“On the AI assistant front, we saw Alexa and Cortana begin to work together. We documented how this fall Google, Facebook, and Amazon simultaneously fought major scandals while at the same time entering full pitch mode for smart displays, and we looked at the need for trust in AI assistant adoption. One of my favorites from Kyle Wiggers is about the danger…
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ai – A day in my life
How many times will I interact with ai today? This is a question that has been on my mind, but I haven’t had the time to monitor, document and track the interactions. So, yesterday December 29th, was my opportunity. It was Saturday, in the midst of the New Year holiday weekend. The kids would be…
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on AI, Analytics, and the New Machine Age (Paperback + Ebook)
“Machine learning and data analytics are powering a wave of groundbreaking technologies. Is your company ready? If you read nothing else on how intelligent machines are revolutionizing business, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you understand how these technologies work…
Don’t miss these thrilling topics at the Digital Retail Forum 2019 – Johannesburg, South Africa
“On 30 January 2019, IT News Africa will host the Digital Retail Forum 2019 at the Hilton Sandton located in Johannesburg, South Africa. This highly anticipated event will cover the theme of “Harnessing Digital Technology for Next-Level Customer Centred Retailing.” To add to list, DRF2019 will also place a major focus on how emerging technologies such as Ai,…
Forget Go, Google helps AI learn to book flights on the Web
“Researchers at Google’s AI labs created a couple of novel neural networks that can succeed in navigating Web forms, such as an online flight-booking site. Although baby steps at the moment, the program succeeds as well or better than some models trained using human demonstrations of pointing and clicking. “As an example, in the flight-booking…