Source – hotelowner.co.uk Artificial intelligence or AI. It’s a term we’re hearing increasingly often; from online customer support chat bots to virtual assistants, it seems AI is quickly becoming part of our everyday life. The growth of AI driven solutions and, in particular, the application of machine learning can now be seen in almost every industry. Read More
Month: November 2017
Source – rte.ie Opinion: just what exactly is Artificial Intelligence and why is it so important? A primer on how AI now rules everything around us In the beginning The first official use of the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) was in the proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. That six week workshop marked the Read More
Source – desertsun.com Day after day we read in our news media, and hear on the radio or TV, these two letters: “AI” meaning ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. What do we really know about AI? Let’s begin with a dictionary definition: AI is the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. Read More
Source – devex.com SAN FRANCISCO — A new microscope will use image recognition software and machine learning technology to identify and count malaria parasites in a blood smear. The EasyScan GO, announced at MEDICA, the medical industry’s leading trade fair, is the result of a partnership between the Global Good Fund, a Seattle-based group funded by philanthropist Bill Read More
Source – techtarget.com What can go wrong when a business is migrating to microservices? Plenty. Microservices implementations often derail due to poor planning and lack of self-evaluation, said digital transformation expert Eric Roch. And that preparation is just stage one. Implementing microservices calls for new methods of rewarding DevOps and business teams and handling technical areas, like change Read More
Source – theweek.co.uk “Success in creating effective AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilisation. Or the worst. We just don’t know,” said Professor Stephen Hawking at this week’s Web Summit in Lisbon. Along with many benefits, said Hawking, artificial intelligence (AI) brings many “dangers, like powerful autonomous weapons, or new ways Read More
Source – mbtmag.com Salesforce’s Einstein has captured the attention of leaders across verticals, including B2B manufacturers. Launched in September 2016, the artificial intelligence (AI) technology of Einstein has provided breakthrough capabilities for businesses to make smarter, more informed decisions, drive business efficiency and generate increased revenue. For those new to the AI game, Einstein learns from Read More
Source – businessnewsdaily.com There’s a lot of buzz in the tech industry, especially with cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning becoming more mainstream. While many professionals understand that these technologies will make their jobs easier, or even take over certain tasks, there’s also a lot of confusion: machine learning, automation – what’s the difference Read More
Source – jaxenter.com Over the past decade, web-scale companies have shown a dramatic commitment to containers. In 2006, Google paved the way for this technological innovation, as engineers Paul Manage and Rohit Seith defined and implemented software containers. Almost a decade on, the tech giant released Kubernetes – an open source version of the solution that Read More
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