There are times when it pays to look years ahead when you’re an investor. That time is now for Apple AAPL, +4.69% Under one scenario, Apple’s stock could double. At first glance, such a possibility seems ridiculous given current Wall Street’s price
2019-04-13
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a wide-ranging and complex regulation intended to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU). A year ago I blogged about the data governance ramifications of GDPR,
2019-04-13
Four more University of Toronto researchers have been awarded research chairs in artificial intelligence by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), a pillar of Canada’s AI strategy. The new U of T chairs – Alán Aspuru-Guzik, David
2019-04-12
Robots in factories today are powerful and precise, but dumb as toast. A new robot arm, developed by a team of researchers from UC Berkeley, is meant to change that by providing a cheap-yet-powerful platform for AI experimentation. The team likens their
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Global robot sales have doubled over the past five years, but the bots deployed in factories and warehouses today are pretty much the same as the ones we had decades ago. They’re powerful and precise but expensive to buy and dangerous for humans to work
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We Survived Spreadsheets, and We’ll Survive AI We Survived Spreadsheets, and We’ll Survive AI History shows technology fuels new kinds of jobs in addition to the ones it renders obsolete By @greg_ip Updated Aug. 2, 2017 11:47 a.m. ET Whether truck
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Ask a layman about artificial intelligence and they might point to sci-fi villains such as HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey or the Terminator. But the co-founders of the AI Now Institute, Meredith Whittaker and Kate Crawford, want to change the
2019-04-11
Over the decades since the inception of artificial intelligence, research in the field has fallen into two main camps. The “symbolists” have sought to build intelligent machines by coding in logical rules and representations of the world. The
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Thousands of engineers write the code to create our apps, which serve billions of people worldwide. This is no trivial task—our services have grown so diverse and complex that the codebase contains millions of lines of code that intersect with a wide
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