Everywhere you turn today someone is talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI). It appears to have taken over as the largest buzzword since Big Data. Progressive organizations are actively seeking ways to apply AI to advance their businesses and build new
2019-02-18
OpenAI’s researchers knew they were on to something when their language modeling program wrote a convincing essay on a topic they disagreed with. They’d been testing the new AI system by feeding it text prompts, getting it to complete made-up sentences
2019-02-17
At Cannes last week, Publicis Groupe chief executive Arthur Sadoun said he would be fine if the company’s new artificial intelligence (AI) platform, Marcel, was one day part of its executive team. It’s a good example of the blurring lines between man and
2019-02-17
Computers soon could deliver smarter healthcare to patients at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). That’s the goal of a new partnership between Partners HealthCare, the hospital’s parent organization, and GE Healthcare. The two Boston-based
2019-02-17
Analysis Most neural networks trained for image recognition tend to identify objects based on their texture rather than shape, unlike humans, according to this latest research. Artificially intelligent software may suck at most tasks like reading or writing,
2019-02-16
One of the most contentious debates in technology is around the question of automation and jobs. At issue is whether advances in automation, specifically with regards to artificial intelligence and robotics, will spell trouble for today’s workers. This
2019-02-16
From the start, Microsoft Research (MSR for short) hired more than its fair share of computing’s most visionary, accomplished scientists. For a long time, however, it had a reputation for struggling to turn their innovations into features and products that
2019-02-16
When organic chemists identify a useful chemical compound — a new drug, for instance — it’s up to chemical engineers to determine how to mass-produce it. There could be 100 different sequences of reactions that yield the same end product. But some of
2019-02-16
Machine learning (ML) is a method of artificial intelligence (AI) in which data is used to train a machine so that it can make decisions or predictions on its own. In a previous blog, Setting up your machine learning projects for success, we discussed how
2019-02-15
