23Jan
Is AI Ready to Compete with the Human Workforce?
Is AI ready to compete with humans? The world is complex and unpredictable but our natural intelligence is surprisingly good at coping with reality’s twists and turns. Can AI do the same?
04Jan
Make vs. Buy: Applications Exploiting Sentiment Analysis Services
In reviewing key end-of-year reports, articles and research summaries, a few stand out. Most notably, let’s look at Machine Learning as a Service: Part 1 (Sentiment analysis: 10 applications and 4 services) from Towards Data Science.
20Dec
Gatwick: attack of the drones
For two nights in a row, people living along the flight path of London’s busy Gatwick airport have slept soundly. Thanks to a drone attack that started at 9p.m. GMT on 19 December 2018, all flights have been grounded.
18Dec
Is AI Ready to Compete With the Human Workforce?
When I first got involved with Artificial Intelligence I was a young and somewhat naive Machine Translation researcher in the early 1980’s. At that time, AI was already going through its second round of big expectations.
17Dec
Artificial Intelligence (NLP and Text Understanding) in 2018
In January, Microsoft and Alibaba issued press releases that were echoed by the press exclaiming AI beats humans in Stanford reading comprehension test The writers and editors at Wired were more naturally curious than those at a number of other publications. They dug into the details. They wrote: The benchmark is biased in favor…
13Dec
AI—The Ultimate Bad Employee?
Recently, some AI algorithms have been discovered to be “unpredictable” or “wild” and we are beginning to see that AI developers do not have as good a grasp on the situation as they thought they did.
07Dec
AI Strategies: Hair On Fire Yet?
Have you read the Harvard Business Review article Why Companies That Wait to Adopt AI May Never Catch Up? The article makes three main arguments: 1. AI Technology is Mature Recent advances build on findings from the 1980s. “The mathematical and statistical foundations of current AI are well established” 2. AI Programs take Years Success…
