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 […]
Leaders know they need technology to advance their businesses and boost their teams — but many of them are scared to use it. They’re not alone; Americans as a whole fear technology more than death. Christopher Bader, a sociology professor at Chapman University and one of the authors of the study that found Americans find robots more terrifying […]
By Ron Miller, TechCrunch Reporter There isn’t a software company out there worth its salt that doesn’t have some kind of artificial intelligence initiative in progress right now. These organizations understand that AI is going to be a game-changer, even if they might not have a full understanding of how that’s going to work just […]
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 […]
Google rolled out of a new version of Gmail this week, including better security and artificial intelligence, which was developed in the internet giant’s office in Kitchener, Ontario. (shown above) The 1.4 billion active monthly users of the email service will notice a new look, better security, artificial intelligence and easy-to-use features that boost productivity, […]
You wouldn’t normally think of a 177-year-old company as one that would be on top of digital transformation and emerging data analytics trends. But Dun & Bradstreet has always been a data business, way back in 1841 as the Mercantile Agency, a credit information bureau. Today the new technologies are a little different than they were in the […]
By Matthew Coffman, High Alpha Given how frequently we hear or talk about machine learning and AI as emerging ways for startups to differentiate themselves, I’ve been working to identify baby steps that would allow startups to identify and create valuable data science projects on their own. I recently attended MLconf 2016, an event bringing together […]
Financial services organizations realize they have the potential to apply advanced analytics for both internal and external benefits since they have large data sets and experience with analytical tools. From payment services to everyday banking, insight is captured that can make machine learning more powerful. The good news is that banks and credit unions state […]
PepsiCo, the food and drinks manufacturer with retail sales of more than $1bn a year, is using artificial intelligence (AI) software to find and interview candidates to fill vacancies in Russia. The company is using technology known as Robot Vera, developed by a Russian startup, to conduct telephone interviews with job hunters, and answer their questions […]
