Knowledge and Aging industrial infrastructure For most factories, plants and industrial facilities no artificial intelligences monitor the status of far-flung equipment, and what little data flows from the amalgam of aging equipment does so to individual devices. Some of the primary and secondary equipment in …
Open Note to WEF: Reinvent Economy Don’t Be Threatened by AI The gnashing of teeth, and the fear mongering about job displacement has started at the World Economic Forum. Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are out to take many of the most prestigious of job classes. See: Davos: …
Dan is now writing for GeekWire. Read his analysis of films and our evolving relationship with AI. Artificial Intelligence in Avengers and Ex Machina: Time to Be Afraid? As the summer blockbuster season gets into full swing, two fictional robots have already emerged to challenge our …
ABC ran a story about Santa Cruz, CA using software to help identify areas where crime may take place ( see Santa Cruz Police Using Computer Program to Predict, Prevent Crime). This kind of prediction is very different from what futurist do because it is …
Well, Watson beat human its human competitors on Jeopardy, but I think the challenge Ken Jennings gave to IBM today sums up the one-trick pony aspect of Watson: Let put it on Dancing with the Stars to see what it can really do. Watson, could …