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 […]
From ransomware to botnets, malware takes seemingly endless forms, and it’s forever proliferating. Try as we might, the humans who would defend our computers from it are drowning in the onslaught, so they are turning to AI for help. There’s just one problem: machine-learning tools need a lot of data. That’s fine for tasks like […]
The Guardian |
Artificial intelligence, robots and a human touch
The Guardian Elon Musk’s comment that humans are underrated (Humans replace robots at flagging Tesla plant, 17 April) doesn’t come as much of a surprise, even though his company is at the forefront of the technological revolution. Across industries, CEOs are … |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
As Facebook embraces artificial intelligence tools, will it further spook consumers?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette WASHINGTON — Social media companies have embraced artificial intelligence tools to scrub their platforms of hate speech, terrorist propaganda and other content deemed noxious. But will those tools censor other content? Can a program judge the value of … There’s No Easy Tech Fix for Online Hate Speech |
BillboardArtificial Intelligence-Generated Music Is Reshaping — Not …BillboardThere is an enduring fear in the music industry that artificial intelligence will replace the artists we love, and end creativity as we know it.and more »
FreightWavesArtificial intelligence is ready for primetimeFreightWavesThis month the McKinsey Global Institute released a discussion paper called “Notes from the AI Frontier: Insights from Hundreds of Use Cases” that measures the recent progress of art…
Robotics Business Review |
What Is Artificial Intelligence? Understanding 3 Basic AI Concepts
Robotics Business Review Artificial intelligence’s progress is staggering. Efforts to advance AI concepts over the past 20 years have resulted in some truly amazing innovations. Big data, medical research, and autonomous vehicles are just some of the incredible applications … IRI Enhances Suite Of Solutions Through Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning The Power of Two: How Big Data and Machine Learning Take … Learning artificial intelligence in 2018 |
ZDNet |
Medical artificial intelligence firm BenevolentAI secures $115m in funding
ZDNet screen-shot-2018-04-19-at-12-11- File Photo. BenevolentAI has secured $115 million in funding to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) in the development of new medical treatments. what’s hot on zdnet. This is how it feels to face a major … BenevolentAI, which uses AI to develop drugs and energy solutions, nabs $115M at $2B valuation A startup that uses artificial intelligence to discover new drugs just landed a $2 billion valuation Artificial intelligence firm valued at £1.4bn after latest funding round |
Chron.comOil producers turn to artificial intelligence for efficiency – Houston …Chron.comPhilippe Herve, vice president of oil and gas solutions for Austin-based SparkCognition, works with major energy producers including BP to improve efficiency in…
STAT |
Artificial intelligence will put a premium on physicians’ knowledge and decision-making skills
STAT he FDA’s announcement last week 1 that it approved artificial intelligence software that can identify diabetic retinopathy, a common eye disease, without the need for an eye specialist likely shook some doctors already concerned about this new … |
