Welcome to the Momenta Learning News on Artificial Intelligence. This is issue 71, please feel free to share this post.
By Dick Weisinger Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking earlier in the year all said that the rapid advance of Artificial Intelligence is something that we should be worried about. Yet just a few months later Elon Musk was in the news for investing in a $1 billion venture with the single goal of rapidly advancing the research of Artificial Intelligence.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is expanding into an array of unexpected applications, looming ever larger on the horizon of our tech-powered future. It’s increasingly dominating media headlines as well. Take the recent news of AlphaGo. This is the AI “mind” that defeated one of the best players of Go, considered perhaps one of the most complex games developed by humans.
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Many organizations are interested in using the increasingly large amount of data they collect for social good. However, making sense of so much data and then turning those insights into actionable decisions is a difficult task. To streamline this path from data to insights to decisions, organization
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A digest of artificial intelligence and machine learning news from the technology industry, research lab and venture capital market. *We held our second annual Playfair AI Summit on research and applied AI last week, with 350+ attendees taking part. Talk slides are available here, photos here and videos are forthcoming!
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Szilagy said patients will remain the focus and starting point of any efforts to reduce costs and increase efficiencies. Doctors make the decisions about which medical devices and supplies are best, he said, but data specialists are able to compare things like how long a given procedure takes with different devices.
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If you believe the Fintech Intelligentsia, there is a revolution coming to the financial services industry. This revolution will not be led by PayPal, or Alibaba, or SoFi – or any of the other darlings of the emerging fintech sector. The vanguard of this revolution will instead be a rather benign sounding innovation known as a ‘decentralized autonomous organization’ (DAO).
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During the next five years, messaging will become the preferred path for customer and stakeholder interaction, ultimately displacing call centers and replacing or augmenting mobile apps. For commercial brands and government programs looking to extend and expand their customer base, they must satisfy this customer demand for next-gen messaging channels and rapid response.
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If there’s one thing the world’s most valuable companies agree on, it’s that their future success hinges on artificial intelligence.
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Reg Events If you’re worried about scientists developing a computer as smart as you are, relax. It’s likely but not certain that “human level” AI could be reached by the end of this century, Professor Murray Shanahan told an audience of eager Register readers at our second Summer lecture recently.
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Don Manfredi, Trumble Inc. Engineers in modern manufacturing facilities have a large variety of tools at their disposal. In most cases there is no shortage of data available to these professionals, but in virtually all cases there is a shortage of another key resource: Time.
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