AI will significantly disrupt the way organizations win, serve, and retain
customers … eventually. Familiarize yourself with the AI technologies
available today and prepare for adoption – or face the inevitability of
disruption.
The market for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is flourishing.
Beyond the hype and the heightened media attention, the numerous startups
and the internet giants racing to acquire them, there is a significant
increase in investment and adoption by enterprises.
The leaders of Microsoft, IBM, MIT Media Lab and others discuss the state,
opportunities and future of Artificail Intelligence at the World Economic
Forum in Davos, 2017.
Sergey Brin discusses the state of AI and the progress within Google and
Google Brain. After 8 years he returns to Davos with some interesting
insights and views in this interview.
It’s part of a $27 million fund being managed by MIT and Harvard. Reid
Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, and the Omidyar Network, eBay founder
Pierre Omidyar’s nonprofit, have each committed $10 million to fund
academic research and development aimed at keeping artificial intelligence
systems ethical and prevent building AI that may harm society.
Flirting with a computer and even falling in love will be possible within
just 15 years, a futurist has predicted. The world depicted in the film
Her, where a man develops a relationship with an intelligent computer
operating system, is closer than we think, according to Google’s
engineering director, Ray Kurzweil.
Mapo — Predict mining prospects and mineral depositsIt’s time for the mining industry to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to solve it’s biggest question — where to explore and build mines?Mining Industry PredictionsAt Produvia, we predi…
Human intelligence is capable of irrational thought. Some algorithms do
better than humans. We make witty jokes. We catch footballs, while looking
into a mirror. All that is still very hard for AI. Emotional intelligence
will be very hard to conquer, if not impossible, due to our emotions being
related to our biology and functional structure.
Insurance firm Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance is making 34 employees
redundant and replacing them with IBM’s Watson Explorer AI.
“All known methods of algorithmic classification suffer from the problem of
overfit. Example: All training photos of a classroom have a blackboard, so
a room with a whiteboard can’t be a classroom. “
