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30% of internet data usage at home comes from phones and tablets, up from 9% in 2012
Recode: Sandvine, a broadband services company, says that 30 percent of internet data usage at home comes from phones and tablets. That’s up from 20 percent in 2013 and 9 percent in 2012.
China: Increasing Investments in AI, Big Data and Digital Health
Gartner: Despite the slowdown in GDP growth to 6.9 percent in 2015, China is still making aggressive investments to drive the adoption of high technology by local enterprises and organizations, according to Gartner, Inc… The massive consumer base and the … Continue reading
Robotics: From Tesla in 1898 to Exits in 2011-2016
PBS: [Nikola] Tesla wanted an extraordinary way to demonstrate the potential of his system for wireless transmission of energy [radio]. In 1898, at an electrical exhibition in the recently completed Madison Square Garden, he made a demonstration of the … Continue reading
Textbooks and College Tuition Lead Price Increases 1996-2016
Source: BLS HT: CB Insights
AI: The Story So Far, Stuart Russell (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBCOMm_ytwM] Machine Learning Research Institute: As previously announced, we recently ran a 22-day Colloquium Series on Robust and Beneficial AI (CSRBAI) at the MIRI office, co-hosted with the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute. The colloquium was aimed at bringing … Continue reading
Benchmarking Digital Transformation
Deloitte: If your organization is moving toward digital too slowly, your people may be looking to leave. That’s one of the findings highlighted here and explored more fully in Aligning the organization for its digital future.
IoT Facts and Figures
Business Insider: In total, we project there will be 34 billion devices connected to the internet by 2020, up from 10 billion in 2015. IoT devices will account for 24 billion, while traditional computing devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, etc.) will … Continue reading
Collaborative Robotics Market
MarketsAndMarkets: The global collaborative robots market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 60.04% between 2016 and 2022 from $110 Million in 2015 and is expected to reach $3.3 Billion by 2022. The collaborative robots market is application driven; … Continue reading
62% of Enterprises will Use AI by 2018
Artificial intelligence has replaced big data this year as the most talked about new set of technologies. As with big data five years ago—behind the hype, the confusion generated by an ill-defined term, and the record funding by VC—we are … Continue reading