Source – deccanherald.com It was 1956 when attendees at the Dartmouth conferences created the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), opening the storm gates for creativity and imagination in Hollywood, and across the scientific world. Everyone wanted to know if AI would be the key to our civilisation’s future or the key to open Pandora’s box, enabling Read More
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Source – emarketer.com The marketing technology landscape is busy, but there isn’t a solution out there for everything. Multitouch attribution solutions that help marketers map their customers’ path to purchase, for example, are still scarce. Julie Lyle, chief revenue officer at acquisition marketing platform DemandJump, spoke with eMarketer’s Maria Minsker about how artificial intelligence (AI) could Read More
Source – news18.com For the majority of CIOs, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI) will significantly change how they do their jobs in the near future, a new survey said on Tuesday. Cybersecurity continues to threaten the global landscape in 2018 and 95 percent of CIOs surveyed said they expect cyber threats to increase and impact their Read More
Source – forbes.com The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing, and according to a report by Accenture, it is expected to double economic growth by 2035 with its integration. From simple AI pieces to more complex problem-solving uses, the technology has multiple benefits that can help make employees more productive, efficient and error-free. Using AI as an Read More
Source – forbes.com It’s tempting to believe that artificial intelligence can do just about anything. Currently, AI and machine learning power self-driving cars, complex adtech audience optimizations and a host of intelligent agents like Alexa, Cortana and Siri. At the same time, leading AI experts, business owners and analysts are cautioning against an overly rosy view of Read More
Source – forbes.com Very few subjects in science and technology are causing as much excitement right now as artificial intelligence (AI). In a lot of cases this is good reason, as some of the world’s brightest minds have said that it’s potential to revolutionize all aspects of our lives is unprecedented. On the other hand, as Read More
Source – networkworld.com Nvidia and server makers Dell EMC, HPE, IBM and Supermicro announced enterprise servers featuring Nvidia’s Tesla V100 GPU. The question is, can servers designed for machine learning stem the erosion of enterprise server purchases as companies shift to PaaS, IaaS, and cloud services? The recent introduction of hardened industrial servers for IoT may indicate Read More
Source – knowstartup.com Artificial Intelligence is radically changing the way we think of technology. It is progressing rapidly, with key advancements ranging from virtual assistants (such as Apple’s Siri and Microsoft Cortana) to fraud detection. This emerging tech now plays a part in everyday life. Another study performed by Forrester Research predicted an increase of 300% in investment Read More
Source – techcrunch.com From hedge funds to venture capital firms, everyone in finance has some idea about how data and quantitative analysis will reshape their industry. Firms likeSignal Fire track engineers as they move from company to company to draw attention to growing startups. And funds like Numerai and Quantopian are putting faith in quants to determine optimal trading strategies. Bridgewater Read More
Source – techcrunch.com With every new trend comes a counter-trend. And so despite the current excitement over the wonders of artificial intelligence, one company is betting that human intelligence can still deliver solutions for businesses that AI cannot hope to match. Article One Partners (AOP) is a crowdsourced network of over 42,000 researchers in 170 countries — 42% of Read More
Source – fin24.com Johannesburg – Data management firm NetApp has introduced a new system and storage protocol to the South African market to accelerate the transfer of big data and comply with future data regulations. The company predicts that by 2018, data will be governed according to principles laid out in the European Union’s General Data Protection Read More
Source – brinknews.com Call centers have been around since the 1960s, gaining mainstream attention when employees were seen wearing telephone headsets on televised NASA Mission Control Center events. Since then, customer service centers have been typically regarded as a necessary evil, where customers have encountered their fair share of unhelpful calls. Despite many companies’ attempts to Read More
Source – pmlive.com Owing to their wide-ranging involvement across the business, medical affairs experts are already uniquely placed to help pharma engage with a variety of stakeholders to understand their needs and develop solutions. Capitalising on digital technologies that generate and analyse vast volumes of data can give medical affairs teams the edge in developing evidence-based Read More
Source – theurbandeveloper.com Runway’s algorithms determine what key property attributes best match customer profile attributes from purchasers. The algorithms then make two predictions: Which prospects are more likely than others to purchase a new home, lot, house and land package or apartment? What property types (with specific property attributes) are these prospects most inclined to purchase? Read More
Source – campdenfb.com The county of Wiltshire in the United Kingdom might seem like an unlikely setting for one of the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories. It is best-known for its Neolithic monuments and iconic stone circles, most famously Stonehenge, but beneath its prehistoric landscape the future is unfolding. At family-run technology design firm Read More
Source – venturebeat.com Emotional intelligence (EQ) — the ability to pick up on what other people are feeling or thinking, primarily using body language and tone of voice — is a difficult endeavor, even for some humans. When a human misreads their fellow human, they could lose a friendship, a relationship, a job. Stakes are even Read More
Source – scientificamerican.com Every day we read of some new area where artificial intelligence has matched or exceeded the proficiency of human experts on some well-defined task. Beyond the well-publicized successes of go- and poker-playing AI agents, machines have shown superiority in complex real-world tasks like interpreting x-ray images and assessing the cancer risk of dermatological lesions. Read More
Source – informationweek.com IT professional Rich Casselberry experimented with deep learning using online tools and came away with interesting results. One of the great things about my job is that I get to work with emerging technology, while it’s still emerging. The emerging tech topic I want to dive into today is deep learning. Everyone’s talking Read More
Source – huffingtonpost.com Artificial intelligence (AI) may seem like the newest and hottest trend coming out of Silicon Valley, but this type of technology has actually been around for quite a while. The first work done in this area dates back to the 1950s. The early work done on AI focused on translation. Throughout the cold Read More
Source – infoworld.com A few weeks ago, Nginx released its multilanguage microservices-friendly app server, but without Java support at launch. Now IBM has a beta build of its own microservices-friendly app server for Java applications: the open source Open Liberty, which implements IBM’s version of Java EE and MicroProfile microservices implementation. Open Liberty will provide a runtime supporting Java microservices Read More
Source – informationweek.com Three industry leaders took the stage at SAS Analytics Experience and provided broad perspectives on how far we’ve come in analytics over the last 10 years and where we are today. A decade ago the iPhone was a new device and there wasn’t an app for much of anything. Competing on analytics was Read More
Source – td.org Sales professionals have undoubtedly sat through many annual sales kick-off meetings, product launch training sessions, and classroom lectures wondering what they were trying to achieve. However, managers hope these events will impart the knowledge and skills of top-performing sales reps to less-experienced peers. They’re also trying to hone important skills like storytelling, customizing Read More
Source – qz.com This is the third in The Vanishing University, a four-part series exploring the tech-driven future of higher education in America. Here are parts oneand two. Jill Watson is the best damn teaching assistant you could ever want. She fields hundreds of questions at a time from frantic 19-year-olds, always answering them in full and at record Read More
Source – engineering.com Talk of automation in manufacturing tends to focus on industrial robots, for obvious reasons. The robotics market is growing at an unprecedented pace and vague worries about job loss due to automation—however misguided—often take shape in visions of robots replacing individual workers on production lines. However, there’s a much less tangible form of automation that’s poised Read More
Source – itworldcanada.com Washington D.C. – In it’s most basic form, artificial intelligence is an algorithm that is trained to learn via the data that is fed to it. But what happens what that data is full of bias? “In traditional model building, even with good data we can introduce biases by not constructing the right variables or picking Read More
Source – shift.newco.co No stranger to controversy, a Tony Stark reincarnate — Elon Musk — came out with an ominous prediction recently. “Forget North Korea, AI will start World War III” read the CNN headline. Elon Musk is not alone in fearing unintended consequences of the race to develop algorithms that we may or may not be able to control. Once a new Read More
Source – dqindia.com We are standing at the cusp of a massive shift, all set to take place with artificial intelligence (AI), as this is rapidly and emphatically coming to the forefront and becoming a decisive force in the future of humanity. At this point in time, nobody is in a position to affirmatively predict or Read More
Source – cio.in The idea of artificial intelligence (AI) has always seemed futuristic, but today there is no shortage of companies offering AI solutions. However, does AI offer tangible business solutions, especially in datacenters? Take for example, the case of monitoring energy usage in a datacenter. In a typical datacenter, the manager has to keep track Read More
Source – forbes.com Deep learning, a popular form of machine learning, is being applied across across a number of the latest tech products and services. But for the most part, all that computing is still taking place in the cloud. San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup Skymind is hoping to embed deep learning directly into robots. The startup is releasing a Read More
Source – northropgrumman.com In the world of science fiction, it is an old, cautionary story. An autonomous, intelligent robotic defense system goes insane — or simply misinterprets its instructions — and attacks everyone, including the civilization it was designed to defend. For defense planners today, this scenario is no longer pure science fiction. No, the Pentagon Read More