Source – bloomberg.com Imagine that tomorrow, some smart kid invented a technology that let people or physical goods pass through walls, and posted instructions for how to build it cheaply from common household materials. How would the world change? Lots of industries would probably become more productive. Being able to walk through walls instead of being Read More
Source – theregister.co.uk Machine Learning is becoming the only real available method to perform many modern computational tasks in near real time. Machine Vision, speech recognition and natural language processing have all proved difficult to crack without ML techniques. When it comes to hardware, the tasks themselves do not need a great deal of computational power; Read More
Source – loyalty360.org Keeping pace with trends in any industry is an integral point for loyalty marketers. When it comes to loyalty program science, Loyalty360 talked to Eoin O’Sullivan, global director of analytics/bBI at Snipp, to find out the latest trends that loyalty marketers should be aware of and incorporate into their respective business strategies. Can you Read More
Source – theconversation.com Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to revolutionise our lives, drive our cars, diagnose our health problems, and lead us into a new future where thinking machines do things that we’re yet to imagine. Or does it? Not everyone agrees. Even billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who admits he has access to some of the most Read More
Source – cxotoday.com Data is everywhere; in the webpages you visit, in blog posts you read, on social media platforms you post on, the videos you watch – all of it and more. It would suffice to say that everything you do on the Internet creates data – as does everything you don’t. We generate nearly Read More
Source – news.psu.edu UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Twitter may have started out as a way to connect to other people and share news quickly, but the social media platform is also a powerful tool, with the data generated representing the largest publicly accessible archive of human behavior in existence. Guangqing Chi, associate professor of rural sociology Read More
Source – chronicle.com s we reach our 10-year anniversary, my colleagues and I have been reflecting on the growth and impact of the Great Colleges to Work For survey. We’ve been encouraged to see that impact extend beyond just the participating colleges. We’ve seen and heard from countless institutions that have become more intentional about their Read More
Source – iot-for-all.com Edge computing is a means of processing data physically close to where the data is being produced, i.e. where the things and humans are – in the field area, homes, and remote offices. Since they don’t live in the cloud, we need to complement cloud computing with many forms of computing at the edge Read More
Source – business2community.com Over the decades, the monolithic, tiered approach to building software has given way to a more distributed, component-based architecture commonly referred to as “microservices,” although some components aren’t “micro” at all. Separating out an app’s services into isolated, interoperable containers has revolutionized the way developers are able to update, add to, or expand parts of an app. Read More
Source – tech.co Artificial intelligence has been a mainstream science-fiction dream ever since the release of “2001: A Space Odyssey.” In 2017, the tech industry has proven that this technology isn’t a fantasy, but a concept that is driving modern innovation. Today, there are four revolutionary changes being made possible by modern AI algorithms. Natural Language Chatbots Read More
Source – bbc.com Among its many possible applications are robots with better eyesight – and drones to spot defects in buildings before they collapse. It is the result of a collaboration between the University of the West of Scotland and the French multinational electrical systems group Thales. It is based around the concept of “deep learning” Read More
Source – i-programmer.info The latest artistic AI is Google’s Creatism, a deep learning photographer which it claims is capable of creating professional quality work. Looks like photographers aren’t immune from the robot/AI takeover. One of the problems with using AI in any creative endeavour is that it is really difficult to judge how well things Read More
Source – venturebeat.com Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are not just tools for streamlining customer engagement. They represent an opportunity for companies to completely rethink how they build context around each individual, ultimately creating a better experience and a more loyal customer. By tapping into the potential of these new technologies, brands can cost-effectively enable and Read More
Source – forbes.com Artificial Intelligence will have a profound impact on the IT industry. The Machine Learning algorithms and models that bring AI to the forefront get only better with data. If these algorithms can learn from existing medical reports, and help doctors with diagnosis, the same can be used to improve IT operations. After all, Read More
Source – econsultancy.com So, you want to build a data science team? Here’s some stuff to think about. Before long, just like this stock photo, you’ll have a team of weird orange people with big bulbous heads, who can sit around a table looking at an enormous hologram of a simple bar chart. In this article we Read More
Source – blastingnews.com In recent years, the world saw how #Artificial Intelligence (#AI) developed and evolved into a very useful tool in different fields of sciences. AI became the latest technological catchphrase that could bring existential risks and impacts on the society. The evolution of AI technology has long been depicted in many science-fiction Hollywood films such as “The Matrix” and “Terminator.” Read More
Source – marketwatch.com Will artificial intelligence make humans superfluous? As an artificial intelligence researcher, I often come across the idea that many people are afraid of what AI might bring. It’s perhaps unsurprising, given both history and the entertainment industry, that we might be afraid of a cybernetic takeover that forces us to live locked away, “Matrix”-like, as some sort Read More
Source – investors.com loud computing leaders Amazon.com (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google, along with internet giants, have the inside track in monetizing artificial intelligence technology, a Mizuho Securities report says, but enterprise software providers also will grab a piece of the action. At a basic level, artificial intelligence is the use of computer algorithms to attempt to replicate the human Read More
Source – infoq.com Google uses a clustering algorithm to automatically analyze Android apps and detect which ones can be considered intrusive, write Google security engineers Martin Pelikan, Giles Hogben, and Ulfar Erlingsson. Intrusive apps are those that require the user to grant a larger set of capabilities than what would be strictly required for their proper functioning. For Read More
Source – nextplatform.com Having been at the forefront of machine learning since the 1980s when I was a staff scientist in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos performing basic research on machine learning (and later applying it in many areas including co-founding a machine-learning based drug discovery company), I was lucky enough to participate in the Read More
Source – factordaily.com I second that. Artificial intelligence (AI) is pushing the boundaries of human imagination. Machines today are capable of doing a lot of things that we could not imagine doing 20 years ago. AI has changed the way we look at learning and inventing. From drug discovery to sports analysis to protecting the oceans, AI Read More
Source – tomshardware.com Google researchers have been working on a project in which deep learning is used to create “professional-level photographs.” The project shows that in the near future, all photos could look like they were taken by professionals, and pictures taken with smartphones could benefit the most from this technology over the coming years. Deep Read More
Source – jamaica-gleaner.com Looking at the future of marketing and new trends in business, Zachary Harding, local marketing specialist and CEO of Hyperion Equity, has invested in a 10 per cent stake in Blue Dot Data Intelligence Ltd. Blue Dot is a research and data intelligence company based in Jamaica, which was started a little over Read More
Source – thestar.com I’m with Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk. Artificial intelligence (A.I.) promises great benefits. But it also has a dark side. And those rushing to create robots smarter than humans seem oblivious to the consequences. Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, predicts that by 2029 computers will be able to outsmart Read More
Source – zdnet.com Amazon Prime Day (APD) was a huge success, they say. At an estimate 60 percent increase in sales over 2016 and nearly $2 billion in revenue, it’s hard to argue otherwise. If you want to talk numbers though, let’s consider this. What would you say if you were told that Amazon could lose nearly Read More
Source – insidebigdata.com As companies continue to invest in big data, the issue is becoming less about the data itself, but rather how the data is used to create competitive products and services. According to Gartner, “Companies will be valued not just on their big data, but on the algorithms that turn that data into actions Read More
Source – csoonline.com Big data, as its proponents have been saying for nearly a decade now, can bring big benefits: advertisements focused on what you actually want to buy, smart cars that can help you avoid collisions or call for an ambulance if you happen to get in one anyway, wearable or implantable devices that can Read More
Source – dataconomy.com The creation and consumption of data continues to rapidly grow around the globe with large investment in big data analytics hardware, software, and services. The availability of large data sets is one of the core reasons that Deep Learning, a sub-set of artificial intelligence (AI), has recently emerged as the hottest tech trend. Huge Read More
Source – sfchronicle.com As an artificial intelligence researcher, I often come across the idea that many people are afraid of what AI might bring. It’s perhaps unsurprising, given both history and the entertainment industry, that we might be afraid of a cybernetic takeover that forces us to live locked away, “Matrix”-like, as some sort of human Read More
Source – pacetoday.com.au Self-learning machines and smart robots are the basis for future technologies in many industries. AI gives computers humanoid and cognitive abilities that can lead to an increase in productivity. In addition, machine learning (ML) systems are employed to assess problems and needs and resolve them accordingly. In recent years, extensive progress has been Read More