On Memorial Day weekend 2038, when your grandchildren visit the California coast, will they be able to spot a black bird with a long orange beak called the Black Oystercatcher? Or will that bird be long gone? Will your grandchildren only be able to see that bird in a picture in a book or on […]
We all know how marketing can enhance sales. However, enhancing marketing requires real skills and creativity. Or does it? Can machines do a better job at promoting, advertising, and ultimately selling products than a creative human being? A complete switch to AI seems futuristic, but some major brands have already implemented the tactic of using […]
AI-powered chatbots that use natural language processing are on the rise across all industries. A practical application is providing dynamic customer support that allows users to ask questions and receive highly relevant responses. In health care, for example, one customer may ask “What’s my copay for an annual check-up?” and another may ask “How much does seeing […]
It’s time to take a step back from the noise and hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI). Businesses have been inundated with AI sales pitches promoting the technology’s potential to automate tasks, increase speed and accuracy and cut costs. But what’s the long-term plan? Most businesses lack a vision of how AI will transform their operations. Developing […]
There’s nothing new about organizations and their leaders fumbling around for a coherent, business-relevant strategy any time a new technology appears on the scene. We’ve been seeing this in recent years with the rise of digital, raising issues from defining what exactly digital is, to defining what it means to succeed. Now, such is the case […]
Barclays has announced the appointment of Adam Kelleher as Director and Chief Data Scientist for Research. In this newly created role, he will be responsible for building a new global team of data scientists with expertise in sourcing, normalizing, and utilizing alternative data sets to support Barclays’ Research franchise. Dr. Kelleher joins Barclays from BuzzFeed, […]
The mantra of modern technology is to improve and innovate continuously. It makes sense as we strive to look for more improved ways to get processes, actions and activities done. Automation and machine learning, for instance, is currently used across many industries to streamline basic processes and remove the repetition from a normal worker’s routine. […]
StubHub is best known as a destination for buying and selling event tickets. The company operates in 48 countries and sells a ticket every 1.3 seconds. But the company wants to go beyond that and provide its users with a far more comprehensive set of services around entertainment. To do that, it’s working on changing its […]
Google says it will use artificial intelligence to power Google News. The newly relaunched news curation service will use “a new set of AI techniques to take a constant flow of information as it hits the web, analyze it in real time and organize it into storylines,” Google News lead Trystan Upstill wrote in a blog […]
Companies With Large AI Projects are Calling Alegion to Help Prepare Needed Data via Crowdsourcing Nathaniel Gates is CEO of Alegion, which he co-founded in 2012. Prior to Alegion, he founded Cloud49, a cloud computing solutions provider focused on the public sector. He lived and worked in Alaska for 36 years before moving to Austin, Texas […]
