Some tech trends fizzle out and die a quiet death, while others are so significant that they transform our world and how we live in it. Here are the top nine tech mega-trends that I believe will define 2018 and beyond.
Continue reading… “9 technology mega trends that will change the world in 2018”
The newest groundbreaking AI tech? Unsupervised image-to-image translation. It allows you to auto-generate a different photo based off of an input photo. Essentially, it’s lying to your eyes.
Continue reading… “AI is so good you can’t trust your eyes anymore”
Google’s AutoML project, designed to make AI build other AIs, has now developed a computer vision system that vastly outperforms state-of-the-art-models. The project could improve how autonomous vehicles and next-generation AI robots “see.”
Continue reading… “Google’s artificial intelligence built an AI that outperforms any made by humans”
It’s tempting to think that adoption of AI is limited by the technology itself. Headlines declaring the rise of robot doctors and approaching technological singularity, contrasted with humorous memes of robots falling over, make us alternately fear and doubt AI’s capabilities. In practice, however, decades-old AI technologies could unlock significant value, although many companies still have yet to adopt them. This is because adoption of AI is determined by both trust and risk. Thinking about AI adoption in this way enables us to more accurately anticipate opportunities for AI startups.
Continue reading… “AI adoption is limited by incurred risk, not potential benefit”
Computer scientists, cognitive scientists, and legal scholars say AI systems should be able to explain their decisions without revealing all their secrets.
Continue reading… “AI can be made legally accountable for its decisions”
Autodesk’s AVA is built to be a fount of empathy, no matter how mean a customer gets.
Continue reading… “This chatbot has perfected the art of looking and feeling like us”
Google and others, fighting for a small pool of researchers, are looking for automated ways to deal with a shortage of artificial intelligence experts.
Continue reading… “Building A.I. that can build A.I.”
“Artificial intelligence is the future not only of Russia but of all of mankind … Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.”
Continue reading… “The rise of AI is sparking an international arms race”
Kai-Fu Lee, the former head of Google research in China and a top tech investor, sees a huge opportunity to automate routine office work.
Continue reading… “Is Technology about to decimate white-collar work?”
Saudi Arabia has become the first country to grant citizenship to a robot. The lucky machine is Sophia the Humanoid, who was designed to look like Audrey Hepburn.
Continue reading… “Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to humanoid robot (VIDEO)”
Blockchain technology is being used to distribute the financial market, rather than keep it in the control of a few major companies. Now, a startup wants to do the same for artificial intelligence.
Continue reading… “This AI blockchain could be the most disruptive tech of the year”
These days, a radiologist at UCSF will go through anywhere from 20 to 100 scans a day, and each scan can have thousands of images to review.
Continue reading… “Scanning the future, radiologists see their jobs at risk”
