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Nvidia stays in the driver’s seat and focuses on machine learning
Nvidia (NVDA) is enjoying a solid ride powered by a focus on niche technologies. The chipmaker, based in Santa Clara, California, still has room to …
Asimov’s three laws of robotics and autonomous AI cars
Since it is a matter of life or death, it is conceivable that we might consider applying Asimov’s three robot laws to self-driving cars. (Image …
Facebook lawsuit could cost the company tens of billions
Like many companies in Silicon Valley, Facebook (FB – Get Report) tends to have a positive relationship with the government. Maybe it’s because these tech …
According to Google’s Sundar Pichai, our AI beats the competition’s AI
Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, believes his company’s artificial intelligence is smarter than Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri, but we’re only seeing 1% of its potential. …
The artificial intelligence pyramid
We are on the first floor of the artificial intelligence pyramid (and nobody knows how to get to the next floor). I have the great …
Salesforce announces a $ 50 million fund named as part of the “AI first” strategy
Leaning on developers to fuel the company’s future, Salesforce launches a new $ 50 million venture fund, a startup incubator in the Bay Area due …
Facebook’s formula to become the king of AI
Facebook is known for a variety of mantras embedded in its culture, often written on signs in its offices or recited by CEO Mark Zuckerberg …
Misclassifying a snowman as a pedestrian is problematic for autonomous AI cars
Child sculpts a snowman in a park From Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider We misclassify many things all the time, every day, and at …
What are the opportunities for startups with machine learning?
Machine learning has permeated data-driven businesses, which affects almost all businesses. Here are some areas where large corporations may not all have lunch. Machine learning …
Google launches Springboard, an AI-powered assistant for the company
Google has made two important announcements for its corporate customers. The most notable of these is the launch of Springboard, a new digital assistant to …
Apple needs to make Siri smarter
Apple’s Siri caused a sensation when the smart digital assistant debuted on the iPhone five years ago. But when other tech giants jockeyed to build …
Amazon is hiring an AI expert to stay one step ahead of the Google Cloud business
To advance its cloud storage business, Google relies on its artificial intelligence capabilities. Amazon, the market leader, is too. Now Amazon has recruited a leading …
3 things NVIDIA does right
NVIDIAs (NASDAQ: NVDA) The share price is up 113% over the past 12 months, the company’s revenue increased 13% year over year in the first …
Will AI companies make money?
I recently consulted a publisher that was investigating various options for digitizing and contextualizing its content. Knowing that some of the company’s competitors had signed …
AI autonomous cars could demonstrate the wisdom of the Einstein clock paradox
Lance Eliot wonders if the advent of true self-driving cars, with their convenience and ease of transit, will change our perception of time. (Image credit: …
Microsoft, GE partnership aims for industrial cloud
Microsoft started its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) on July 11th in Toronto. On day one of the keynotes, executives highlighted several significant partnerships, including a …
Ex-Evernote CEO Phil Libin leads Seed Rounds for Butter.ai & Growbot
Check out AI World’s Intelligent Assistant / Bot Workshop on November 7, 2016 Earlier this year, Phil Libin, the former CEO of Evernote and now …
Google buys Moodstocks based in France
Two weeks after Twitter took over Magic Pony to improve its intelligent machine learning practices and improve the user experience with photos and videos on …
IBM and Cisco work together to work together within the company
Earlier this month, IBM and Cisco announced that they would work together to integrate IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence technology with Cisco edge routers. Today, the …
Cisco Systems’ latest attempt to break into the $ 17 billion analytics market
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) knows that the world of hardware technology is rapidly shifting to software and analytics. But it also knows that it can …
10 stats about AI that will blow your mind
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently called artificial intelligence “the holy grail everyone in computer science has thought of” during the Vox Media code conference. Gates …
Twitter acquires machine learning startup Magic Pony
Twitter has made no secret of its interest in machine learning in recent years, and on Monday the company put its money back in its …
Make sense for autonomous AI cars that drive in reverse and reversible computing
Writer Lance Eliot ponders whether self-driving AI cars rethink reverse gear or whether the task will remain as it is today. (Image credit: Getty Images) …
Computer vision hardware and software market expected to reach $ 48.6 billion by 2022
Computer vision technology has attracted the attention of a wide variety of industry participants in recent years, and the market is gaining momentum in several …
Amazon Echo, Sisense integration connects business intelligence with IoT
Sisense combines its business intelligence platform with some devices originally intended for the consumer electronics market to make the data and insights more accessible to …
NVIDIA could be the Intel of AI
Josh Brown, CEO and Co-Founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management, discussed in today’s CNBC Fast Money Halftime Report what he called “the single most important company …
Why the A.I. Boom is real – New York Times
Artificial intelligence is booming. But why now? Get Around, Social Media, and Mobility: Silicon Valley has a next big thing, writes John Markoff, and it’s …
AI investments have tripled since 2013
Just a few years ago, artificial intelligence was viewed in science fiction films as nothing more than a villain. This revolutionary technology was used to …
Google Plays is catching up in cloud computing
When it comes to cloud computing, Google is in a very unfamiliar position: seriously behind. Google is tracking Amazon and Microsoft in huge cloud computing …
AI Autonomous Cars as Drug Mules for Narco Dealers is a Bad Prescription
Author Lance Eliot ponders whether self-driving AI cars could be used as drug users in the illicit drug trade and how the system can be …
Google’s cloud adds machine learning APIs
Continuing its machine learning evangelism, Google announced on Wednesday that two of its machine learning APIs launched in March have reached open beta status. The …
eBay to acquire second machine learning company in two months
According to VentureBeat, eBay acquired the predictive analytics company SalesPredict to support the company’s machine learning and data science work. The acquisition is part of …
Zoom.ai believes that an automated assistant is the solution to a heavy workload
Zoom.ai wants to give managers and other companies a gift that is very valuable in business life: time. Company founder Roy Pereira told me at …
At the moment, all that matters is AI: take a look around
If there is one thing the world’s most valuable companies can agree on, it is their future success depends on artificial intelligence. Google continues to …
Nuance to acquire TouchCommerce for $ 215 million
Nuance, the speech recognition software company based in Burlington, is delving deeper into the loyalty industry with its latest purchase. The company (Nasdaq: NUAN) announced …
Orbital Insight receives $ 20 million for Series B when it comes to dreaming neural networks and IoT data
We continue to see avid venture investments in “NewSpace” – the surprisingly hot group of tech developers making off-planet entrepreneurship a reality. Most recently, Orbital …
Red kill switch for autonomous AI systems may not be a lifesaver
Using a kill switch to instantly turn off a self-driving car can be problematic and have unexpected adverse consequences. (Image credit: Getty Images) From Lance …
Coursera’s co-founder Daphne Koller will start over at Calico
In a blog post, Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller announced that she was leaving the company to join Alphabet subsidiary Calico. Koller founded Coursera in 2012 …
Salesforce buys BeyondCore and adds AI to its platform
To achieve its stated goal of making software smarter, Salesforce has made another acquisition, this time agreeing to buy BeyondCore, a data analytics company based …
Why private clouds will suffer at some point
A few weeks ago, Amazon announced its quarterly results. Like last year, the numbers looked good. Really good. Amazon has been ridiculed for years as …
Machine learning startup acquisitions are accelerating
Apple and Intel have acquired machine learning startups. Palantir bought a data visualization startup. HPE has bought SGI. AWS has introduced an analytics service for …
Interactions raises $ 56 million to improve automated customer service
As the world turns, customer service seems to evolve much more slowly than most other services. The problems that cause more hair pulling and teeth …
Apple buys Turi for $ 200 million
With artificial intelligence clearly the next big thing for tech giants, Apple is buying a machine learning startup in Seattle. The company has confirmed to …
Roy Bahat, Head of Bloomberg Beta, on the formula for AI
When Bloomberg first built the terminal system in the early 1980s, most of its customers – mostly financial professionals – didn’t have computers on their …
Apologetic AI is a somewhat sad trend, especially for autonomous cars
AI developers are starting to allow self-driving cars to apologize to passengers after they break down, causing Lance Eliot to consider the impact. (Image credit: …
IBM responds to the White House for contributions to AI
The field of artificial intelligence is so vast, and its potential uses so numerous, that it would be foolish to explain it all in one …
Intel buys deep learning startup Nervana
Intel takes artificial intelligence seriously, especially as a driver of chip sales. On Tuesday, the company announced plans to acquire Nervana Systems, a deep learning …
Ford is accelerating spending and doubling its self-driving car staff
Ford Motor Co (F.N.) plans to offer a fully automated driverless vehicle for commercial ridesharing in 2021, the automaker announced on Tuesday, and is expanding …
Etsy buys Blackbird AI to improve its search platform
It’s not just gigantic search engines looking to acquire technology and talent in emerging areas like speech recognition. Even design and craft markets can use …
Google acquires API.AI, which provides tools for building conversation bots
Google just announced that it snapped the team behind API.AI. API.AI provides tools for developers to use to create Siri-style conversation bots. As humans, we’re …
AI software is booming – New York Times
This is the year artificial intelligence came to fruition for mainstream businesses, at least as a marketing trait. On Sunday, Salesforce.com, which sells online sales …