By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider You might have seen in the news that Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and its CEO, recently testified before Congress and included these key points: “Facebook is an idealistic and optimistic company. For most of our existence, we focused on all the good that connecting people can bring.” […]
One of the poorest-kept secrets in Silicon Valley has been the huge salaries and bonuses that experts in artificial intelligence can command. Now, a little-noticed tax filing by a research lab called OpenAI has made some of those eye-popping figures public. OpenAI paid its top researcher, Ilya Sutskever (shown above), more than $1.9 million in […]
You wouldn’t normally think of a 177-year-old company as one that would be on top of digital transformation and emerging data analytics trends. But Dun & Bradstreet has always been a data business, way back in 1841 as the Mercantile Agency, a credit information bureau. Today the new technologies are a little different than they were in the […]
Amazon disclosed in a filing Wednesday (April 19) that the median pay for its employees was $28,446 in 2017. Put another way: half of Amazon’s employees earned less than that amount. In the same year, Amazon created more than 130,000 jobs, many of them for AI scientists. The underwhelming figure was made public as part of a new rule put into […]
From ransomware to botnets, malware takes seemingly endless forms, and it’s forever proliferating. Try as we might, the humans who would defend our computers from it are drowning in the onslaught, so they are turning to AI for help. There’s just one problem: machine-learning tools need a lot of data. That’s fine for tasks like […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Suppose that you invented an innovative device for automobiles that every car owner wanted to eagerly buy so they can put it onto or into their car. Let’s call the invention the thingamabob. Congrats on inventing something that everyone wants. You decide to price the thingamabob at one […]
By Matthew Coffman, High Alpha Given how frequently we hear or talk about machine learning and AI as emerging ways for startups to differentiate themselves, I’ve been working to identify baby steps that would allow startups to identify and create valuable data science projects on their own. I recently attended MLconf 2016, an event bringing together […]
Jack Ma is one of the richest people in China, and his way to the top has been a long and tough journey. A business magnate and philanthropist, Jack Ma is the cofounder of Alibaba, a conglomerate that’s focused on technology, artificial intelligence, retail, e-commerce, and the internet. If that leaves a lot to the imagination, […]
The need for diverse development teams and truly representational data-sets to avoid biases being baked into AI algorithms is one of the core recommendations in a lengthy Lords committee report looking into the economic, ethical and social implications of artificial intelligence, and published today by the upper House of the UK parliament. “The main ways to address […]
Implementing an Internet of Things (IoT) program isn’t exactly like flipping a switch. There’s a lot involved, from sensors where the data is initially collected to the network the data travels to the analytics systems that figure out what it all means. So while we’ve all been talking about IoT for a few years now, […]
