Source – entrepreneur.com There are two divided sides when it comes to Artificial Intelligence (AI): those excited about its possibilities and those scared by its potential. Love it or hate it, AI already exists in our everyday lives. From asking Siri to perform a Google search to asking Alexa to play your favorite song, AI is being used Read More
Month: August 2017
Source – techtarget.com Brandon Wirtz was supposed to be a fifth-generation teacher. Indeed, the founder and CEO of artificial intelligence engine developer Recognant is a teacher — of robots, not people — and not the factory floor variety of bots, either. Instead, Wirtz sees AI changing a very human process: human resources. To reach the place where artificial intelligence and Read More
Source – abc.net.au Artificial intelligence is becoming commonplace, from your smartphone and your Amazon account to the driverless cars that will soon grace public roads in Australia. Often, the response to this reality is one of trepidation and concern, about mass unemployment and the dominance of Big Tech. But that’s not always the case. “Art is one Read More
Source – sdtimes.com Microservices are in the spotlight, as infrastructure building blocks, because they offer decoupling of services, data store autonomy, miniaturized development, testing set up, and other benefits that facilitate faster time to market for new applications or updates. The availability of containers and their orchestration tools has also contributed to the increase in microservices Read More
Source – cio.com Monsanto CIO Jim Swanson has outlined five key elements of Monsanto’s digital transformation: customer centricity, internal business process disruption, technology and automation, data and decision science, and leadership and change management. He views all of those facets as integral to breaking through the “clay layer” of mid-level employees, present in every organization, who Read More
Source – forbes.com University degrees are really, really expensive and there are plenty of new startups in Silicon Valley offering job readiness training for much cheaper. So, how does a $100,000 graduate degree in statistics stack up to an online course for 1/100th the price? The short answer is that I think for many jobs, an online certificate Read More
Source – itproportal.com Big data and analytics are topics firmly embedded in our business dialogue. The amount of data we’re now generating is astonishing. Cisco predicts that annual global IP traffic will reach 3.3 ZB per year by 2021 and that the number of devices connected to IP networks will be more than three times the global population Read More
Source – abc.net.au Musk is wrong to worry about artificial intelligence (AI) being a threat to humanity, so I agree with Zuckerberg. And Zuckerberg is wrong to dismiss all concerns about AI, so I agree with Musk. But neither of them are worrying about the right things. AI is transforming almost every aspect of our lives, Read More
Source – robohub.org As AI surpasses human abilities in Go and poker – two decades after Deep Blue trounced chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov – it is seeping into our lives in ever more profound ways. It affects the way we search the web, receive medical advice and whether we receive finance from our banks. The most Read More
Source – itworld.com You’ve probably encountered the term “machine learning” more than a few times lately. Often used interchangeably with artificial intelligence, machine learning is in fact a subset of AI, both of which can trace their roots to MIT in the late 1950s. Machine learning is something you probably encounter every day, whether you know Read More
Source – information-age.com The march of the machines is upon society: the vast power of machine learning has been freed from the confines of IT laboratories and is disrupting businesses across the world, delivering deep insight, accurate predictions and detailed learnings that have the potential to make huge transformation. But there’s an issue: these immense, invaluable Read More
Source – betanews.com In my series, I’ve looked at the different ways in which data can be deployed to help people make decisions. Over time, more of the decision-making process has shifted from people manually collating data from different sources in their heads to using data sets that can be automatically joined together. This networked approach Read More
Source – illinoisfarmertoday.com ST. LOUIS — Big Data in agriculture isn’t really new. The technology used to collect it may be, but common sense still rules its use. Steve Sonka realized the value of ag data during his childhood on the family farm in Iowa, where he milked cows and fed chickens. He learned early on Read More
Source – diginomica.com Deep learning, the branch of AI that uses artificial neural networks to build prediction and pattern matching models from large datasets relevant to a particular application, is having a sizable impact on both consumer and enterprise software. Whether for enabling home appliances to understand and respond to vocal commands or identifying hidden patterns endemic Read More
Source – sciencemag.org Can computers be creative? That’s a question bordering on the philosophical, but artificial intelligence (AI) can certainly make music and artwork that people find pleasing. Last year, Google launched Magenta, a research project aimed at pushing the limits of what AI can do in the arts. Science spoke with Douglas Eck, the team’s lead in San Francisco, Read More
Source – livemint.com Bengaluru: Last year, for the first time ever, an international beauty contest was judged by machines. Thousands of people from across the world submitted their photos to Beauty.AI, hoping that their faces would be selected by an advanced algorithm free of human biases, in the process accurately defining what constitutes human beauty. In preparation, Read More
Source – financialexpress.com “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master,” said Norwegian Nobel Laureate Christian Lous Lange more than a century ago. As companies pin their hopes on chatbot and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the big question the world is facing today is whether these neural machines would turn out to be friends or Read More
Source – accountingweb.com In the accounting, audit, and compliance professions, Artificial Intelligence(AI) is already beginning to automate labor-intensive tasks, such as data entry or combing through manual documents. For example, accounting and audit professionals may deploy AI to extract information from invoices or purchase orders to enter into accounting and auditing systems, freeing up hours in Read More
Source – forbes.com Deep learning is the area of artificial intelligence where the real magic is happening right now. Traditionally computers, while being very fast, have not been very smart – they have no ability to learn from their mistakes and have to be given precise instructions in order to carry out any task. Deep learning involves building Read More
Source – veracode.com I am not a fan of tapas. I’ll take the 22-oz. bone-in ribeye over small plates any day. My wife is the opposite; she loves them. With more tapas bars opening and existing restaurants adopting a “small plate” menu, I find myself losing the battle of steakhouse vs. tapas quite often. After several Read More
Source – saultthisweek.com The future seems to be here when it comes to artificial intelligence. Although many think artificial intelligence, or AI, is still the stuff of books and film, it’s actually used in a number of products and apps that most of us use multiple times a day. Dr. Miguel Garcia-Ruiz, a professor of computer Read More
Source – firstpost.com Reskilling is the buzzword in the IT sector. With the sector seeing huge churn due to automation and protectionism in the western markets, industry lobby group Nasscom’s president R Chandrashekhar told employees in May: Re-skill or perish. Yes, that’s true. The sector is seeing layoffs and voluntary severances. Companies’ hiring is on the Read More
Source – livemint.com Google has made several changes in the Play Store recently so it can improve the overall experience of browsing through the store for an app or game while keeping users safe from bad apps at the same time. Like many other Google apps, artificial intelligence (AI) is at the heart of it. We Read More
Source – Zeenews.india.com Boston: Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can monitor a person’s sleep using ambient radio waves, without sensors attached to the body. The device analyses the radio signals around the person and translates those measurements into sleep stages – light, deep, or rapid eye movement (REM). Researchers at Massachusetts Read More
Source – venturebeat.com When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), there’s a common question: Will AI technology render certain jobs obsolete? The common prediction is that yes, many jobs will be lost as a result. But what do the numbers say? Even more importantly, what does logical thought suggest? AI jobs in high demand You don’t need a Read More
Source – markets.businessinsider.com BRISBANE, Australia, Aug. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Artificial intelligence (AI) and big data are pervasive and disruptive in today’s world. They transform the way people work and live, decision making processes and the landscape of industries. The language service industry is not an exception to this. What revolutionary changes have AI and big data brought to Read More
Source – economictimes.indiatimes.com London, Aug 6 (IANS) Humans prefer interacting with faulty robots significantly more than with robots that function and behave flawlessly, new research has found. For the study, published in the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI, researchers examined how people react to robots that exhibit faulty behaviour compared to perfectly performing robots. “Our Read More
Source – the-japan-news.com The Yomiuri Shimbun Expectations for artificial intelligence are expanding, and people are making more and more attempts to use AI in a variety of areas, from finance and medical care to manufacturing. However, some are sounding warning bells and say that AI will eventually exceed the capabilities of humans. Shojiro Nishio, president of Read More
Source:- huffingtonpost.com There is no doubt that AI (artificial intelligence) is the new electricity and everyone is trying to get benefits from the trend. Many companies are integrating AI solutions in their business operations to reap the benefit of emerging machine learning (ML) technologies. The seamless introduction of AI, however, requires thoughtful adaptation of corporate Read More
Source:- infoworld.com Machine learning is still a pipe dream for most organizations, with Gartner estimating that fewer than 15 percent of enterprises successfully get machine learning into production. Even so, companies need to start experimenting now with machine learning so that they can build it into their DNA. Easy? Not even close, says Ted Dunning, Read More