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How to Map Out a Career Path in This Early Stage of AI

By Stephanie Glass, Head of Product Marketing, AI Solutions, Aera Technology Artificial intelligence is already reshaping society as we know it in both business and consumer realms. Early use cases with Alexa, autonomous vehicles and AI-driven supply chains provide just a glimpse of the disruption that AI is poised to deliver in the near future and […]

Here is the Essential Landscape for Enterprise AI Companies

Enterprise companies comprise a $3.4 trillion market worldwide of which an increasingly larger share is being allocated to artificial intelligence technologies. By our definition, “enterprise” technology companies create tools for workplace roles and functions that a large number of businesses use. For example, Salesforce is the primary enterprise software used by sales professionals in a company. Also […]

Even at a Nonprofit, AI Researchers are Making More Than $1 Million

One of the poorest-kept secrets in Silicon Valley has been the huge salaries and bonuses that experts in artificial intelligence can command. Now, a little-noticed tax filing by a research lab called OpenAI has made some of those eye-popping figures public. OpenAI paid its top researcher, Ilya Sutskever (shown above), more than $1.9 million in […]

AI Works With Fashion on Hybrid Design, Original Clothes from a Personal Stylist

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 […]

5 Myths About Cognitive Computing

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most frequently discussed topics in business today, but even more than most new technologies, its promise is sometimes obscured by a set of lingering myths—particularly among those whose exposure to the technology has been limited. Professionals with first-hand experience have a different perspective, according to the 2017 Deloitte State of […]

The AI Future for NVIDIA: Interview with CEO Jensen Huang

It’s about making the lives of scientists and researchers easier, Jensen Huang, CEO and co-founder of Nvidia tells TechCrunch. He’s speaking of the keynote address he intends to give at the company’s upcoming GTC conference. Held in San Jose, miles away from the company’s new imposing headquarters, Nvidia  is set to host thousands of attendees from the world’s […]

Enterprise Adoption of AI: When it Does and Doesn’t Make Sense

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 […]

Adaptive Intelligence from Oracle Is a Remaking of the Product Line

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 […]

Inside Amazon’s Artificial Intelligence Flywheel

IN EARLY 2014, Srikanth Thirumalai met with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Thirumalai, a computer scientist who’d left IBM in 2005 to head Amazon’s recommendations team, had come to propose a sweeping new plan for incorporating the latest advances in artificial intelligence into his division. He arrived armed with a “six-pager.” Bezos had long ago decreed that […]

How Data Scientists Are Wasting Their Time

By Abhi Yadav, Co-founder & CEO, ZyloTech Today’s definition of what most companies want in a data scientist seems to be something akin to a superhero. Companies are looking for a regular Mister Fantastic (the Marvel Comics’ superhero who was “one of the bravest adventurers and most brilliant scientific minds of his generation”). Chief A.I. […]