Source:- thenational.ae China has taken down two online robots that appeared to go rogue, responding to users’ questions with one saying its dream was to travel to the United States and the other admitting it wasn’t a huge fan of the Chinese Communist Party. The two “chatbots”, BabyQ and XiaoBing, are designed to use machine Read More
Month: August 2017
Source:- techradar.com Google has become very interested in artificial intelligence in recent years, and particularly its applications for regular people. For example, here’s a load of experiments that it’s running involving machine learning. Now, however, researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center have shown how artificial intelligence techniques can also deliver better search engine results. Read More
Source – economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Over 60 per cent of marketers in India believe new-age technologies are going to impact their workplace practices and consider it the next big disruptor in the industry, a new report said on Thursday. According to a global report by software major Adobe that involved more than 5,000 creative and marketing Read More
Source – hindustantimes.com Scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Google have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can automatically retouch images like a professional photographer in real time, eliminating the need to edit images after they are clicked with smartphones. The data captured by today’s digital cameras is often treated as the raw Read More
Source – bizjournals.com Computers as we once knew them are gone. And hackers, their days are over, too. Before you start googling the news to see what you missed, you’re too late. What I’m talking about are jobs from another era. The earlier version of the hacker was more commonly known as a woodcutter. And computers Read More
Source – cnet.com Facebook is doubling down on its war on fake news. The social networking titan said on Thursday in an updated blog post that it would expand a program to offer related articles on a trending topic that offer fact-check articles and other perspectives. The company added it would use “updated machine learning” to detect more potential hoaxes Read More
Source – lightreading.com Responding to concerns from advertisers and politicians, YouTube Inc. has added new measures and improved existing ones to better regulate objectionable content uploaded on its platform. The company detailed new measures in a blog post, chief among which is the use of machine learning and automation to remove objectionable content from the site and also limit Read More
Source – computerweekly.com Well-established enterprises like retailers or manufacturing companies now have an abundance of data at their disposal. Unfortunately, merely possessing vast amounts of raw data does not lead directly to increased efficiency or the rapid development of new revenue streams. Instead, everyone must now figure out exactly how to make this data work for Read More
Source – blogs.scientificamerican.com Despite the rapid advancement and heavy investment in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, we still cannot put a human-like brain in a robot—not now, nor in the foreseeable future. It is a matter of physics. The human brain is made of bio-circuits with a massive number of interconnecting neurons—about 100 billion of them. Our brain Read More
Source – td.org Leaders help organizations maneuver transformational changes. Latest advances in artificial intelligence have triggered large scale changes in every industry. Interestingly, a recent Harvard Business Review article has predicted that “the first wave of corporate AI is doomed to fail.” The authors, Kartik Hosanagar and Apoorv Saxena, have argued that most of the companies are not approaching Read More
Source – sciencemag.org Whether it’s reports of a new and wondrous technological accomplishment or of the danger we face in a future filled with unbridled machines, artificial intelligence (AI) has recently been receiving a great deal of attention. If you want to understand what the fuss is all about, Max Tegmark’s original, accessible, and provocative Life 3.0: Read More
Source – theaustralian.com.au It’s 2050 and you’re not allowed to drive. In fact, you’ve forgotten how. And you can’t get a licence anyway. Fitness devices and computers monitor your health daily. Even the toilet analyses what you offer up to check for disease. And you, like many, have had your genes sequenced. You know the diseases Read More
Source – venturebeat.com As it relates to technology, the private aviation industry has been flagging lately. While some industries — health, retail, manufacturing, automotive — have adopted machine learning in recent years and used it to transform their businesses, our sector has fallen behind. What the private aviation industry specifically lacks is machine learning technology to Read More
Source – infoworld.com There’s now a JavaScript library for executing neural networks inside a webpage, using the hardware-accelerated graphics API available in modern web browsers. Developed by a team of MIT graduate students, TensorFire can run TensorFlow-style machine learning models on any GPU, without requiring the GPU-specific middleware typically needed by machine learning libraries such as Keras-js. TensorFire is another step Read More
Source – bgr.com Nearly a month after YouTube said it was going to combat online terrorist content on its platform, the video-sharing site said the process is going well, thanks to machines and humans alike. In an August 1 blog post, the Google-owned site said its multi-pronged approach is being aided by machine learning, where computers are Read More
Source – phys.org Applying big data analysis to mineralogy offers a way to predict minerals missing from those known to science, where to find them, and where to find new deposits of valuable minerals such as gold and copper, according to a groundbreaking study. In a paper published by American Mineralogist, scientists report the first application to Read More
Source – firstpost.com The Information Technology has never had it so bad as it has since a year ago when job cuts and summary dismissals have been the order of the day. No matter which blue chip IT firm an individual works for, the jobs they are hold at risk, irrespective of seniority. A survey by Read More
Source – forbes.com One of the most surefire ways to reach a potential customer base is through social media. By maintaining a steady presence on platforms like Facebook and Instagram, marketers have been able to engage with audiences in more intimate — and ultimately productive — ways than ever before. As helpful as social media has been to marketers, however, Read More
Source – financialexpress.com To build out a more elaborate personal assistant for the Messenger users, Facebook has acquired an artificial intelligence (AI) startup Ozlo that specialises in understanding text-based conversations. The four-year-old start-up claims that its virtual assistants can understand and provide answers to questions which do not have simple “yes” or “no” answers. “By joining Read More
Source – firstpost.com Automation is bringing about changes in work choices like never before as some profiles get obsolete and new job roles make their way to cyber security, cloud and Big Data, among others, says a report. According to a recent research by Simplilearn Career Data Labs, some of the job roles that may soon go Read More
Source – informationweek.com Artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and other advanced analytics technologies are driving the growth of some of the most forward-looking and admired organizations, from Amazon to Netflix to GE. This leading-edge of analytics combines big data and near real-time processing with other advanced tools to deliver the insights you need, before Read More
Source – techtarget.com In this Q&A, Daniel Bryant, CTO at SpectoLabs and an independent technical consultant, talks about some of the challenges that come up when addressing microservices security and some of the tools and techniques you can use. Compared to more traditional architectures, what new challenges have microservices introduced in terms of security? Daniel Bryant: Read More
Source – techtarget.com Most enterprise development teams will end up using cloud-hosted microservices. The question for most will be where to start, because picking poor candidates early will slow or even discredit microservices adoption. The best microservices use cases fall into four categories, and every enterprise should look for one or more of these for suggested early Read More
Source – nextplatform.com For developers, deep learning systems are becoming more interactive and complex. From the building of more malleable datasets that can be iteratively augmented, to more dynamic models, to more continuous learning being built into neural networks, there is a greater need to manage the process from start to finish with lightweight tools. “New Read More
Source – independent.co.uk Facebook has shut down two artificial intelligences that appeared to be chatting to each other in a strange language only they understood. The two chatbots came to create their own changes to English that made it easier for them to work – but which remained mysterious to the humans that supposedly look after Read More
Source – businessinsider.in There are a lot of myths out there about artificial intelligence (AI). In June, Alibaba founder Jack Ma said AI is not only a massive threat to jobs but could also spark World War III. Because of AI, he told CNBC, in 30 years we’ll work only 4 hours a day , 4 days a Read More
Source – equaltimes.org Artificial intelligence is fast changing the world. The premise that intelligent machines will perform tasks more efficiently and at a lower cost than human beings is by no means far-fetched. The challenges facing the workers of the future are multiplying before our very eyes. Some of the most vulnerable jobs in the transition Read More
Source – financialexecutives.org Few people will dispute that organizations have more data than ever at their disposal. But actually gaining meaningful insights from that data—and transforming these insights into action—is easier said than done. The bigger challenge, however, is how to effectively navigate through this massive amount of data in search for the right data needed to provide Read More
Source – forbes.com Many professionals use data and analytics skills to produce something of value, but only a few get media buzz. Career topics are the most popular of the articles I write. Many people write me with questions about careers in analytics, nearly all of them from people whose idea of an analytics career is Read More
Source – eschoolnews.com As technology continues to evolve, it’s not surprising that apps are starting to be incorporated into daily classroom activities. With more than 80,000 apps considered ‘educational’ in Apple’s app store, educators will never have a shortage of applications to use with students while teaching various lessons. And, while most educators welcome the use of applications Read More