Tag: artificial intelligence
Machine Learning’s Adoption Gap: Assessing the Consequences
Despite its position as a key element driving big data analytics and artificial intelligence, machine learning is scarcely being adopted by companies at large. That's the conclusion of a new report on digital transformat Read more…
Training Your AI With As Little Manually Labeled Data As Possible
Let’s imagine a future in which developers are creating and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) apps faster than people can consume them. Please ignore the minor issue of whether the developers in question can ma Read more…
Why Cracking the ‘Brain Code’ Is Our Best Chance for True AI
Artificial intelligence is all the rage today, and it's definitely real, we tell ourselves. Without AI, how do you explain recent breakthroughs like cars that drive themselves and software that diagnoses cancer? But ther Read more…
Now Trending: AI Washing
First there was "green washing," where companies exaggerated the environmental benefits of their products in order to boost sales. Now technology experts are warning us about "AI washing," an equally questionable tactic Read more…
Exposing AI’s 1% Problem
We see the power of artificial intelligence every day: When Netflix recommends a movie you love, when your bank detects fraud in your account, or when Google routes you around a traffic jam. But outside of examples from Read more…
Is Your Business Ready for AI? Ask These 3 Questions
Lately it seems that I can’t open Twitter or go to any news outlet without being bombarded by headlines about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on the global business landscape. Some people see AI as a great Read more…
Hacker Hunting: Combatting Cybercrooks with Big Data
When it comes to cybersecurity, the big data explosion represents both a liability and an asset. On the one hand, big collections of data represent a treasure trove that hackers would love to get their dirty little mitts Read more…
Microsoft Chases General AI with New Research Group
Microsoft today unveiled Microsoft Research AI, a new research and incubation hub that's slated to take on some of artificial intelligence's biggest challenges, including the creation of a general AI, the field's Holy Gr Read more…
Nvidia’s Mammoth Volta GPU Aims High for AI, HPC
At Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC17) in San Jose, Calif., yesterday morning, CEO Jensen Huang announced the company’s much-anticipated Volta architecture and flagship high-end GPU, the Tesla V100, noting t Read more…
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and AI: What’s the Difference?
You hear a lot of different terms bandied about these days when it comes to new data processing techniques. One person says they're using machine learning, while another calls it artificial intelligence. Still others may Read more…
Meet Ray, the Real-Time Machine-Learning Replacement for Spark
Researchers at UC Berkeley's RISELab have developed a new distributed framework designed to enable Python-based machine learning and deep learning workloads to execute in real-time with MPI-like power and granularity. Ca Read more…
AI Controls Are Likely In Your Next Car
Anyone who’s ever landed in the passenger seat with someone learning to drive will admit to being at least slightly nervous. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) controls, you may never again have to worr Read more…
2017 Is the Year of AI. Or Is It?
The media often likes to proclaim "The Year of This" or "The Year of That." With the greater attention given to advancing capabilities in artificial intelligence and machine learning, it seemed like a no-brainer to decla Read more…
How Intelligent Machines Learn to Make Sense of the World
Home Depot uses it to show which bathtubs in its huge inventory will fit someone’s oddly shaped bathroom. Apple uses it to present customers with relevant apps from the app store. Intuit uses it to display the right he Read more…
Why Deep Learning, and Why Now
Deep learning is all the rage today, as companies across industries seek to use advanced computational techniques to find useful information hidden across huge swaths of data. While the field of artificial intelligence i Read more…
Intel Unveils Deep Learning Framework for Spark
Chip giant Intel last week rolled out a new deep learning framework that runs as a Spark job atop Hadoop. Called BigDL, the open source software is designed to take advantage of hardware acceleration capabilities that In Read more…
Fake News, AI, and the Search for Truth
Multiple weaknesses were exposed in public institutions in connection with last year's election. First, cybercriminals tried to hack the outcome, then pollsters failed to read voter sentiment accurately. Finally, fake ne Read more…
All Eyes On AI in 2017
This might be the easiest 2017 prediction to make: Artificial intelligence will continue to generate big headlines and command a considerable share of the corporate pocketbook as companies look to bolster their products Read more…
Big Data Speaks: 10 Industry Predictions for 2017
What will happen in big data and advanced analytics next year? Nobody really knows. While crystal balls are generally unreliable indicators of future events, it's never stopped us from trying to see into the future anywa Read more…
How AI Will Spoof You and Steal Your Identify
People generally appreciate how the new wave of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots from Web giants can perform basic online tasks on our behalf. Who doesn't like having the ability to order a large pepperoni pizza Read more…