What is 777labs?
For the past 20 years, I have been helping folks in marketing and sales identify, target, build, and nurture customer relationships, market opportunities, and b...
Author: charlie
Pause for station identification
Through the years, each of these pauses have been a definition of where I am at in that sliver of time. Alas, currently, I’m exploring a few potential pat...
Peanut butter and chocolate moment: AI goes great with…?
I have an ideation game I play called “Peanut Butter and Chocolate.” Basically, it’s mashing two seemingly unrelated things to think of how th...
When AI is Artificial I: humanity, culture, art, emotion
Doesn’t all AI end up being a reflection of who we are as humans? From the practical, I mentioned bias in how we build AIs and the prevalence of conversat...
Come down to earth: some hidden truths about AI
You know that a tech trend is growing when there are more conferences and training programs than you can shake a stick at. And also, the trend is picked up by t...
Talk to the hand – and the computer, and the home device, and the…
At the core of what is going to drive this new wave of adoption of AI will be the “conversational interface.”* We spoke a bit about bots, and how th...
Bots all the way down, and a puppy reference
Bots have been around for a long time. Anyone who knows the history of AI remembers ELIZA, a conversation-mimicking AI that made you feel you were talking to a ...
Hey, John McCarthy, AI has finally gone mainstream
You know the feeling when someone mentions something and then you see it everywhere? Well, that’s what happened to me with AI. I wasn’t giving it an...
Thoughts on Aetna’s Apple Watch move
Aetna announced they were going to subsidize the Apple Watch for select large employers and individual customers this open enrollment season. Aetna will also pr...
What’s the healthcare equivalent of reach, throw, row, go?
The other day we were talking about my wife’s mobile veterinary practice, and I started mapping what she does to human healthcare and reach, row, throw, g...