The hype around artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven solutions for managing the pandemic has met stiff resistance from those who are concerned about its lasting social impacts. While much of the media narrative labels those impacts simply as “data privacy concerns,” the…
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is based on the idea of optimizing, streamlining and expanding the reach of the most diverse operations. Their systems are programmed to identify patterns and carry out predictions, decisions, and ultimately perform and actions with speed and accuracy….
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has ruled that artificial intelligence systems cannot be credited as an inventor in a patent, the agency announced earlier this week. The decision came in response to two patents — one for a food container and the…
We touch on various sides of noise in Deep Reinforcement Learning models. Part 1 discusses overestimation, that is the harmful property resulting from noise. Parts 2 deals with noise used for exploration, this is the useful noise. In the appendix, we will look at one more…
In the 1983 movie WarGames, the world is brought to the edge of nuclear destruction when a military computer using artificial intelligence interprets false data as an indication that a Soviet missile strike is imminent. Its human overseers in the Defense Department,…
Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are digital technologies that will have significant impact on the development of humanity in the near future. They have raised fundamental questions about what we should do with these systems, what the systems themselves should do, what…
2017 was the year of AI Even now, all you have to do is Google search ‘AI 2017’ to find headlines like these: ‘The biggest artificial intelligence developments of 2017’ ‘2017 laid the foundation for faster, smarter AI in 2018’ ‘All the…
Machine learning (ML) and Data Science (DS) projects are hard to manage. Because projects are research-like in nature, it’s difficult to predict how long it will take for them to finish. They often start off with one idea and then pivot into…
For marketers, AI is perhaps the most intimidating abbreviation flying around the boardroom, the event hall, and the company Slack channel. But it doesn’t have to be. Just as complex software deployments have become streamlined and marketer-friendly through software as a- service…
As companies increase their investments in artificial intelligence (AI), there is growing pressure on developers and engineers to deploy AI projects more quickly and at greater scale across the enterprise. Simply evaluating the ever-expanding universe of AI tools and services— often designed…
