Is Bias Creep in AI Inevitable?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the biggest technologies of our future. Every country and organization is preparing for the AI revolution in their own way. But when humans are involved with building the foundations of AI, can AI truly be objective? Tech leaders have been publicly expressing their opinions of AI’s potential to create […]
Is Our Brain the Secret to Better AI?

The human brain is the crowning achievement of humanity’s evolution. Literally. Without our brains, modern society and all of its bells and whistles would never exist. You wouldn’t be reading Dogtown Media’s news on your phone or your computer. And I wouldn’t be writing articles about researchers taking a page out of biology’s book to improve AI. Yet, that’s exactly where we find ourselves right now. […]
Google Is Making AI Available for Everyone

Artificial intelligence (AI) is experiencing a renaissance; it’s no longer a hot buzzword — it’s getting integrated into our favorite apps, powering our productivity tools, and leading the vision of the future for tech giants like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon. In 2017, after its rebranding as an “AI-first” company, Google followed up with an announcement […]
China Goes All-In On AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t working to optimize every part of our daily lives… yet. When AI applications do reach your home and car, it’ll be in droves. You’ll have more options than you could ever look through, just like the current state of mobile apps. As a result of the impending cash influx from AI, […]
The Differences Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

Not to steal the thunder from today’s topic, but Rob Pope, our very own CTO and Co-Founder, will be speaking at the Smart Home Summit this week in Palo Alto, CA. If you’re a developer based in San Francisco, come see Rob drop some words of wisdom about AI and IoT. Learn more here! We recently […]
Machine Learning Turns Drones Into Literal Inspector Gadgets

We have written already this week about Amazon’s advances in automation, which could eventually replace the thousands of entry-level warehouse positions the company has created. When mobile app developers consider the issue of robots taking human jobs, they often think of this kind of warehouse or factory work. But as innovation in artificial intelligence and […]