According to a new study of global consumers, as many as 95% of drivers could opt to use voice assistants in their cars within the next three years. However, providers of the technology have some way to go before realising that level of market penetration, with half of the same potential customers currently saying they do not trust voice assistants with the security...

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Our workplaces are changing thanks to new technologies that are being deployed. These technologies, including natural language processing, robotics, chatbots, and more, promise the opportunity to enhance the customer experience, create efficiencies, and reduce costs. They are also altering the tasks humans will complete, how work gets done, and creating new jobs and responsibilities for humans. Every professional should be aware of and...

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The cloud is a critical IoT resource for organizations with distributed, unpredictable IoT traffic. How can organizations get the most from their cloud provider tools? IoT cloud platforms have more to offer than a place to store data. Enterprise experience with IoT to date has identified four functional areas that IoT cloud platforms have the tools to address: Registration, administration and support of...

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A few decades ago, many people got their news from their daily newspaper, but the stories were often a day old by the time they hit your doorstep. Then online news came along, which was faster and more current, but you still have to search through a sea of stories to find what you’re looking for. Now Google is offering audio news through Google Assistant....

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Self-driving cars could soon be able to classify you as a selfish or altruistic driver. While this might bruise some egos, researchers from MIT CSAIL claim that this will make autonomous vehicles (AVs) much safer when driving alongside humans. Predicting how humans might behave, and adjusting an algorithm’s reasoning based on how selfish or selfless their behavior might be, could dramatically reduce accidents...

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A conversation about why outsourcing the moral responsibilities of AI is not an option. Miguel Luengo, AI expert, entrepreneur and chief scientist at UN Global Pulse, speaks with Konstanze Frischen, Ashoka’s global leader on Tech & Humanity. (Full bios below.) Miguel, you have spent a lot of time examining the AI & Ethics landscape. What did you find? Konstanze Frischen: In the AI...

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AlphaGo, the Go-playing artificial intelligence program developed by Google's DeepMind, defeated ... [+] ASSOCIATED PRESS No asset is more prized in today's digital economy than data. It has become widespread to the point of cliche to refer to data as "the new oil." As one recent Economist headline put it, data is "the world's most valuable resource." Data is so highly valued today because of the essential...

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