About one in four U.S. workers (26%) say it is at least somewhat likely that their job will be eliminated by new technology, automation, artificial intelligence or robots within the next 20 years. CONT. Frank Newport, Gallup Read more »
AI: Most Americans seem more afraid of the intelligence of their fellow humans than that of robots
Welcome to the 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll for April 2016. This month’s poll probes the world of artificial intelligence, a term said to be first used by pioneering Stanford professor John McCarthy more than 60 years ago. He described it as “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.” CONT. […] Read more »
Amazon Cloud Introduces Artificial Intelligence Service
Websites are set to get smarter after Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud division added an artificial intelligence service that lets people add predictive and analytical capabilities to their applications. Andy Jassy, the head of the Amazon Web Services business, on Thursday announced the Amazon Machine Learning service. … The new product is […] Read more »
Eight (No, Nine!) Problems With Big Data
Big data is suddenly everywhere. Everyone seems to be collecting it, analyzing it, making money from it and celebrating (or fearing) its powers. Whether we’re talking about analyzing zillions of Google search queries to predict flu outbreaks, or zillions of phone records to detect signs of terrorist activity, or zillions […] Read more »