Category: Week3

Facial recognition: leading to a safer or unsafer world?

As the name implies, this technology is capable of identifying a person from an image or video by comparing facial features such as shape and size of the eyes, nose and mouth as well as the distance between each other, within a database. This system, might have seemed part of a sci-fi movie 50 years… Read more Facial recognition: leading to a safer or unsafer world?

Artificially Intelligent Human Bias

The assertion made by Craig Martell[1] that Artificial Intelligence is a business model, a buzzword, rather than of substantial content, is not a new one. For him, the truth lies in the collection of data, and in the modeled statistical world. This has been articulated many times by various entities – and this makes sense… Read more Artificially Intelligent Human Bias

Call It Robot, Call It CEO: Will AI Replace the C-Suite?

A hot topic these years is whether technology – mainly Artificial Intelligence (AI) – will decrease humans’ jobs, both blue collars roles – which are the most repetitive and mechanised – and managerial positions as well. Some people agree with that while others don’t. Everything starts from the definition of AI. It depends on who… Read more Call It Robot, Call It CEO: Will AI Replace the C-Suite?

AI vs. AI: Terminators of the Modern day

I was recently reading an article about Google pitting two AI machines against each other, which can be read here. I specifically sought out articles like this, because I was curious about a world that is driven towards automation without human interaction.  How will two different machines behave with each other? This quote from the… Read more AI vs. AI: Terminators of the Modern day

Artificial Intelligence: Simply Complex

I believe that, in science, holding a simplistic view regarding a problem or a technology is risky and potentially misleading to others. In the same way, overcomplicating the challenges behind a given problem or fantasizing about the capabilities of the corresponding solution is, typically, a sign of incomprehension and lack of expertise. Interestingly enough, artificial… Read more Artificial Intelligence: Simply Complex

AI “assistants”: What do they know? Do they know things? Let’s find out!

When Apple first introduced Siri back in 2011 alongside the iPhone 4s, reception ranged from excitement for the prospect of virtualized assistants, to the fear of an Ellison-esque dystopian future where our AI overlords run rampant. Regardless of which camp you fell into, this marked a major shift in the zeitgeist of the average tech… Read more AI “assistants”: What do they know? Do they know things? Let’s find out!

AI and Art

Artificial intelligence has a somewhat defined role in many industries and applications; it makes a lot of our work more efficient, tasks easier, transportation faster, and communication wider. From autonomous vehicles, medical diagnosis, to algorithmic trading, artificial intelligence has helped firms and establishments reach many technological feats. While artificial intelligence has found its home in… Read more AI and Art

The fall of the greats - The Blockbuster Story

  The fall of the greats – The Blockbuster Story By Victor Moran   If someone had told me back in the early 2000’s that Blockbuster and Toys R’Us that by 2018 both companies would be closing all their stores I would have laughed. I remember a job fair at my campus where lines of… Read more The fall of the greats - The Blockbuster Story

Artificial Intelligence and it's risks

From Siri to self-driving cars, AI is improving rapidly. It is important to be informed because like Craig Martell, Head of Science and Engineering at LinkedIn, said in his lecture; AI is often misunderstood.   What is Artificial Intelligence? Simply put, it’s a machine simulating human intelligence: understanding natural language, recognizing faces in photos, driving… Read more Artificial Intelligence and it's risks

Artificial Intelligence (ANI & AGI) and its impact on society

Recent advancements in AI/ML are mainly due to improvements in processor technologies and cloud data. AI primarily consists of methods that enable computers to mimic human intelligence using logic, if-then rules, decision trees, and machine learning (including deep learning).[1] Deep learning – a subset of machine learning – contains algorithms that permit software to train… Read more Artificial Intelligence (ANI & AGI) and its impact on society