Given the glut of AI “breakthroughs” and wannabe “breakthroughs,” it’s sometimes tough to pinpoint events that if not seismic of themselves, are the kind of incremental advances that portend an “a-ha!” moment to come — such as the evening
2018-10-27
AI research has a long history of repurposing old ideas that have gone out of style. Now researchers atElon Musk’s open source AI project have revisited “neuroevolution,” a field that has been around since the 1980s, and achieved state-of-the-art
2018-10-26
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
2018-10-25
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
2018-10-25
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
2018-10-24
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
2018-10-24
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
2018-10-24
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
2018-10-23
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
2018-10-22
