365 Days

Just grabbed my badge for FII Priority Summit; The marathon of conversations starts tonight with Conclave of the FII AI Coalition dinner. This is one of those conferences that I’m very excited about.FII Institute Post 2 Day 1: Today, I...

Day 2 P1/ Good morning from the FII Priority Summit where the navy blue and mid blue suits are taking over the room! AI is at the core of every conversation. What I’ve learned so far from the global leaders: Yasir Al Rumayyan - Reasons KSA can b...

This week I was filled with positive energy from the FII Priority Summit, where I made connections with David Rubenstein, Marcelo Claure, Doctor Oz and Francis X. Suarez, and saw my Miami friends: Maja Vujinovic, Matt Haggman , Saif Ishoof , Nicole...

I’m calling for Global Pause on AGI, Now. And why “Sam Altmans” should be controlled, Now: Last week I felt the meaning of Capital and Coalition by heart. FII Priority Summit is the summit of capital, the highest of the highest in the c...

“AI Safety: The Next Frontier of VC Money” Following the FII Summit, my friends Brandon and David from Lionheart Ventures invited me to an exclusive dinner party in the Venetian Islands, complete with a stunning view of Brickell nights and a c...

Today I had a 30-minute meeting with Taylor Powell which lasted for 84 minutes. He’s a documentary maker and there is so much interest and synergy that our conversations last for hours. Great material for a hashtag#docuseries We had deep conversations a...

Day 7- AI Cyberwar1- Hummingbirds. 2- FII and Capital. 3- Amazon and Board Last night we at Miami AI Club had AI Cyberwar which will be used as part of a docuseries about AI and humans. This was my...

Day 8 - Children and AI: My Learnings from the Interactions of Children with AI at the Frost Museum When we received the invitation from the Frost Museum, we happily accepted. Sara Zargaran , Felicita J Sandoval MSc., CFE...

Should AI be contained? I had another conversation with Taylor Powell today and he asked a question referring to Mo (Mustafa Suleyman Google AI Exec)’s emphasis that AI should be contained. Here are a few points:1- AI is exponential and understanding e...

Question from Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies : If we’re in a science fiction movie how do you see the future of AI?Before going to his response let’s see who Alex is.Alex Karp is super intelligent. He’s a cofounder of Palantir alongside Peter...

Today, I moderated a cybersecurity panel at The Business Show with Mark Johnson , Jean Pascal Deillon , and Angela Foglia at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The audience was mostly from SMBs, providing a very good opportunity to directly...

Today, Sara Zargaran and I were invited by Ori Miller and JP Morgan Chase for a VIP experience at Cirque du Soleil Echo. It was an amazing experience, an emotional roller-coaster. I met a couple of good friends, Ayal Stern , Omar Fuentes, CSPO®, ...

What’s the story behind the numbered days? Within these 365 days, I aim to establish Miami as a global center for the AI world with the help of dedicated and mission-driven individuals from Miami. The goal is to make it a hotter spot for AI than S...

Sunday Funday! Besides spending a couple of hours with the A-team, I also had some enjoyable moments with my father-in-law. We first attempted to fix things together, acting like we know what we do. However, wherever my wife sends us to make repairs,...

I had a very interesting conversation with Adam Fletcher, the cyber leader of a giant ship, the largest alternative asset manager in the world, which is, for obvious reasons, under all sorts of attacks from hacktivists to cybercriminals who are...

Loss of Our Rizee, Grief, and Its Aftermath I couldn't imagine I'd ever write this, but just a few hours, and in fact, a few devastating minutes, changed our lives. Sara and I lost Rizee last night....

A friend was asking my thoughts about curiosity and cognitive science and I found this quote from Albert Einstein in 1955, just a few months before his death resonated with me:"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason...

Last night, I was invited by my friend, William Mendez to watch his TEDx Talk. This was my first TED as live audience and it was a completely different experience, full of stories of pervasiveness, consistency and vision. And one story was perhaps...

Last night marked Norooz, a special day for Persians, signifying the arrival of spring. In Miami, our transition from fall to spring occurred swiftly. Just last week, the yard was strewn with leaves in various shades of orange and green....

I had lunch with Hernan Londono, Ph.D. at Motek in Aventura with delicious Israeli mezza and hibiscus tea (highly recommended); and I enjoyed a conversation with a multi-faceted achiever who excels in combining three worlds: AI and technology,...

Under the mango tree thinking about how life would be changed so fast, and how limited times we have to do great things. Life is so much full of opportunities and so many amazing people that we can have a fully abundant mentality and share resources.I’m a...

Today was the last day of Daniel Kahneman on earth. Daniel Kahneman was a renowned psychologist and Nobel laureate in Economics, known for his work on behavioral economics and cognitive psychology, and of course his famous book, Thinking Fast and...

Happy Good Friday!POTUS says, “Let’s add a Chief AI Officer to every federal agency.” You know what that means? If the government, which is already a slow-moving mammoth, acknowledges the emergence of AI and pushes for its adoption, then if your compa...

I was away for a couple of weeks, two emergencies happened to two of our dogs, consequently, and we thought there is a bad energy around us as I’ve started posting on LinkedIn. And yes, as a neuroscientist and AI builder, I think this is not being s...

Miami AI Club’s story is no different than Miami’s. Everything is so much better here, and as AI brings exponentiality to things, Miami AI Club is having an exponential of that blessing.Miami is moving fast, in fact Miami is responsible for the U.S. GDP...

I wanted to highlight a part of the conversation over our Private Dinner last week. I asked Dr. Seth Dobrin about his opinion on the AI landscape and the hashtag#EUAIACT that is coming out these days.His point is that we don’t know w...

We don’t have that energy here; I’m taking about the energy of downturn, soft landing or hard landing.Miami is the city of resiliency, way better than any other city. We were resilient when COVID happened and we won. 2008 financial cri...

Bob Marley lived for 36 years and impacted the world in such a short period.One wouldn’t need to be rich, educated, American* or live long to be impactful.And there is a difference between being impactful, successful and wealthy. It’s much harder to ...

AI will bring more value for many businesses. The winners are the ones forging good partnerships.A lot of good handshakes are happening and I’m happy being behind a few good ones, including one with our own Hummingbirds AI that I’m ver...

Something big is happening around Miami Jaret Davis , Orlando Bravo , Ken Griffin , Daniel Sundheim and thirty big miamians and newcomer heavy weights are getting together and committing a good amount of capital to make Miami better in four...

Some business leaders are taking leadership in the AI world, Alejandro Dabdoub being one of them. He came from Mexico City, aka Sara’s favorite city, to Houston and built a very successful real estate and construction business with tens o...

Microsoft's Copilot + PC is a big deal from several aspects. 1. First, it was a bold decision to use ARM-based chips, departing from Intel. However, this won't be a long-term move because Intel is releasing its AI chips called Lunar Lakes in a few...

Creating a super intelligent being, a being more intelligent than us, the humans. What does that mean to you?Do you feel afraid? Or excited? You certainly have a feeling for it, an emotion, or potentially mixed emotions.For generations and generations...

https://youtu.be/UoovAfrvjPA?si=7l-R2vlY1PGZuVfn Miami AI Club 's Private Dinner Series is a platform to have cross-industry conversations around AI, with the human connection. With an inclusive and exclusive approach, we share and listen. We...

At the MAIC Private Dinner Series No. 2, we welcomed Patrick Heim , a methodological and multidimensional explorer.From Tony Jimenez of Medina Ventures, a driving force behind the momentum of Miami’s tech ecosystem, to the other P...

A summary of 3 MAIC Private Dinners 1- Miami is becoming a hub for conversations around AI, led by Miami AI Club ’s efforts. Over the three dinners we had thought provoking conversations with high calibers from various states a...

Miami is more like Dubai than New York. It’s about building the nicest and tallest, it’s about the luxury, the beach life, the new money, hype, momentum, tech scene, climate-impact and now the floods.While we’re on a road trip to Canada, to meet ...

Payam's story is the story of resilience; the story of escaping Iran as a Baha'i, fearing for his life as a teenager, coming to the US without any money and winning. This is the story of many immigrants, and what has made Miami, Miami.From washing cars...

Day 40 is a special day for our Persian and Middle Eastern cultures in general. It's a spiritual day, and it's also a day we believe if you do something consistently for 40 days, it will become a routine. So this is a good sign for continuing posting...

Deepfakes: A "Don't Look Up!" Moment My neighbor is an 80-year-old who worked for 35 years at IBM in DC and moved south to live with his boyfriend at the height of the pandemic. Besides his concerns about his AFib and the cost of Xarelto, which is...

Tesla and AGI Tesla envisioned a world where electrical energy could be transmitted wirelessly and made freely available to everyone. His most notable project in this area was the Wardenclyffe Tower, intended to be part of a world wireless system...

Our brain is a beautiful sea of unknown, the most advanced machine ever, and AI, as artificial intelligence, would never be able to be as intelligent as a newborn, let alone a PhD holder! We would never be able to run as fast as a cheetah. We can drive...

We at Miami AI Club are working very hard to push ourselves forward by always being ahead of the curve, whether it's curated events like AI Healthrush, AI Lawfare, AI Cyberwar, or our Private Dinner Series.1The Private Dinner Trilogy, sponsored by Vultr,...

23 years ago while in medical school, and passionate about decoding the mind and brain, my curiosity led me to study neuroscience and later control engineering and computer science and I was fortunate to become a student of the Late Prof. Caro Lucas....

Emotional AI is getting a lot of attention. One fuel of this momentum is from LLMs, as Incorporating emotion is a crucial factor in humanizing machines, including chatbots. A new study named "Unleashing the Potential of Emotional Intelligence in Chatbots:...

Bringing Mind and Mindfulness to Machines What we've talked about for the last two Days is preliminary to this Day/Episode. We started with BELBIC, the emotion-based decision-makers, and how not only are they still relevant after 20 years, but they...

Rocky joined Reeze in less than 5 months. He grieved silently and wanted to go, no vet could figure it out, and as a doctor, I couldn't figure it out, Ankit and Sara spent hours on natural remedy plans, and they couldn't figure it out, This was one of...

Can we trust AI to build trust among us? Ari Lehavi and I had a 3.5-hour conversation about enterprise multi-agent applications, the agency of the agents, and how emotions can transform this future.Think about it: Sara uses ChatGPT, I use Claude,...

Continuing the conversation on trust, we trust innovations and we trust our innovators. We were optimistic when we saw innovations coming, maybe most of the time overly optimistic. However, one can see there is a mismatch between the pros and cons,...

It took me two weeks to post after the AI & Emotional Learning Inaugural gathering by Miami AI Club to share its impact and why it was important.It took Sara Zargaran , Erika Twani , Ankit Virmani and me months to prepare...

Deepfakes - The Looming Threat to Election's Integrity Deepfakes, or more broadly AI's ability to clone an individual's face or voice, is a great example of an exponential risk where our defense largely relies on human judgment....

From TED Talk to Bella's Ball: A Journey of Hope and Resilience Remember Raymond Rodriguez-Torres ’s story from that TEDx Talk (Day 18/365)? Well, it doesn't end there. The Live Like Bella Foundation, b...

Geopolitics, AI, and the Swedish Perspective I was invited by Aaron Rosen , one of South Florida's brightest geopolitical minds and founder of Miami's first think tank, World Affairs Council of Miami to a private dinner with Swedish ambassador...

When AI Meets Hope - A Night of Possibility Last week, the AI and human resilience intersection took center stage as the Miami AI Club joined the Live Like Bella® Childhood Cancer Foundation - it was a glimpse into a future where childhood ...

My first day in Riyadh experiencing two powerful summits pre FII (Future Investment Initiative): New Africa Summit and HERizon Summit.Africa has long been known for its mineral wealth, but now it's emerging with a powerful...

Today at FII Institute ‘s FII8 in Riyadh, we witnessed perhaps the most consequential dialogue of our time between Elon Musk and Peter Diamandis – a conversation that unveiled an unprecedented vision of our economic future, where traditional capital tra...

The FII Conference brought the world's movers and shakers together - the architects of the future - to discuss the future of capital, AI, and its opportunities and risks. From world leaders, prime ministers, ministers, and royals, to the capital leaders,...

In Riyadh, I was invited by the Ministry of Investment of Saudi Arabia (MISA) to meet with a delegation from the Hong Kong Research and Technology Park - the world's largest tech park with 2,000+ startups.Impressively, this meeting was on a holiday,...