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 […]
Amazon disclosed in a filing Wednesday (April 19) that the median pay for its employees was $28,446 in 2017. Put another way: half of Amazon’s employees earned less than that amount. In the same year, Amazon created more than 130,000 jobs, many of them for AI scientists. The underwhelming figure was made public as part of a new rule put into […]
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 […]
Information Technology involves storing, retrieving, altering and transmitting massive amounts of data. Because IT is heavily reliant on computers, automating the field is definitely the most practical direction. Slowly taking rein in the sector, RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is terminating the manual effort associated with IT tasks and business processes. RPA grips technologies such as AI […]
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 […]
One of the most anticipated themes of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 was artificial intelligence (AI). Industry analysts and media speculated that AI would be the talk of the show, and that AI would be touted as the key to helping communications service providers (CSPs) across the globe to transform themselves into digital service providers. The stage […]
No professionals are more important to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) than data scientists. Data scientists are charged with taking vast amounts of raw industrial data, creating structure within that data, and ultimately finding valuable meaning. In other words, let’s dump a bunch of dirty data on these data scientists, tell them whatever we […]
Many executives stepping into a newly created chief data officer role might start their time in the position with a data governance project or analytics software rollout. But for Steve Stine, who recently took on CDO responsibilities for telecommunications company AT&T, it’s all about AI-powered automation. “We believe that there are many capabilities that are […]
AI is buzzing with the potential to dominate functionality across all aspects of the business ecosystem – and broader society – but one of the key areas of industry most likely to see a big change soon is within supply chains. Market-research firm IDC predicts that by 2020, 50% of mature supply chains will use […]
