Source – thenation.com While speaking on a panel earlier this year, I watched an expert in artificial intelligence reassure a group of anxious professionals with an analogy: Many people can’t explain how a car runs, but they don’t hesitate to get into one. In other words, consumers will embrace the benefits of technology without asking too Read More
Source – fortune.com When artificial intelligence works smoothly, computers are able to spot cats in photographs at lightning-fast speeds. When it goes wrong, they can confuse images of turtles with rifles. Researchers from MIT’s computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory have discovered how to trick Google’s (GOOG, +0.66%) software that automatically recognizes objects in images. They created an Read More
Source – techrepublic.com In the 1950s, scientists proposed that the human brain can only recall a list of about seven items. Brain power hasn’t changed much since then—but the amount of data that we are getting bombarded with certainly has. “We have all of the data that we need, but what is missing in companies is people Read More
Source – information-age.com Human beings are an innovative species and digitalisation is proof of this. It is undeniable that the world is becoming more and more digital; today people rely on smartphones and tablets to order our shopping, research and find destinations, connect with friends, improve our health, control devices in our home, stream our entertainment Read More
Source – informationweek.com There’s great value for companies to use automation technologies in analytics, taking advantage of the vast data sets now available. Making machine learning models more precise isn’t just about technology; but a reimagination of business structure and the roles of tech and people. Nearly every industry today is swimming in data, and the Read More
Source – federalnewsradio.com In light of the federal cybersecurity workforce shortage, turning to machines and automation to help secure federal systems and networks is no longer a suggestion; it’s a necessity. This shortage can be attributed to several factors, one of which is that a lot of person-power is spent on mundane tasks that don’t need Read More
Source – wired.com If Jonathan Rothberg has a superpower, it’s cramming million-dollar, mainframe-sized machines onto single semiconductor circuit boards. The entrepreneurial engineer got famous (and rich) inventing the world’s first DNA sequencer on a chip. And he’s spent the last eight years sinking that expertise (and sizeable startup capital) into a new venture: making your smartphone screen a window into the human Read More
Source – dataconomy.com When we think about the future, we might imagine flying cars, superior technology and the potential to cure all diseases, extend our lifespan and improve the general health of world’s population. These hopes are more or less realistic, but this is so in lare part thanks to the advancement of big data Read More
Source – edgylabs.com Big Data was not created to be big by premeditation. Instead, it is a logical result of the accumulation of data related to consumer habits, tastes, and expectations, as well as the growing sharing of this data, plus worldwide communication, media storage, and entertainment. Big Data manages a lot. Everything, to some people, Read More
Source – insidebigdata.com In this special guest feature, Matthew Mahowald, Lead Data Scientist and Software Engineer for Open Data Group, shares his perspectives on how the speed at which tech and tools have been developed, has caused problems with the way analytic deployment is made possible. Matthew holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Northwestern University, with a Read More
Source – forbes.com Yoshua Bengio is one of the foremost thinkers in a field within artificial intelligence known as artifical neural networks and deep learning. Although significant progress has been made in recent years due to (among other factors) the combination of the proliferation of data, the decreasing cost of compute, and the tremendous amount of Read More
Source – yourstory.com Artificial intelligence, as the name suggests is the tech behind artificially recreating human intelligence, by making a software that understands repetitive human habits. While numerous industries in the world that have embraced artificial intelligence (AI), e-commerce deserves a special applause for using AI to help companies get closer to their customers and rolling down Read More
Source – information-age.com Artificial intelligence (AI) has matured significantly in the last decade. Dubbed by Professor Stephen Hawking as “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity” there’s no denying that AI will have a significant impact on our society. While it is unlikely to be as immediate or spectacular as our Read More
Source – magneticmag.com Video streaming has been popular for quite some time, but its growth seems to keep expanding. While it was initially popularized by platforms such as YouTube and then Facebook, today they are being joined by video-on-demand services such as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu. Recently a study suggested that as much as 70% of Read More
Source – purdueexponent.org Purdue could soon be considering important initiatives, a new building, and a system to keep everyone informed about campus assets to improve its efforts in data science. Professors, graduate students and academic advisors gathered Thursday to discuss the topic in forum. They were divided into department-based tables and brainstormed in smaller groups. “One Read More
Source – infoq.com Microsoft and AWS have recently announced a new collaboration aimed at democratizing deep learning and artificial intelligence. Gluon is a joint effort between Microsoft Research and Amazon AI and is intended to make developing solutions using machine learning easier and quicker. Gluon is an open-source deep learning and neural network solution that is exposed through a Read More
Source – scientificamerican.com As a boy, I wanted to maximize my impact on the world, so I decided I would build a self-improving AI that could learn to become much smarter than I am. That would allow me to retire and let AIs solve all of the problems that I could not solve myself—and also colonize Read More
Source – washingtonpost.com Major websites all over the world use a system called CAPTCHA to verify that someone is indeed a human and not a bot when entering data or signing into an account. CAPTCHA stands for the “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” The squiggly letters and numbers, often posted Read More
Source – gulfnews.com Dubai: Growing competence in the area of big data and analytics promises to transform the cybersecurity solution space, said an industry expert. Harish Chib, vice-president for Middle East and Africa at Sophos, said that while threat actors keep changing their modus operandi and tools for the attack, many modes of operation continue Read More
Source – itpro.co.uk Technology revolutions come and go, and artificial intelligence is the next big innovation making its impact on the world. Generally, this term refers to machines and software capable of imitating human behavior. Often, AI programs can perform cognitive functions you’d expect a human mind to possess. Examples include learning, problem-solving, perception, planning and Read More
Source – electronicdesign.com To identify skin cancer, perceive human speech, and run other deep learning tasks, chipmakers are editing processors to work with lower precision numbers. These numbers contain fewer bits than those with higher precision, which require heavier lifting from computers. Intel’s Nervana unit plans to release a special processor before the end of the year that Read More
Source – forbes.com Ranked No. 1 overall as the best job in America by Glassdoor, data scientists have quickly risen in prominence and critical importance within organizations. As technologies like the cloud, IoT and AI transform both the amount of intelligence companies can access as well as the speed at which they can innovate, a strong team of data scientists is no longer Read More
Source – tech.co Pew Research Center survey in 2015 revealed that almost two-thirds of Americans expect computers to take over much of human work within 50 years. However, there are certain professions that some consider to have more security over others. Disciplines such as the arts require creativity – a uniquely human trait that computers should not be Read More
Source – yourstory.com There is a lack of research as to quantify how bias in AI systems are damaging individuals and societies. You have just mailed your CV to get your dream job. You are anxiously waiting for a response from the company. This could be an opportunity of your lifetime. But wait, there is a Read More
Source – motherboard.vice.com The incident marks the latest in a series in which artificial intelligence algorithms have been found to be biased. The problem is the way they’re trained: In order to “teach” an artificial intelligence to identify patterns, it needs to be “fed” a massive trove of documents or images, referred to as “training data.” Training data can include Read More
Source – techtarget.com Akshay Aggarwal: From going from a … monolithic design paradigm to a more distributed microservices design paradigm, the transition that we are seeing is driven by business efficiencies, economies of scale, as well as trying to make things simpler by reusing functionality across different applications. What that does to security is it simplifies Read More
Source – lasvegassun.com An undated handout image of a simulation for the virtual testing of Waymo’s driverless technology. As the computers that operate driverless cars digest the rules of the road, some engineers think it might be nice if they can learn from mistakes made in virtual reality rather than on real streets. SAN FRANCISCO — As Read More
Source – forbes.com The rapture of the machines. The subject of fiery debates and endless banter. Everyone is talking about how robots are going to get all our jobs and take over the entire world as soon as they get brains of their own. But that’s not how the real world is supposed to work. In Read More
Source – marketwired.com In his panel session, Jeff McMillan, Chief Analytics & Data Officer at Morgan Stanley said, when talking about AI, “Imagine a world in which we were able to tech the intellectual capital of the firm and take hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people’s knowledge and out it into an infrastructure that can Read More
Source – informationweek.com Staggering predictions were shared at the 2017 Gartner Symposium earlier this month. By 2021 Gartner predicts, artificial intelligence augmentation will generate $2.9 trillion in business value and recover 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity. It is no wonder why companies are moving swiftly to embrace these emerging technologies to assist people and attain a Read More