"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."
Microsoft Professional Program in AI, the latest learning track open to the public. The program provides job-ready skills and real-world experience to engineers and others who are looking to improve their skills in AI and data science through a series of online courses that feature hands-on labs and expert instructors.
"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. "
"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."
"User data is the core value of all consumer facing apps. Centralized platforms mine and productize data for their own agendas, leaving control in the hands of a few companies. At dock.io we believe in this value being shared between users and apps to create a more connected and decentralized internet."
"It's hard to wire a wind turbine while juggling a thick technical manual, or to ask offsite experts for help without being able to show them exactly what you see. Augmented reality can help, overlaying digital data onto the real world to give workers immediate access to vital information"
"In the next few months, there will be hundreds of millions of Android and iOS devices that are able to provide augmented reality experiences - meaning you'll be able to look at the world through your phone, and place digital objects wherever you look. "
"The automation of work by machines, including AI, and the increasing interconnectedness between people, machines, and ideas. In the book, Only Humans Need Apply, the authors identify five ways that people can adapt to automation and intelligent machines."
"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."
"Whether you're just learning to code or you're a seasoned machine learning practitioner, you'll find information and exercises in this resource center to help you develop your skills and advance your projects."
"Unleash your team's creativity with Jamboard. Sketch your ideas, whiteboard-style, while benefiting from the access and connectivity of an interactive canvas. Drop images, add notes and pull assets directly from the web while collaborating with team members from anywhere."
"Relying on counterfactual explanations as a means to help us act rather than merely to understand could help us gauge the scope and impact of automated decisions in our lives. They might also help bridge the gap between the interests of data subjects and data controllers, which might otherwise be a barrier to a legally binding right to explanation."
"From checking leases at the Land Registry to sorting through millions of documents for disclosure during litigation, artificial intelligence or AI is speeding up some of the most repetitive legal tasks."
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"Transparency of evidence: a spot check of government policy proposals July 2016 to July 2017.
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"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."