“Within the next 5-7 years, as many as 1.1 billion working hours could be freed up (within) the federal government every year, saving a whopping $37 billion annually. Ultimately, AI could potentially free up 30 percent of federal employees’ time. State government savings in time and money could be similar percentages.
Business that have a wealth of unstructured data, a desire to harness insights from this information, and an openness to innovative technologies – will be early AI/Cognitive adopters and experience huge benefits.
The pace of change in technology is accelerating… “AI First” is an underlying strategic theme, henceforth. It was just 2012 when we launched the “Mobile First” theme. Read the abstracts at NextBigFuture.com here: http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/02/ex-google-ceo-underestimated-ai-but-new.html?m=1 Google’s current CEO Sundar Pichai has described the world as having entered an “AI-first” era. The preceding phase was a focus […]
Will AI’s capable of life and death action, have any sense of reality other than a virtual one? Virtual Ethics: A thought provoking piece in Aeon online.. “Murder in virtual reality should be illegal” https://aeon.co/ideas/murder-in-virtual-reality-should-be-illegal Author Angela Buckingham is a writer living in Berlin. She writes about power, moral choice, self-deception, bravery and cowardice…
Tangible example of where AI’s will be adopted into the Security Industry: Two former FBI agents, employed by Travelers Insurance Investigative Services, hack into a typical business website and download sensitive data in a matter of minutes. AI’s will be orders of magnitude more efficient.
AI is “In the Cloud, it’s mobile and it’s embedded.” IBM CEO Ginni Rometty on Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN.
It might not yet “technically” be an AI company, but a former Google.com leader in charge of personalization now leads a company (http://altschool.com) reinventing private education in the SF Bay Area. The technique is to give children Chrome Books at a very early age and then collect every keystroke and click they make. Data mining […]
