The pandemic showed AI’s potential for accelerating progress towards the SDGs. It has potential application in health, climate change, agriculture and transport. But we must ensure artificial intelligence is employed in ways that are trusted, transparent and inclusive. Seven years have passed…
As data professionals, we all want to work on cool data problems and to be successful in those projects. However, what often comes as a surprise is that the definition of cool and measure of success evolves as you go from school…
Tick Tick Boom It looks like Facebook’s Metaverse gambit may be showing more signs of implosion. This week, a Facebook — okay, fine, Meta — executive told the company’s Reality Labs division to expect a cutback announcement soon, per documents reviewed by Reuters, due…
Meta is continuing the Meta-fication of its brands by renaming Facebook Pay, its payment system available across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, to Meta Pay. The change is set to happen “soon,” according to a blog post from Stephane Kasriel, Meta’s head of commerce and financial…
There is no disputing the privacy trend. It is here. It is unstoppable. And it is one of the few issues in American life that crosses party lines. Data shows that 86% of people care about privacy for themselves and others — with 79% willing…
What does it mean to be an inventor? In patent law, designed to protect the intellectual property of inventors, officials are used to thinking of inventors as humans, taking an “inventive step” – a new way of doing something, not obvious to…
For those of us in the tech space, you’ve likely heard of AIOps, or artificial intelligence for IT operations, which “involves using AI and ML technologies along with big data, data integration, and automation technologies to help make IT operations smarter and more…
One of the most common use cases of artificial intelligence at the moment is its ability to handle massive datasets, processing and interpreting them. A task that human data analysts would take ages to complete, if at all, is performed in no…
There is a popular media narrative that AI will take over teachers. If anything, AI will be a new tool in teachers’ toolkits. Teachers spend a good portion of their time reeling with administrative burdens. AI will not replace them but free…
Anyone who has ever dreamed of getting a video message from legendary Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi is in luck. Thanks to Lay’s chips, UEFA Champions League and their tech partner Synthesia, soccer fans can send each other semi-personalized video messages of Messi in…
