Artificial intelligence (AI) is the new technological frontier over which companies and countries are vying for control. According to a recent report from McKinsey, Alphabet invested roughly $30 billion in developing AI technologies. Baidu, which is the Chinese equivalent of Alphabet, invested $20 billion in AI last year. Companies aren’t the only ones investing time, money and […]
Let’s make one thing clear: one year isn’t going to fix decades of gender discrimination in computer science and all the problems associated with it. Recent diversity reports show that women still make up only 20 percent of engineers at Google and Facebook, and an even lower proportion at Uber. But after the parade of awful news about the […]
Machine learning is a field that threatens to both augment and undermine exactly what it means to be human, and it’s becoming increasingly important that you—yes, you—actually understand it. I don’t think you should need to have a technical background to know what machine learning is or how it’s done. Too much of the discussion about […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider There is an ongoing joke among Southern California drivers that when the rain comes along we freak out and don’t know what to do (this might be as much a local joke as it is an East Coast view of those “crazy” drivers on0 the West Coast). With […]
Despite a flood of publicity and product announcements related to artificial intelligence, it seems that few enterprises have adopted the technology so far. Whit Andrews, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, was able to put some hard numbers to the trend. “We are in the very earliest stages of enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence,” he […]
Artificial intelligence programs built by Alibaba and Microsoft have beaten humans on a Stanford University reading comprehension test. “This is the first time that a machine has outperformed humans on such a test,” Alibaba said in a statement Monday. The test was devised by artificial intelligence experts at Stanford to measure computers’ growing reading abilities. Alibaba’s software was the […]
Artificial Intelligence infiltrated the headlines in 2017, dominating conversations that spanned a wide variety of topics such as election results, chatbots, and ethical frameworks. Though the hype of AI will begin to subside in 2018, its adoption will continue to grow. Thus, we focused our 2018 predictions on the ways in which AI will continue […]
Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that aims to create intelligent machines that teach themselves. Much of AI’s growth has occurred in the last decade. The upcoming decade, according to billionaire investor Mark Cuban, will be the greatest technological revolution in man’s history. More progress has been achieved on artificial intelligence.in the past […]
When my children were in their teens, I used to shuttle them all around town for various before-school and after-school activities. My son would need to get over to the baseball field for practices and games. My daughter was in a performing arts program as a lead actress and would need to get to her […]
AI is surfacing in healthcare in three primary areas: medical imaging, electronic health records (EHRs) and genomics, in the view of Miriam Huntley, Ph.D and CTO and Day Zero Diagnostics, speaking at a panel on the State of AI in Medicine at the recent AI World Conference in Boston. The progress in medical imaging is […]
