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
Tag: Artificial Intelligence
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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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:- punchng.com The world has gone digital. In fact, we are approaching the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also described as Industry 4.0: an age in which a range of new technologies is expectedly fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds in addition to impacting all disciplines, economies and industries. This is an age marked by emerging technology Read More
Source:- inverse.com From early on, we’re taught that intelligence is inextricably tied to the brain. Brainpower is an informal synonym for intelligence — and by extension, any discussion of aptitude and acumen uses the brain as a metaphor. Naturally, when technology progressed to the point where humans decided they wanted to replicate human intelligence in machines, Read More
Source:- economist.com WHEN the first printed books with illustrations started to appear in the 1470s in the German city of Augsburg, wood engravers rose up in protest. Worried about their jobs, they literally stopped the presses. In fact, their skills turned out to be in higher demand than before: somebody had to illustrate the growing Read More
Source:- telegraph.co.uk Robotic artificial intelligence platforms that are increasingly replacing human decision makers are inherently racist and sexist, experts have warned. Programmes designed to “pre-select” candidates for university places or to assess eligibility for insurance cover or bank loans are likely to discriminate against women and non-white applicants, according to recent research. Professor Noel Sharkey, Read More
Source:- gigabit.net Microsoft has unveiled a new hardware system called Brainwave that will allow developers to use high-speed artificial intelligence, by deploying machine learning systems onto programmable silicon. This would mean that performance could go beyond levels of current central processing units, with a lack of batching operations intending to help hardware to handle requests Read More
Source:- cosmosmagazine.com Facebook automatically finds and tags friends in your photos. Google Deepmind’s AlphaGo computer program trounced champions at the ancient game of Go last year. Skype translates spoken conversations in real time – and pretty accurately too. Behind all this is a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning. But what is deep learning and Read More
Source:- forbes.com “Human plus machine isn’t the future, it’s the present,” Garry Kasparov said in a recent TED talk. And this “present” is transforming the world of education at a rapid pace. With children increasingly using tablets and coding becoming part of national curricula around the world, technology is becoming an integral part of classrooms, Read More
Source:- technologyreview.com Amazon isn’t synonymous with high fashion yet, but the company may be poised to lead the way when it comes to replacing stylists and designers with ever-so-chic AI algorithms. Researchers at the e-commerce juggernaut are currently working on several machine-learning systems that could help provide an edge when it comes to spotting, reacting to, Read More
Source:- diplomaticourier.com Artificial intelligence—which simultaneously possesses the greatest potential for evolutionary change as well as the overwhelming possibility for world destruction—is a technology that is already be upon us. Defined as machines that are able to learn, plan, and problem solve—or, more basically, technology with the ability to work and react like a human would—AI Read More
Source:- yourstory.com Researchers are developing an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based system that could help detect melanoma skin cancer earlier. The technology employs machine-learning software to analyse images of skin lesions and provides doctors with objective data on telltale biomarkers of melanoma, which is deadly if detected too late, but highly treatable if caught early. The AI Read More
Source:- qz.com In June, Google told stock photography website Shutterstock that its researchers had found a weakness that could destroy the site’s entire business. Google’s researchers had built an AI-powered tool that could easily remove the watermarks Shutterstock uses to protect all of its images across the site. If a company less “not evil” had done Read More
Source:- cityam.com Along with autonomous cars, virtual reality, and drones, artificial intelligence (AI) has been one of the key areas of tech that is generating huge amounts of excitement. And rightly so. From the much hyped triumphs of Google’s DeepMind, to those very handy recommendations on Skype and Netflix, us regular human folk are only seeing Read More
Source – forbes.com Artificial intelligence (AI) has become such a buzzword that it’s at risk of becoming no more than tech marketing pixie dust. Just sprinkle a little here and suddenly, your solution inherits the foresight of a self-driving Tesla and the simplicity of an Amazon Echo. As more solutions crowd the cybersecurity market touting the Read More