Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

Global Tech Firm Expands into New Markets with Enhanced Speech System

You might not be surprised to learn that most speech recognition systems are designed with adult speakers in mind. To date, the nuances and idiosyncrasies of children’s speech have rarely been built into speech-driven applications for children’s use, rendering them unable to successfully process interactions with a younger audience. For one leading multinational technology company, […]

Elon Musk slammed a Harvard professor for dismissing the threat of Artificial Intelligence – Business Insider


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Elon Musk slammed a Harvard professor for dismissing the threat of Artificial Intelligence
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Elon Musk didn’t pull any punches when calling out Harvard professor Steven Pinker this week. Pinker said on a Wired podcast that “if Elon Musk was really serious about the AI threat he’d stop building those self-driving cars.” Musk responded by saying

Elon Musk Blasts Steven Pinker Over Artificial Intelligence … – Fortune – Fortune


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Elon Musk Blasts Steven Pinker Over Artificial Intelligence … – Fortune
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Elon Musk took to Twitter this week to bemoan comments, made by Harvard professor Steven Pinker, that were dismissive of Musk’s many warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Wow, if even Pinker doesn’t understand the difference between

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A Framework for Building Artificial Intelligence Capabilities – CIO … – Wall Street Journal (blog)


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A Framework for Building Artificial Intelligence Capabilities – CIO …
Wall Street Journal (blog)
AI will likely become the most important technology of our era as it’s improved upon over time, but we’re still in the early stages of deployment, CIO Journal Columnist Irving Wladawsky-Berger writes. History shows that even after technologies start
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Extra-Scenery Perception (ESP2) for Self-Driving Cars: Beyond the Norm

By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider I was driving on a highway in Northern California recently when I saw up ahead of me a wind turbine off the side of the road. I’ve seen modern wind turbines before, but this one caught my eye. I liked the design of it and this one […]

MIT, SenseTime advancing AI research as part of new MIT Intelligence Quest

.MIT and SenseTime today announced that SenseTime, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, is joining MIT’s efforts to define the next frontier of human and machine intelligence. SenseTime was founded by MIT alumnus Xiao’ou Tang PhD ’96 and specializes in computer vision and deep learning technologies. The MIT-SenseTime Alliance on Artificial Intelligence aims to open […]

You Need These 8 Essential Roles for a Successful Digital Transformation

Hiring enough software engineers, DevOps managers, cloud computing specialists and other roles required to facilitate IT transformations remain tall tasks for CIOs. But the talent crunch isn’t limited to those with coding skills and algorithmic thinking: Enterprises are also struggling to hire staff with soft skills who can help shape the user experience around digital […]