“However, our research found that only three per cent of financial services firms are harnessing the potential of their unstructured data. Unstructured data includes data stored as audio, video and email files, and it accounts for around 80 per cent of the data that financial services firms hold. Analysing unstructured data with ML could help…
Month: August 2020
Wichita State named a founding member of artificial intelligence research group
“The university has been named a founding member of the AI Institute for Foundations for Machine Learning (IFML), which has been established with a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The institute will be physically located at the University of Texas-Austin, where the work of UT and WSU researchers will be joined by…
China Tightens AI Export Restrictions
“Microsoft Corp., Walmart Inc. and Oracle Corp. have all expressed interest in the breakout app, the success of which rests on addictive video feeds powered by ByteDance’s AI-driven content-recommendation engine. China announced new restrictions on artificial-intelligence technology exports that could further complicate the sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations, while intensifying the tech battle between the…
Why Digital Transformation Always Needs To Start With Customers First
“AI and machine learning are considered essential to digitally transforming organizations and making all processes more customer-centric, with 41% of CEOs saying these technologies will improve data governance and data analytics capabilities. Enterprises that have customer centricity and a data-driven mindset are the most likely to succeed with a digital transformation initiative. 62% of organizations…
Why some artificial intelligence is smart until it’s dumb
“We humans tend to overestimate artificial intelligence advances and underestimate the complexity of our own intelligence,” Mitchell writes. Fears of superintelligent machines taking over the world are therefore misplaced, she suggests, citing comments by the economist and behavioral scientist Sendhil Mullainathan: “We should be afraid,” he wrote. “Not of intelligent machines. But of machines making…