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Neural networks beat machine learning in true AI, says chief data officer
With the somewhat deceptive “AI washing” in software marketing lately, it’s important to ask: How far have we really come toward true artificial intelligence? “There’s a great deal of difficulty in trying to code the human brain,” said Janet George (pictured), fellow and chief data officer at Western Digital Corp. Products claiming to match human intelligence ...
Purpose-trained AI flunky does the dirty work in diverse industries
There’s hopeful news for anyone who’s wished Siri could get up at 6:30 in the morning and go to work for them: A startup training artificial intelligence personas for industry verticals is honing in on the dream. Litbit Inc. has developed an AI platform for people with no coding skills, said Scott Noteboom (pictured), founder and chief ...
Artificial and emotional intelligence meet in new autonomous driving tech
Face-reading artificial intelligence technology has shown up in identification and security use cases. What applications would result if such an AI could also tell when people are psyched, depressed or confused? “There are only seven or six universal emotions, plus neutral,” said Modar Alaoui (pictured), founder and chief executive officer at Eyeris Technologies Inc., developers of emotion ...
Intelligent electric sockets remember to turn stuff off when people don’t
Everybody knows plugged-in electric devices draw power even when turned off. But even greenies don’t remember to unplug them when not in use. It’s a hassle for human intelligence but a great job for artificial intelligence, according to Mike Wilson (pictured), chief executive officer at BriteThings Inc. “Probably at your workplace and at home, there’s a ...
AI startup branches out — face recognition software knows if you’re drunk
When TrueFace.ai began using face recognition technology in its “smart doorbell,” it quickly found itself branching out to different use cases. First came expanded use in-home and then commercial security, said Shaun Moore (pictured), the startup’s founder and chief executive officer. Suspecting an even wider range of possibilities, TrueFace.ai tapped developers to help suss them out. “We’re finding ...
Profiting from IoT data: Getting down and dirty in industry verticals
Why is Internet of Things so hyped even as very few companies see it bear fruit on their bottom lines? “IoT investment have trailed a lot of expectations as to when they were going to really jump in the enterprise,” said Tom Stuermer (pictured), global managing director of ecosystem partnerships at Accenture plc. Part of the problem ...
How Insnap acquisition made-over Jessica Alba’s company with data analytics
One day, regular line-of-business people might be able to handle high-level data monetization themselves with a do it yourself tool. Today is not that day for The Honest Co. The natural home and personal care brand, co-founded by actress Jessica Alba, acquired and integrated a big data software as a service startup called Insnap Inc. in ...
AWS on full-service cloud: It’s not just storage and compute anymore
Remember when worries about security and uptime dampened conversations about cloud infrastructure as a service? Those concerns that were common just a couple of years ago have nearly evaporated, according to Terry Wise (pictured), vice president of worldwide alliances, channels and ecosystem at Amazon Web Services Inc. Today, customers are more interested in the neat business-differentiating ...
Will serverless functions beat DevOps in race to democratize analytics?
Enterprise data scientists and developers fed up with data that just sits there and doesn’t make money might take heart in a prediction from Ali Ghodsi (pictured), chief executive officer and co-founder of Databricks Inc. “Data warehousing as we know it today will continue to exist; however, it will be transformed,” Ghodsi said in an interview ...
Can big data DevOps see what abstraction is hiding?
DevOps that have worked well in other areas of information technology can’t hack it in big data, according to Ash Munshi (pictured), chief executive officer of Pepperdata Inc. “While agile and all that still works, the tools don’t work,” Munshi said in an interview at this year’s Spark Summit in San Francisco, California. Tightening the loop leading ...