Robots and Artificial Intelligence – Robot word is derived from a Czech word meaning “forced labor”. Czech writer Karel Capek first used the term robot in 1921. Some time back New York Times told us the same thing but this time we are serious and
2018-12-02
When Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt started programming in 1969 at the age of 14, there was no explicit title for what he was doing. “I was just a nerd,” he says. But now computer science has fundamentally transformed fields like
2018-12-02
Nvidia has developed a self-driving AI that shows you how it works. As we explained in our latest cover story, “The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI,” some of the most powerful machine learning techniques available result in software that is almost
2018-12-01
TL;DR A resilient Data Science Platform is a necessity to every centralized data science team within a large corporation. It helps them centralize, reuse, and productionize their models at peta scale. We’ve built Algorithmia Enterprise for that
2018-11-30
The next blockbuster drug could be developed with help from machine-learning techniques that are rapidly spreading from AI research to pharmacology labs. Deep Genomics, a Canadian company that uses machine learning to trace potential genetic causes for
2018-11-30
Lung cancer is the deadliest of all cancers, and not just because it’s the most common variant of the disease. Nearly 80 percent of patients will die within five years of diagnosis, according to the American Lung Association, largely because most people
2018-11-29
Intuit, the company behind Mint, QuickBooks and TurboTax, traditionally focused on serving individuals and small businesses. But over the course of the last few years, it noticed that there is a large and growing group of freelancers, whose tax situation is
2018-11-29
As director of Microsoft’s Building 99 research lab in Redmond, Washington, Eric Horvitz gave each of his employees a copy of David McCullough’sThe Wright Brothers. “I said to them, ‘Please read every word of this book,’” Horvitz says, tapping the
2018-11-28
Most car owners know what it’s like to hear a new clink or grinding noise coming from the engine and wonder how costly the fix will be. Startup OtoSense is working with major automakers on software that could give cars their own sense of hearing to
2018-11-28
