<span class="vcard">John Desmond</span>
John Desmond

Self-driving Uber in fatal accident may not have had time to stop, police say

TEMPE, Ariz. — Police say early indications show an Uber self-driving SUV may not have had time to stop or avoid hitting a pedestrian who was killed Sunday night. Uber suspended all testing of its autonomous vehicles after the crash, which is the first-known pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving car. Police say 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg […]

Chip Startups See New Frontier from Big Bets on AI

For years, tech industry financiers showed little interest in start-up companies that made computer chips. How on earth could a start-up compete with a goliath like Intel, which made the chips that ran more than 80 percent of the world’s personal computers? Even in the areas where Intel didn’t dominate, like smartphones and gaming devices, there […]

Apple, IBM Couple Watson with Core ML for Expanded Machine Learning

Apple  and IBM  may seem like an odd couple, but the two companies have been working closely together for several years now. That has involved IBM sharing its enterprise expertise with Apple and Apple sharing its design sense with IBM. The companies have actually built hundreds of enterprise apps running on iOS devices. Today, they took that friendship a step further when they […]

Ask Yourself These Nine Questions to See If Your Company is Ready For AI

With more and more artificial intelligence (AI) solutions emerging each year, it’s safe to say that this technology is here to stay. Statista predicts that the global AI market will be worth more than $10.5 billion by 2020, and forward-thinking businesses continue to incorporate AI into their everyday operations in the form of automation and customer service chatbots. Forbes […]

Frankenstein and AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Mankind creates a monster. Monster runs amok and kills. Mankind is threatened or overtaken. This is a typical plot found in popular movies such as Terminator and The Matrix. We see over and again science fiction stories that warn us about overstepping human bounds. We are repeatedly warned […]

Your Company’s Data Has Value; Here is How to Find It

Companies are amassing tremendous volumes of data, which they consider their greatest asset, or at least one of their greatest assets. Yet, few business leaders can articulate what their company’s data is worth. Successful data-driven digital natives understand the value of their data and their valuations depend on sound applications of that data. Increasingly venture […]

Algorithmic Bias is Real and Pervasive. Here’s How You Solve It.

By Robin Bordoli, CEO, CrowdFlower A few months back, I found myself in one of those big electronics stores that are rapidly becoming extinct. I don’t remember exactly why I was there, but I remember a very specific moment where a woman with a Chinese accent paced up to the cashier, plopped her home voice […]

Deep Learning is Seen as a Help to Cardiologists – Not a Job Threat

Applying a deep learning approach to echocardiography could save clinicians time while improving diagnostic accuracy, one Georgia-based cardiologist reported at the American College of Cardiology’s annual meeting in Orlando, this year. Randolph P. Martin, MD, said machine learning—and its self-training subset, deep learning—is often perceived as a threat to cardiologists, but the tools could aid […]

Here Are Reasons Tech Giants Like Google & IBM Are Rushing To Commercialize Quantum Computing

Quantum computing is all set to go beyond labs into the cloud – tech giant Google announced Bristlecone, a quantum processor which will provide a provide a testbed for research into system error rates and scalability of qubit technology, as well as applications in quantum simulation, optimization, and machine learning. Announcing the release, Julian Kelly, Research Scientist at Google’s […]

Normalization of Deviance Endangers AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider The movie “Deepwater Horizon” provides an entertaining and informative glimpse at what transpired in April 2010 that ultimately led to a floating oil drill platform explosion, and generated the worst oil spill ever in the United States. I suppose that I should have said “spoiler alert” and not […]