AI
Regulate AI? Musk-Zuckerberg Stand Astride the Divide
The future of AI – heck, the future of human civilization – is the hot tech industry topic this week, not only for the topic itself but for who’s ...Full Article
AI-Driven ‘Digital Employees’ Will Replace Recently Embraced Chatbots
Customer service chatbots have quickly gained widespread adoption in the retail industry. But leading brands already are evaluating alternative, next-gen customer service technologies – namely, AI and cognitive computing ...Full Article
Microsoft Unveils AI Chip
Microsoft said this week it is developing a new version of an AI-based coprocessor for implementing "deep" neural networks expected to be incorporated into augmented reality goggles. The second ...Full Article
Intel Rolls AI Toolkit
Intel has begun rolling out AI hardware previewed last fall with the release of its Movidius Neural Compute Stick, billed as a self-contained AI accelerator in a USB format ...Full Article
AI Makes Inroads into Enterprise Software
Enterprise software is often maligned as a legacy holdover from a previous age, a low-growth market dominated by stodgy software companies out to milk maintenance streams from hapless victims. ...Full Article
Nvidia, Baidu Expand AI Partnership
Today at its developer conference in Beijing, Baidu announced a broadening of its AI partnership with Nvidia, including plans to bring Nvidia’s recently announced 120 TFLOPS Volta GPUs to ...Full Article
AI End Game: The Automation of All Work
Last week we reported from ISC on an emerging type of high performance system architecture that integrates HPC and HPA (High Performance Analytics) and incorporates, at its center, exabyte-scale ...Full Article
At ISC – Goh on Go: Humans Can’t Scale, the Data-Centric Learning Machine Can
I've seen the future this week at ISC, it’s on display in prototype and Powerpoint form, and it’s going to blow you away. The future is an AI neural ...Full Article
ARM Doubles Down on AI
ARM Ltd. joined a growing roster of processor specialists zeroing in on artificial intelligence and machine learning applications with the introduction of two new processor cores, one emphasizing performance, ...Full Article
Digital Psychometrics and its Discontents: Online Footprints for Psychological Analytics
Occasionally we hear about predictive data modeling aimed at gaining psychological insight that at first blush seems – even to tech sophisticates who pooh-pooh AI alarmism – like a ...Full Article