Finding meaning in generative adversarial networks
Artificial intelligence is emerging as a creative force; in the process, it reveals something of itself.
Jon Bruner
Jon Bruner is a journalist and programmer who runs the Digital Factory program at Formlabs, a company that builds professional-grade 3D printers. Before joining Formlabs, he oversaw O'Reilly's publications on data, artificial intelligence, hardware, the Internet of Things, manufacturing, and electronics, and was program chair, along with Joi Ito, of the O'Reilly Solid conference, focused on the intersection between software and the physical world.
He was previously data editor at Forbes Magazine, where he combined writing and programming to approach a broad variety of subjects, from the operation of the Columbia River's dams to migration within the United States. He studied mathematics and economics at the University of Chicago and lives in San Francisco, where he can occasionally be found at the console of a pipe organ.
Radar
When will automation reach your industry?
How to understand machine learning adoption in the enterprise.
Jason Laska and Michael Akilian on using AI to schedule meetings
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: The technical and social dynamics of solving scheduling problems.
Chris Messina on Facebook as a utility
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: The social impact of Facebook.
Tom Hadfield on bots in the enterprise
Messaging as the operating system for the enterprise.
Prabhat on deep learning for science
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Solutions from big data sets.
Tom Coates on conversational devices
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Conversational interfaces for the Internet of Things.
Data governance: What you need to know
An ongoing data governance program provides intellectual and institutional grounding to adhere to a company's strategic plan.
Tim Hwang on bots that cause chaos
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Automating “psyops” with AI-driven bots.
Amir Shevat on workplace communication
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Slack’s head of developer relations talks about what bots can bring to Slack channels.
Chris Messina on conversational commerce
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: The 2017 bot outlook with one of the field’s early adopters.
Brad Abrams on Google Assistant
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: A universal bot for messaging, mobile voice, and the home.
The 2017 machine learning outlook
Drew Paroski and Gary Orenstein on the rapid spread of machine learning and predictive analytics
2016 Bots year in review
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Recapping a revolutionary year in AI and bots, and looking ahead to 2017.
Dennis Mortensen on email bots
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: X.ai founder on personal assistant agents that schedule your meetings.
Richard Socher on the future of deep learning
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Making neural networks more accessible.
Ben Brown on bot tools
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: An optimistic look at the future of bots.
Andrew Therriault on how data is transforming political campaigns
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Using data science to allocate campaign resources.
Shivon Zilis on the machine intelligence landscape, and Bot Day wrap-up
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Bots are the new web.
Michael Schneider, Rachel Law, and Alyx Baldwin on customer service with bots
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: How bots are transforming the way companies interact with their customers.
Jassim Latif on workplace bots
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Bots that can respond to groups of users.
Real AI products arrive
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Hilary Mason, Jimi Smoot, and Roger Chen on what AI means now.
Lili Cheng on bot personalities
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Group interaction through social computing.
Andy Mauro on bot platforms and tools
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: A look at some of the technologies behind the chatbot boom.
Joshua Browder on bots that fight bureaucracy
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Can bots replace lawyers?
Artificial intelligence and the future of design
How algorithms will optimize everything.
Cathy Pearl on voice user interfaces for bots
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Applying the principles of normal human interaction to chatbots.
Dennis Yang on bot analytics
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Measuring interactions between bots and humans.
Sarah Guo on the case for bots
The O’Reilly Bots podcast: What a VC investor sees in chatbots.
What are bots? Here’s the background.
O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Why AI-driven chatbots are a big deal right now.
Why 2016 is shaping up to be the Year of the Bot
A survey of the bot landscape and the opportunities it affords the Next:Economy.
Platform economies
A conversation with Erik Brynjolfsson & Jon Bruner
Optimizing between motivation and coordination
Albert Wenger on the reorganization of the economy through networks.
Stories, not transactions
Salesforce's Peter Coffee discusses the new economy.
How the new hardware movement is even bigger than the Internet of Things
Cheap, accessible, open hardware is driving the IoT.
What is the Internet of Things?
How the IoT is revolutionizing not just consumer goods and gadgets, but manufacturing, design, engineering, medicine, government, business models, and the way we live our lives.
Physical and virtual are blurring together
Key signals from hardware, software, manufacturing, and the Internet of Things.
The next industrial revolution
It's all about software, but it's a little harder than that.
Industrial Internet
The machines are talking.
Content
Integrating data with AI
Tamr’s Eliot Knudsen on algorithms that work alongside human experts.
From prototype to product with hybrid neural networks
Apache MXNet and the middle path between declarative and imperative programming.
Building data-informed products
Stewart Rogers on building and managing products with embedded analytics.
Generative Adversarial Networks for beginners
Build a neural network that learns to generate handwritten digits.
Integrating across silos with operational data hubs
The O'Reilly Podcast: Ken Krupa on the challenge of data integration, and a solution.
Making AI transparent
The O'Reilly Podcast: Andy Hickl on sources of bias in artificial intelligence—and how to address them.
The stages of enterprise IoT adoption
Teresa Tung on building a business case for the Internet of Things.
What Facebook learned when it opened its data to every employee
Executive reading: Why you need to democratize data.
Ashish Verma on building the ideal data organization
How to hire the right team and reorganize into a data-driven organization.
How big, fast data is transforming business intelligence
O'Reilly Podcast: Ian Fyfe of Zoomdata on the importance of “speed-of-thought analysis” in modern data environments.
Geospatial data and analysis for disaster relief
Tools from maps to drones respond to crises with increasing speed and accuracy.
Understanding projections with spatial and geo data
Transform your basemaps using CARTO and PostGIS.
Bots: What you need to know
Bots are made possible by recent advances in artificial intelligence, user interface, and communication.
Fintech in 2017: 4 things to watch
From AI to uncertain political outlooks: What's on our radar.
Planning for advanced analytics
The O’Reilly Podcast: John Thuma on how businesses can get more than “what happened” from their data.
Ecosystem data architecture
The O’Reilly Podcast: Bob Montemurro on planning data systems to match needs.
Damon Feldman on multi-model databases
O'Reilly Podcast: Working with databases that go beyond traditional models.
Building a data-driven culture
O'Reilly Podcast: Qubole founder Ashish Thusoo on the importance of self-service data.
Infographic: The bot platform ecosystem
A look at the artificial intelligence and messaging platforms behind the fast-growing chatbot community
Getting started with FPGAs
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Field Programmable Gate Arrays are getting easier
Dave Rauchwerk on creating a $9 computer
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Building with components, community, and fun.
Bot thots
The world of conversational interfaces is very young. Here are some early questions that it’s working out.
Steve Ghee on the future of augmented reality
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: AR beyond games and entertainment.
Ezra Spier on desktop milling machines
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Creating an accessible tool for professionals and makers.
Chris Meringolo and Brian Jepson share a hands-on journey from idea to prototype
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: A walk-through of the O’Reilly IoT Learning Lab.
Jonathan Bachrach on the hardware-software interface
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: The tools of the “new industrial revolution.”
Coco Krumme on Silicon Valley culture
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Finding humor in the mythology.
Carl Bass on design tools
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Autodesk’s CEO talks about the future of design.
Manu Prakash on microscopy for everyone
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Building tools for a curiosity-driven community.
Cory Doctorow on losing the open Web
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Digital rights management goes deeper into the Web.
Rob Chandhok on connecting sensors to the Internet
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Building wireless links for the IoT.
Ken Shirriff on the hidden complexity of power supplies
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Tearing down everyday electronics and discovering unexpected sophistication.
Marcin Wichary on the evolution of the keyboard
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: How computer keys got where they are.
Star Simpson on designing beautiful circuit boards
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: The art of designing and manufacturing every aspect of hardware.
Cameron Turner on the sound of data
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Measuring and interpreting audio data.
Chris Anderson on the future of drones and the open source hardware movement
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Value in the data, not the drone.
How to raise seed funding
The O'Reilly Hardware Podcast: Katherine Hague with advice for would-be entrepreneurs.
The Raspberry Pi 3: Is it good enough?
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: The Raspberry Pi is starting to look disruptive.
Peter Hoddie on JavaScript for embedded systems
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Hardware abstraction, scripting languages, and user experience.
Rob Coneybeer on Nest and the next big thing in hardware
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Virtual reality, robotics, and today’s hardware landscape.
Rachel Kalmar on data ecosystems
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Collecting, sharing, and accessing data from sensors.
Sanjit Biswas on industrial sensors
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: The business of building, marketing, and deploying sensors in tough environments
The new hardware movement at CES 2016
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Observations from the Consumer Electronics Show.
Matthew Berggren on making electronics accessible
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Better ways to design electronics.
Roger Chen on hardware and robotics startups
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Hardware from the venture capitalist’s point of view.
Charles Fracchia on a new breed of biologists
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: The merging worlds of software, hardware, and biology.
4 hardware trends to watch in 2016
Early signals of what's to come in the hardware world.
Joe Biron on IoT platforms
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Building systems to get the most from connected devices.
Mengmeng Chen on demystifying manufacturing
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Making manufacturing accessible.
Microsoft’s generational reset
The next cohort of developers never experienced Microsoft’s frustrating years; they’re ready for good years ahead.
Robert Brunner on designing and building great products
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: The critical role of design in creating iconic products and brands.
Ari Gesher and Kipp Bradford on security and the Internet of Things
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Evolving expectations for privacy.
Robert Bodor on digital fabrication
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Software intelligence in the manufacturing process.
Tobias Kinnebrew on robots as paint brushes
The O’Reilly Solid Podcast: How using robots for artistic purposes changes the way we perceive art.
Julia Ko on developing a different kind of smartphone
The O’Reilly Solid Podcast: Entrepreneurship, niche product development, and spotting business opportunities.
Jim Stogdill on cloud-based typewriters and smart watches
The O’Reilly Solid Podcast: Distractions, wearables, and reference peanut butter.
Tying software and hardware together through art
The O'Reilly Solid Podcast: Andy Cavatorta and Jamie Zigelbaum on art that combines physical and digital.
Rebooting a 1970s satellite with modern software and hardware
The O'Reilly Solid Podcast: Dennis Wingo on reestablishing contact with a satellite that had been silent for 17 years.
What’s a tech company, anyway?
Talk of the "tech sector" is out of date. Every company is a tech company.
Tweets loud and quiet
Twitter’s long, long, long tail suggests the service is less democratic than it seems.
Moving beyond big data to smart data
William Plummer on the “closed loop of data.”