Tag: artificial intelligence
Intel Details AI Hardware Strategy for Post-GPU Age
Intel today revealed its product roadmap for embedding its processors with key capabilities and attributes needed to take artificial intelligence (AI) to the next level. It also used its Intel AI Day event in San Francis Read more…
AI-Powered Bots Gearing Up to Serve You
Get yourself ready for the bot invasion. Powered by artificial intelligence and fueled with big data, bots are gearing up to serve people the data, insights, and services they demand. Bots are not new. Anybody who's i Read more…
Graphcore Touts 100x ML Speedup with PCIe Plug-In
Graphcore emerged from stealth mode today with news of a $30 million Series A round to help finance ongoing development of its machine learning (ML) and deep learning acceleration solutions, including a PCIe card that pl Read more…
‘Smart Machines’ Top the Hype Cycle, Gartner Says
Every summer, technologists turn to Gartner's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, which has become a barometer of sorts for gauging the state of various hardware and software innovations that are expected to impact bus Read more…
Real Machine Intelligence Making its Way into the Enterprise
Hundreds of billions of dollars lies dormant in data. From retailers and healthcare providers to government agencies, untapped data has the ability to generate savings, drive efficiencies, and make entirely new paradigm- Read more…
Data is the only Vertical
In the past few years we’ve seen software giants like Alphabet’s Google and Amazon.com penetrate more and more industry verticals. Google began as a search bar but now plays in the mobile (Android), media (YouTube), Read more…
AI to Surpass Human Perception in 5 to 10 Years, Zuckerberg Says
Machine learning-powered artificial intelligence will match and exceed human capabilities in the areas of computer vision and speech recognition within five to 10 years, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicted this week. Read more…
Unleashing Artificial Intelligence with Human-Assisted Machine Learning
Artificial intelligence has never been as pervasive as it is today. From Google's self-driving cars from to Hilton's new Watson-powered hotel concierge, we are witnessing an explosion of AI capabilities. But while it may Read more…
Taming Unstructured Data with Cognitive Computing
Contending with unstructured data is no longer a priority reserved for the most well-financed, IT-savvy organizations, like Google and Facebook. As the world’s data continues to increase at nearly exponential rates, th Read more…
Is 2016 the Beginning of the End for Big Data?
Part of my job as managing editor of Datanami is to be a hype buster. Over the past five years, the amount of hoopla and hysteria over big data has reached epic proportions at times. That's why some in the industry are c Read more…
Survey: Middle Managers Wary of Machine Intelligence
Cognitive computing in the form of intelligent machines is making inroads within the managerial ranks of companies, but a new survey finds a lack of trust and uncertainly about the best use of the emerging technology. Read more…
Why Google Open Sourced Deep Learning Library TensorFlow
Google last week open sourced TensorFlow, a new machine learning library used in deep learning projects. Even though the Web giant has just started using the software in its products, it apparently felt the need to donat Read more…
IBM Watson Learns Deeply, So You Don’t Have To
Advances in the field of cognitive computing are stacking up as researchers push the bounds of deep learning and related techniques like neural networks. But organizations won't have to wait years for these advances to b Read more…
Elon Musk Donates $7M to Harness AI
Artificial intelligence is emerging as an indispensable tool for big data analytics. Still, some high-profile critics worry about "unintended, even potentially disastrous, consequences" should AI manage to get out of con Read more…
AI Developer Touts ‘Artificial Precognition’
A U.K. analytics startup developing a proprietary application it calls "artificial precognition" said this week it has released the platform for testing. London-based Massive Analytic said its Oscar AP artificial inte Read more…
Can Big Data Give Us Bionic Brains?
The rise of big data and analytics promises to transform many aspects of our lives, chief among them how we synthesize data and make decisions. Some theorize that big data will augment our own cognitive capabilities to t Read more…
AI Startup Raises $103.5M to Expand Development
Artificial intelligence startup Sentient Technologies said it would use the $103.5 million raised in its most recent funding round to expand its distributed AI products and services. San Francisco-based Sentient said Read more…
How Baidu Uses Deep Learning to Drive Success on the Web
The Chinese Web giant Baidu is investing heavily in deep learning technologies as it seeks to drive intelligence from big data using high performance computing (HPC). From speech and facial recognition to language transa Read more…