By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider What do these aspects have in common: Roswell, Area 51, JFK assassination, moon landing, AI self-driving cars? They are all considered by some to be conspiracies. Most of us are familiar with Roswell, New Mexico and the claims of a UFO that landed there. Likewise, most of us […]
While President Donald Trump was tweeting his “concerns” about Amazon last week, accusing the company of “putting many thousands of retailers out of business,” the Seattle-based e-commerce giant was preparing to give public officials and the press a sneak peek at its first warehouse in Illinois where robots work alongside humans to fill customers’ orders. Amazon’s rapid […]
On the website of online personal shopping service Stitch Fix, the company features a customer review that reads, “I love that my stylist listens to my feedback. The personal note included in my Fix shows how much pride she takes in serving each client.” Stitch Fix’s personal stylist is the best of its kind. Indeed, few stylists […]
Microsoft has launched an online AI course for developers who want to expand their knowledge of machine learning, and an online entry-level software development class. Not enough data scientists and machine learning developers are available to fulfill the current demand. Thus a number of large companies have started to teach the fundamentals of these disciplines […]
France’s Emmanuel Macron knows his country is not about to develop a local equivalent of Google or Facebook to power the development of artificial intelligence. But in a new national AI strategy, the French president is touting other assets to power up innovation: its foreign brain trust, huge troves of state-owned data and links to […]
Bias in AI decision-making and in the algorithms of machine learning has been outed as a real issue in the march of AI progress. Here is an update on where we are and efforts being made to recognize bias and counteract it, including a discussion of selected AI startups. AI reflects the bias of its […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider How would you like to work as a human back-up driver in a state-of-the-art AI self-driving car? Sounds glamorous. You can impress your friends and colleagues by bragging about going around town in the future of automobiles. You are the future. In a sense, you feel like an […]
Fewer technologies are hotter than artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Leading organizations are already harnessing the technology, which mimics the behavior of the human mind, to woo customers and bolster business operations. And the trend will only gain more traction in the years ahead, as AI and ML will be a top five investment […]
By Catherine Stinson, postdoctoral scholar at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, and former machine-learning researcher I wrote my first lines of code in 1992, in a high school computer science class. When the words “Hello world” appeared in acid green on the tiny screen of a boxy Macintosh computer, I was […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most frequently discussed topics in business today, but even more than most new technologies, its promise is sometimes obscured by a set of lingering myths—particularly among those whose exposure to the technology has been limited. Professionals with first-hand experience have a different perspective, according to the 2017 Deloitte State of […]
