AI special report – SiliconANGLE

40% of AI companies in Europe aren’t doing AI at all

Duncan Riley — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:47:49 +0000

Buzzwords in the tech scene are often laid on so thick it’s sometimes difficult to ascertain what a company does, and one of the most common buzzwords today is artificial intelligence. Mostly the application of a buzzword has some representation of truth, but as it turns out many companies claimed to be using AI are […]

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OpenAI holds back research on new system since it can write fake news

Duncan Riley — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 01:52:02 +0000

OpenAI, the Silicon Valley research firm funded by various tech leaders to better humanity, has taken the step of not releasing research relating to a revolutionary artificial intelligence system. The problem: It’s apparently so good that it can write coherent fake news. The system, GPT-2, is a general-purpose language algorithm that uses machine learning to translate text, answer […]

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IBM Watson Anywhere gets multicloud juice from containers

R. Danes — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:39:09 +0000

It can be tough fitting a single product in all the different-shaped slots in distributed information technology systems. Companies trying to make certain tech work as well on-premises as in several different clouds are in for a challenge. That’s why IBM Corp. is putting so much muscle — and money — into multicloud portability and integration. Containers, […]

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At Think, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty pitches digital reinvention 2.0

Mark Albertson — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 06:05:41 +0000

IBM Corp.’s flagship technology conference Think in San Francisco attracted 30,000 people this week and, by midafternoon on Tuesday, it appeared that every single one of them was trying to enter the convention hall where Chief Executive Ginni Rometty was scheduled to deliver a major address. After getting a closeup view of the traffic-snarled streets and lines that snaked […]

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Q&A: The ethical AI questions companies should be asking

Teryn O'Brien — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 23:30:55 +0000

As artificial intelligence becomes one of the burgeoning technological advances of the 21st century, there are many troubling ethical questions surrounding the proper usage of AI for heavily invested companies. Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, global lead for responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence, has made it her life’s work to talk to companies about the ethical and […]

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Q&A: The danger in calling data the ‘new oil’

Kylie Anderson — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 19:00:11 +0000

Deepening the points of integration between artificial intelligence and the data flowing from edge devices are creating new efficiencies and value opportunities for businesses and consumers alike, but constant access to personal information has its risks. To ensure a responsible and successful future, Paul Daugherty (pictured), chief technology and innovation officer at Accenture LLP, is urging […]

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IBM brings Watson AI to any cloud

Paul Gillin — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:30:30 +0000

With public cloud providers competing to be the favored destination for their customers’ artificial intelligence projects, IBM Corp. has decided to bring its Watson technology out from behind the Big Blue firewall for the first time. At its flagship Think 2019 conference in San Francisco today, IBM is announcing that Watson will now be available […]

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Trump to sign executive order aimed at boosting AI development in the US

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 20:25:37 +0000

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order later today that will direct the U.S. government to take a more active role in the development and regulation of artificial intelligence. Information is scarce about the American AI Initiative, as it’s called, with the administration pledging to release details over the next six months. The […]

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Trust but verify: Machine learning’s magic masks hidden frailties

Paul Gillin — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 22:06:28 +0000

The idea sounded good in theory: Rather than giving away full-boat scholarships, colleges could optimize their use of scholarship money to attract students willing to pay most of the tuition costs. So instead of offering a $20,000 scholarship to one needy student, they could divide the same amount into four scholarships of $5,000 each and […]

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Signs of progress for AI, but when will it become truly essential?

Mark Albertson — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 06:12:45 +0000

Adam Cheyer has a dream — and given that he sold his two previous companies to Steve Jobs and Samsung, it would be wise not to dismiss his ambition. Cheyer is the co-creator of Siri, the pioneering intelligent personal assistant technology that was purchased by Apple Inc. in 2010. He is also the co-founder of […]

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Harnessing AI to power automated management of containerized multiclouds

James Kobielus — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 06:05:02 +0000

Kubernetes has become the backbone of enterprise digital transformation. As mesh and other complex cloud architectures become mainstream, information technology professionals will need to lift, shift and alter countless legacy applications in order to run them over multiclouds that run Kubernetes everywhere. Managing these containerized, orchestrated and virtualized multiclouds will require a new arsenal of […]

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Enterprise adoption of AI has tripled in the last year, Gartner says

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:08:10 +0000

The adoption of artificial intelligence-based technologies by large enterprises has jumped by more than 270 percent in the last four years, according to a new Gartner Inc. survey. Gartner added that in the last year alone, AI adoption has more than tripled. It says about 37 percent of enterprises have now implemented AI in one […]

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Recapping the Think 2019 “Journey to AI” community CrowdChat: AI everywhere

James Kobielus — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 00:27:24 +0000

Artificial intelligence is transforming every business process. Developers are incorporating AI – in the form of deep learning, machine learning and kindred technologies – into cloud-native applications and business processes through tools that enable them to compose these features as data-driven microservices. On Thursday, IBM Corp. and SiliconANGLE’s sister market research firm Wikibon held a […]

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Implementing the enterprise journey to AI in the cloud

James Kobielus — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 22:44:06 +0000

Artificial intelligence is steadily infusing itself into every component of cloud-native computing environments. Developers are incorporating AI — in the form of deep learning, machine learning and kindred technologies — into cloud-native applications and business processes through tools that enable them to compose these features as data-driven microservices. Innovative applications such cognitive chatbots, face recognition, […]

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At CES, robotics delivers AI into every corner of our lives

James Kobielus — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 19:36:56 +0000

As the robot revolution accelerates, one of the biggest stories from this week’s CES consumer electronics show is that robotics has gone mainstream. Just as important, artificial intelligence has become a fundamental differentiator in mass-market robotics of every type. As developers get their arms around AI-infused robotics, they’ll find themselves herding a rapidly evolving menagerie of intelligent […]

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Ready or not, a lot more AI-powered services are coming

Robert Hof — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:34:30 +0000

For a technology that’s decades old, artificial intelligence managed to emerge in the public imagination as one of the signature technologies of 2018 — if not always in a positive way. On the upside, AI and its related sets of technology such as machine learning and deep learning enable now-taken-for-granted services such as speech recognition […]

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IBM on what’s coming in AI: more trust, less bias and a quantum boost

Robert Hof — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 12:00:23 +0000

IBM Corp. is justly famous for pioneering work in artificial intelligence, even decades before its Watson computer beat a couple of “Jeopardy” champions. But in recent years, its work has been eclipsed at least in the public imagination by new AI-driven speech and image recognition services and self-driving cars from companies such as Google LLC, […]

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Robots will rule the edge: AWS drives a new AI paradigm

James Kobielus — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 23:37:55 +0000

Edge computing means many things, but we often overlook that robotics is at the heart of it all. Autonomous edge robots are fundamental to pretty much everybody’s vision of what the future holds in store. At Amazon Web Services Inc.’s recent re:Invent 2018 conference, there were plenty of robotics-related announcements, most with a focus on […]

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