Source – religionandpolitics.org The concept of artificial intelligence has been fuel for science fiction since at least 1920, when the Czech writer Karel Čapek published R.U.R., his play about a mutiny led by a throng of robots. Speculation about the future of intelligent machines has run rampant in the intervening decades but recently has taken a more Read More
Month: August 2017
Source – eos.org The vast and rapidly increasing supply of new data in the Earth sciences creates many opportunities to gain scientific insights and to answer important questions. Data analysis has always been an integral component of research and education in the Earth sciences, but mainstream Earth scientists may not yet be fully aware of many Read More
Source – techtarget.com when it comes to working with microservices applications. Let’s look at three API design principles to follow when implementing APIs for microservices. There are three principal people who are responsible for the API design strategy: the business leader, the enterprise architect and the developer. An API design strategy begins with business leaders, Read More
Source – cso.com.au 1. Big Data is one of the hottest technology trends today. It provides the mining industry a chance to manage the volume, variety and velocity from any source to boost business outcomes. 2. Big Data plays a great competitive advantage to any company in the mining industry as long as it is properly Read More
Source – itnewsafrica.com Analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data – these conversations are no longer complete without the term “deep learning”, a powerful phrase that is increasingly becoming part of the business vocabulary as it recognises life-changing advantages. Brendan Marr, best-selling author and keynote speaker on business, technology and big data, says it is with Read More
Source – techcrunch.com Meltwater, a company originally founded in Norway that provides data to more than 25,000 businesses to track where and how they are mentioned in media and other public platforms, has acquired a startup to double down on how it uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to do its job. The company has acquired Algo, a Read More
Source – sea-globe.com Human financial advisors may keep their jobs for a while, but they would be well advised to start considering a new career. On 7 June, Singapore’s regulatory body, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, released a consultation paper on how it planned to “facilitate the provision of robo-advisory services” in the city-state. By cutting out Read More
Source – telegraph.co.uk Thie third and final part of a Telegraph series reporting from Toronto’s booming Artificial Intelligence sector where new technologies are being pioneered that will permanently change all of our lives In 1929, the economist John Maynard Keynes made a prediction. Over the course of the next century, he wrote, standards of living in Read More
Source – formtek.com This past July, the press headlined a comment by Elon Musk where he said that Mark Zuckerberg’s understanding of AI was ‘limited’. After Musk’s warning earlier in the year that AI potentially is potentially the most dangerous threat to civilization, needs to be used with care, and should even be regulated, Zuckerberg commented that he disagreed Read More
Source – jaxenter.com Enterprises are increasingly turning to a microservice architecture for new applications to achieve greater agility and scalability, and the software industry is supporting them with development frameworks and tools for creating microservices. Yet, these don’t operate in a vacuum and often require an effective approach to integration. The challenge is that building integration Read More
Source – iamwire.com 2016 turned out to be a great year for Artificial Intelligence. It had all of our attention and no one seemed to be bothered. Many start-ups tried their luck with AI. Everyone started to talk about how Artificial Intelligence is going to change lives and how it’s the “big thing”. 2017 did not Read More
Source – technode.com Didi, the Chinese ride-hailing giant, is looking for ways build up its big data and artificial intelligence capabilities. While widening its global presence with its partners, the company is also deepening its big data technology and artificial intelligence capabilities to become a global leader in smart transportation and automotive technology. The Beijing-based company raised Read More
Source – logisticsmgmt.com Defined as the massive volume of structured and unstructured data that can’t possibly be processed using traditional software or database strategies, Big Data is affecting every corner of the business world. It’s no surprise, really, seeing that more data has been created in the past two years than in the entire history of Read More
Source – livemint.com Arusha (Tanzania): Nigerian neuroscientist Oshiorenoya Agabi may have found a way to solve one of life’s puzzling dilemmas: how to make air travel pleasant again. What if you could skip tedious airport security lines, while a special device able to sniff out explosives works silently in the background? This is only one of the Read More
Source – ecudaily.com.au The thin line between human and robots is quickly being crossed. With the speed technology is developing and its impact in our lives, it may be safe to say that robots will be soon taking over. How would you feel if your best friend in your twilight years was a robot? Is one Read More
Source – whatech.com 44% of contact centres have no intentions to introduce AI. 40% of contact centres agree that emotional intelligence is an area they need to explore. Emotional intelligence has been eagerly embraced by the contact centre industry. You’ve no doubt heard about artificial intelligence making inroads into the contact centre, initially in the form Read More
Source – networkworld.com There’s no doubt that digital transformation (DX) is revolutionizing the way we do business, and cloud computing serves as a key cog in the DX machine. Cloud’s elasticity can indeed help digital businesses communicate more rapidly and increase innovation. But to extract full value from the cloud, companies must make sure that they Read More
Source – forbes.com Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is already revolutionizing domains such as manufacturing, automobiles and healthcare. But the real value of IIoT will be realized only when Machine Learning (ML) is applied to the sensor data. This article attempts to highlight how ML augments IIoT solutions by bringing intelligent insights. Cloud computing has been Read More
Source – deccanchronicle.com Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing quickly. Apple’s intelligent personal assistant, Siri, can listen to your voice and find the nearest restaurant; self-driving cars have become a reality, and IBM’s quiz contest-winning AI model ‘Watson’ is now being deployed to improve cancer treatment. While researchers and experts continue to exploit and harness AI’s “revolutionary” Read More
Source – autonews.com Taking a human out of the driver’s seat requires putting a lot of humans to work behind the scenes. The artificial intelligence in computers that operate self- driving vehicles is developed using vast amounts of data collected from public road tests. But to be useful, the data must be extensively labeled — a Read More
Source – qz.com For years we’ve been recorded in public on security cameras, police bodycams, livestreams, other people’s social media posts, and on and on. But even if there’s a camera in our face, there’s always been a slight assurance that strangers wouldn’t really be able to do anything that affects us with the footage. The Read More
Source – gineersnow.com Doctors are the only ones who can tell, or estimate, how long patients are going to live. Well, not anymore. That’s because artificial intelligence has become so smart that it can also do the same job. Researchers from University of Adelaide were able to develop a system which was able to predict patient Read More
Source – straitstimes.com Here’s a tip for study time: If your classroom or study environment is too warm, you might not be able to concentrate or cram for that paper you need to ace. Five students, all aged 15, from Compassvale Secondary School found that keeping the temperature of the surroundings below 28 deg C was Read More
Source – siliconangle.com In between meeting with customers, crowdchatting with our communities and hosting theCUBE, the research team at Wikibon, owned by the same company as SiliconANGLE, finds time to meet and discuss trends and topics regarding digital business transformation and technology markets. We look at things from the standpoints of business, the Internet of Things, big data, Read More
Source – information-age.com Society is in a new age of digital customer service where on-demand help is expected 24/7, 365 days a year. Brands are recognising that customer service is an integral part of the customer journey, and they’re upping their game to better understand the consumer’s needs. Artificial intelligence (AI), and more specifically machine learning, Read More
Source – wallstreetpit.com Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making Cloud even smarter and more user-friendly. Cloud storage company Box is now utilizing computer-vision technology from Google to facilitate search for images, photos, and other documents. This means that Cloud users will only have to use visual components in their search, which is more convenient and faster than searching Read More
Source – propertycasualty360.com While it’ll be awhile before we all have an IBM Watson Supercomputer on our desks, there are a number of artificial intelligence business tools that property and casualty insurers and insurance professionals can use right now to run smarter, faster — and ahead of the competition. “The emergence of AI coupled with big data and massive Read More
Source – wired.com EARLIER THIS SUMMER Google engineer James Damoreposted a treatise about gender differences on an internal company message board and was subsequently fired. The memo ignited a firestorm of debate about sex discrimination in Silicon Valley; this followed months of reporting on accusations of harassment at Uber and elsewhere. Sex discrimination and harassment in tech, and in science more broadly, is a Read More