Thanks to AI, Cars May Soon Be Able to Sense Your Emotions
Pretend you’re on your daily work commute. Stuck in the stop-and-go traffic on your local highway, you start getting a little nervous — you have a big presentation today at your job, and it could be the difference between a promotion and staying in the same role for yet another year. As you ponder this […]
Clearview AI: A Look at the Frightening Reality of Facial Recognition
Would you feel comfortable if a stranger could snap your picture and identify you with an app? The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has yielded both amazing and terrifying technological capabilities. And a mobile app from a startup known as Clearview AI precariously straddles the line between these two sides. Using facial recognition, Clearview […]
How COVID-19 Became a Business Boon for Deepfakes
The coronavirus pandemic has made it complicated and costly to shoot videos. Consequently, many companies have now turned to the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) development to fulfill their communication needs. Thanks to COVID-19, Deepfakes Have Gone Corporate Earlier this month, major advertising corporation WPP sent new training videos to thousands of its employees across […]
4 Ways To Prime Your AI Strategy For Growth
Original article featured in Forbes. Futurism has always fascinated me. When I was young, I would pore through science-fiction novels and dream about how far-flung technologies could improve our lives. As an adult now working in tech, I’ve been able to explore what the world’s leading minds believe the coming decades will encompass. To my […]
How Data Can Drive Digital Medicine Towards a Healthier Future
Technology has undoubtedly transformed our lives. As it grows faster than ever before thanks to advances in computing hardware, we’re lucky to live in this era of unprecedented innovation in which we get cool new upgrades and developments every few years. Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT) […]
OpenAI’s Text Generator Writes Like a Human — and It’s Going Commercial
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) holds unprecedented possibilities — some good and some bad. OpenAI is a research institute originally started to steer the technology away from the latter category. Recently, the startup announced its first commercial product: An AI-powered text generator that was previously deemed too dangerous to release to the public. Previously […]
Want to Adopt a Proactive Approach to Disruption? Here’s How.
Original Article Featured in Entrepreneur. Soon, Amazon won’t have to worry about accusations that the company treats its warehouse workers like robots. That’s because those workers will be robots. And it’s close to happening: In Japan, startups are working on autonomous robots that can unload shipping containers and run an entire warehouse without human direction or intervention. If and when this […]
AI Will Create More Jobs Than It Takes
In recent years, the development of artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced rapidly; nearly every week, we encounter a newsworthy breakthrough with the technology. But it wasn’t so long ago that computers couldn’t outperform people in gameplay, speech translation, medical diagnosis, and various other activities. Today, this is no longer the case. AI’s capabilities have transcended those […]
How AI Is Preventing Data Breaches In 3 Major Industries
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are allowing both businesses and consumers to boost their cybersecurity to unprecedented levels. In a recent post, we examined six ways that AI is leading the way towards rock-solid information security. In case you missed it, read it here. For this article, we’ll take a closer look at how […]
6 Ways AI Is Improving Cybersecurity
By now, we’re all aware that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will shape our future in several ways. But many of us do not know how these technologies will impact cybersecurity. We find ourselves at a pivotal moment in this digital era — one in which our personal information is at […]