Looking Forward “We see all this activity only continuing to accelerate. The world will give us more open sourced and commercially available machine intelligence building blocks; there will be more data; there will be more people interested in learning these methods; and there will always be problems worth solving. We still need ways of explaining…
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UBank creates virtual home loan assistant to give 24-hour AI-driven advisers
“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…
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…