Every once in a while, you meet an entrepreneur who is both fully present, but also has a head full of dreams. That was my experience meeting and hosting Alex Zhavoronkov, the founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, a few weeks ago in Vienna at the Pioneers conference. There, he gave a presentation on how he […]
R&D Mission Spawned Siri, Now Pursuing AI Innovations to Address Challenges from an Aging Population to Picking Apples Dr. William Mark is president of SRI International’s Information and Computing Sciences Division, which conducts leading-edge research with a strong focus on intellectual property creation and commercialization. He formerly worked with National Semiconductor, and Lockheed Martin’s […]
Blackstraw.ai Seeks to Fast-Track AI Adoption with Smart Building Blocks AI Trends recently caught up with Atul Arya, CEO and Founder of Blackstraw. The veteran machine learning leader most recently at Nielsen is transforming the AI space using his real-world experience of implementing AI with speed in enterprises. Story by Jeff Orr of AI World. […]
When trying to figure out what to do after an extensive career at Google, Motorola, and Flipkart, Punit Soni decided to spend a lot of time sitting in doctors’ offices to figure out what to do next. It was there that Soni said he figured out one of the most annoying pain points for doctors […]
A startup company in California is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to advise fire departments about how to plan for earthquakes and respond to them. (Photo above shows first responders in the Marina District disaster zone after an earthquake on October 17, 1989 in San Francisco, Calif. The company, One Concern, hopes its algorithms […]
Implementing an Internet of Things (IoT) program isn’t exactly like flipping a switch. There’s a lot involved, from sensors where the data is initially collected to the network the data travels to the analytics systems that figure out what it all means. So while we’ve all been talking about IoT for a few years now, […]
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 […]
Quantum computing is all set to go beyond labs into the cloud – tech giant Google announced Bristlecone, a quantum processor which will provide a provide a testbed for research into system error rates and scalability of qubit technology, as well as applications in quantum simulation, optimization, and machine learning. Announcing the release, Julian Kelly, Research Scientist at Google’s […]
Paul Blase is a co-founder of Speciate AI, a spin-out from tronc, a newspaper and online media company based in Chicago. Blase was formerly the managing partner of tronc’s AI and data solutions division responsible for building a portfolio of businesses and products that monetize data. Prior to that he led PwC’s Global & US […]
“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 […]
