Just before 9am last Thursday, an unusual speed dating scene sprang up in San Francisco. A casually dressed crowd, mostly male, milled around a gilt-edged Beaux Arts ballroom on Nob Hill. Pairs and trios formed quickly, but not in search of romance. Ice
2019-04-19
Big data and machine learning have become buzzwords we hear thrown around a lot, without necessarily understanding the nuances of each concept. While the two fields certainly aren’t mutually exclusive – and in fact intersect in ever more crucial ways –
2019-04-19
The Bessemer Process patented in 1856 by Sir Henry Bessemer is one of the inventions most closely associated with catalyzing the second industrial revolution. By reducing the impurities of iron with an innovative oxidizing air blast, the process ushered in a
2019-04-19
Google has many investments in the space of machine learning and artificial intelligence. It is the founder of TensorFlow, the most popular framework for building sophisticated machine learning and deep learning models. It also had Cloud ML Engine, a platform
2019-04-19
Apparently, artificial intelligence is going to take over our lives, our jobs, our minds even and not necessarily in a good way. It’s inevitable. "We’re all products of our environment" covers everything from pit bulls to career criminals, so why don’t
2019-04-19
Reskilling is the buzzword in the IT sector. With the sector seeing huge churn due to the automation and protectionism in the western markets, industry lobby group Nasscom’s president R Chandrashekhar told employees in May: re-skill or perish. Yes that's
2019-04-19
"Automation" is the golden word in business. The more you can automate, the faster you can move, the bigger you can grow, the more efficiently you can run, and the more effectively you can communicate. Without automation, you're left doing everything by
2019-04-19
Six out of 10 C-level executives surveyed by Forbes Insights believe AI is a key enabler of their organization's future success. Four out of five of those organizations have AI programs in place or are currently piloting them; 74 percent have 10 or more
2019-04-18
We often associate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) with exotic applications - self-driving cars, speech and facial recognition, robotic control and medical diagnosis - all powered by massive rows of servers filled with CPUs or GPUs, at
2019-04-18
