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About GilPress

I'm Managing Partner at gPress, a marketing, publishing, research and education consultancy. Also a Senior Contributor forbes.com/sites/gilpress/. Previously, I held senior marketing and research management positions at NORC, DEC and EMC. Most recently, I was Senior Director, Thought Leadership Marketing at EMC, where I launched the Big Data conversation with the “How Much Information?” study (2000 with UC Berkeley) and the Digital Universe study (2007 with IDC). Twitter: @GilPress

Gartner Hype Cycle for Digital Government Technology

Gartner: Cloud office is the only technology to enter the Plateau of Productivity in the 2019 Gartner Hype Cycle for Digital Government Technology, according to Gartner, Inc.  The Plateau of Productivity highlights technologies that are hitting mainstream adoption within organizations…. … Continue reading

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Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2019

Gartner: The Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies is unique among most Gartner Hype Cycles because it garners insights from more than 2,000 technologies into a succinct set of 29 emerging technologies and trends. This Hype Cycle specifically focuses on the … Continue reading

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AI by the Numbers: 69% of IT Executives Say They Cannot Respond to Cybersecurity Threats Without AI

The recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI highlighted the role of AI in cybersecurity defense and in scoring standardized tests, the relationships between data migrating to the cloud and data modernization, … Continue reading

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Elon Musk and Jack Ma Debate AI

“AI will open a new chapter so that humans will know themselves better. Most of the projections about AI are wrong … people who are street-smart about AI are not scared by it”—Jack Ma “Humans may become too slow. A … Continue reading

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1.71 Billion Websites

You will find more infographics at Statista See also The Web At 30, Or What Has Tim Berners-Lee Wrought? A Very Short History Of The Internet And The Web

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IDC: $2.6 Billion AI Software Platforms Market, Growing at 26.6%

“The artificial intelligence software platforms market experienced steady growth in 2018, with revenue of $2.6 billion and a growth rate of 26.6%,” says David Schubmehl, research director, Cognitive/Artificial Intelligence Systems, IDC. ” IDC is seeing that in 2018 organizations have … Continue reading

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Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Brief History

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AI Market Incremental Growth 2019-2023: $75.54 Billion

Source: Technavio

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The Impact of AI Augmentation on Productivity: 6.2 Billion Hours

Gartner: In 2021, artificial intelligence (AI) augmentation will create $2.9 trillion of business value and 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity globally… Gartner defines augmented intelligence as a human-centered partnership model of people and AI working together to enhance cognitive … Continue reading

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AI by the Numbers: $2.9 Trillion of Business Value in 2021

The recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI estimated the impact on productivity of human-machine collaboration, the number of jobs that could be automated in major U.S. cities, and the size of … Continue reading

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