By Rana el Kaliouby, Co-founder and CEO, Affectiva Last week, I was in LA for the premiere of a new AI documentary, “Do you trust this computer?” (See video link below.) It was a full house with a few hundred audience members. I was one of the AI scientists featured in the documentary along with big wigs […]
France’s Emmanuel Macron knows his country is not about to develop a local equivalent of Google or Facebook to power the development of artificial intelligence. But in a new national AI strategy, the French president is touting other assets to power up innovation: its foreign brain trust, huge troves of state-owned data and links to […]
Bias in AI decision-making and in the algorithms of machine learning has been outed as a real issue in the march of AI progress. Here is an update on where we are and efforts being made to recognize bias and counteract it, including a discussion of selected AI startups. AI reflects the bias of its […]
Nvidia is temporarily stopping testing of its autonomous vehicle platform in response to last week’s fatal collision of a self-driving Uber car with a pedestrian. TechCrunch confirmed this with the company, which offered the following statement: Ultimately [autonomous vehicles] will be far safer than human drivers, so this important work needs to continue. We are […]
One of the most anticipated themes of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 was artificial intelligence (AI). Industry analysts and media speculated that AI would be the talk of the show, and that AI would be touted as the key to helping communications service providers (CSPs) across the globe to transform themselves into digital service providers. The stage […]
“The question that everyone needs to ask themselves is, while we are building new innovative approaches with AI, how could we also think about bringing value to society?” – Amir Banifatemi Amir Banifatemi is the Prize Lead of the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE. Amir has more than 25 years of experience in development and growth […]
By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider With the advent of ride sharing, passengers are increasingly interacting with the hired or rented driver of the car. In the past, we were used to getting into a taxi and other than mumbling where we wanted to be taken, the actual conversation was usually either nonexistent […]
The increasing capability of computer processing power and recent advancements in cloud storage have made the once sci-fi concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) an enticing reality. Many industries are currently exploring how to best leverage AI, and the telecommunications industry is no exception. In fact I wrote about the promise of better Wi-Fi in particular in […]
A new study on how AI is being used in large organizations by Tractica, a market research company focused on human interaction with technology, analyzes nearly 300 different use cases to create its market forecast. The report finds that the number of proof-of-concept and pilot programs continues to grow, and larger scale commercial deployments of […]
A box pops up in the bottom-right corner of your screen. Text appears. “Hello. How can I help you today?” Is it a person or a machine? It’s becoming harder to tell. Welcome to the world of chatbots. Chatbots: Big Nuisance Or The Next Big Thing? Sometimes seen as a nuisance, it’s easy to dismiss […]
