Tech Tips to Upgrade to a Smart Home
The 21st century is the century of the smart home. Soon, all our appliances and electronics will be integrated and web-ready, uploading data to the cloud and improving performance, maximizing our health,...
6 Cars That Are Pioneering Self-Driving Technology
The thought of self-driving cars seems like a futuristic fever dream you imagined during your early childhood. Though we may still be eons away from flying cars brought to life on The Jetsons, Blade...
How Artificial Intelligence can Boost your Career
Artificial intelligence is not only changing the face of technology as we know it but also causing a seismic shift in the workforce and the talent and skills that the younger workforce,...
Swarm Intelligence could be the Key to More Accurate Sports Betting
You don’t see many traffic jams in the bee worldPhoto by Jordan SchwartzArtificial intelligence has been shown to have tremendous predictive power in all sorts of areas....
5 of the Best Domestic Robots for Your Home
Automatic Gadgets That are a Boon for Busy PeopleYou are already 50% less tired when you come back from work to a neat and tidy house. Cleaning before...
AI Software in the Workplace – How It Can Upskill Employees
A lot of credit for the fast-changing way we work goes to artificial intelligence. AI and machine learning are increasingly powering workplace platforms and tools because sophisticated automation tools can relieve workers...
Robotics Pioneer Nils Nilsson Passes Away at 86
Nils Nilsson, a pioneer in the field of robotics and considered by many to be a foundational force for artificial intelligence, died after a brief period of hospice care. Nilsson passed away...
White House Sets The Most Unclear and Ambiguous AI Goal Yet
Notwithstanding the fact that America is a full two years behind China in terms of a national AI strategy, the Trump administration has now revealed that it is "leading many of those...
AI Ethics Guidelines from Diverse Groups: The Consensus?
We are yet to see a holistic framework for the ethical development of artificial intelligence applications that can be applied to every industry in every country around the world. A lot of...
AWS DL (Deep Learning) Containers: Rapidly Deploy Custom Machine Learning Environments
AWS recently released a service called AWS DL Containers aimed at deep learning researchers. The service involves pre-configuring and validating Docker images and then pre-installing them with deep learning frameworks that can...
Why China is Already Ahead of the United States in AI Implementation
There's AI research, and then there's AI implementation. Companies with little or no experience in core AI research capabilities can easily become leaders in a thin field. Amazon did it in cloud...
Artificial Intelligence and Home Automation, a.k.a. My Home is Smarter Than Yours!
Artificial intelligence is all around us, to say the least. It's invaded our workplaces, our cars, our phones and every aspect of personal and professional life. But no other place has seen...
When AI Achieves “Consciousness”, What Will Become of the Human Race?
Every AI researcher's dream is to be the first to develop an artificial intelligence entity that is capable of doing everything an average human can. The problem is, the "average" for a...
Real-Time Machine Learning (RTML): DARPA Throws Down the Gauntlet
The DARPA Grand Challenge, subsequently reborn as the Urban Challenge, the Robotics Challenge and the FANG Challenge, has always been about pushing the boundaries of technology. Whether it's about autonomous vehicles racing...
Can Deep Learning be Given a Boost with More Brain-like Structures?
Deep learning is often said to be modeled after the human brain. How true is that? The problem with humans is that we tend to generalize based on one or two common...