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90% Of Today's Data Created In Two Years

90% Of Today's Data Created In Two Years

According to a new report from IBM Marketing Cloud, “10 Key Marketing Trends For 2017,” 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone, at 2.5 quintillion bytes of data a day! And, says the report, with new devices,

A conversation about digital copyright reform

A conversation about digital copyright reform

The European Union is in the process of reforming copyright laws that date back to 2001, as part of a wider strategy to establish a Digital Single Market across the 28 Member States of the bloc, aiming to break down regional barriers to ecommerce. Earlier

AI researchers built software primed to cooperate with humans and say it’s crucial to our future

AI researchers built software primed to cooperate with humans and say it’s crucial to our future

Progress in artificial intelligence has long been measured by its mastery of board games like chess, backgammon, and Go. Researchers are now working on poker and computer games such as Starcraft. Iyad Rahwan, a professor at MIT, respects those milestones but

AI Learns Gender and Racial Biases from Language

AI Learns Gender and Racial Biases from Language

Artificial intelligence does not automatically rise above human biases regarding gender and race. On the contrary, machine learning algorithms that represent the cutting edge of AI in many online services and apps may readily mimic the biases encoded in their

Artificial intelligence: coming soon to a hospital near you

Artificial intelligence: coming soon to a hospital near you

uman intelligence has long powered hospitals and health care. We rely on doctors, nurses, and a variety of other clinicians to solve problems and create new solutions. Advances in artificial intelligence are now making it possible to apply this form of

The financial world wants to open AI’s black boxes

The financial world wants to open AI’s black boxes

Powerful machine-learning methods have taken the tech world by storm in recent years, vastly improving voice and image recognition, machine translation, and many other things. Now these techniques are poised to upend countless other industries, including the

Scientists Taught A Robot Language. It Immediately Turned Racist.

Scientists Taught A Robot Language. It Immediately Turned Racist.

One day a few years ago, while talking to a journalist in her office, Harvard computer science professor Latanya Sweeney typed her name into Google’s search bar to pull up a study. As results filled in, the page also brought up an alarming advertisement:

Accelerator program Zeroth wants to find Asia’s top AI and machine learning startups

Accelerator program Zeroth wants to find Asia’s top AI and machine learning startups

Zeroth is an accelerator program that is out to fix the lack of talent, and investment options, for artificial intelligence (AI) in Asia, and it has just opened applications for its second program which takes place in Tokyo, Japan, in late

Artificial intelligence coming sooner than you think, experts say

Artificial intelligence coming sooner than you think, experts say

Experts say robotics will soon replace the work now being done by humans. If you have seen the latest Wolverine movie, Logan, you might have noticed a crucial scene where automated trucks speed up and down the highways of the United States. Far-fetched?