Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence
Which Industry Relies Most on Machines to Make Decisions?
Data is Eating the World: A New Economy
The Economist: Data are to this century what oil was to the last one: a driver of growth and change. Flows of data have created new infrastructure, new businesses, new monopolies, new politics and—crucially—new economics. Digital information is unlike any … Continue reading
Timeline of AI and Robotics
Source: PwC
Progress in AI and its Future Development
A.T. Kearney: AI has achieved recent performance breakthroughs across numerous cognitive applications (Figure 7), from image classification to pattern recognition and ontological reasoning. This progress is due largely to convergent advances across three enablers: computing power, training data and learning … Continue reading
Big Data Landscape 2017: Big Data + AI = New IT Stack
Matt Turck: We’re witnessing the emergence of a new stack, where Big Data technologies are used to handle core data engineering challenges, and machine learning is used to extract value from the data (in the form of analytical insights, or … Continue reading
Will Google Own AI? (4)
Norm Jouppi, Google: We’ve been using compute-intensive machine learning in our products for the past 15 years. We use it so much that we even designed an entirely new class of custom machine learning accelerator, the Tensor Processing Unit. Just … Continue reading
AI Perspectives from Amazon, Salesforce, Google and Leading Roboticists
The 11th annual MIT Tech Conference, a student-led event organized by the MIT Sloan Tech Club, had “exponential technologies” as its theme this year. Here’s what I learned from the event’s morning sessions which covered artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing, … Continue reading