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The Failure Rate of Enterprises Deploying AI and Other Data on AI
The surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI for this week reveal the state of enterprise AI adoption, workers’ attitudes towards AI, data insecurity and privacy challenges, the fortunes of AI startups, and … Continue reading
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The Impact of AI and Automation on Jobs Now and in the Future
Amazon announced last week that it will spend $700 million to train about 100,000 workers in the US by 2025, helping them move into more highly skilled jobs. The New York Times observed that with this program Amazon is acknowledging that ”advances in automation technology … Continue reading
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AI Creates “Art”
https://www.artnome.com/news/2019/6/30/machine-learning-for-art-deep-kitsch-or-creative-augmentation
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AI History In Pictures: John McCarthy Playing Chess with a Mainframe Computer
John McCarthy used an improved version of the Kotok program to play correspondence chess against a Soviet program developed at the Moscow Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) by George Adelson-Velsky and others. In 1967, a four-game match played … Continue reading
AI, IoT and cloud computing key drivers of acquisitions in technology, media and telecoms over last 2 years
In 2018, the total transaction value of M&A deals announced in the global TMT sector reached $630 billion, up 23% from 2017 and significantly ahead of other markets in both 2017 and 2018, according to GlobalData’s Deals Database. GlobalData’s latest … Continue reading
AI by the numbers: Surveys and forecasts, July 2019
What is the state-of-AI in July 2019? Recent surveys, studies, and forecasts illustrate future expectations and current realities regarding the impact of AI on jobs; the conditions, challenges, and benefits of AI adoption; and bits of data related to data … Continue reading
The End of Big Data and the Beginning of Big Data AI
In December 2014, I asked whether we were at the beginning of “the end of the Hadoop bubble.” I kept updating my Hadoop bubble watch (here and here) through the much-hyped IPOs of Hortonworks and Cloudera. The question was whether an open-source … Continue reading
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Startup Unicorns’ Stock Performance After IPO in 2019
Source: The Hottest IPOs in 2019 HT: @fklivestolearn
A New Data Science Journal from Harvard and MIT
The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) and the MIT Press just launched Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR), a “premier research journal, a leading educational publication, and a popular magazine.” The inaugural issue of HDSR includes contributions from internationally renowned scholars and … Continue reading
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A Very Short History of Portable Music
You will find more infographics at Statista From BuzzFeed: The recent discourse about AirPods, whether they’re good or bad, or neutral themselves but separating everyone from the physical, echoes what the original Walkman inspired. “With the advent of the Sony Walkman … Continue reading