Robotics

How Robots Are Changing the Game for Brick and Mortar Retailers

August 6, 2018

Robots, coupled with AI and data analytics, are creating new opportunities to revive struggling brick and mortar stores. In a bid to compete against online retailers, several traditional retailers are rolling out robots that collaborate with human workers to do routine, mundane and dangerous tasks. We explore how retailers are using robots in a way that is changing the face and back-end of retail and why this is the most promising opportunity for retailers to revive physical stores.
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Artificial Intelligence

Finding the Next Rockstar Employee: How AI and VR are Changing the Hiring Game

August 20, 2018

The days of recruiters sifting through piles of resumes may soon be over as machine learning, AI, and VR make their way into the workplace, helping companies find the best available talent.
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Artificial Intelligence

Four AI-Powered Technologies Aimed at Helping Refugees

August 14, 2018

During a time when one person is displaced every two seconds, take a deeper look at four AI technologies providing life-changing philanthropic support and aiding people in flux.

Deep Learning

The Role of Deep Learning in Filtering Hate Speech

August 7, 2018

Social media networks are in a great position to deploy deep learning to eradicate some of the darker aspects of online behavior. Read how it’s only a matter of time before society benefits from deep learning’s potential to filter abusive language.

Cryptocurrency

The Future of Initial Coin Offerings

August 2, 2018

While blockchain and cryptocurrencies are dramatically reshaping global commerce, government intervention is sowing confusion and uncertainty regarding the future of these digital forms of exchange. Regulations are inevitable, but what should backers and investors do in the current climate to stay on the right side of the law?

Artificial Intelligence

AI Knows a Lot About ‘Anonymous’ Data Feeds—How Do We Find Out?

July 25, 2018

People give up massive amounts personal data every day – to their phone apps, their doctors and their GPS systems. In theory, it’s anonymous but artificial intelligence is smart enough to correlate data and draw conclusions, so how much privacy do we really have?

Artificial Intelligence

A Deep Dive Into Deep Learning

July 17, 2018

How the human brain works has puzzled researchers for millennia — so actually building a brain from scratch is an unquestionably daunting task. But that’s essentially what scientists today are attempting to do within a subset of AI dubbed Deep Learning.