By Dr. Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist at Glassdoor When it comes to the future of work, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are poised to impact nearly every facet of the workforce in some way. Many studies have examined the likely impact of AI on jobs. But few have looked at hiring trends in AI-related jobs […]
By Dr. Lance B. Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Let me begin by saying that I believe in Occam’s razor. A variant is also known as Zebra. I’ll explain all of this in a moment, but first, a bit of a preamble to warm you up for the rest of the story. Self-driving cars are […]
Like death and taxes, there are only two safe predictions about cybersecurity in 2018: There will be more spectacular data breaches and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will go into effect on May 25. But as the continuing digital transformation of our lives entails the ongoing digital transformation of crime, vandalism and warfare, 2018 could […]
By Dr. Lance B. Eliot, the AI Insider for AI Trends I drive a somewhat exotic luxury car. Driving around, I am at times especially aware of the fact that it is a pricey car and either get accolades from other drivers and pedestrians, or at times receive ire from those that think it is […]
Michelle Li is director of the Masters of Business Analytics Program at MIT, from the MIT Sloan School of Management, with support from the MIT Operations Research Center, now in its second year. In this position, she is responsible for building the program, designing curriculum, hiring faculty, assessing admissions criteria for students and helping students […]
SenseTime, China’s leading AI unicorn, on Nov. 15 announced a strategic investment agreement with global communications giant Qualcomm Inc., which is pending closing. (Photo above shows SenseTime co-founder and CEO Li Xu (right), and Keith Kressin, SVP of product management at Qualcomm (left).) The two companies will working on development of on-device AI for applications including […]
Google has announced lower prices for the use of Nvidia’s Tesla GPUs through its Compute Engine by up to 36 percent. In U.S. regions, using the somewhat older K80 GPUs will now cost $0.45 per hour while using the newer and more powerful P100 machines will cost $1.46 per hour (all with per-second billing). The company is also dropping the […]
DABUS is a new type of AI that paves the way for smarter machines. Nothing new there – but this machine-learning system is different. DABUS, short for “device for the autonomous bootstrapping of unified Sentience”, is deliberately created to be mentally unstable. Since the 90s, computer scientist Stephen Thaler has been injecting noise into a […]
By Dr. Lance Eliot,the AI Trends Insider I was on the freeway the other day and traffic was moving along rather smoothly. Even though there were quite a number of cars on the road, we were all doing a steady 55 miles per hour. That’s an accomplishment in the crowded freeways of Southern California. Some […]
Glasswing Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the next generation of AI-powered startups, this week unveiled its Connect Council. The Connect Council consists of two working groups: the AI & Academic Group, and the Business Leadership Group. It is the first of three advisory councils to support and extend Glasswing Ventures’ investment strategy. […]
