Image: REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi “’Artificial intelligence is one of the most powerful tools we have as a society,’ said Kay Firth-Butterfield, Head of Artificial Intelligence at the Forum. ‘But, without a governance structure to provide the guardrails for how we interact with this, we risk leaving large parts of the population behind.’” https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/artificial-intelligence-these-3-charts-show-what-people-really-think/
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Big Data Is Dead. Long Live Big Data AI.
“Sisense is a business intelligence startup providing “a complete solution for preparing, analyzing and visualizing big data.” It has raised $174 million over 5 rounds and in May 2019, it acquired Periscope Data. Trifacta has raised $124.3 million over 6 rounds and is focused on data preparation. It announced today a partnership with IBM to…
Amazon’s future vision of AI, warehouse bots and Alexa
“‘[AI] is sprinkled everywhere,’ Creative Strategies analyst Carolina Milanesi said after attending re:MARS. ‘It’s an integral part of every service they offer, every product they make and every business they run.’ We’re not particularly worried about job displacement … We’re growing, we need to hire more people.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/amazons-future-vision-of-ai-warehouse-bots-and-alexa/
Three Ways AI will Drive Growth at Retail Banks
“In the retail banking tech circles, artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest topics for discussions. Barely a conversation with a CTO, CIO, or CMO occurs these days without mentioning the potential benefits of AI in the banking industry. And for good reason. The benefits AI can produce is staggering. 1. Accelerate customer acquisition rate…
Hiring data indicates that Bank of America is replacing branch staff with artificial intelligence
“The company is looking for less than half as many people to fill its 4,600 retail banking outlets. Meanwhile, the number of job openings that contain recent developments in fintech — automation, AI, machine learning, and natural language processing — doubled since the new year.” https://media.thinknum.com/articles/bank-of-america-is-replacing-branch-staff-with-ai-robots-are-coming/