"When Facebook and Apple make extraordinary investments in new technology like they are with augmented reality, you know it's something to pay attention to. Both companies have made it clear recently that they are committed to developing, testing and implementing augmented reality technology"
"Multi-sensory learning can be a boon to understanding and retention of information, as many studies suggest. This type of experiential learning has been shown to do better than videos when it comes to speed of learning and length of retention."
"As machine learning becomes more powerful, the field's researchers increasingly find themselves unable to account for what their algorithms know - or how they know it."
"Price Waterhouse Cooper LLP has announced a blockchain audit service that it claims will encourage people to use the still new technology, according to The Wall Street Journal."
"The current scandal about the mis-use of Facebook data to manipulate elections feels like a pivotal moment in the recent history of the internet and its growing power over societies around the world. "
"PwC has developed a virtual reality (VR) experience for its clients, allowing them to explore and better understand the range of potential future disruptions that could impact their organisation."
"Augmented reality might not be able to cure cancer (yet), but when combined with a machine learning algorithm, it can help doctors diagnose the disease."
"To help space travelers recover from the kinds of mishaps that can occur in the reaches of deep space-mishaps that can end missions and potentially end lives-Lockheed Martin is combining machine learning and artificial intelligence with augmented and virtual reality interfaces to provide a bit more self-reliance to manned space exploration missions at distances at which it could take more than 40 minutes to get a reply from mission control."
"If you're anything like the average Internet user, you probably didn't spend the estimated 244 hours it would take to read every privacy policy for every website you visited last year. That's exactly why a team led by Carnegie Mellon University just launched an interactive website aimed at helping users make sense of their privacy on the web."
The new rules generally expand the definition of personal data - so it can include information such as location data, online identifiers (such as IP addresses) and other metadata. So again, this means businesses really need to conduct an audit to identify all the types of personal data they hold. Ignorance is not compliance.
The Cabinet Office has selected Capgemini as its partner for a £4m project to try and drive use of robotic process automation (RPA) technology across Whitehall.
AI is (currently) very good at specialist/single tasks that require brute force computational effort or training algorithms, but we are a long way from developing generalised AI, that requires some form of unsupervised deep learning. There are many things that humans understand but are well beyond the reach of AI, and this will remain the case for many years to come - if it ever happens.
Artificial intelligence algorithms are increasingly influential in peoples' lives, but their inner workings are often opaque. We examine why, and explore what's being done about it.
HoloMeeting allows you to collaborate by sharing, viewing and amending 3D models (e.g Revit), documents (e.g. PDFs) and collaborate (e.g. freehand draw, whiteboard, etc.). In addition, you can share your camera and use it for remote assistance/maintenance.
"The Echo - a cylindrical speaker with microphone - now accounts for just over 70% of all digital assistant use in the US, leaving its nearest competitor, Google Home, well behind."
The challenge for the 21 century is to say, OK we've got the devices which can collect and store this data, but what shall we do with that data and what are the advantages of understanding that data, will it help us navigate society better and to help us improve the way that we live? And there are lots of different aspects to working that out.
CIOs have a major role to play in preparing businesses for the impact that artificial intelligence (AI) will have on business strategy and human employment, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner predicts that by 2022, smart machines and robots may replace highly trained professionals in tasks within medicine, law and IT.
Installing thousands of bots has taken a lot longer and is more complex than most had hoped it would be. The 'robotics evolution' had stalled where companies try to scale the localised proofs of concept. #ai
Google Sheets is getting smarter. After adding the machine learning-powered "Explore" feature last year, which lets you ask natural language questions about your data, it's now expanding this feature to also automatically build charts for you. This means you can now simply ask Sheets to give you a "bar chart for fidget spinner sales" and it will automatically build one for you.