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Your life in AI's hands: The battle to understand deep learning - TechRepublic

Your life in AI's hands: The battle to understand deep learning - TechRepublic

As society enters an era where AI will take life or death decisions—spotting whether moles are cancerous and driving us to work—trusting these machines will become ever more...

Let's set ourselves a new kind of intelligence - Information Age

Let's set ourselves a new kind of intelligence - Information Age

Nick Ismail As Article 50 is triggered and the UK faces a future outside the EU, businesses will be experiencing a mix of emotions, not least of which is concern about the...

Can Artificial Intelligence Be Smarter Than a Person?

Can Artificial Intelligence Be Smarter Than a Person?

One of the more interesting applications of AI today is a field called generative design, where a machine is fed oodles of data and asked to come up with hundreds or thousands...

How the U.S. Can Advance Artificial Intelligence Without Spending a Dime

How the U.S. Can Advance Artificial Intelligence Without Spending a Dime

Federal officials have largely come around to the idea that research funding is crucial for U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence, but there are ways to accelerate...

Microsoft Steps Up Data Platform and AI Ambitions

Microsoft Steps Up Data Platform and AI Ambitions

Microsoft unveils big-data-capable SQL Server 2019 and extended AI capabilities to power data-driven innovation. Here’s my analysis.   Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella set the tone...

Learning and Leading in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Part 1

Learning and Leading in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Part 1

With this 2-part blog series, I’ll explore the evolving nature of how humans are learning from one another and we now have the opportunity to strengthen the leadership qualities...

AIOps - The Type of 'AI' with Nothing Artificial About It - Dataconomy

AIOps - The Type of 'AI' with Nothing Artificial About It - Dataconomy

The term AI (Artificial Intelligence) is being thrown around left and right these days. Many companies claim they have an AI play even when they don’t. But there’s another type...

Don't fall for the AI hype: Here are the ingredients you need to build an actual useful thing

Don't fall for the AI hype: Here are the ingredients you need to build an actual useful thing

Artificial intelligence these days is sold as if it were a magic trick. Data is fed into a neural net – or black box – as a stream of jumbled numbers, and voilà! It comes out...

AI-Powered Decision-Making In Business Must Be Transparent And Keep Humans 'In The Loop'

AI-Powered Decision-Making In Business Must Be Transparent And Keep Humans 'In The Loop'

Management consultancy McKinsey and Company predicts that over the next 10 years, Knowledge Work Automation will be worth $5-7trillion to the global economy.  An important...

Baidu’s AI learned English by learning to find apples in a maze

Baidu’s AI learned English by learning to find apples in a maze

A lot of artificial intelligence today learns by trial and error. As humans, we take this concept—learning something by attempting it again and again—for granted, because our...

Microsoft says its racist chatbot illustrates how AI isn’t adaptable enough to help most businesses

Microsoft says its racist chatbot illustrates how AI isn’t adaptable enough to help most businesses

The AI revolution may take longer than some expect to spread from Silicon Valley into other industries. Recent breakthroughs in machine learning have let tech giants such as...

How This Company Combines The Gig Economy Model With AI To Be More Productive | Fast Company

How This Company Combines The Gig Economy Model With AI To Be More Productive | Fast Company

Startups operating in the gig economy typically use software platforms to assemble disconnected armies of freelance contractors to perform simple tasks. Think of Uber, which...