“One measure is found in WhatsApp messaging volumes, which have risen exponentially, from one billion a day in 2011 to 65 billion a day by mid-2018. There are now more than five billion registered users for messaging platforms worldwide, with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger the most used. ‘social listening is one area where AI is…
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The Future of Banking: AI, Fintech, and How Banks Can Survive Disruption
“Ian Wilson, former Head of Artificial Intelligence at HSBC – businesses don’t need an AI strategy. Businesses need multiple AI strategies for each functional division at their company. What works for customer service isn’t going to work for anti-money laundering. Interviewees highlighted three core challenges to adopting AI in banking: It’s unclear whether or not…
How E-Commerce Sites Manipulate You Into Buying Things You May Not Want
Photo Illustration by The New York Times; Screen grabs, via ThredUp “The prevalence of dark patterns across the web is unknown, but in a study released this week, researchers from Princeton University have started to quantify the phenomenon…researchers developed software that automatically scanned more than 10,000 sites and found that more than 1,200 of them…
Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
“Thanks to an outage currently affecting Facebook, users of the social network have been given a similar peek behind the digital curtain, with many images on the site now replaced with the tags they’ve been assigned by the company’s machine vision systems. So if you browse…you’ll be shown text saying things like ‘I’m age may…
Baidu CEO gets water poured on his head at company AI event
“One of China’s top tech billionaires faced an unusual interruption to his speech at a company event on Wednesday, when a man walked on stage and drenched him with water.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/07/03/tech/baidu-ceo-robin-li/index.html