Jun 19, 2019 | algo, audio, featured
Synthesized voices like those used by Siri and Alexa are fine for telling us the day’s weather forecast or how many minutes remain on a cooking timer, but would you really want their flat, monotonous tones reading you audiobooks? Probably not, which is why most of us turn to human-voiced services like Audible to get our audiobook fix. Human voice actors might not get the nod for too much longer, however, due to to the pioneering work of a London-based startup called DeepZen.
Source: Digital Trends
Jun 5, 2019 | algo, trends
Some 49% of workers aged 16–24 are at risk of losing their jobs to artificial intelligence, according to the Brookings Institution. This group is the most vulnerable of all demographics, with more than 70% of their current skills deemed automatable.
Source: Medium
Apr 16, 2019 | algo, networking, trends
The company’s Landmarkers feature seamlessly melds the real and the imagined
Source: Snapchat Has Created the Next Evolution in Photography
Mar 26, 2019 | algo, video
Netflix’s Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Will Disrupt the Current Landscape of Streaming Online Video.
Source: Netflix Is Blending Artificial Intelligence for Its Content Distribution
Mar 23, 2019 | algo, featured, trends
Consider these facts: 80 percent of viewing hours streamed on Netflix originate from automated recommendations. By some estimates, nearly 35 percent of sales at Amazon originate from automated recommendations. And the vast majority of matches on dating apps such as Tinder and OkCupid are initiated by algorithms. Given these numbers, many of us clearly do not have quite the freedom of choice we believe we do.
Source: Free Will in an Algorithmic World – OneZero
Mar 23, 2019 | algo, featured, mobile
Boris Katz has spent his career trying to help machines master language. He believes that current A.I. techniques aren’t enough to make Siri or Alexa truly smart.
Source: The Man Who Helped Invent Virtual Assistants Thinks They’re Doomed Without a New A.I. Approach
Mar 23, 2019 | algo, trends
Today, your resume has to not only tell a compelling story about your career, but also pass the AI test, in order to move forward.
Source: How To Write A Resume That Passes The Artificial Intelligence Test
Mar 21, 2019 | algo, featured, networking, trends
Inside the big, twisted industry of neighborhood data collection
Source: How Google Wiped a Neighborhood off the Map – OneZero
Mar 5, 2019 | algo, networking, video
The Harvard Business School professor discusses her new book
Source: Shoshana Zuboff on Surveillance Capitalism’s Threat to Democracy
Mar 5, 2019 | algo
When it comes to analytics and AI, here is what you should keep in mind:
- Predictive analytics is making assumptions and testing based on past data to predict future (what/ifs).
- Data analysis is about reviewing data from past events.
- AI analyzes data, makes assumptions, learns and provides predictions at a scale and depth of detail impossible to replicate by humans.
Source: “Is it really AI?” Between The Hype Cycle and Real AI…
Mar 4, 2019 | algo, trends
As my faith in the front-facing application process eroded into near oblivion, I learned three lessons by robotically applying to thousands of jobs: 1) It’s not how you apply, it’s who you know. And if you don’t know someone, don’t bother. 2) Companies are trying to fill a position with minimal risk, not discover someone who breaks the mold. 3) The number of jobs you apply to has no correlation to whether you’ll be considered, and you won’t be considered for jobs you don’t get the chance to apply to.
Source: I Built A Bot To Apply To Thousands Of Jobs At Once–Here’s What I Learned
Mar 4, 2019 | algo, networking
This past year, Instagram’s algorithm has been the hottest topic of conversation amongst digital marketing masters, industry professionals, and even entrepreneurs embarking on online branding. It has also been an extreme pain-point for most of my clients, shouting, “The Instagram algorithm is destroying my business! The Instagram algorithm is why I don’t have followers!”
Source: The Instagram Algorithm 2019: Why It Doesn’t Matter
Mar 2, 2019 | algo, trends, video
As artificial intelligence driven facial recognition systems blur the lines between privacy and security and can culminate in a surveillance state, is this really the future that we want to build?
Source: The Democratization of Surveillance
Feb 26, 2019 | algo
Online bots can wreak all sorts of havoc. So how complicated can it really be for them to check one little checkbox?
Source: Why Are Bots Unable to Check “I Am Not a Robot” Checkboxes? | Mental Floss
Feb 26, 2019 | algo, featured, mobile, networking
The AI behind retail websites has learnt the best strategy is to copy each other’s prices – and that can see them ‘collude’ to keep them high.
Source: Online shopping algorithms are colluding to keep prices high
Feb 26, 2019 | algo, trends
These companies use functional, if decidedly unglamorous, types of AI. The future of AI will be more of the same–not far-flung fantasies, like humanoid robots and machine consciousness.
Source: Why Amazon, Apple, Google are the world’s biggest companies
Feb 22, 2019 | algo, networking, trends
A new crop of websites shows the disturbing potential of deepfake technology. The sites present pictures of faces, cats and buildings that are completely fake but look incredibly real. One of the site’s creators says even people without computer programming experience can use freely available tools to create fake pictures in a couple of hours. The Uber engineer behind another one of the sites says he made the site to “raise public awareness” about the new AI technology.
Source: Deepfake tech is being used to create fictitious faces, cats, and Airbnbs – Business Insider
Feb 21, 2019 | algo, trends
Moore’s Law, one of the fundamental laws indicating the exponential progress in the tech industry, especially electronic engineering, has been slowing down lately (since 2005, to be more precise), and has led many in this sector to believe this law to no longer hold true. That was, until Artificial Intelligence joined the arena! Since then, the game changed, and Moore’s law is slowly being revived.
Source: Moore’s Law is dying. Here’s how AI is bringing it back to life!
Feb 21, 2019 | algo, trends
How AI is providing a competitive edge to digital marketing agencies
Source: Artificial Intelligence: The Holy Grail of Digital Marketing
Feb 20, 2019 | algo, mobile, trends
Users of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant conceptualize them in one of 3 ways: an interface, a personal assistant, or a brain. Frequent users are less likely to push the interaction limits of these AI systems than new users.
Source: Mental Models for Intelligent Assistants
