As director of Microsoft’s Building 99 research lab in Redmond, Washington, Eric Horvitz gave each of his employees a copy of David McCullough’sThe Wright Brothers. “I said to them, ‘Please read every word of this book,’” Horvitz says, tapping the
2022-12-12
Most car owners know what it’s like to hear a new clink or grinding noise coming from the engine and wonder how costly the fix will be. Startup OtoSense is working with major automakers on software that could give cars their own sense of hearing to
2022-12-12
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the future for improving customer experience, according to home appliances manufacturer Fisher & Paykel. As a result, the New Zealand-based company is following up its cloud computing overhaul by looking into implementing both
2022-12-12
Here at The Human OS, we are slightly obsessed with matchups between artificial intelligence and doctors. In many experiments (though not yet in many clinics), AI systems are showing great promise in diagnosing diseases, analyzing medical images, and
2022-12-08
News headlines might not be the only things that are fake in the future. Powerful machine-learning techniques (see “The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI”) are making it increasingly easy to manipulate or generate realistic video and audio, and to
2022-12-08
Financial institutions turning to artificial intelligence for data mining, cost savings 29 min ago (…) BB&T Corp. has a well-earned reputation for being deliberate when it comes to adopting technological advances. That’s why BB&T executives’ enthusiasm
2022-12-01
Technology moves swiftly. Nowhere is that more accurate than in the current state of machine learning. One merely has to look at a variety of ubiquitous technological experiences they undergo each day, and find a myriad of machine learning applications at
2022-11-30
Microsoft’s Power BI, a business analytics service that enables users to create reports, dashboards, and more without coding experience or deep technical expertise, is getting a dose of hefty artificial intelligence (AI). The Seattle company announced today
2022-11-24
A few years ago, I managed to receive 1,000 emails between boarding a plane in San Francisco and landing in New Orleans five hours later. Maybe 40 of those 1,000 were emails that I needed to respond to, but given the overwhelming volume in my inbox, a lot of
2022-11-18
