On Feb. 11, 2019, President Trump signed an executive order establishing the American AI Initiative. The goal: to position the U.S. as the world leader in artificial intelligence. The initiative includes five major areas of action but lacks specific strategic steps, reports IEEE Spectrum’s Tech Talk blog. In fact, artificial intelligence experts believe it’s little […]
Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence
Marty the Grocery Store Robot Is Keeping Aisles Clear
Meet Marty, the grocery store robot. This new “employee” is utilizing artificial intelligence to monitor aisles and keep them clear. A command center in the Philippines controls Marty, reports AP technology writer Matt O’Brien. More specifically, the wheeled robot sends images of spills and messes to the center’s human workers, who in turn trigger cleanup […]
Jobs lost to AI, Robotics and Automation are Already Underway in Parts of China
Today, as you read this, citizens of Shenzhen China live and work side by side with their future replacements. Shenzhen is a major tech hub city within China, so it can be viewed as ground zero for the deployment of many new technologies and innovations, including AI and robotics. In a recent Bloomberg, Hello World […]
Alibaba Uses AI to Reduce City’s Traffic Congestion
Hangzhou’s seven million residents are reaping enormous traffic reduction benefits thanks to artificial intelligence called City Brain. City Brain was developed by Alibaba, which makes its home in the eastern Chinese city. Once ranked fifth among China’s most-congested cities, Hangzhou is now 57th on the list, according to a CNN report. The AI invention gathers […]
Will You Lose Your Job to Artificial Intelligence?
Some experts expect that the U.S. will lose 10 percent of its jobs to artificial intelligence (AI), while others anticipate losses of 50 percent or more. In fact, job loss estimates will continue to run the gamut, depending on who’s making the prediction and what model they opt to use. Economists, for example, look at […]
Industry Based AI-empowered Business Model
In an article by Kai-Fu Lee The notion of entire industries taken over by AI https://qz.com/work/1477807/how-many-jobs-will-be-automated-most-predictions-miss-one-big-factor/
AI or Not AI – Hard to Tell
The line between reality and Artificial Intelligence is becoming more and more blurred. It’s getting hard to know when and if AI is playing a role in our daily tasks. From a report Applicants usually don’t know when a startup has used artificial intelligence to triage their resume. When Big Tech deploys AI to tweak […]