Each day from within our homes, we see COVID-19 dominating news cycles as it upends lives, economies, and systems across the globe. Our shared humanity--and the need for empathy--is emphasized by this pandemic, but without the option to have human interaction, what do we do? From working to find a cure to finding ways to stop the spread to helping organizations help others, artificial intelligence (AI) companies are providing innovative ways to keep the world running and experiences connected. Robotics have been finding their way into businesses over the last decade, but now they are used in the front lines of the pandemic. A "smart field hospital" was built in the Hongshan Sports Center in Wuhan, China, following the start of the outbreak.

Malcolm Gladwell, among accomplishments including being appointed to the Order of Canada, is the author of numerous New York Times best sellers such as Blink, Outliers and The Tipping Point. Gladwell is not only a journalist, author, public figure and speaker, he is also a staple in influencing and observing social sciences while leading the way for thousands of entrepreneurs to think critically regarding their business endeavors. I was invited to speak this year at the summit in Dubai and had an opportunity to talk with Gladwell about artificial intelligence, the future of technology and, of course, whether or not he was a dork in high school. As an entrepreneur, we often have a feeling of being different or separate from others and their way of thinking. So, of course, I wanted to hear that Gladwell felt that same way.

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How does this lead to innovation? What does this have to do with Deep Learning? Intuition like consciousness is something that we are all aware of its existence but likely have not investigated in enough detail to have a grounded understanding of its nature. In fact, I would say that there's more research on the nature of consciousness than research on intuition. I've written earlier about a few research groups that have explored consciousness with respect to an artificial general intelligence, however I don't think has been equivalently the same effort with the study of intuition.

Angela Duckworth, in her best-selling book, "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance," celebrates a man whom she calls a "grit paragon": Pete Carroll, the coach of the Seattle Seahawks, who led the team to a Super Bowl victory in 2014. It seems that Carroll had seen Duckworth's TED talk nine months earlier and got in touch, eager to reassure her that building grit was exactly what the Seahawks culture was all about. Two years later, Duckworth visited the Seahawks training camp. She lectured to the team's players and coaching staff. The subject was . . . Duckworth was impressed by the Seahawks, and she quotes sentiments that are characteristic of the Carroll ethos: "Compete in everything you do. Since the team trains ferociously all the time--going all out, for instance, in bone-crunching intra-squad practice sessions--this conversation may not have been entirely necessary. Duckworth, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, finds grit in the best possible places. Her grit obsession, as she recounts, began at least a decade earlier. As a graduate student, she visited West Point, where each year twelve hundred new cadets go through a gruelling seven-week training regimen ("Barracks Beast") before entering freshman year. Most make it through, though some do not. Duckworth could make some guesses. In this same period, eager to find out what made top people successful, she was interviewing "leaders in business, art, athletics, journalism, academia, medicine and law." She discovered that "the highly successful had a kind of ferocious determination that played out in two ways.