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AI is increasing its presence in the workforce and as it continues to evolve, employers, are looking to hire people with three in-demand skills:  digital skills, analytical abilities, and continuous learning capabilities.  A new report from Microsoft and the International Read more…

IBM’s argumentative AI-powered computer known as Project Debater faced off in a live debate last week against Harish Natarajan, a grand finalist in 2016’s World Debating Championships. Neither debater was given internet access.  Natarajan won but Project Debater demonstrated just Read more…

In their latest push to advance China’s AI prowess, there will be a new face during Two Sessions, a pair of annual meetings featuring China’s top political advisory in March—Xin Xiaomeng. What makes this remarkable is that Xin is the Read more…

You’re not feeling so good. You go to your computer and plug in the band around your wrist. Within seconds Doctor AI pops up to tell you it’s just the flu, take two aspirin and call him in the morning. Read more…

DeepMind, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, earned bragging rights recently when they dominated AI-human games.  AlphaZero, the AI introduced by DeepMind on 6th November 2018, was pitted against three of the world’s most complex board games and their Read more…

BlackBerry, best known for keyboard-toting smartphones, has found a new path back into the limelight. The Canadian firm shifted its concentration to enterprise services and cybersecurity. That concentration took a huge leap forward this week when BlackBerry announced the acquisition Read more…

Nestle, the world’s largest food company, has added itself to the growling line of food industrialists utilizing AI to personalize nutrition. The new “Nestle Wellness Ambassador” program in Japan utilizes AI to analyze photographs of its 100,000+ users’ foods and Read more…

Whenever someone mentions AI, mental images are immediately conjured of movie robots taking over the world and fostering their own sinister agenda to the detriment of humankind.  In the wake of issues like the Facebook data scandal, it is no Read more…

Increasingly, machines are talking back. And big tech groups like Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc. are grabbing their piece of the pie and running with it.  For example, Microsoft’s Xiaoice, Chinese for “little Bing,” has already talked with over 600 Read more…

If you weren’t one of the ones doing it, you at least knew someone who did. Remember when Siri was first released on the iPhone in 2011 and people couldn’t help themselves but to ask her questions like, “Where can Read more…