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…
Machine-learning and quantum computing are two technologies that have incredible potential in their own right. Now researchers are bringing them together. The main goal is to achieve a so-called quantum advantage, where complex algorithms can be calculated significantly faster than with the best classical…
While artificial intelligence has become a ubiquitous topic in the business world, there is still important work to do to translate the promising experiments we see in the news to valuable and practical implementation. Large consumer Internet companies pioneered practical A.I. deployments,…
The covid-19 pandemic is stretching hospital resources to the breaking point in many countries in the world. It is no surprise that many people hope AI could speed up patient screening and ease the strain on clinical staff. But a study from Google…
Has your company used social listening technology for things like sentiment analysis and trend spotting? If so, you’ve likely discovered the many limitations to this technique, including the fact that these tools generally just don’t perform up to the standards they promise. That’s…
