Leader Kevin Farrar feels the AI is complimentary to tennis great/commentator John

   D AILY INNOVATION BRIEF                                                                                                          By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane AI COMMENTARY DEBUTS AT WIMBLEDON                                                       Source:  Wimbledon Generative AI is making its debut at the world-famous Wimbledon tennis tournament and will provide game commentary on Wimbledon's app and website The All English Club announced daily highlight clips will be done by AI as well as text captions, rather than by humans The technology comes from IBM's watsonx and Wimbledon finds it an exciting way to take the commentary way beyond the tennis courts The AI will also be using ball tracking data and information on the types of shots being made by the players and their positions on the court The tech has been trained to use the unique language of tennis IBM Sport Partnership Leader Kevin Farrar feels the AI is complimentary to tennis great/commentator John

  D AILY INNOVATION BRIEF                                                                                                          By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane CHATTING WITH YOUR MER CEDES Source:  Mercedes Mercedes has added ChatGPT, the large language model developed by Open AI, to a large swathe of its cars to enable you to have conversations with your car The technology is available to 900,000 customers whose cars are equipped with the MBUX infotainment system, first in the US to test and preview it, before MB gives consideration to rolling it out permanently in other global markets With ChatGPT, the "Hey Mercedes" voice assistant will become much more conversational and intuitive It takes the car's conversational skills beyond answering questions to carrying on a natural conversation on any subject Mercedes is using Microsoft's Open AI Service that brings the natural language model to the car's voice assistant Mercedes is also considering Ch