Orchids are more than just decorative – they are also economically important in horticulture, in the pharmaceutical industry and even in the food industry. For example, vanilla orchids are grown commercially for their seed pods, and the economy on the northeast of…
Americans encounter some form of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in nearly every aspect of daily life: We accept Netflix’s recommendations on what movie we should stream next, enjoy Spotify’s curated playlists and take a detour when Waze tells us we…
In 2018, freight trucks contributed 23% of the greenhouse gas emissions in 2018, and by sector, transportation contributes an overall 28% of those emissions. Shared truckloads on less than load (LTL) freight, which lets several shippers share space in one full semi-truck, could reduce…
At its core, machine learning is concerned with using large data sets to learn the relationships between variables, make predictions, and interact with a changing environment. And it is becoming an increasingly important tool in business—so much so that almost all employees…
Deepfakes are media — often video but sometimes audio — that were created, altered, or synthesized with the aid of deep learning to attempt to deceive some viewers or listeners into believing a false event or false message. The original example of a deepfake…
Artificial intelligence isn’t just a science fiction concept anymore. You can find it everywhere, from helping medical teams analyze results to personalized advertisements on social media. It has a ton of benefits for your contact center agents, too, and here are some great…
The influence of ‘AI hype’ on the private sector has unsurprisingly also filtered down to governments around the world in recent years, with politicians and digital leaders citing the ample opportunity for artificial intelligence and automation to improve the delivery of public…
If you’ve read our previous article about making games in Scratch, you’ll know that games are an incredibly broad genre. Anything that has player input and an objective can be considered a game. However, the vast majority of games include more than…
E-commerce firms have faced a conundrum in Latin America: How can they deliver packages in a region where 25% of urban populations live in informal, squatter neighborhoods with no addresses? Enter Chazki, a logistics startup from Peru, which partnered with Arequipa’s Universidad San Pablo to build an artificial…
One of the most powerful ways through which we convey the results of data science is visualization, from simple Excel graphs through advanced displays like network diagrams and bespoke visuals. What most outside the data science community don’t realize is just how…
