Artificial intelligence: What’s real and what’s not in 2017

Tony Paikeday, Dir. of Product Marketing, A.I. & Deep Learning at NVIDIA We’re already seeing a wave of innovation across industries. From real-world data, computers are learning to recognize patterns too complex, too massive, or too

We deal with a lot of data every day, but the way we deal with it is changing rapidly. Increasingly, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are cropping up as solutions for handling data. The

It was recently reported that Alipay, the world’s biggest payment company, had hit $100 billion in transactions in less than a year with zero branches.  Traditional banks would have taken multiple years to achieve this milestone.

Google’s Pixel 2 event in San Francisco on Wednesday had a lot of stuff to show off and most of it was more of the same: the next iteration of the flagship smartphone, new Home speakers and

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the face of business. No longer a futuristic concept, its impact is real. From tech giants like Google, Apple and Amazon to user-centric behemoths like Uber and Starbucks, everyone seems to

While Artificial Intelligence offers great opportunity for businesses, a prominent concern coming out of the AI revolution surrounds the workforce. There are worries that further developments and implementation of AI will leave many employees without jobs

There are enormous and ever-growing data sets about medicine, finance, engineering and many other aspects of modern life. These data sets can be mined for insights that have the potential to radically change and improve the

84% of respondents say AI will enable them to obtain or sustain a competitive advantage. 83% believe AI is a strategic priority for their businesses today. 84% of respondents say AI will enable them to obtain

The cloud is getting smarter by the minute. In fact, it will soon know more about the photos you’ve uploaded than you do. Cloud storage company Box announced today that it is adding computer-vision technology from

Machine conquered man when Google’s AlphaGO defeated the top professional Go player, but the evolution of deep learning didn’t end with the game. Baidu improved speech recognition from 89% to 99% and deep-learning jobs grew from

There are a lot of myths out there about artificial intelligence (AI). In June, Alibaba founder Jack Ma said AI is not only a massive threat to jobs but could also spark World War III. Because

As AI surpasses human abilities in Go and poker – two decades after Deep Blue trounced chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov – it is seeping into our lives in ever more profound ways. It affects the way

Computers are one of the major causes of stress in the workplace. Many people are wary of them, and this is something they are reluctant to admit to their colleagues. Things change so fast it’s hard

The sky is the limit. A concept enthusing many of us to reach for the stars and embrace innovative thinking. Pushing this analogy a step further, we have even integrated innovative thinking in the ways in

The world we live in is full of machine to machine (M2M) communication, some are visible, like our Fitbit, Nest or EZ-Pass and others operate behind the scenes. Pharmaceutical and consumer goods companies use ‘Internet of Things’

Whilst it’s tempting to think of social data as largely frivolous, it is increasingly evident that it is capable of revealing a great deal about us, both collectively and individually. For instance, a Penn State study found that

Unexpected convergent consequences…this is what happens when eight different exponential technologies all explode onto the scene at once. This post (the second of seven) is a look at artificial intelligence. Future posts will look at other tech areas.