Written by Jamal Ayton-Brown Judea Pearl, a pioneering figure in artificial intelligence, argues that AI has been stuck in a decades-long rut. His prescription for progress? Teach machines to understand the question why. Artificial intelligence owes a lot of its smarts to Judea Pearl. In the 1980s he led efforts that allowed machines to reason probabilistically. Now he’s one
Written by Stefan Malcolm Good Morning! While you slept, work elsewhere in the digital scene continued. The top topics: iPhone and iPod – for these products, the US company Apple is known. However, in order to succeed in the market, new products have to be designed again and again. For research and development of these makes the American company billions of dollars
Written by Jamal Ayton-Brown In 2019, Advanced Analytics capabilities with minimal manual efforts will remain the hallmark of all competitive Business Intelligence solutions. The Business Application Research Center (BARC) 2018 Business Intelligence Survey indicates that the global BI solutions market is slated for major technological changes. The primary technology initiatives that BI users can expect in 2019 are Cloud BI deployments, BI
Written by Jamal Ayton-Brown According to many market statistics, data volume is doubling every two years, but in future this time span may get further reduced. The vast portion of this data (about 79 percent) is text data. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the sub-branch of Data Science that attempts to extract insights from “text.” Thus, NLP is assuming an important role
Written by Jamal Ayton-Brown Humans see less data as businesses collect more of it, which means we need something beyond data scientists. Long before data science became “a thing,” I trained as a “real” scientist, researching arcane and less-than-world-changing topics in physical chemistry. At the heart of that work was data, collected mostly manually during late-night experimental runs in
Written by Jamal Ayton-Brown Feng Xiang, a professor of law at Tsinghua University, is one of China’s most prominent legal scholars. He spoke at the Berggruen Institute’s China Center workshop on artificial intelligence in March in Beijing. BEIJING — The most momentous challenge facing socio-economic systems today is the arrival of artificial intelligence. If AI remains under the control of market
Written by Jamal Ayton-Brown We’re proposing an AI safety technique called iterated amplification that lets us specify complicated behaviors and goals that are beyond human scale, by demonstrating how to decompose a task into simpler sub-tasks, rather than by providing labeled data or a reward function. Although this idea is in its very early stages and we have only completed
Written by Jamal Ayton-Brown There are plenty of Big Data tools in the market. We have handpicked the best tools that big data professionals are using in 2018. Big data has been a game changer for organisations across industries and revenue size. Big data helps companies to process data of great complexity and size at a speed and accuracy
Written by Jamal Ayton-Brown As the science fiction novelist William Gibson famously observed: “The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.” I wish people would pay more attention to that adage whenever the subject of artificial intelligence (AI) comes up. Public discourse about it invariably focuses on the threat (or promise, depending on your point
Written by Jamal Ayton-Brown Shutterstock How do you think data science will change over the next 10 years?originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Eric Mayefsky, Head of Data Science at Quora, on Quora: There are many aspects to data science and being a data scientist that
