The artificial intelligence technique known as deep learning is white hot right now, as we have noted numerous times before. It’s powering many of the advances in computer vision, voice recognition… Read more »
Big data never really went anywhere, but as a business, it did get a little boring over the past couple years. Big data technologies (and not just Hadoop) proved harder to… Read more »
A trio of MIT researchers has developed a machine learning model that might help humans make better sense of big data by helping us make better sense of the patterns it… Read more »
A Palo Alto startup called MetaMind launched on Friday promising to help enterprises use deep learning to analyze their images, text and other data. The company has raised $8 million from Khosla… Read more »
A set of economic, political, and societal forces is currently causing profound changes in work and in the relationship between workers and the businesses that benefit from their labor. Read more »
The Paul G. Allen Foundation announced on Wednesday that it has awarded $5.7 million in grants to five projects that aim to teach machines to understand what they see and read… Read more »
The widespread use of CAPTCHAs, those mashed-up letter sequences you must type to “prove you’re not a robot,” are not just annoying — they’re also useless. Read more »
Google announced on Tuesday that it is funding a project, called Automatic Statistician, that bills itself as “an artificial intelligence for data science.” Read more »
Narrative Science, the company that has developed software to automate writing reports based on structured data, has raised an additional $10 million in funding. The round, which brings overall funding to… Read more »
As the inexorable rise of AI and robots proceeds, the division is growing between those that embrace cognitive computing and Intelligence as a Service as an inevitable good and those that… Read more »