After successfully disrupting the MVNO market, Rakuten Mobile is going to shake up the MNO business as the fourth major carrier in Japan from October 2019. With the launch of the first end-to-end fully-virtualized cloud-native mobile phone network, Rakuten Mobile aims to be one of – if not the – technologically most advanced telecommunication providers in the world. We believe that the demands of our customers for more flexible, reliable, and powerful services at low cost can only be met by reducing the burden that the network’s operation places on our engineers’ shoulders ..read more

AI and blockchain. These two technologies have both been drawing attention as drivers of a variety of innovations. However, it is not so well-known what kind of synergy could potentially be made between AI and blockchain. AI was identified as an important field of computer science back in 1956. Many applications and technologies have emerged since then. There have been many attempts to leverage it and many failures too over the past 60 years ..read more

Arguments and counterarguments about whether consciousness could emerge from Artificial Intelligence. Spoiler: it can’t. It has been common since a few years, to read that computers will achieve human-level intelligence in the next decades and even acquire subjective experience and consciousness. The next anticipated step is Intelligence Explosion or Super Intelligence, leading to the creation of a new species of artificial entities replacing or enslaving humanity. If you think that looks more like a science fiction scenario than a scientific discussion, you are right ..read more