Artificial Intelligence
The 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…
Read MoreWhy Is IoT Hot Now?
In 2001, my startup in Cambridge and several others started the IoT movement via RFID and devices on the net. My first white paper on this topic was called “IoD, Internet of Devices.” At the same time, colleagues at MIT AutoID Center, were propagating IoT. Now almost 18 years later, I am delighted to see…
Read More2018: INVERSION And Going From AI Hype To Reality
2018 will be an exciting year for artificial intelligence. Not because every company will have sorted their AI strategy out and not because AI deployments will have sky rocketed. Not because we will have solved the lack of skillset shortages or have figured out exactly what to apply AI to. We are still at the…
Read MoreMe and AI!
Me & AI: Turing exposed us to AI almost 69 years ago, the notion that a machine can think and process like a human. Clearly decades have gone by and we have not realized the full potential of AI and we are still a long ways away from Generalized AI. AI has gone through a…
Read MoreEVP, Chief Product and Strategy Officer
Linda Joined Element AI as EVP , Chief Product and Strategy Officer. Read the press release on BusinessWire.com HERE. More information available on The Wall Street Journal. Click to read the full text of the Wall Street Journal article. Click to read the full text of the press release announcement.
Read MoreWhy is Enterprise AI so HOT Now?
It is due to the confluence of six factors: 1. Mega Data 2. Compute Availability 3. Focused AI 4. Need For Speed 5. Play or become obsolete 6. Culture of Agility There has never been a more exciting time for artificial intelligence in enterprises. In working with enterprises of various sizes in different verticals across…
Read MoreAlexa is NOT AI!
Every day in tech discussions, someone will mention that they are so thrilled to have AI running in their homes. When excitedly I inquire what they mean, the response is always the same: Alexa of course! Wrong. Basic ground rules: 1. At this time Alexa (voice) provided by the Echo hardware is a conversation layer…
Read MoreData Science Is Not AI and It Is Not Machine Learning
Data Science is not AI and it is not Machine Learning: Here is what I am thinking about AI and the enterprise: 1. Almost on a daily basis I am meeting with, reached out by and running into companies that are calling themselves AI and Machine Learning companies. Almost none are . Almost all are…
Read MoreLet’s Talk AI: The True Buzz About AI
And deep learning, machine learning, cognitive and more… Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest topics on Tech St. right now – and why wouldn’t it be given the exciting advances being made? But in our conversations about AI, we’re getting ahead of ourselves and mixing up progress toward the goal with having reached…
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