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Top 10 Trends For Digital Transformation In 2018

Even though we haven’t quite hit the final quarter of 2017, you could say it’s been an eventful year in digital transformation. Read full Article

Moravec’s paradox

Moravec’s paradox is the discovery by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, high-level reasoning requires very little computation, but low-level sensorimotor skills require enormous computational resources. Read full Article

Baidu’s new A.I. can mimic your voice after listening to it for just one minute

We’re not in the business of writing regularly about “fake” news, but it’s hard not to be concerned about the kind of mimicry technology is making possible. First, researchers developed deep learning-based artificial intelligence (A.I. Read full Article

For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned.

I first got news of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., via an alert on my watch. Even though I had turned off news notifications months ago, the biggest news still somehow finds a way to slip through. But for much of the next 24 hours after that alert, I heard almost nothing about the … Continue reading "For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned."

This professor is suing Cambridge Analytica to find out how they profiled him

An American professor’s legal claim against Cambridge Analytica to find out just how they build their profiles of voters has been given new importance by the revelations that the data analytics firm harvested private information from millions of Facebook users without their permission. Read full Article