“National Australia Bank’s digital bank UBank will launch what it says is the world’s first digital human in the home loan space, after partnering with a New Zealand tech company to create an artificially intelligent assistant to help in customer applications. Mia will begin appearing online for UBank customers this month, enabling them to talk…
Month: February 2019
Facial Recognition, Robotic Process Automation Companies Among Most-Funded AI Startups
Artificial intelligence startups, especially facial recognition and robotic process automation companies, are attracting major investments, with one AI developer receiving total funding of $1.63 billion, according to a recently published research report. https://www.wsj.com/articles/facial-recognition-robotic-process-automation-companies-among-most-funded-ai-startups-11550138401
Pope discusses ethics of artificial intelligence with Microsoft chief
The Vatican said its Academy for Life would jointly sponsor a prize with Microsoft for the best doctoral dissertation in 2019 on the theme of “artificial intelligence at the service of human life”. https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1Q22B0
This is why AI has yet to reshape most businesses
“Last September, a data scientist named Peter Skomoroch tweeted: “As a rule of thumb, you can expect the transition of your enterprise company to machine learning will be about 100x harder than your transition to mobile.” It had the ring of a joke, but Skomoroch wasn’t kidding. Among the biggest obstacles is getting disparate record-keeping…
Google Accelerated Mobile Pages And Artificial Intelligence (AI)
“About browsing the web on mobile, 46% of people dislike waiting for pages to load. It takes 15.3 seconds on average to load a mobile landing page. According to the study, a one-second delay in page load time leads to: • 7% loss in conversions • 11% lesser page views • 16% reduction in customer satisfaction…