Image credit: wired.com INSIDE BAIDU’S BID TO LEAD THE AI REVOLUTION – AUTHOR: JESSI HEMPEL “To ascend to future dominance, Baidu needs to find a new way to grow—and fast. Fortunately, the world has provided Li with just such an opportunity: “the era of artificial intelligence,” he tells me. Li is betting Baidu’s future on…
Coca-Cola Is Embracing AI and Chatbots in Preparation for a Digital-First Future – By Marty Swant
Image credit: adweek.com Coca-Cola Is Embracing AI and Chatbots in Preparation for a Digital-First Future – By Marty Swant “I hear you’ve been testing AI-powered vending machines. We’ve also looked at some forms of AI in terms of optimizing how our vending machines are placed and where they’re placed to ensure we’re meeting consumer demand…
Tencent says there are only 300,000 AI engineers worldwide, but millions are needed
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Tencent says there are only 300,000 AI engineers worldwide,but millions are needed “Tencent’s new “2017 Global AI Talent White Paper” suggests the bottleneck here is education. It estimates that 200,000 of the 300,000 active researchers are already employed in various industries (not just tech), while the remaining 100,000 are still…
Amazon ups their game in artificial intelligence race
Amazon ups their game in artificial intelligence race “Among Amazon’s AI announcements is Amazon SageMaker, which lets companies build and quickly train machine learning algorithms. It also announced Amazon Rekognition Video, which uses AI to detect objects and faces in customers’ video content; Amazon Transcribe, which turns audio into text; Amazon Translate, which translates text;…
AI: Unlocking the Secrets of the Global Supply Chain – Alan Gunner
Image credit: netimperative.com AI: Unlocking the Secrets of the Global Supply Chain – Alan Gunner “The introduction of AI is not just about automation or leveraging machine learning to squeeze a fraction more efficiency through the supply chain – although that is always welcome. It is about decision making: it is about automating the supply…