A few years ago, ordering online was like ordering through a catalog. You would see something online you like, then most likely try to find it in an actual storefront somewhere. Now, the shifts in procurement and delivery have made online buying easier than going to the store. Shipping charges are now lower and that small […]
While President Donald Trump was tweeting his “concerns” about Amazon last week, accusing the company of “putting many thousands of retailers out of business,” the Seattle-based e-commerce giant was preparing to give public officials and the press a sneak peek at its first warehouse in Illinois where robots work alongside humans to fill customers’ orders. Amazon’s rapid […]
On the website of online personal shopping service Stitch Fix, the company features a customer review that reads, “I love that my stylist listens to my feedback. The personal note included in my Fix shows how much pride she takes in serving each client.” Stitch Fix’s personal stylist is the best of its kind. Indeed, few stylists […]
Affectiva today announced the launch of its Automotive AI service that lets creators of autonomous vehicles and other transportation systems track users’ emotional response. The Automotive offering is Affectiva’s third service for tracking the emotional response of product users and is part of a long-term strategy to build emotional profiles drawn from smart speakers, autonomous […]
Chances are you have already been bombarded on social media or in your inbox about all these “revolutionary AI” this and “game-changer AI” that. Vendors of AI technology are often incentivized to make their technology sound more capable than it is – but to hint at more real-world traction than they actually have. Yes the […]
Paul Blase is a co-founder of Speciate AI, a spin-out from tronc, a newspaper and online media company based in Chicago. Blase was formerly the managing partner of tronc’s AI and data solutions division responsible for building a portfolio of businesses and products that monetize data. Prior to that he led PwC’s Global & US […]
Oracle is making a major move into AI, training its formidable marketing machine on the landscape in the wake of years of positioning by Salesforce and IBM, to name two competitors in enterprise applications and cloud services. Step one: redefine the landscape in terms specific to Oracle Salesforce calls it Einstein; IBM calls it Cognitive […]
Rich Rogers, a senior vice president of product and engineering at Hitachi Vantara, envisions a data center in which AI-driven management software (some or all of it cloud-based) will monitor and control IT and facilities infrastructure, as well as applications, seamlessly and completely across single or multiple sites. Compute, power, storage, networking and cooling operations will […]
Feature Labs, a startup with roots in research begun at MIT, officially launched today with a set of tools to help data scientists build machine learning algorithms more quickly. Co-founder and CEO Max Kanter says the company has developed a way to automate “feature engineering,” which is often a time consuming and manual process for […]
Fake news is fueled in part by advances in technology — from bots that automatically fabricate headlines and entire stories to computer software that synthesizes Donald Trump’s voice and makes him read tweets to a new video editing app that makes it possible to create authentic-looking videos in which one person’s face is stitched onto another person’s body. But technology, in […]
