By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider One of the most vital tenets of science consists of the principle of reproducibility. When a scientific result is reported, how do we know that it is something generalizable and not just a happenstance, one-time fluke or possibly even merely the outcome of a mistake made in performing […]
By Mark Barry of Luminoso As we all go about our day using the internet, talking to brands, and interacting online, we don’t adhere strictly to the writing guidelines of the Associated Press. We use a lot of slang, jargon, technical corporate terms, figurative language, and other communication shorthands — unstructured digital data that other humans understand easily, […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider When my daughter was quite young, we would go over to a nearby playground and she would gleefully enjoy going on the swings and the slides. One day, it had been raining, and so we went over to the playground but everything seemed too wet to play on. […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Based on the June 7, 2018 release of the preliminary NTSB report about the fatal car crash of a Tesla on March 23, 2018, I provide in today’s column an initial forensic analysis of the incident. Keep in mind that the just released NTSB report (about three days […]
Every once in a while, you meet an entrepreneur who is both fully present, but also has a head full of dreams. That was my experience meeting and hosting Alex Zhavoronkov, the founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, a few weeks ago in Vienna at the Pioneers conference. There, he gave a presentation on how he […]
By Lance Eliot,the AI Trends Insider Towing something behind your car is not as easy as it might seem. When I was in my teens, a good friend had a boat that we used to take with us when his family went on camping outings to the local lake. His father would take charge of […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider When I get to work each morning, I often see a duel between car drivers when they reach the gate that goes into the workplace parking garage. Let me describe the situation for you. For those drivers such as me that tend to come into the parking garage […]
By Lance Eliot, AI Trends Insider Are you a Yanny or a Laurel? Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you likely know about the recent craze over an audio clip that has created a social media frenzy and sparked a debate among both friends and foes alike. A short audio clip that was posted […]
Alibaba is teaming up with SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup, to launch a not-for-profit artificial intelligence lab in Hong Kong in a bid to make the city a global hub for artificial intelligence. Alibaba, which is SenseTime’s largest single investor thanks to a recent $600 million round at a valuation of $4.5 billion, is providing financing for the […]
R&D Mission Spawned Siri, Now Pursuing AI Innovations to Address Challenges from an Aging Population to Picking Apples Dr. William Mark is president of SRI International’s Information and Computing Sciences Division, which conducts leading-edge research with a strong focus on intellectual property creation and commercialization. He formerly worked with National Semiconductor, and Lockheed Martin’s […]
