AI Articles by Futurist Mark van Rijmenam

2018 in Review: The Year of Transition is Over

Last 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&

Incorporating Analytics in Your Organisation: 9 Use Cases

Descriptive, 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

Including Deep Learning into your Applications: How IBM Watson Studio's Services can Help

Using 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?

How to Improve the Customer Experience with the Intelligent Enterprise?

If 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

Blockchain: Transforming Your Business and Our World – Now Available!

Last 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

30 Ways How AI Will Change Your Business

Artificial 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

Online Reputation: How Sesame Credit Changes the Concept of Privacy

The 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:

AI: A Force for Good or Bad?

This 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

What the Convergence of AI and Blockchain Means for Organisations

AI and Blockchain [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/organisation-tomorrow-data-organisation/] are two of the hottest technology trends hitting the market today. Blockchain stands to revolutionise communication and transaction recordation, building trust between strangers and enabling increased provenance, transparency and privacy. AI takes on incredibly complex tasks and applies tremendous computing power to

Why We Should Ban Lethal Autonomous Weapons

A few days ago, some of the world’s most renowned entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists in the technology industry warned for the dangers of artificial intelligence and that of lethal autonomous weapons. Over 150 companies and 2400 individuals from 90 countries signed the lethal autonomous weapon pledge [https://futureoflife.org/

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