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4 industries that will be transformed by machine learning in 2017

4 industries that will be transformed by machine learning in 2017

Home » Technology » Applications and development 4 industries that will be transformed by machine learning in 2017 Feature 6 April 2017 Machine learning has become a huge trend in the technology industry in the last few years, as a more accessible side of

AI Won’t Change Companies Without Great UX

AI Won’t Change Companies Without Great UX

As with the adoption of all technology, user experience trumps technical refinements. Many organizations implementing AI initiatives are making a mistake by focusing on smarter algorithms over compelling use cases. Use cases where people’s jobs become

Microsoft Maluuba teaches management 101 to machines in its first paper since being acquired

Microsoft Maluuba teaches management 101 to machines in its first paper since being acquired

In mid-January, the ongoing race for AI put Montreal-based Maluuba on our radar. Microsoft acquired the startup and its team of researchers to build better machine intelligence tools for analyzing unstructured text to enable more natural human computer

This robot might take on a lot of mundane warehouse work

This robot might take on a lot of mundane warehouse work

Hidden inside a busy industrial building in Somerville, Massachusetts, a robot arm spends its day picking up seemingly random objects—bottles of shampoo, onions, cans of shaving foam—from a conveyor belt that goes in a circle about 10 meters in

Investing, fast and slow - Part 1: The Present and the Future of AI in Investment - Dataconomy

Investing, fast and slow - Part 1: The Present and the Future of AI in Investment - Dataconomy

Financial markets offer countless ways of making (or losing) money. A key distinction among them is the investment horizon, which can range from fractions of a second to years.Walnut AlgorithmsandGlobal Systematic Investorsare new investment management firms

Why artificial intelligence still needs a human touch

Why artificial intelligence still needs a human touch

Why artificial intelligence still needs a human touch Opinion 5 April 2017 How do people distinguish between fact and falsehood? This is perhaps, one of the most debated questions of the past year Nick Ismail Google and Facebook are both in the spotlight for

Darktrace's AI is now automatically responding to hacks – and stopping them

Darktrace's AI is now automatically responding to hacks – and stopping them

Darktrace's "digital antibodies" have stopped one Brexit-themed data protection threat: while trialling the machine-learning anti-hacking system's latest security automation tool, one company was alerted to an insider threat. A previously well-behaved

Data-driven mental healthcare solving the crisis? - Information Age

Data-driven mental healthcare solving the crisis? - Information Age

Nick Ismail One in four people have mental health issues and in men under 50, suicide is the main cause of death. It is a huge, often misunderstood problem that pervades every society and most families. This was the opening message delivered by Valentin

Learning to Think Like a Computer

Learning to Think Like a Computer

In “The Beauty and Joy of Computing,” the course he helped conceive for nonmajors at the University of California, Berkeley, Daniel Garcia explains an all-important concept in computer science — abstraction — in terms of milkshakes. “There is a