Posts Tagged ‘ai’
McDonald’s Gets Into AI!
As an avid advocate of using AI and voice recognition capabilities, I was thrilled to see today that McDonald’s purchased Apprente a voice recognition, Voice-to-Meaning company to personalize the customer experience while going through drive thru stations. This means that instead of looking the entire menu, depending on time of day and various situations, the…
Read MoreBlockchain – Enterprises and Consensus?
One blockchain approach DOES NOT fit all: It is totally clear in speaking with enterprises today that they are unclear and not ready to alter their entire current s/w architecture to be totally blockchain based. Like all emerging technologies, they are trialing & learning. Tons of rinse and repeat. Large scale enterprises are deal with…
Read MoreThe Evolving World Of The Digital Insurance Industry
For decades, the insurance industry has been highly profitable and operated in the same manner. You buy insurance for everything of value you own, rates increase each year, and if something happens you get remunerated. Be it your house, car, valuables, boat, RV and all other. Nothing is excluded really. In the new era of…
Read MoreInversion, IoT & The Hyper-Connected-World
Inversion is the paradigm shift allowing all companies to think needs-first vs product-spec-first and focus on enhancing consumer experiences for all products. The paradigm shift has new software architecture considerations. In our book, The Inversion Factor, we have identified four essential principles—connectedness, composability, recruitability and immersion—that all stakeholders can use to develop and build the next wave of…
Read MoreAI, Facebook & Dating: Disaster In The Making?
What is totally unclear about Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement of Facebook getting into the dating game, is HOW MUCH of which private information of users will be used to make matches, and HOW or what he calls ‘long term relationships’! Privacy measures? We have learned that Facebook users are trusting and prioritize ‘likes’ way much more…
Read MoreReady? Security Robots at Your Local Mall, Store and Neighborhood?
Over the last year, I have been reading about security robots being introduced in public places and have seen them exhibited at shows, CES, etc. Knightscope is one such company. However, I have to tell you that even for someone like me who embraces technology, it was a surreal moment seeing this robot at my…
Read MoreWomen In Data Science 2018
I was very honored to speak at the 2018 Women in Data Science conference. There were so many inspiring women doing great things. The topic of my talk was about women’s leadership opportunities in AI. You can watch the full talk below. (Begins at 28:51) I also greatly enjoy this short interview afterwards with Alex…
Read MoreDeepMind AlphaGo: Machines Aiding Humans
Yes, DeepMind’s AlphaGo’s winning against the world’s leading Go champions in 2017 was absolutely a clear win for DeepMind. No question. However, something more magical happened! AlphaGo (Neural net, machine learning, deep learning) was not bound by traditional moves. On several occasions it made moves which the Go global community were stunned about. Go is…
Read MoreAI Research: China & US Leading Research- US Falling Behind!
US and China lead the world of research in AI. This article shows the number of deep learning publications by US and China since 2007. While most were at par in 2007, the landscape changed and US was leading the pack with a significant margin until 2013 when China has gotten ahead. Unless we are…
Read MoreThe Immersion of Things
Following my blog post of last week about why IoT is hot now and the link between IoT and AI, as promised, here is further discussion. In The Inversion Factor, we see a clear progress in IoT from Things, to IoT , to The Intelligence of Things, followed by The Immersion of Things. Today we…
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