Tag: AI
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Link: The dangers of faith in data
“Faith in data grows in relation to your distance from the collection of it.” And other traps of getting too much confidence in data driven decisions. Original source: The dangers of faith in data
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Link: Almost half of CIOs plan to deploy artificial intelligence enterprise solutions | ZDNet
“According to the CIO agenda survey, four percent of CIOs have already implemented AI in some fashion, but a further 46 percent have plans to follow suit. In addition, 20 percent of CIOs worldwide have pilot AI programs in the pipeline for implementation in the near future.” But, wait: “However, not every AI pilot will…
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Link: Gartner Survey Shows Organizations Are Slow to Advance in Data and Analytics
Still waiting for BI👉analytics👉big data👉AI/ML to hit the big time: “The global survey asked respondents to rate their orgs according to Gartner’s 5 levels of maturity for data & analytics…. 60% of respondents…rated themselves in the lowest 3 levels.” Original source: Gartner Survey Shows Organizations Are Slow to Advance in Data and Analytics
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Link: AI Is Not the End of Software Developers
Some ideas of what ML could do to help coders. Original source: AI Is Not the End of Software Developers
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Link: The path to self-sovereign digital identity starts with blockchain
“We don’t think that blockchain is the universal solution to the identity problem; however, it certainly provides a missing link by allowing people and organizations to prove things about themselves online, as they do offline, using decentralized and verifiable identifiers. Identity-related information can be looked up (verified) without involving a central directory or paper-based document.…
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Link: Start a nuclear war? There’s an app for that – US military teams up with Silicon Valley to revolutionise the battlefield
‘And they ended up saving $1million in fuel per week – but more importantly speeding up decision making when time is of essence. “We paired with them and we taught them this new way of building software and we built the software application side-by-side with them,” Mr Salisbury said.’ Original source: Start a nuclear war?…
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Link: The era of the cloud’s total dominance is drawing to a close – Life on the edge
A bit of an over-statement. What they want to say is “lots of new computing from IoT and pocket devices,” or something. “many new applications have to act fast. According to some estimates, self-driving cars generate as much as 25 gigabytes per hour, nearly 30 times more than a high-definition video stream. Before so many…
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Link: AI Begins to Infiltrate the Enterprise
It could be a better list, sourced from companies, but good nonetheless: “Some of that confusion may be because there are so many potential use cases for AI. Experts pointed to help desk, customer support, recommendation engines, fraud detection, chatbots, image recognition, language processing and market segmentation as some of the possible applications of the…
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Link: On the Rise of Digital Addiction Activism – Study Hacks – Cal Newport
“At the core of almost everything negative about the smartphone era is the attention economy business model, which depends on getting a massive number of people to use free products for as many minutes as possible. This model, of course, dates back to the beginning of mass media, but the combination of big data and…
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Link: Google’s AutoML lets you train custom machine learning models without having to code
“The basic idea here, Google says, is to allow virtually anybody to bring their images, upload them (and import their tags or create them in the app) and then have Google’s systems automatically create a customer machine learning model for them. The company says that Disney, for example, has used this system to make the…
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Link: Facebook grows a conscience, admits it corroded democracy
They want to be more responsible. Original source: Facebook grows a conscience, admits it corroded democracy
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Link: Driven by AI, blockchain and IoT, IT spending could hit $3.7 trillion in 2018 – SiliconANGLE
Gartner says: “businesses will spend nearly $3.7 trillion on information technology hardware, software and services in 2018, up 4.5 percent [y/y]” Original source: Driven by AI, blockchain and IoT, IT spending could hit $3.7 trillion in 2018 – SiliconANGLE
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Link: People love Google’s new feature that matches your selfie to a famous painting
Oh, so that’s what all those pictures are. Original source: People love Google’s new feature that matches your selfie to a famous painting
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Link: The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students
While I don’t disagree with this kind of ASTOUNDING FINDING, what it usually means that in addition to engineering, it turns out you need these other skills. I sure STEM is necessary, but not sufficient to be a good nerd in corporate America: “among the eight most important qualities of Google’s top employees, STEM expertise…
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Link: How smart speakers stole the show from smartphones
“In the first nine months of 2017, 17.1m smart speakers shipped worldwide, according to Canalys’s data, but a further 16.1m were shipped in the last quarter of the year driven by Christmas present sales…. The trend towards smart speakers becoming mainstream is expected to continue. Canalys is forecasting 70% year-on-year growth with shipments reaching over…
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Link: Towards a bra-free Instagram experience – Lauren Hallden
It’s hard to add the “don’t do dumb shit” filter to ML. Link to original
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Link: Developers, developers, developers: How ‘serverless’ crowd dropped ops like it’s hot
“Serverless is all about giving developers the ability to execute code without requiring sysadmins.” Link
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White men to women and minorities in tech: We just DGAF
Less than 5% of white men surveyed said they considered a lack of diversity a top problem. Three-out-of-four respondents were unaware of any initiatives to make their companies or portfolios more diverse. And 40% of male respondents were sick of the media going on and on about it. Meanwhile, in political land: the more privileged…
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Automation at Goldman, The Computer takes out four people
Today, nearly 45 percent of trading is done electronically, according to Coalition, a U.K. firm that tracks the industry. Pay: Average compensation for staff in sales, trading, and research at the 12 largest global investment banks, of which Goldman is one, is $500,000 in salary and bonus, according to Coalition. Seventy-five percent of Wall Street…
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When regulations actually help innovation
“In the drone industry, it seems counterintuitive, but we actually want regulation. And not having regulations is putting a halt to the growth of this industry,” says West. As ever: don’t make blanket assumptions about complex systems, here: all the regulations put in place by the federal government. Link
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