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

Executive Interview: Paul Blase, CEO, Speciate AI: Using AI to Reinvent the Connection Between Customers & Product Developers

Paul Blase is a co-founder of Speciate AI, a spin-out from tronc, a newspaper and online media company based in Chicago. Blase was formerly the managing partner of tronc’s AI and data solutions division responsible for building a portfolio of businesses and products that monetize data. Prior to that he led PwC’s Global & US […]

Big Brands L’Oreal and Home Depot Rapidly Adopting AI

Artificial intelligence and its sister technologies like machine learning and machine vision have been the talk of the town at South by Southwest and in the marketing industry more broadly for years. However, for L’Oreal and The Home Depot, these areas have rapidly evolved from marketing buzzwords and early experiments into necessities for engaging their […]

Georgia Power Smart Neighborhood Unites Leaders on Innovative Project

Atlanta’s first Smart NeighborhoodTM, a development of Georgia Power and PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM), will feature the latest home innovation technologies thanks to collaboration with leading partners from multiple industries.  The Georgia Power Smart Neighborhood, a part of Pulte’s Altus at the Quarter development, is located in Atlanta’s Upper West Side, one of the city’s most vibrant and popular […]

A Novel Approach for Sentiment Analysis on Social Data

Gathering public opinion by analyzing big social data has attracted wide attention due to its interactive and real time nature. For this, recent studies have relied on both social media and sentiment analysis in order to accompany big events by tracking people’s behavior. In this paper, we propose an adaptable sentiment analysis approach that analyzes […]

Road Rage and AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Have you ever experienced road rage? Most of us have at one time or another have experienced a road rage act imposed upon us or perhaps even internally felt our own burning sensation of road rage (thankfully, most drivers do not seem to overtly act out on it). […]

Adaptive Intelligence from Oracle Is a Remaking of the Product Line

Oracle is making a major move into AI, training its formidable marketing machine on the landscape in the wake of years of positioning by Salesforce and IBM, to name two competitors in enterprise applications and cloud services. Step one: redefine the landscape in terms specific to Oracle Salesforce calls it Einstein; IBM calls it Cognitive […]

AI Underwhelms at Mobile World Congress

One of the most anticipated themes of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 was artificial intelligence (AI). Industry analysts and media speculated that AI would be the talk of the show, and that AI would be touted as the key to helping communications service providers (CSPs) across the globe to transform themselves into digital service providers. The stage […]

MIT Study: False News Spreads Faster than Truth Online

The rapidity with which falsity travels has been proverbial for centuries: “Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it,” wrote Swift in 1710. Yet empirical verification of this common wisdom has been scarce — to our chagrin these past few years as lies in seven-league boots outpace a hobbled truth on platforms seemingly bespoke for […]

Executive Interview: Driving AI Innovation: New Services, Investment and Societal Good are Goals of XPRIZE Competition

“The question that everyone needs to ask themselves is, while we are building new innovative approaches with AI, how could we also think about bringing value to society?” – Amir Banifatemi Amir Banifatemi is the Prize Lead of the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE. Amir has more than 25 years of experience in development and growth […]

Maneuverability for AI Self-Driving Cars

By. Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. You might remember or have heard this famous quote which was uttered by Muhammad Ali in 1964. He was referring to his boxing prowess at the time. He was young (age 22) and a boxer that delighted in being […]