Tag Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Why 2017 is the Year of Artificial Intelligence (Forbes)

A recent acceleration of innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) has made it a hot topic in boardrooms, government and the media. But it is still early, and everyone seems to ha... More

ABI: Machine Learning to Boost Cybersecurity Spending

With cyber criminals constantly adapting to industry defenses, creating new ways to commit cybercrimes, the cybersecurity industry is increasingly looking toward machine learning a... More

Artificial Intelligence May Change the Face of Business (Techonomy)

AI is flourishing now because of the rise of ubiquitous computing, low-cost cloud services, near unlimited inexpensive storage, new algorithms, and other related technology innovat... More

Retail Chatbots Show the Power of AI, Just in Time for the Holidays (Adweek)

The Mall of America has partnered with IBM to integrate the company's Watson technology to create a "mobile concierge" that helps shoppers make their way around. Using Watson's con... More

Why Google, Microsoft and Amazon Love the Sound of Your Voice (Bloomberg)

Voice recognition has come a long way in the past few years. But it's still not good enough to popularize the technology for everyday use and usher in a new era of human-machine in... More

Cognitive Business: SAS and Enterprise Artificial Intelligence (Huff Post)

Oliver Schabenberger, SAS: "The artificial intelligence applications we are discussing these days belong to the class of weak AI, where we try to solve a specific, narrowly defined... More

Artificial Intelligence Will Drive Consolidation in 2017 (MediaPost)

Artificial intelligence is the logical next step as we evolve from a pure “big data” conversation into one of data mined for specific use cases. It’s not about simply uncove... More

Expanded AWS, Salesforce Cloud Services Pact Focuses on Alexa

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Salesforce extended their global strategic cloud services alliance, the companies announced Dec. 2, saying an integration plan will connect the Salesf... More

VirtusaPolaris Wins Awards for Innovation, Engineering Excellence (SCN)

VirtusaPolaris has been awarded three Stevie recognitions at the 13th Annual International Business Awards. Sara, its virtual personal risk advisor software solution and its Global... More

Forrester Predicts Investment in Artificial Intelligence Will Grow 300% in 2017 (Forbes)

The combination of AI, Big data, and IoT technologies will enable businesses investing in them and implementing them successfully to overcome barriers to data access and to mining ... More

IBM’s Big Bet on Artificial Intelligence (WSJ)

IBM CEO Virginia Rometty: "A lot of tech companies come and go. And they can transform through one era, through two. It is something very different to go three, four and five diffe... More

Google Teaches AIs to Invent Crypto, Avoid Eavesdropping (ARS Technica)

Google Brain has created two artificial intelligences that evolved their own cryptographic algorithm to protect their messages from a third AI, which was trying to evolve its own ... More

How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining The Future Of Work (Forbes)

In a world where the term “big data” is being thrown around like the next coming, many business leaders still struggle to understand how more information is going to help them ... More

How Microsoft Is Democratizing Artificial Intelligence For Businesses (ARC)

All you hear these days is how machine learning and artificial intelligence are the next big things. Your fellow executives, managers, vice presidents and directors are all talking... More

Obama Warns of the Danger of AI Wiping Out Jobs (Fortune)

In an interview with Wired Magazine, Obama spoke of redesigning the social compact and starting a conversation around fair wages. He cited teachers as being underpaid, and called f... More

IBM, Microsoft Among Founders of New AI Alliance

Looking to establish best practices and advance public understanding of artificial intelligence (AI), some of America’s biggest tech companies have banded together to form a new ... More

How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence (New York Times)

For years, science-fiction moviemakers have been making us fear the bad things that artificially intelligent machines might do to their human creators. But for the next decade or t... More

The Hype — and Hope — of Artificial Intelligence (The New Yorker)

Much like “the cloud,” “big data,” and “machine learning” before it, the term “artificial intelligence” has been hijacked by marketers and advertising copywriters. ... More

Microsoft Buys Genee in Latest Move to Expand AI Initiatives

In the latest move by Microsoft to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, the company announced Aug. 22 that it signed a deal to buy Genee, a Mountain View, Calif.-st... More

With Mapbox Deal, IBM Watson Will Learn A Lot More About Where Things Are Happening (Fast Company)

The catchphrase "artificial intelligence" may be ubiquitous, but it's hard to find people who actually know how to use it. That discrepancy represents an opportunity for products l... More