Artificial intelligence is ready for primetime This month the McKinsey Global Institute released a discussion paper called “Notes from the AI Frontier: Insights from Hundreds of Use Cases” that measures the recent progress of artificial intelligence business applications and identifies industries and use cases where AI has the greatest potential to unlock value. There are a number of different ‘problem types’ identified by...

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How Music Generated by Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping -- Not Destroying -- The Industry There is an enduring fear in the music industry that artificial intelligence will replace the artists we love, and end creativity as we know it. As ridiculous as this claim may be, it’s grounded in concrete evidence. Last December, an AI-composed song populated several New Music Friday playlists on...

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If (Virtual) Reality Feels Almost Right, It's Exactly Wrong How adding touch to VR can lead to an “uncanny valley” of sensations—and what we can do about it We can all remember the crisply beveled edges of our cheery-yellow No. 2 pencil, the cool, smooth feel of a chalk-powdered blackboard, the gritty red bricks of the schoolhouse walls. Surely that all wasn’t just...

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What Is Artificial Intelligence? Understanding 3 Basic AI Concepts To understand some of the deeper AI concepts, you need to understand the differences between machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks. Artificial intelligence’s progress is staggering. Efforts to advance AI concepts over the past 20 years have resulted in some truly amazing innovations. Big data, medical research, and autonomous vehicles are just some...

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on 2018's Top HR Trends AI-related technological developments may cause sluggish growth in hiring, but it will create jobs too With the rise of artificial intelligence, several of today’s larger organizations face the issue of restructuring. Several global companies believe their organizational design is less than ideal, but few know how to go about remedying it. The answer...

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The Power of Two: How Big Data and Machine Learning Take Artificial Intelligence to the Next Level  The concepts of big data and machine learning are not necessarily new to businesses world-wide; however, what is rather extraordinary is the developing movement in industry to combine the two concepts propelling Artificial Intelligence applications to new heights of learning and adaptability. Big Data in Business...

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HOW TO BUILD AI RESPONSIBLY IN CANADA Artificial intelligence is already being used to address big challenges like climate change, world economic crises, global hunger, and aging populations, but how can AI benefit us as individuals in our roles as citizens, parents, caregivers, and advocates? How can it support those who are most vulnerable? Today’s pioneers in AI technology recognize that tackling the...

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Taiwan Has 'Big-Data-Free' Social Platform Can Taiwan answer France’s call for secure IM? Junko Yoshida TAIPEI — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance at Congressional hearings in Washington last week has surfaced long-overdue questions about the ownership and privacy of data. This scrutiny now impinges on social media networks and messaging apps such as WhatsApp, owned by Facebook.The questions that linger are: Who owns...

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