When former Google and Foursquare product specialist Noah Weiss joined workplace communication specialist Slack at the start of 2016, it was already vaunted as the world's hottest start-up, and enjoyed the kind of cool set aside for only the hottest of hot
2019-01-14
We have all read about artificial intelligence becoming smarter than us, a future in which we become like pets and can only hope AI will be benevolent. My experience watching tens of millions of interactions between humans and artificial conversational
2019-01-13
Google signs a new lease in Manhattan. Amazon hangs out its shingle in Queens. Apple announces a $1 billion campus in Austin. It seems that all the tech titans are planting their flags in vibrant, educated, progressive cities. As one of the most vibrant,
2019-01-12
AWS announced Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth to help companies create training data sets for machine learning. This is a powerful new service for folks who have access to lots of data that hasn't been consistently annotated. In the past, humans would have to
2019-01-12
Artificial intelligence detects the presence of viruses January 9, 2019, UCLA Engineering Institute for Technology Advancement Deep learning-based sensing of viruses using holography. Credit: UCLA Engineering Institute for Technology Advancement Many
2019-01-12
Americans consider many AI governance challenges to be important; prioritize data privacy and preventing AI-enhanced cyber attacks, surveillance, and digital manipulation We sought to understand how Americans prioritize policy issues associated with AI.
2019-01-12
In his book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, physicist Max Tegmark makes a lot of predictions about the new ethical paradigms likely to be adopted in the future. Among his projections is that people may get so used to and actually
2019-01-12
“Examples of artificial intelligence (AI) can be found in various areas of the insurance industry today – for example in underwriting and claims”, says Wolfgang Hauner, Chief Data Officer at Munich Re. “AI can support consultants in their work,
2019-01-12
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the capacity to enhance current cloud platform benefits and leverage a new generation of cloud computing technologies. But we’re not quite there yet. Today, we see AI-enabled chat applications in support,
2019-01-12
