Michael SorrentiI help companies design products people can’t stop using | Creative Technologist | Product design & AI Advisory | Builder for Disney, ESPN, Mattel, Marvel & Nickelodeon | Founder, Game Pill The Rise of Game-Driven SimulationsFor centuries, militaries have relied on war games to test strategies, train commanders, and forecast outcomes.

Michael SorrentiI help companies design products people can’t stop using | Creative Technologist | Product design & AI Advisory | Builder for Disney, ESPN, Mattel, Marvel & Nickelodeon | Founder, Game Pill Over the last few months, I have been experimenting with existing conversational avatars — testing their responsiveness, memory, emotional tone,

What if robots learned like human children, not engineers? The Next Great Leap in Robotics Let’s be blunt: real-world robotics training is broken. It’s slow, dangerous, expensive—and always a step behind. But what if we flipped the paradigm? What if robots could play before they work? What if we trained them not in labs or warehouses, but

Autonomous Vehicles & Passive Income The house awoke first, as it always did, with a sigh of hydraulics and soft whirs behind the drywall. A quiet voice, filtered like music through silk, whispered in the air from a home Alexa device: "6:45 AM. The river is calm. Rowing conditions optimal. Shall I warm the seat?" The

What if robots learned like human children, not engineers? The Next Great Leap in Robotics Let’s be blunt: real-world robotics training is broken. It’s slow, dangerous, expensive—and always a step behind. But what if we flipped the paradigm? What if robots could play before they work? What if we trained them not in labs or warehouses, but

What if robots learned like human children, not engineers? The Next Great Leap in Robotics Let’s be blunt: real-world robotics training is broken. It’s slow, dangerous, expensive—and always a step behind. But what if we flipped the paradigm? What if robots could play before they work? What if we trained them not in labs or warehouses, but

Risk and Restraint: The Dance of Progress It has always been the fate of civilizations to be pulled in two directions at once—between those who leap and those who like to hold back, between the gambler and the guardian, between the Prometheus who reaches for fire and the cautious father who warns of burning

What is Machine Learning? Machine learning (ML) is the development of computer systems that allows them to learn from data and improve their performance without explicitly being programmed to do so. Essentially, ML is the backbone behind the increasingly capable and intelligent AI models being used in our day-to-day lives like Claude and ChatGPT. ML vs

Reasons You Should Consider Refining A LLM A lot of companies are waking up to the power of large language models like ChatGPT and Claude—but just using them out of the box isn’t enough. If you're serious about AI, you don’t want a one-size-fits-all model. You want something that knows your business inside and