“NYU professor and entrepreneur Gary Marcus has been a relentless critic of modern deep learning forms of AI. He talked with ZDNet about what he hopes to accomplish with the book, Rebooting AI, and with his startup company, Robust.ai. ‘The net effect of a tendency of many in the media to overreport technology results is…
Month: September 2019
Smart Living: Here’s How IoT and AI are Set to Revolutionize the Way We Live and Work
“Smart Homes were in the past viewed as a luxury, with their primary purpose being to serve as a show piece for the owners. This reality has changed substantially, both because of the development of newer technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and also because of simultaneously occurring social changes that…
Google teams up with Mayo Clinic on AI-powered medical research
“Data-driven medical innovation is growing exponentially, and our partnership with Google will help us lead the digital transformation in health care,” Mayo’s president and CEO, Gianrico Farrugia, said in a statement. “It will empower us to solve some of the most complex medical problems; better anticipate the needs of people we serve; and meet them…
The jobs we’ll lose to machines — and the ones we won’t | Anthony Goldbloom
“Anthony Goldbloom is the cofounder and CEO of Kaggle and in this talk, he speaks about the realistic views of losing jobs to AI and how there are jobs that will be lost, others that won’t and even some that will be created. His main point is to tell people that they should keep up…
McDonald’s doubles down on AI: Fast food giant acquires voice-tech startup to improve its interactive menus
“McDonald’s announced today that it is acquiring voice tech startup Apprente McDonald’s this year launched AI-powered menus at hundreds of U.S. locations The menus can suggest items based on time of day, weather and more factors Firm said it’s ‘improving and modernizing’ the ways that it connects to customers” https://i-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w1200/s/i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/05/02/22/13018338-6986815-image-a-27_1556833609927.jpg
