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

Industrial Internet Consortium Creates Vision on AI for Industrial IoT

The Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC™), which works to accelerate the adoption of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), has announced it is leading the vision for industrial artificial intelligence (AI) with new bodies of work and will be sharing insights at the IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC). Building on the successful Industrial IoT Analytics Framework Technical Report (IIAF), which […]

Scientists Trained AI to Write Poetry; Now It’s Toe-to-Toe With Shakespeare

If science fiction has taught us anything it’s that artificial intelligence will one day lead to the downfall of the entirety of mankind. That day is (probably) still a long way away, if it ever actually happens, but for now we get to enjoy some of the nicer aspects of AI, such as its ability […]

Shiggy Challenge and Dangers of an In-Motion AI Self-Driving Car

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider I’m hoping that you have not tried to do the so-called Shiggy Challenge. If you haven’t done it, I further hope that my telling you about it does not somehow spark you to go ahead and try doing it. For those of you that don’t know about it […]

AI in Edmonton: Home to Reinforcement Learning

Edmonton, Home to Reinforcement Learning, now a Foundation of AI, is Retaining AI Talent, Attracting Investment Including DeepMind The capital of Edmonton in the Canadian province of Alberta, like its counterparts in Toronto and Montreal, has a number of strengths in AI research that are attracting engineering talent and private investors. These include: — The […]

AI Tiptoes Into the Workplace, in the Beginning of a Wave

There is no shortage of predictions about how artificial intelligence is going to reshape where, how and if people work in the future. But the grand work-changing projects of A.I., like self-driving cars and humanoid robots, are not yet commercial products. A more humble version of the technology, instead, is making its presence felt in […]

Fluid Data Strategy Needed to Keep Tech Mapped to Business Plan

By Mahesh Lalwani, Vice President, Head of Data & Cognitive Analytics at Mphasis In today’s world, it should no longer be acceptable to have merely adaptive data. To win customers and market share, an organization must do far more and predict which strategy will unlock the potential its data has to offer. A company must envision […]

Crossing the Rubicon and AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Julius Caesar is famously known for his radical act in 49 BC of defying authority by marching his army across the Rubicon river. Unless you happen to be a historian, you might not be aware that the Roman Senate had explicitly ordered Caesar to disband his army, return […]

Catalia Health Tries Free Interactive Robots to for In-Home Patient Care

A little more than three-and-a-half years ago, Cory Kidd founded Catalia Health based on the work he did at the MIT Media Lab and Boston University Medical Center. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company’s overarching goal is to improve patient engagement and launch behavior change. But the way it goes about meeting that mission is unique. Through Catalia […]

Addressing AI and the Emerging Crisis of Trust

By Doug Bordonaro, Chief Data Evangelist at ThoughtSpot Earlier this month, a newspaper in Ohio invited its Facebook followers to read the Declaration of Independence, which it posted in 12 bite-sized chunks in the days leading up to July 4. The first nine snippets posted fine, but the 10th was held up after Facebook flagged the […]

AI Robot, Immune to Moral Factors, Helping to Make China’s Foreign Policy

Attention, foreign-policy makers. You will soon be working with, or competing against, a new type of robot with the potential to change the game of international politics forever. Diplomacy is similar to a strategic board game. A country makes a move, the other(s) respond. All want to win. Artificial intelligence is good at board games. […]