Source – telegraph.co.uk Microsoft is setting up a new healthcare department at its Cambridge research facility, as part of plans to use its artificial intelligence software to enter the health market. The computer giant has created the division as part of its commitment to “transform healthcare” using technologies such as machine learning and cloud computing. Its Read More
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Source – fin24.com Johannesburg – Medicine will look and be practised differently in the future. Already, digital health and, in particular, artificial intelligence are changing doctors’ jobs. In the not-too-distant future, patients will be at the centre of the healthcare system, with care and management delivered on a “platform”, rather than face to face. Digitisation in Read More
Source – formtek.com Deep Learning is quickly becoming a key component in the tool bag for Data Scientists. Deep Learning is a kind of Machine Learning that is being applied to applications like fraud detection, prodcut demand prediction, quality assurance, and predictive and prescriptive maintenance. Alexander Linden, research vice president at Gartner, said that “deep learning is Read More
Source – pipelinepub.com Data is big business. As the saying goes, information is power, and this has never been truer than with traditionally hardware-focused companies shifting toward a software-based model. This digital transformation is happening across the board and is causing enterprises around the world to scramble in efforts to better grasp what’s happening on their 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 – venturebeat.com There is an old saying that speaks to the current state of AI: “To someone holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” As companies, governments, and organizations scramble to be in the vanguard of this new generation of artificial intelligence, they are trying their best to persuade everyone that all of our human shortcomings Read More
Source – techzone360.com Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most talked about and debated topics of conversation happening today. It is touching every industry – from consumer to automotive to financial to healthcare – and its capabilities only seem to be growing. According to Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, we are witnessing an “intelligence explosion,” 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 – techtarget.com Cloud services have transformed IT infrastructure, but the most recent trends in cloud computing signal a more fundamental shift that’s reshaping jobs. Newer cloud services and application design principals — such as microservices, serverless computing and function as a service — have important implications for both IT operations staff and developers. However, understanding 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 – arstechnica.com Machine learning (ML) based data analytics is rewriting the rules for how enterprises handle data. Research into machine learning and analytics is already yielding success in turning vast amounts of data—shaped with the help of data scientists—into analytical rules that can spot things that would escape human analysis in the past—whether it be 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 – forbes.com It’s happened. Arrests have been made thanks to the evidence collected from connected digital devices such as the Amazon dot and a Fitbit. This is just the tip of the transformation that law enforcement will experience because of the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence and robots. There are certainly benefits to applying this new 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 – fastcodesign.com Remember how just five years ago it seemed like 3D printing was going to take over the world? How it seemed like we’d have 3D-printed cars that we’d be parking in our 3D-printed houses? Things didn’t seem to work outso much. But even while the hype died, companies have been steadily working on Read More
Source – cosmosmagazine.com Radio astronomy is undergoing a major boost, with new technology gathering data on objects in our universe faster than astronomers can analyse. But once that data is scrutinised it could lead to some amazing new discoveries, as I explain in my review of the state of radio astronomy, published today in Nature Astronomy. Over Read More
Source – techtarget.com he emergence of microservices boosts business agility, enabling rapid application development, deployment and modification. The challenge is baking in microservices security processes. Traditional security processes can’t secure microservices, because the latter work in and communicate between both internal and external environments, according to Amir Jerbi, CTO of Aqua Security, a container security platform 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 – ksusentinel.com Kennesaw State has announced a research collaboration with GE Digital to provide students in the Ph.D. Analytics and Data Science program the opportunity to explore advanced data science technologies. Jennifer Priestley, associate dean of the Graduate College and executive director of KSU’s Analytics and Data Science Institute, said the collaboration and the grant that comes with 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
Source – enterprisetech.com There’s lots of talk about “Digital Transformation” as if it were something new, as if the concept were in its infancy. But in truth, digital transformation has been around for a while, and it’s acting less like a newborn than an awkward teenager with growing pains, giving its parents plenty of trouble. The Read More
Source – techstory.in It is sometimes hard to imagine the progress that technology has taken in the past few years. Looking back over the past 30 and you are sure to be amazed. Where once artificial intelligence was a thing for sci-fi and fantasy, it is now a reality. We joke, uncomfortably at times, about the Read More