By Steven Levy, Wired When asked to head Facebook’s Applied Machine Learning group — to supercharge the world’s biggest social network with an AI makeover — Joaquin Quiñonero Candela hesitated. It was not that the Spanish-born scientist, a self-described “machine learning (ML) person,” hadn’t already witnessed how AI could help Facebook. Since joining the company in […]
Whether it’s a navigation app such as Waze, a music recommendation service such as Pandora or a digital assistant such as Siri, odds are you’ve used artificial intelligence in your everyday life. “Today 85 percent of Americans use AI every day,” says Tess Posner, CEO of AI4ALL. AI has also been touted as the new must-have […]
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is in talks with BT Group PLC about a cloud services partnership as the Chinese internet giant challenges Amazon.com Inc.’s dominance in Europe. An agreement between Alibaba and the IT consulting unit of Britain’s former phone monopoly could be similar to Alibaba’s existing arrangement with Vodafone Group Plc in Germany, according […]
This is the first of a four part series on machine learning and deep learning written for AI Trends by Piotr Migdal, Ph.D., deepsense.ai. Every time you watch a film Netflix has suggested or buy a “similar product” on Amazon, it is a personalized recommendation. Can you make such recommendations work for your business as […]
The world of artificial intelligence is frightening. No, not the danger of an army of AI-powered robots taking over the world (though that is a bit concerning). The real fear is that the wrong vendor is chosen or the rollout handled poorly. After all, AI is complex, not fully mature, in some cases poorly understood, and […]
There are about 7.5 billion people on the planet, give or take a few. But that number pales in comparison to the number of connected devices worldwide. According to Autonomous, a financial research firm, people are outnumbered three-to-one by their smart computing devices — an estimated 22 billion in total. And the number of smart devices will […]
According to a McKinsey report, only 20% of companies consider themselves adopters of AI technology while 41% remain uncertain about the benefits that AI provides. Considering the cost of implementing AI and the organizational challenges that come with it, it’s no surprise that smart companies seek ways to test the solutions before implementing them and get […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider How do you learn something? That’s the same question that we need to ask when trying to achieve Machine Learning (ML). In what way can we undertake “learning” for a computer and seek to “teach” the system to do things of an intelligent nature. That’s a holy grail […]
Neural network learns speech patterns that predict depression in clinical interviews.
Artificial Intelligence Ushers in Human-Centric Engineering DisciplineWall Street Journal (blog)Over the past several decades, artificial intelligence has been besieged by rounds of hype that over-promised, under-delivered and nearly killed the field. …
