Source – thefinancialbrand.com A great deal of discussion has surrounded the importance of building a seamless digital account opening process. As found in the Digital Banking Report, Digital Account Opening and Onboarding, progress is beginning to be made, as more organizations are allowing consumers to open new checking accounts online and on a mobile device. With the Read More
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Source – deccanchronicle.com The lending ecosystem around the world has been at the centre of significant changes in the last decade. From financial technology disrupting the financial services sector industry with highly efficient and cost-effective processes, to stringent regulations following the 2008 global financial crisis, the growing technological intervention has played a significant role in the Read More
Source – yourstory.com Technology-driven automation is omnipresent and pervading our lives like never before. From robots and chatbots to virtual/augmented reality, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and beyond, the physical space is littered with digital influence. The impact of increased automation is already upon us and influencing our lives in all possible ways. Up till now Read More
Source – edsurge.com Don’t doubt it: Machine learning is hot—and getting hotter. For the past two years, public interest in building complex algorithms that automatically “learn” and improve from their own operations, or experience (rather than explicit programming) has been growing. Call it “artificial intelligence,” or (better) “machine learning.” Such work has, in fact, been going Read More
Source – geektime.com We live in a world of chatbots. Chatbots improve human interaction with systems by giving a response based on the user input. This means chatbots are simple automated programs that can process simple user inputs and provide a meaningful output. But with time, chatbots evolved and now are impacting the industries around us. The last decade has been Read More
Source – information-age.com Synechron Inc., the global financial services consulting and technology services provider, has announced that nearly 60 financial institutions are set to implement artificial intelligence (AI) technology – with interest spanning across four continents. Currently, 57 financial institutions based in Europe, the US, Middle East and Asia are being helped to adopt AI technology by Read More
Source – techtarget.com Every day, it seems, we read headlines about a new data breach or cyberattack. Then we talk about how to improve cybersecurity to prevent similar attacks from happening in the future. Chief among the issues to address is a lack of security personnel to fill vacant positions: How can we improve security if Read More
Source – ign.com We haven’t quite reached the terrifying sci-fi hellscape described by the Terminator franchise, but researchers at Facebook have brought us just a bit closer to the age of the machines. Recently, they pulled the plug on an artificial intelligence system after it developed its own language. The AI in question was actually designed Read More
Source – economictimes.indiatimes.com SAN FRANCISCO: Machine learning and AI-based startups can Google for help as the search giant launches its Google Developers Launchpad Studio Accelerator Programme for startups to build and scale their products across the globe. The accelerator programme is targeting startups in all global markets, including India, as well as homegrown players in the Read More
Source – theatlantic.com Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are having a spat about whether or not artificial intelligence is going to kill us all. Musk, the chief of Tesla and SpaceX who has longstanding worries about the potentially apocalyptic future of AI, recently returned to that soapbox, making an appeal for proactive regulations on AI. “I keep sounding the alarm bell,” he Read More
Source – vccircle.com Have you ever thought about what the future holds for us? Self-driven cars, automatically-curated Netflix queues, and an intelligent home that auto sets the temperature are some of the things that come to mind. It is no secret, then, that artificial intelligence (AI) will impact us in myriad ways as technology progresses. A Read More
Source – iamwire.com Finally, after many long winters, spring has come in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Experts believe it’s the “new electricity”. AI influencer and Guru, Andrew Ng has said – “this time the hype around artificial intelligence is real.” Its ubiquity was evident in this year’s Consumer Electronic Show (CES 2017) where “its impact was all-pervasive and its presence could be Read More
Source – forbes.com Artificial intelligence wiggled its way into the movie industry decades before it reached business viability. Blockbusters like “The Terminator,” “Star Trek,” and “Iron Man” captivated viewers with futuristic ideas about how AI would change the world. Now that AI is actually influencing the real world, though, business leaders are starting to see that Read More
Source – internetofthingsagenda.techtarget.com Artificial Intelligence is rapidly finding application in a myriad of fields, enhancing both the pace and quality of work. The tasks performed by AI are evolving at such a rapid pace that scientists already fear the rise of machines. That might be far-fetched, but AI does bring along some genuine areas of concern. This is primarily because Read More
Source – forbes.com If you’re like most people, calling an insurance company isn’t among your favorite activities. That’s because the insurance industry is one of the least innovative areas for customer experience, meaning that customers typically come away from their interactions disappointed and dissatisfied. However, things are definitely changing, and artificial intelligence is playing a large Read More
Source – techcrunch.com Yet these victories, as mind-blowing as they seemed to be, were more about training algorithms and using brute-force computational strength than any real intelligence. Former MIT robotics professor Rodney Brooks, who was one of the founders of iRobot and later Rethink Robotics, reminded us at the TechCrunch Robotics Session at MIT last week that training Read More
Source – forbes.com When it comes to the possibilities and possible perils of artificial intelligence (AI), learning and reasoning by machines without the intervention of humans, there are lots of opinions out there. Only time will tell which one of these quotes will be the closest to our future reality. Until we get there, it’s interesting Read More
Source – macobserver.com This article I found showcases one current debate about the potential for AI doing evil. “Elon Musk fires back at Mark Zuckerberg in debate about the future: ‘His understanding of the subject is limited’.” What they’re debating is the future potential for AIs that can, for all practical purposes, duplicate and then go Read More
Source – seekingalpha.com Summary In the next 10 years, the artificial intelligence market will be increasing by an average of 50% each year. Over the past 6 years, Alphabet acquired more artificial intelligence startups than Facebook and Microsoft combined. The first practical results of Alphabet in the field of artificial intelligence are qualitatively better than those Read More
Source – theregister.co.uk The Raspberry Pi is one of the most exciting developments in hobbyist computing today. Across the world, people are using it to automate beer making, open up the world of robotics and revolutionise STEM education in a world overrun by film students. These are all laudable pursuits. Meanwhile, what is Microsoft doing with Read More
Source – psfk.com The state of your health shouldn’t be a mystery, nor should patients or doctors have to wait long to find answers to pressing medical concerns. In PSFK’s Future of Health Report, we dig deep into the latest in AI, big data algorithms and IoT tools that are enabling a new, more comprehensive overview of Read More
Source – martechadvisor.com If you search “Marketing and AI”, Google returns almost four million results. Recent headlines range from the strategic – AI Will Make Marketing Less Manual (well, duh) – to the tactical, like 4 ways AI can improve email marketing. The hype machine is in full swing. But here’s the rub: the vast majority of the conversations Read More
Source – digitaljournal.com Washington – A new artificial intelligence tool can create realistic videos from audio files alone. This technology, developed at the University of Washington, has been tested on speeches made by former President Obama. The technology is based on newly prepared algorithms, which are designed to overcome a limitation with ‘computer vision’. This is with Read More
Source – itproportal.com What exactly does artificial intelligence (AI) mean in practice? To most, there is a fear associated with it. It spells catastrophe for the human race. First, it will take over our jobs and before we know it, we will have no place in this world. However, AI has the ability to improve how Read More
Source – bwdisrupt.businessworld.in Known for delivering out-of-the-box, performance based strategies in the marketing and technology domain, Envigo has footprints in India and UK. Led by Saurabh Kumar, an alumni of National Institute of Technology, Karnataka and IIM, Ahmedabad, Envigo partners with over 90 clients world-wide, worked with more than 300+ brands so far, across 24 countries Read More
Source – telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com New Delhi: Intel on Friday launched the Movidius Neural Compute Stick, a USB-based deep learning inference kit and self-contained artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator that delivers dedicated deep neural network processing capabilities to a wide range of host devices at the edge. Designed for product developers and researchers, the Movidius Neural Compute Stick aims to reduce Read More
Source –thehill.com One of the biggest problems with Washington is that more often than not the policy conversation isn’t grounded in the facts. We see this dysfunction clearly on technology policy, where Congress is largely uninformed on what the future of artificial intelligence (AI) technology will look like and what the actual consequences are likely Read More
Source – forbes.com As fewer shoppers choose to frequent stores, retailers are looking for new ways to rejuvenate the shopping experience, whether through a wholesale reinvention of the retail space or by doubling down on efforts to send consumers targeted ads. To that end, retailers are increasingly turning to technologies such as artificial intelligence algorithms, messenger bots, and Read More
Source – techrepublic.com The engineer in charge of keeping Google available 24/7 says the enormous datacenters that underpin online services worldwide will soon be run with the help of AI. Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering, is basing this prediction on the profound savings identified by a machine-learning system charged with helping run a Google Read More
Source – thewire.in China’s attention to artificial intelligence (AI) based technologies and machine learning in the US, according to a recent Reuters report, has the US quite concerned. China has been heavily investing in American AI start-ups, alarming the US government enough for it to seriously consider strengthening its existing strategic foreign investment regulatory mechanism – the Committee on Read More