“A national survey, involving 1,547 adult Americans who were given a 20-question quiz about AI’s capabilities, found that only 16% of the test takers scored a passing grade of better than 60% on the quiz.” What’s your AI IQ? Take AI2’s literacy quiz https://www.geekwire.com/2021/survey-suggests-84-of-americans-are-illiterate-about-ai-so-heres-a-quiz-to-test-your-own-ai-iq/amp/
Month: December 2021
Data labeling will fuel the AI revolution
“To give another example, to train an algorithm to analyze medical images for signs of cancer, you would need to have a large dataset of medical images labeled with the presence or absence of cancer. This task is commonly referred to as image segmentation and requires labeling tens of thousands of samples in each image….
The Future of Conversational AI in Banking
“‘Virtual assistants can and should go well beyond a ‘point in the right direction’ or FAQ to handle complete transactions — from changing an address to cancelling a payment and updating a standing order to identifying a specific need and routing the customer to correct specialist,’ says Can Kekevi (Accenture). The future of conversational AI…
Dent Reality Raises $3.4 Million to Bring Augmented Reality to Retail Locations
“The UK-based augmented reality startup, Dent Reality, raised the equivalent of $3.4 million USD in its most recent funding round. Dent Reality has created an AR app for smartphones that helps shoppers navigate retail locations by providing a layout of a store’s aisles, while showing where to find specific items. The company works mainly with…
3 Areas Where AI Will Boost Your Competitive Advantage
“Real-time optimization has an immediate, and often dramatic, impact on companies’ bottom lines. One retailer we worked with increased its profit margins by 50% after using AI to instantaneously optimize its offers. It expanded sales of core products with AI-developed, margin-driving promotions and halted margin-destroying special deals — all without investing much lead time in…