“Many of the canonical superstar firms such as Google and Facebook employ relatively few workers compared to their market capitalization” because “their market value is based on intellectual property and a cadre of highly-skilled workers.” How will AI contribute to a boom? Perhaps it will happen indirectly, a process of “trickle-down” productivity, as ordinary firms…
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50 Most Popular AI-Influencers of North America – Rakesh Nair
1. “Bob E Hayes Senior Director of Research and Analytics at Indigo Slate an Experience agency. A PhD in industrial-organizational psychology, his interests lies in Data Science, CX, Statistics and Machine Learning. 2. Kirk Borne Principal Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton. Astrophysicist and Top Big Data Science and AI Influencer. 3. Martin Ford Futurist and…
Facebook’s new artificial intelligence can help you dress more fashionably
“Facebook might soon be able to improve your fashion sense. The company is currently experimenting with AI to create an initiative (titled ‘Fashion ++’) which, rather than recommending entire overhauls of your outfit, would make small suggestions about what could be improved.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/09/22/facebooks-new-artificial-intelligence-can-help-you-dress-more-fashionably-10786439/amp/
The Facebook Portal Smart Speaker Is Back, Now With More AI
“Portal’s main feature when it first launched was person-tracking artificial intelligence that crops the video to keep everyone around the device in the frame, and can follow a specific person. Facebook executives say this AI technology is now more accurate, thanks to new tricks like using the color of a person’s clothes to distinguish them…
For a more dangerous age, a delicious skewering of current AI
“NYU professor and entrepreneur Gary Marcus has been a relentless critic of modern deep learning forms of AI. He talked with ZDNet about what he hopes to accomplish with the book, Rebooting AI, and with his startup company, Robust.ai. ‘The net effect of a tendency of many in the media to overreport technology results is…