AI Could Bring These Big Breakthroughs to Healthcare In the Next Year
Recently, Boston-based Partners HealthCare ranked AI-enhanced technologies by which will have the greatest impact on medicine and healthcare in the next year. The report, titled the 2019 “Disruptive Dozen”, was compiled after more than 60 interviews took place. Erica Shenoy, M.D., is associate chief of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Infection Control Unit. She says the 12 winners […]
Will Google’s AI Experts Automate Their Own Jobs?
In a recent data science competition, a trio of Google researchers placed their bets on AutoML, an artificial intelligence (AI) software designed and developed by the tech titan to do the work of a data scientist. Is this the first step towards AI experts making themselves obsolete? Standing out From the Crowd A few weeks […]
Machine Learning Has Huge Potential for B2B Marketers
For a while now, business-to-consumer (B2C) businesses have been racing to incorporate machine learning (ML) into their sales and marketing campaigns. In contrast, business-to-business (B2B) organizations have been slower to adopt this subset of artificial intelligence (AI) into their own customer-facing functions. But this will soon change. B2B companies have seen the benefits and possibilities […]
The Animal-AI Olympics Aims to Find out How Close Machines Are to Common Sense
This June, artificial intelligence (AI) researchers will pit their trained algorithms against one other in a series of tasks typically used to test animal cognition. The contest, known as the Animal-AI Olympics, aims to find out how close we’ve come to building machines with common sense. And a $10,000 prize pool awaits the winner. Adaptability, […]
The Pioneers Behind Deep Learning Have Won Computing’s Highest Honor
Known as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” the Turing Award is the highest honor in computer science. It is bestowed upon individuals who make major technological contributions to the field. The award is named after Alan Turing, the mathematician and computing pioneer who is credited as the key founder of artificial intelligence (AI). And it […]
Can Quantum Computing Make Machine Learning Better?
There’s no doubt machine learning applications have given businesses and consumers extraordinary capabilities that weren’t possible before. But the truth is the technology is being held back by hardware; traditional CPUs and machine learning don’t exactly work well together. Can quantum computing help machine learning developers take things a step further? A new study from […]
Can Bold Bets Keep the US Ahead of China in the AI Race?
Research shows that China’s artificial intelligence (AI) development is picking up at an unprecedented pace. Can the United States keep up with ambitious, out-there ideas? On Track to Overtake the US Last June, Apple and Google sponsored an academic contest at the world’s premier computer vision conference. The tech titans wanted to see if algorithms […]
Smart Hospitals: The Future of Healthcare?
Healthcare is evolving. The development of artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and other technologies is opening up unprecedented possibilities for the medical field. It won’t be long before the concept of the smart hospital is viable. A Convergence of Big Tech and Healthcare Nearly every big tech company is getting […]
How AI and Other Tech Are Transforming the Travel Industry
Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) have gone worldwide—and are now helping you do the same. Before, it was common to only hear of new developments in San Francisco and other hubs. But travel companies all over the world are now leveraging recent tech advancements to bring you a better experience and secure themselves a […]
Machine Learning: How to Make the Most of It
There’s no doubt that machine learning is opening up exciting opportunities for enterprises and startups around the world. But for most organizations, there are some big obstacles to overcome before they start seeing the fruits of their labor. So, the real question is how do you get past these roadblocks? How can you make the […]