STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITH KATHRYN HUME AND CAROLE PIOVESAN Kathryn Hume and Carole Piovesan are powerful forces in the Toronto artificial intelligence community. Kathryn Hume is Vice President of product and strategy for Integrate.ai and a venture partner at ffVC, a seed and early-stage technology venture capital firm. Carole Piovesan is a lawyer at McCarthy Tétrault LLP and the firm’s lead in the area of artificial...

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What Will Our Society Look Like When Artificial Intelligence Is Everywhere? Will robots become self-aware? Will they have rights? Will they be in charge? Here are five scenarios from our future dominated by AI In June of 1956, A few dozen scientists and mathematicians from all around the country gathered for a meeting on the campus of Dartmouth College. Most of them settled...

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BIG DATA AND SECURITY Big data exhibits the 4 V's (volume, variety, velocity, veracity). Big data applications are innumerable, ranging from banking, healthcare, insurance, pension, and governmental proceedings, due to its numerous advantages. Every chunk of data in an organisation is crucial, and it is important to manage it securely. Big data security is one of the major concerns faced by any sector today, leading...

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Big Data: The Predictive Tool for Growth in Business Big Data and Analytics Big Data has been on the radar for a significantly longer time than its intense implementation. Although there is no agreed-on definition, the term is often characterised by three key attributes; high volume, high velocity and high variety. Unlike statistical data compiled for specific purposes, big data is made up of...

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Artificial Intelligence Apps Risk Entrenching India’s Socio-economic Inequities Artificial intelligence applications will not be a panacea for addressing India’s grand challenges. Data bias and unequal access to technology gains will entrench existing socio-economic fissures. Participants at an AI event in Bangalore. Photo: Getty Images. Artificial intelligence (AI) is high on the Indian government's agenda. Some days ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Wadhwani Institute...

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Intelligent to a Fault: When AI Screws Up, You Might Still Be to Blame Interactions between people and artificially intelligent machines pose tricky questions about liability and accountability, according to a legal expert Credit: the-lightwriter Getty Images Artificial intelligence is already making significant inroads in taking over mundane, time-consuming tasks many humans would rather not do. The responsibilities and consequences of handing over work to...

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