Category Archives: AI
Translating Between Computer Science and Statistics
Terence Parr: “I am a computer scientist retooling as a machine learning droid and have found the nomenclature used by statisticians to be peculiar to say the least, so I thought I’d put this document together. It’s meant as good-natured … Continue reading
Big Tech Leads in AI Patent Filings
WSJ: AI-related applications to the US Patent Office grew to about 3,800 in 2018 from roughly 3,200 in 2017 and about 1,900 in 2014.
IDC 2020 IT Predictions
The focus for IDC’s 10 predictions for next year and beyond is the rise of the digital economy. By 2023, IDC predicts, over half (52%) of global GDP will be accounted for by digitally transformed enterprises. This digital tipping point … Continue reading
AI by the Numbers: 65% of Businesses Report No Return on AI Investments
Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the progress of AI highlighted the rapidly increasing expectations regarding the business benefits of AI and the low incidence of business gains so far; the increasing adoption of AI by businesses … Continue reading
635 AI Acquisitions Since 2010
A report by CB Insights shows that, as of August, 2019 was on track to surpass last year’s record number of AI startup acquisitions. The annual tally has grown an average of 38 percent every year since 2010.
Automation and Robots Take a Byte Out of US National Income
Bloomberg: Automation has “contributed substantially” to reducing the portion of national income that goes to U.S. workers over the past two decades, according to a new study by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Despite the lowest … Continue reading
Top websites writing about AI in the past year
Source: Decoding AI in the US
Father of Deep Learning on its Current Limitations and Intel Experts on its Superpowers
Asked what is the biggest misconception about AI, Yoshua Bengio answered without hesitation “AI is not magic.” Winner of the 2018 Turing Award (with the other “fathers of the deep learning revolution,” Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun), Bengio spoke at … Continue reading
VC Investment in China AI Startups
Lux Research Chinese AI startups received $6.1 billion in VC funding over the past four years – almost 70% more than their U.S. counterparts, which raised $3.6 billion during the same period.