US-based industrial manufacturers are slightly ahead of their Chinese counterparts in integrating artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into their operations, even though both countries have a near-equal number of installed bases of AI-enabled devices, according to global tech market advisory firm ABI Research.
Both countries are incentivized to develop approaches that encourage AI adoption in industrial manufacturing, but “the US has managed to achieve more momentum,” according to Lian Jye Su, principal analyst. This is due to “acute challenges in manpower and rising cost of materials. So they need to adopt AI to make sure they can overcome these challenges.” Read More
Monthly Archives: October 2019
This Israeli Face-recognition Startup Is Secretly Tracking Palestinians
Anyvision Interactive Technologies is one of Israel’s most curious startups. It has shown extraordinary growth, and its technology is being used by the army to monitor West Bank Palestinians at checkpoints on the way into Israel — while using a network of cameras deep inside the West Bank. The company’s co-founder and chief executive, Eylon Etshtein, told TheMarker that his company is sensitive to racial and gender bias and only sells to democracies.
Anyvision is Israel’s most high-profile biometric recognition firm, particularly in facial recognition. The company notes that its software can be hooked up to cameras of all kinds and be installed and used immediately, requiring little computing capacity. Read More
Defense Innovation Board unveils AI ethics principles for the Pentagon
The Defense Innovation Board, a panel of 16 prominent technologists advising the Pentagon, today voted to approve AI ethics principles for the Department of Defense. The report includes 12 recommendations for how the U.S. military can apply ethics in the future for both combat and non-combat AI systems. The principles are broken into five main principles: responsible, equitable, traceable, reliable, and governable.
The principles state that humans should remain responsible for “developments, deployments, use and outcomes,” and AI systems used by the military should be free of bias that can lead to unintended human harm. Read More
10 Essential TED Talks on Artificial Intelligence
In the past few years, there’s been a lot of discussion around Artificial Intelligence and it’s implications for everything from industrial applications to smart phone apps—and if you have a smart phone, chances are you’ve come across TED Talks.
If you haven’t listened to a TED Talk, you should. Presented by people who are deeply connected to the field they are speaking about, it gives you the opportunity to listen to people with an insider’s expertise that most of us would never hear from, but who can provide valuable perspectives. Read More
AI deepfakes are now as simple as typing whatever you want your subject to say
In the latest example of deepfake technology, researchers have shown off new software that uses machine learning to let users edit the text transcript of a video to add, delete, or change the words coming right out of somebody’s mouth.
The work was done by scientists from Stanford University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Princeton University, and Adobe Research, and shows that our ability to edit what people say in videos and create realistic fakes is becoming easier every day. Read More
The Virtual Analytics Hub
All analytics assets on a single pane of glass!
We are excited to announce the launch of Neebo, the Virtual Analytics Hub that enables analytics teams to connect to, find, combine and collaborate on trusted data assets in hybrid cloud landscapes, and provides a unified access point where they can more effectively leverage all their analytics assets and knowledge.
With Neebo, you can initiate projects in minutes and promptly answer complex business questions, which drives greater agility in data-driven decision making. Neebo is a SaaS solution that allows you to get started in less than an hour, and requires no IT support. Read More
What is Data-as-a-Service?
Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) is an open source software solution or cloud service that provides critical capabilities for a wide range of data sources for analytical workloads through a unified set of APIs and data model. Data-as-a-Service platforms address key needs in terms of simplifying access, accelerating analytical processing, securing and masking data, curating datasets, and providing a unified catalog of data across all sources. Read More
Google BERT Update – What it Means
BERT is a Major Google Update.
According to Google this update will affect complicated search queries that depend on context.
“These improvements are oriented around improving language understanding, particularly for more natural language/conversational queries, as BERT is able to help Search better understand the nuance and context of words in Searches and better match those queries with helpful results. ” Read More
The danger of AI is weirder than you think
Alphabet In AI: How Google Went From A Search Engine To An $800B Global AI Powerhouse
Alphabet is disrupting healthcare, auto, government contracts, and more with AI. We look at how it got here, where it’s headed, and what this means for incumbents.
Google was relentless in its pursuit of artificial intelligence even before the current wave of AI commercialization took off. Read More
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