Author Archives: GilPress
Human level AI has been 15 to 25 years away for the past 50
Human level AI has been 15 to 25 years away for the past 50 years https://t.co/DTP0mvjnaN — Mitch Kapor (@mkapor) November 12, 2014 Source: Armstrong, Stuart, and Kaj Sotala. 2012. “How We’re Predicting AI—or Failing To.”
400 million connected light bulbs installed by 2020
ABI Research: The market for connected LED or “smart” light bulbs is in its embryonic stage of development, with shipments totaling fewer than 2.5 million units in 2013. However, falling LED prices and the endorsement of ZigBee Light Link as … Continue reading
IDC: 60% of CIOs will be supplanted by Chief Digital Officers by 2025
In a webinar last week, IDC discussed its CIO predictions for 2015 and beyond (Louis Columbus provides an excellent summary here). Of IDC’s 10 predictions, the one that intrigued me most, predicted that most of the audience, presumably CIOs and … Continue reading
The Robotics Market, 1950 to 2050 ($67 Billion)
Sources: BCG, FastCompany
IBM, Watson, and Cognitive Computing
Reacting to 10 quarters in a row of declining revenues and the abandonment of IBM’s profit target for 2015, UBS’s Steve Milunovich asked on the Q3 earnings call about IBM’s appeal to Silicon Valley startups. Giving voice to the rising … Continue reading
Jeopardy champion Jennings on how a computer beat him at his own game (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2M-SeKey4o?rel=0] Jennings in Slate: …there’s no shame in losing to silicon, I thought to myself as I greeted the (suddenly friendlier) team of IBM engineers after the match. After all, I don’t have 2,880 processor cores and 15 terabytes … Continue reading
Recruiting Data Scientists to Mine the Data Explosion
Wes Hunt, Chief Data Officer (CDO) at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. on recruiting data scientists: Finding talent is my largest challenge. Someone who understands our business, who has quantitative skills, who has the technical skills to create the models, … Continue reading
Doug Cutting on Hadoop, October 2014 (Video)
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Home Monitoring mHealth Wearable Devices 2013-2019
ABI Research: Over the next 5 years, a new generation of elderly home care services will drive wearable device shipments to more than 44 million in 2019 up from just 6 million in 2013. In 2014 alone, shipments of wearable … Continue reading
Most companies analyze a mere 12% of their data (Infographic)
Source: Platfora