In 2016, Elon Musk made several claims about the capabilities of Tesla's self-driving cars. This year, Musk made new claims about the capabilities of the self-driving cars. The features he listed most recently aren't as robust as features he claimed previously. He says people miscontrued his earlier claims.

Andre Fuetsch, President of AT&T Labs and CTO of AT&T, spoke about 5G technology at COSM, A National Technology Summit. He says that 5G technology may mean that your smartphone will be replaced by high-tech versions of ordinary objects like glasses.

According to psychology professor Gregg Henriques, the problem of consciousness is actually two problems. He separates it into the "ontological problem" and the "epistemological problem."

In the opening session of COSM — A National Technology Summit, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel had some sombre, sometimes harsh words for Silicon Valley. He senses that the pace of innovation is slowing down and dismisses the idea that machines will put everyone out of a job.

Oxford neruoscientist Sharon Dirckx has recently published a new book, Am I Just My Brain? She explains the fallacies of materialism and the strengths of dualism in an easily understood way.