Source – sdxcentral.com Big data service provider Cloudwick today launched a security analytics product at Black Hat USA that the company claims can ingest more than 100 million events per second of telemetry data. This includes network packets, netflow, logs, and alerts. Cloudwick calls the new platform CDL, which stands for cyber data lake. It’s a converged system comprised of Read More
Month: July 2017
Source – eyefortravel.com/mobile-and-technology As head of data science at Trainline, Fergus Weldon, who will be speaking at EyeforTravel’s Smart Travel Data Summit 2017, is at the coalface of innovation. In an exclusive interview he shares ten things he knows about data science today. 1. Being a data scientist is being the voice of the customer In the past Read More
Source – techcrunch.com Yet these victories, as mind-blowing as they seemed to be, were more about training algorithms and using brute-force computational strength than any real intelligence. Former MIT robotics professor Rodney Brooks, who was one of the founders of iRobot and later Rethink Robotics, reminded us at the TechCrunch Robotics Session at MIT last week that training Read More
Source – forbes.com When it comes to the possibilities and possible perils of artificial intelligence (AI), learning and reasoning by machines without the intervention of humans, there are lots of opinions out there. Only time will tell which one of these quotes will be the closest to our future reality. Until we get there, it’s interesting Read More
Source – macobserver.com This article I found showcases one current debate about the potential for AI doing evil. “Elon Musk fires back at Mark Zuckerberg in debate about the future: ‘His understanding of the subject is limited’.” What they’re debating is the future potential for AIs that can, for all practical purposes, duplicate and then go Read More
Source – seekingalpha.com Summary In the next 10 years, the artificial intelligence market will be increasing by an average of 50% each year. Over the past 6 years, Alphabet acquired more artificial intelligence startups than Facebook and Microsoft combined. The first practical results of Alphabet in the field of artificial intelligence are qualitatively better than those Read More
Source – theregister.co.uk The Raspberry Pi is one of the most exciting developments in hobbyist computing today. Across the world, people are using it to automate beer making, open up the world of robotics and revolutionise STEM education in a world overrun by film students. These are all laudable pursuits. Meanwhile, what is Microsoft doing with Read More
Source – tomshardware.com Microsoft announced that the second generation of the HoloLens’ Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) will contain a deep learning accelerator. Holographic Processing Unit When Microsoft first unveiled the HoloLens, it said that it comes with a special kind of processor, called an HPU, that can accelerate the kind of “holographic” content displayed by the HMD. The Read More
Source – ciodive.com Dive Brief: Artificial intelligence can only reach its full potential with the help of human traits, says Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind, and coauthors in a paper published Friday in Neuron, according to Technology Review. The authors say improving AI will require better understanding of how the brain works. AI startup Deep Mind was purchased Read More
Source – nanalyze.com The Chinese are pretty much on a tear lately, having announced a few days ago that they plan to achieve global dominance in AI by 2030. The Chinese have traditionally been “not so very good” when it comes to translating English, but have recently committed to changing that, perhaps, because they know it is an important Read More
Source – psfk.com The state of your health shouldn’t be a mystery, nor should patients or doctors have to wait long to find answers to pressing medical concerns. In PSFK’s Future of Health Report, we dig deep into the latest in AI, big data algorithms and IoT tools that are enabling a new, more comprehensive overview of Read More
Source – kashmirmonitor.in In an application filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Facebook is exploring the development of a `modular electromechanical device` (read smartphone) which will allow users to add different components onto a device. The modular device can incorporate a speaker, microphone, touch display, GPS and function as a phone, Business Insider reported Read More
Source – martechadvisor.com If you search “Marketing and AI”, Google returns almost four million results. Recent headlines range from the strategic – AI Will Make Marketing Less Manual (well, duh) – to the tactical, like 4 ways AI can improve email marketing. The hype machine is in full swing. But here’s the rub: the vast majority of the conversations Read More
Source – digitaljournal.com Washington – A new artificial intelligence tool can create realistic videos from audio files alone. This technology, developed at the University of Washington, has been tested on speeches made by former President Obama. The technology is based on newly prepared algorithms, which are designed to overcome a limitation with ‘computer vision’. This is with Read More
Source – itproportal.com What exactly does artificial intelligence (AI) mean in practice? To most, there is a fear associated with it. It spells catastrophe for the human race. First, it will take over our jobs and before we know it, we will have no place in this world. However, AI has the ability to improve how Read More
Source – infoq.com We’ve had a few articles over the years on the differences and similarities between SOA and microservices. Some suggest there is much to be learned from SOA whereas others believe that distancing microservices from SOA is more beneficial. Furthermore, Neal Ford amongst others, have suggested that moving from monolithic architectures to a services-based approach may be easier than going to Read More
Source – straitstimes.com There are now 2,000 known programmes run by close to 400 social and welfare charities in Singapore. Are these programmes meeting the needs on the ground? The National Council of Social Service (NCSS), which oversees all social service organisations here, is building a big digital dashboard to find out. The dashboard will tap Read More
Source – telanganatoday.com Part of Data Science, Machine Learning involves feeding data to algorithms which then detect patterns in the data and automate or assist decision making. Let’s see the options available in careers in Machine Learning. Who is it for? You can begin your career in Machine Learning if you are an engineer trained in Read More
Source – bwdisrupt.businessworld.in Known for delivering out-of-the-box, performance based strategies in the marketing and technology domain, Envigo has footprints in India and UK. Led by Saurabh Kumar, an alumni of National Institute of Technology, Karnataka and IIM, Ahmedabad, Envigo partners with over 90 clients world-wide, worked with more than 300+ brands so far, across 24 countries Read More
Source – telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com New Delhi: Intel on Friday launched the Movidius Neural Compute Stick, a USB-based deep learning inference kit and self-contained artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator that delivers dedicated deep neural network processing capabilities to a wide range of host devices at the edge. Designed for product developers and researchers, the Movidius Neural Compute Stick aims to reduce Read More
Source –thehill.com One of the biggest problems with Washington is that more often than not the policy conversation isn’t grounded in the facts. We see this dysfunction clearly on technology policy, where Congress is largely uninformed on what the future of artificial intelligence (AI) technology will look like and what the actual consequences are likely Read More
Source – forbes.com As fewer shoppers choose to frequent stores, retailers are looking for new ways to rejuvenate the shopping experience, whether through a wholesale reinvention of the retail space or by doubling down on efforts to send consumers targeted ads. To that end, retailers are increasingly turning to technologies such as artificial intelligence algorithms, messenger bots, and Read More
Source – jaxenter.com Machine learning is going through something of a renaissance these days. It seems like there are new moves forward with this technology every day, from advances in image and sound recognition to lip reading and beating us at all the games. However, this renaissance has largely been funded by Silicon Valley. Companies are Read More
Source – techcrunch.com We’ve already taken a look at neural networks and deep learning techniques in a previous post, so now it’s time to address another major component of deep learning: data — meaning the images, videos, emails, driving patterns, phrases, objects and so on that are used to train neural networks. Surprisingly, despite our world being Read More
Source – datanami.com If you were a data scientist three years ago, you could pretty much write your own ticket. Everybody in the industry, it seemed, either wanted to hire a data scientist, or wanted to be one. But today, thanks to a confluence of factors, organizations are beginning to question whether they need these digital Read More
Source – techrepublic.com The engineer in charge of keeping Google available 24/7 says the enormous datacenters that underpin online services worldwide will soon be run with the help of AI. Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering, is basing this prediction on the profound savings identified by a machine-learning system charged with helping run a Google Read More
Source – thewire.in China’s attention to artificial intelligence (AI) based technologies and machine learning in the US, according to a recent Reuters report, has the US quite concerned. China has been heavily investing in American AI start-ups, alarming the US government enough for it to seriously consider strengthening its existing strategic foreign investment regulatory mechanism – the Committee on Read More
Source – thedenverchannel.com BOULDER, Colo. – A new startup in Boulder is looking to make a splash in the quickly-growing field of artificial intelligence. Boulder AI just launched this week, billing itself as one of Colorado’s only AI consulting companies. Boulder AI’s aim is to help other businesses create artificial intelligence systems that can perform menial Read More
Source – investors.com Whhile much has been written about information technology companies investing in artificial intelligence, Loup Ventures managing partner Doug Clinton notes that many non-tech companies are capitalizing on AI technology as well. Clinton has put together a portfolio of 17 publicly traded non-tech companies that are making investments in AI to improve their businesses. Read More
Source – pymnts.com Machine learning is perhaps the hottest buzzword in cybersecurity today. The artificial intelligence technology is deployed by cybersecurity firms in an effort to keep pace with the evolution of cyberattacks, as machine learning algorithms are able to improve predictability the more it is used. But according to Guy Caspi, CEO of cybersecurity company Deep Instinct, Read More