FOR LONGTIME RESIDENTS of Pittsburgh, seeing self-driving cars built by Uber, Argo AI, and others roam their streets is nothing new. The city’s history with robot cars goes back to the late 1980s, when students at Carnegie Mellon University caught the occasional glimpse of a strange vehicle lumbering across campus. The bright-blue Chevy panel van, chugging along at slower than […]
The embedded analytics market is growing at a rapid rate and will be worth $51.78 billion by 2022. Over the next few years, most organizations will begin to transform their traditional analytical techniques for analyzing business data to more advanced techniques using embedded analytics. If they don’t, they may risk getting left behind their competition. As soon […]
Many executives stepping into a newly created chief data officer role might start their time in the position with a data governance project or analytics software rollout. But for Steve Stine, who recently took on CDO responsibilities for telecommunications company AT&T, it’s all about AI-powered automation. “We believe that there are many capabilities that are […]
How do you improve the way people work and live? Accenture’s Technology Vision 2018 report tackles this question by highlighting trends and rapid advancements in technologies that are improving the way people work and live. The report highlights a need for a fundamental shift in leadership that is required to cultivate partnerships with customers and business […]
Recently, I reached out to 17 thought leaders — AI experts, computer engineers, roboticists, physicists, and social scientists — with a single question: “How worried should we be about artificial intelligence?” There was no consensus. Disagreement about the appropriate level of concern, and even the nature of the problem, is broad. Some experts consider AI […]
By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider I lived in Germany for a year and “fondly” recall one of the most terrifying driving experiences in my life, which involved being on an autobahn in the middle of a snow storm. When I left my apartment in my rented car to head out to work […]
Though its time horizon can’t be predicted, artificial intelligence (AI) promises to foundationally influence modern society, for better or worse. A sub-genre of AI — machine learning — has garnered particular attention from the pundits for its potential impact on the world’s most important industries. Due to the resulting hype, massive amounts of talent and resources are entering […]
Here are the makings of an interesting tale. It involves two competing tech spinouts from MIT, and two rival CEOs who were co-authors on a key research paper. And now, each company has raised on the order of $10 million from venture capitalists to win what could become a major race. It’s Lightelligence versus Lightmatter, […]
The future of the workforce is one of the biggest issues facing CEOs today. It’s abundantly clear to all that artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and advanced robotics make it possible for machines to take on tasks that once required a person to do them. How should companies prepare, strategically, to thrive in this world? […]
In 2003 Nick Carr declared that IT had become a ubiquitous commodity with no competitive advantage. Since then cloud computing has eliminated any remaining strategic value in traditional IT organizations. Barriers to access are all but gone. Today the essential functions of business are serviced by free or inexpensive and easy-to-use tools. Competitors have equal […]
