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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

Industrial Robots Today and in the Future

Posted on February 20, 2017 by GilPress
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2017

Posted on February 16, 2017 by GilPress

See also: Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence: Main Developments in 2016 and Key Trends in 2017 2017 Predictions For AI, Big Data, IoT, Cybersecurity, And Jobs From Senior Tech Executives  

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Rodney Brooks: How to Make Robots As Intelligent as Kids

Posted on February 15, 2017 by GilPress

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2ViWnfbADE] See also Research Needed on Robot Hands

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Human-Level AI: When and How?

Posted on February 14, 2017 by GilPress

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0aXMTpZTfc?ecver=2] From the Beneficial AI conference, January 6-8, 2017

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Internet Advertising Trends in 2017

Posted on February 13, 2017 by GilPress
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76% of Business Decision-Makers Believe AI is Fundamental to Future Success

Posted on February 10, 2017 by GilPress
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AI and Data-Driven Marketing Technology

Posted on February 9, 2017 by GilPress

Scott Brinker: …you can see from this chart that master-martech-analyst David Raab shared at the last MarTech confernece in San Francisco that AI (machine intelligence) is blossoming across the whole industry with vendors of all sizes (and this is only … Continue reading →

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Digital Transformation Surprisingly Focused on Operations

Posted on February 7, 2017 by GilPress

CIO Journal: 40.8% of CIOs responding to a recent IDC survey said that the focus of their digital initiatives is “improving operations” a opposed to 35.5% who cited “new products” and 34.2% that mentioned “new markets.”      

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6 Roads to Prediction: Machine Learning Algorithms (Infographic)

Posted on February 6, 2017 by GilPress

Source: Data Iku

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Alexa, How Many of You Have Been Sold?

Posted on February 2, 2017 by GilPress

Business Insider: According to Statista’s estimates — based in part on earlier US sales data from CIRP — total Echo device sales have more than doubled from 2015 to 2016. The amount of “skills” third-party developers have built for Alexa, meanwhile, has risen … Continue reading →

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