How One Texas Entrepreneur Aims to Transform the World With Artificial Intelligence

Declaring as much is a favorite line of his whenever someone asks what his two-year-old company, Hypergiant, does. What he means is that he doesn't produce anything as uniform and universal as utensils. Were he a purveyor of tableware, he wouldn't have to spend so much of his time customizing products to individual clients or explaining what can be done with them. Everybody knows what spoons are for. Contrast that with the broadest definition of what Hypergiant does in fact sell--artificial intelligence-enabled software and hardware--and you'll appreciate Lamm's problem. Even many people lacking in technological savvy have heard of AI as a force with the potential to shape much of humanity's future--for better or worse.