Category Archives: AI

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

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Top websites writing about AI in the past year

Source: Decoding AI in the US

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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

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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.

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59% of U.S. Adults Trust Law Enforcement to Use Facial Recognition Responsibly

Pew Research Center: 59% of US adults say it is acceptable for law enforcement to use facial recognition to assess security threats in public spaces; only 15% say it is acceptable for advertisers to use facial recognition to see how … Continue reading

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AI by the Numbers: 69% of IT Executives Say They Cannot Respond to Cybersecurity Threats Without AI

The recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI highlighted the role of AI in cybersecurity defense and in scoring standardized tests, the relationships between data migrating to the cloud and data modernization, … Continue reading

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Elon Musk and Jack Ma Debate AI

“AI will open a new chapter so that humans will know themselves better. Most of the projections about AI are wrong … people who are street-smart about AI are not scared by it”—Jack Ma “Humans may become too slow. A … Continue reading

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Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Brief History

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IDC: $2.6 Billion AI Software Platforms Market, Growing at 26.6%

“The artificial intelligence software platforms market experienced steady growth in 2018, with revenue of $2.6 billion and a growth rate of 26.6%,” says David Schubmehl, research director, Cognitive/Artificial Intelligence Systems, IDC. ” IDC is seeing that in 2018 organizations have … Continue reading

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AI Market Incremental Growth 2019-2023: $75.54 Billion

Source: Technavio

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