Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming more advanced. One of the organisations working on AI is OpenAI; the not-for-profit artificial intelligence research organisation co-founded by Elon Musk. Last week, they produced a paper [https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/] demonstrating the progress they have made on predictive text software. The AI that
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence is here to stay [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/emerging-technologies-future-will-never-be-slow-again/]. The development of AI is speeding up on a daily basis. Only recently, Google’s DeepMind created the AI AlphaStar [https://deepmind.com/blog/alphastar-mastering-real-time-strategy-game-starcraft-ii/] that secured a decisive victory against two grandmaster players of the game of StarCraft
Read MoreLast year, I called 2018 the Year of Transition [https://datafloq.com/read/the-top-7-technology-trends-for-2018/4085] because technological developments are accelerating, but they had not yet reached the state of full maturity. Indeed, artificial intelligence did leap forward, with Uber [https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612470/uber-has-cracked-two-classic-80s-video-games-by-giving-an-ai-algorithm-a-new-type-of-memory/?utm_source=datafloq&
Read MoreDescriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics can each provide insights into the business and as such improve and optimise your performance and increase your competitive advantage. Descriptive and diagnostic analytics enable organisations to learn, sense, filter, shape and calibrate opportunities by providing insights as to what has happened in their
Read MoreUsing AI to automate processes means substantial efficiency improvements in nearly any business function. Now, that same solution is being deployed to create better, faster and smarter AI technologies. Think of IBM Watson Studio as an AI that trains other AIs [https://www.ibm.com/blogs/watson/2018/03/deep-learning-service-ibm-makes-advanced-ai-accessible-users-everywhere?
Read MoreIf you take care of your customers, your customers will take care of your shareholders. It is that simple. To create value for your shareholders, you should focus on your customers. Offering your most important stakeholder what they need, when they need it. Unfortunately, many organisations fail to recognise the
Read MoreLast year, I was researching for my PhD, and I noticed that there was a lack of knowledge available on how Blockchain could be used for social good. Most of the information available related to Blockchain was either about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies or how the financial services industry could benefit
Read MoreArtificial intelligence has the power to change our society [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/future-artificial-intelligence-global-perspective/] dramatically. Within the coming years, AI is likely taking over many of the jobs currently done by humans. Not only repetitive work can be taken over by AI, but also more difficult jobs such as customer
Read MoreThe internet has a problem. On the one hand, we have the ‘Western internet’ where everyone can do as they like, where you can be anonymous and say/do whatever you want, but where reputation [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/blockchain-matters-online-reputation/] and online trust is difficult. As the famous saying goes:
Read MoreThis week, Elon Musk praised the work of OpenAI after a team of five neural networks had defeated five humans, who ranked in the top 99.95 percentile of players worldwide, in the popular game Dota 2. The five bots had learned the game by playing against itself at a
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