Digitalization and AI

An up-to-date repository of articles and news items related to our current teaching in digitalization and AI at the School of Economics and Mangement, Lund University

By Benjamin Weaver

Benjamin Weaver
Artificial Intelligence
Amex bets on AI and NLP for customer service
VentureBeat - Sage Lazzaro
The customer draws the AI roadmap at American Express (Amex), at least according to two of the company’s top AI leaders. When describing their latest project, Josh Pizzaro, the company’s director of AI,...
2 hours ago
Benjamin Weaver
Machine Learning
Harnessing the Wild Power of AI Image Generation
ieee.org - Jeremy Hsu
AI has already shown off the capability to create photorealistic images of cats, dogs, and people’s faces that never existed before. More recently, …
7 hours ago
Benjamin Weaver
Artificial Intelligence
Chinese prisons and businesses are now using AI 'emotion-monitoring' systems
Input - Andrew Paul
The number of prison facilities Taigusys counts as clients for its "dynamic emotion recognition" systems. Government and corporate invasions of …
6 hours ago
Benjamin Weaver
Technology
Tech Companies Are Training AI to Read Your Lips
VICE - Todd Feathers
First came facial recognition. Now, an early form of lip-reading AI is being deployed in hospitals, power plants, public transportation, and more. A patient sits in a hospital bed, a bandage covering neck...
2 days ago
Benjamin Weaver
Facebook
Facebook Can’t Dodge EU-Wide Privacy Orders, Top Court Rules
Bloomberg - Stephanie Bodoni
Facebook Inc. and other U.S. tech giants can’t dodge potential privacy orders from European Union data protection authorities beyond their lead …
1 day ago
Benjamin Weaver
McDonald's
Artificial intelligence and the McData-fueled future of capitalism
TNW - Tristan Greene
Ba da ba ba bah, McDonald’s is capturing and storing biometric data on its customers without their knowledge or consent. Per a report from The Register, McDonald’s may be facing a class action lawsuit...
2 days ago
Benjamin Weaver
Sperm Whale
Can We Learn Sperm Whale Language? Researchers Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Find Out
theinertia.com - Alexander Haro
A mother sperm whale and her calf off the coast of Mauritius. Will we be able to understand them in the future? Photo: Wikimedia Commons If you’ve …
1 day ago
Benjamin Weaver
Technology (India)
Big Brother is still watching you and he goes by the name Facebook
The Guardian - John Naughton
The security guru Bruce Schneier once famously observed that “surveillance is the business model of the internet”. Like all striking generalisations it was slightly too general: it was strictly true only...
4 days ago
Benjamin Weaver
Samsung to supply open RAN and 5G solutions to Vodafone UK | ZDNet
ZDNet - Cho Mu-Hyun
Samsung has been selected as a vendor of vRAN and 5G solutions by Vodafone __ its first 5G network kit supply deal with a major European mobile …
2 days ago
Benjamin Weaver
Security
China's New Power Play: More Control of Tech Companies' Troves of Data
The Wall Street Journal. - Lingling Wei
Shortly after rising to power in late 2012, Xi Jinping made his first company visit in his new job as China’s Communist Party chief, to Tencent Holdings Ltd. There, he raised a topic that has become both...
4 days ago
Benjamin Weaver
Autos
How Software Is Eating the Car
ieee.org - Robert N. Charette
Predictions of lost global vehicle production caused by the ongoing semiconductor shortage continue to rise. In January, analysts forecast that 1.5 …
Jun 7