RPA is fast becoming a reliable way to trial automation without committing to a full-scale AI program. As the market grows, RPA is becoming a viable automation technology in its own right, and companies are beginning to demand more from . . .
Read articleposted 16th April 2019Forbes.com
This series of articles has looked at the promise of Big Data, AI, and IoT, and how they all make up one ecosystem. So after looking at the benefits of these technologies in specific environments, it is worth a review of the . . .
Read articleposted 6th March 2019Forbes.com
What comes to mind when you think of a factory? A dark Victorian mill? A Charlie Chaplin skit? Or a roboticized production line? Industrial manufacturing has consistently been a marker of progress, acting as a sign of the times as . . .
Read articleposted 6th March 2019Forbes.com
Since computers were first invented people have been looking for ‘the next big thing.’ Now, as close to half the world owns a phone faster than the earliest supercomputers, it is difficult to keep track of what we should pay attention to. While . . .
Read articleposted 19th February 2019Forbes.com
The healthcare sector is facing a host of severe problems that do not have one overarching solution. Globally there is a shortage of 7.2 million healthcare workers, and a rapidly aging population will only add more strain to the doctors that remain. New . . .
Read articleposted 19th February 2019forbes.com
Emotions are our most human quality, but what if we could teach AI to understand our feelings? The goal of artificial intelligence (AI) research has shifted over the years; to compute what humans could not, to beat us in specific . . .
Read articleposted 1st February 2019Forbes.com
Algorithms are not known for their emotional intelligence, but in part one of this article I introduced Cogito, an application that analyzes behavioral signals in voice conversations to improve interactions with enterprise customers and monitor mental health patients. Measuring emotional . . .
Read articleposted 1st February 2019forbes.com
Data has never been more powerful than it is right now. 2018 saw some of the largest data breaches in history come to light, including the Marriott hotel group breach and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, both of which had troubling . . .
Read articleposted 24th January 2019Forbes.com
Should we trust Artificial Intelligence (AI)? When it comes to our finances, only a fifth of us do. New research from VMware, a leading innovator in enterprise software, found that while 73% of UK respondents would trust AI to look . . .
Read articleposted 17th January 2019Forbes.com
On the 31st of December 1983, Isaac Asimov predicted what the world of 2019 might look like, as part of The Toronto Star’s feature leading into the namesake year of George Orwell’s 1984. 35 years later, with the benefit of . . .
Read articleposted 17th January 2019Book by Charles Towers-Clark
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