Jasmine Lawrence works with the Everyday Robots project from Alphabet’s X moonshot factory. She thinks there’s a lot of unanswered ethical questions about how to use robots and how to think of them: Are they slaves or tools? Do they replace or complement…
From the production and marketing era to the relationship and intelligence era, business models have been evolving over the centuries. Over the years, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has fundamentally transformed the very meaning of ideas, innovation, and inventions. As a…
Computer scientists at Loughborough University have engineered artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that can analyze football (that’s soccer for you fellow Americans) players’ abilities on the field. Dr. Baihua Li, the project lead, says the novel technology could revolutionize the sport by effectively enabling teams to properly…
If your work puts you in regular contact with technology vendors, you’ll have heard terms such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), natural language processing and computer vision before. You’ll have heard that AI/ML is the future, that the boundaries of…
In October, Amazon had to discontinue an artificial intelligence–powered recruiting tool after it discovered the system was biased against female applicants. In 2016, a ProPublica investigation revealed a recidivism assessment tool that used machine learning was biased against black defendants. More recently, the US Department of…
Cognitive computing has the potential to transform HR management by assisting HR personnel right from hiring to developing talent to maximize their productivity in an organization. The impact of cognitive computing in HR management will enable leaders to get useful information and improve…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to play a key role in the future of financial services and more broadly in what UBS and the World Economic Forum refer to as the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” The global economy is on the cusp of…
There are a significant number of investments in the automotive industry nowadays. The majority of these investments focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and the optimization of self-driving technology. Meanwhile, new mobility systems and players are making their way into the automotive market. Tesla is…
The news: An open letter from a growing coalition of AI researchers is calling out scientific publisher Springer Nature for a conference paper it reportedly planned to include in its forthcoming book Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence. The paper, titled “A Deep Neural Network…
Digitalisation has already had a major impact on the world of business, but now a project helmed by Deloitte has helped the World Wildlife Fund wield new technology in the fight to protect the world’s most fragile ecosystems. Supported by the Deloitte…
