Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

Would Artificial Intelligence Guide Education or Grab It? – American Spectator

Would Artificial Intelligence Guide Education or Grab It?American SpectatorWhat is artificial intelligence (AI), and should we welcome it as a major force in education and other areas of our lives? Closing out 2017, Education Week published essays writ…

Verizon acquires machine learning-based threat detection startup Niddel – SiliconANGLE News (blog)


SiliconANGLE News (blog)

Verizon acquires machine learning-based threat detection startup Niddel
SiliconANGLE News (blog)
“Using machine learning to improve information accuracy significantly reduces false positives and significantly improves our detection and response capabilities,” Alexander Schlager, Verizon’s executive director for security services, said in a
Verizon adds Niddel to threat tech services, as machine learning becomes essentialMergers & Acquisitions
SD Times news digest: Verizon acquires threat detection company …SDTimes.com

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Data Science And Machine Learning Jobs Most In-Demand on … – Enterprise Irregulars (blog)


Enterprise Irregulars (blog)

Data Science And Machine Learning Jobs Most In-Demand on …
Enterprise Irregulars (blog)
There are 9.8 times more Machine Learning Engineers working today than five years ago based on LinkedIn’s research, with 1829 open positions listed on the site today. There are 6.5 times more Data Scientists than five years ago, and 5.5 times more Big

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Facebook’s Expanding Machine Learning Infrastructure – The Next Platform

Facebook’s Expanding Machine Learning Infrastructure
The Next Platform
Here at The Next Platform, we tend to keep a close eye on how the major hyperscalers evolve their infrastructure to support massive scale and evermore complex workloads. Not so long ago the core services were relatively standard transactions and

LG ThinQs gadgets are all about artificial intelligence – The Australian Financial Review


The Australian Financial Review

LG ThinQs gadgets are all about artificial intelligence
The Australian Financial Review
LG has begun this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the way the show is expected to continue all week: the Korean electronics giant talked about almost nothing other than artificial intelligence the entire time. At the first major press

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Japanese scientists just used AI to read minds and it’s amazing – CNBC


CNBC

Japanese scientists just used AI to read minds and it’s amazing
CNBC
Sound far out? It’s now closer to becoming a reality thanks to four scientists at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan. In late December, Guohua Shen, Tomoyasu Horikawa, Kei Majima and Yukiyasu Kamitani released the results of their recent research on

Uber and Volkswagen team up with artificial intelligence firm in race to develop self-driving cars – The Independent


The Independent

Uber and Volkswagen team up with artificial intelligence firm in race to develop self-driving cars
The Independent
Nvidia will partner with Uber and Volkswagen as the graphics chipmaker’s artificial intelligence platforms make further gains in the autonomous vehicle industry. The company, which already has partnerships in the industry with companies such as
Volkswagen’s retro ID Buzz van will be packed with artificial intelligenceAutoweek
Volkswagen and Nvidia want to imbue future cars with artificial intelligenceDigital Trends
Nvidia partners with VW, Uber and Baidu on artificial intelligence for self-driving carsMotor Authority
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Adversarial patches: colorful circles that convince machine-learning … – Boing Boing

Boing BoingAdversarial patches: colorful circles that convince machine-learning …Boing BoingMachine learning systems trained for object recognition deploy a bunch of evolved shortcuts to choose which parts of an image are important to their classifie…

Stem Adding Artificial Intelligence To Storage And Branching Out To New Markets – Forbes

ForbesStem Adding Artificial Intelligence To Storage And Branching Out To New MarketsForbesPeter Kelly-Detwiler , Contributor I cover the energy industry. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Projections for the global energy storag…