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Adobe
A.I. will cause a tectonic shift in human creativity, but don’t be scared yet
Digital Trends - Daven Mathies
Earlier this month, an autonomous test vehicle veered out of its lane to avoid a merging car, only to hit a motorcycle in the lane it moved into. If …
Engines
DeepMind’s superhuman AI is rewriting how we play chess
Wired UK - Natasha Regan and Matthew Sadler
EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/AFP/Getty Images Since 1997, when IBM’s Deep Blue beat world champion and chess legend Garry Kasparov in a six-game match, chess …
Technology
With Cortana's concession speech, Microsoft abandons another platform opportunity
ZDNet - Ross Rubin
Microsoft fought a late start in trying to establish Cortana as a premiere voice agent leveraging the company's AI research. But the lack of a Trojan …
Computers
Nvidia GTX 16-series: Everything we know so far
Digital Trends - Jon Martindale
At the beginning of 2019, it seemed likely Nvidia would launch a GTX 1160 graphics card. What has risen from its ashes though, is rumors of a …
Software Development
Python for Everybody, Everywhere
edx.org - Carolyn Tiernan
Published on: Jan 29, 2019 by Dr. Charles R. Severance, University of Michigan School of Information 378 views No Comments Posted in: Learner News I am …
Technology
Accenture launches SynOps to meld data, AI and humans as the automation bandwagon swells
ZDNet - Larry Dignan
Accenture's platform, dubbed SynOps is designed to enable workflow breakthroughs by melding digital workers and humans. The move follows similar …
Machine Learning
Learning Math For Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence Programming
Forbes - Gregory Ferenstein
Last year, I started writing about my experiences taking courses on machine learning and artificial intelligence. One of the big, unexpected problems I ran into was calculus and linear algebra. I’ve found
Salesforce Commerce Cloud updates keep us shopping with AI-fueled APIs
TechCrunch - Ron Miller
As people increasingly use their mobile phones and other devices to shop, it has become imperative for vendors to improve the shopping experience, making it as simple as possible, given the small footprint.
CES
Why wait? Here are some CES 2019 gadgets you can buy right now
Digital Trends - Kelly Hodgkins
Generally speaking, CES is just a big, high-tech show-and-tell. A lot of the stuff on display is slated to hit the market in the coming year, and …
New FAA proposal would let drones fly over people and at night without a waiver
TechCrunch - Taylor Hatmaker
Companies impatient to make drone deliveries a viable reality should have a win to celebrate soon. On Monday, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao announced in a “sneak preview” that her department
Technology
For AR/VR 2.0 to live, AR/VR 1.0 must die
TechCrunch - Tim Merel
The future of AR/VR could be bright, but only if it moves beyond where it is today. 2018 was the first of what look like two transitional years, with a potential shakeout in 2019 before an inflection in
Technology
IBM's AI Machine Makes A Convincing Case That It's Mastering The Human Art Of Persuasion
Forbes - Carmine Gallo
IBM Research has built an AI system that can analyze 300 million articles, papers or records on a given topic and construct a persuasive speech about it. It would take a human—reading twenty-four hours
Your Questions Are Part Of The Answer: How To Ask Questions That Catalyze Innovation
Forbes - Sunnie Giles
When you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Staying within that frame of reference will actively block radical innovation — so how do you free yourself of trusted old viewpoints? Max Planck, the
Learning Python
oreilly.com
So far, we’ve seen how to make the Python interpreter execute programs we’ve typed. But besides the interpreter, a Python installation also comes …
News (China)
Communist China Moves to Restrict Use of Blockchain Technology
theepochtimes.com - Nicole Hao
On Jan. 10, China’s Cyberspace Administration announced regulations to manage blockchain technology, requiring registration of real names and …
Getting Started in CI/CD for Begineers
dev.to - samsha1
CI/CD stands for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. Continuous Integration means building your application continuously. Consider, a …
Singularity
Former Google exec: AI will replace 40 percent of jobs in 15 years
futurism.com - Dan Robitzski
Bad News Artificial intelligence, whether it’s an application of machine learning or some new technology altogether, is poised to shatter the global …
This Reclusive Engineer Is Plotting The Death Of Blockchain
Forbes - Parmy Olson
One of the hardest things an engineer can do is throw away months of work, but in the six years that Dan Hughes spent building a new alternative to blockchain in self-imposed isolation, he did it at least
Machine Learning
A New, Faster Approach To Data Science And Machine Learning
Forbes - Tony Paikeday
For every business, data science is the foundation of enabling a successful transformation into an AI-powered enterprise. Data analytics and machine learning drive smarter business decisions, greater efficiency,
AI technology can identify genetic diseases by looking at your face, study says
CNN - By Nina Avramova, CNN
(CNN) — A new artificial intelligence technology can accurately identify some rare genetic disorders using a photograph of a patient's face, according to a new study. The AI technology, called DeepGestalt,
Cognitive Computing
Microsoft Leads The AI Patent Race Going Into 2019
Forbes - Louis Columbus
• There have been over 154,000 AI patents filed worldwide since 2010 with the majority being in health fields (29.5%), Industry-specific solutions (25.3%) and AI-based digital security (15.7%). • AI-based
Microsoft patents "silent" voice command technology
futurism.com - Jacob Banas
Can You Hear Me Now? Having a voice assistant to help you is great, but having the details of an appointment with your doctor recited in public? …
Major Consulting Firm McKinsey Finds Little Evidence of Practical Blockchain Use Cases
cointelegraph.com - Adrian Zmudzinski
Major financial consulting company McKinsey & Company believes that there is little evidence of practical use for blockchain, according to an …
How To Build A Company That Brings Humanity To AI
Forbes - Dr. Rana El-Kaliouby
D espite all of the hype—both positive and negative—around AI, I don’t foresee a world in which humans are taken over by robots. It may seem far-fetched, but I see AI in partnership with people—helping
This Week In Credit Card News: Why Banks May Cut Back On Rewards; A New Way To Protect Against Fraud
Forbes - Bill Hardekopf
Rewards Credit Cards Gained a Fanatic Following-Now Banks Are Pulling Back The ultra-premium rewards have turned into financial albatrosses. Big banks calculated that giant rewards would make consumers
How to Learn Python in 30 days | Data Science Blog
dimensionless.in - Kartik Singh
Introduction Are you looking to learn python for data science but have a time crunch? Are you making your career shift into data science and want to …
The Art Of AI Storytelling: How One 30 Under 30 Scientist Is Teaching Devices To Make Assumptions
Forbes - Ayurella Horn-Muller
Picture this: it’s an ordinary workday. Upon arriving at home, you walk in your front door and engage in a natural conversation with your voice assistant, Alexa. You tell the machine that you’re in pain
HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI, Analytics, and the New Machine Age (Paperback + Ebook)
Harvard Business Review - Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Davenport and Paul Daugherty
Publication Date: January 15, 2019 Machine learning and data analytics are powering a wave of groundbreaking technologies. Is your company ready? If you read nothing else on how intelligent machines are
Machine Learning
Forget Go, Google helps AI learn to book flights on the Web
ZDNet - Tiernan Ray
Researchers at Google's AI labs created a couple of novel neural networks that can succeed in navigating Web forms, such as an online flight-booking …