Category Archives: AI

AI by the Numbers: Coronavirus, Business Impact, Consumer Attitudes

Posted on April 18, 2020 by

Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of AI highlight the role AI plays in fighting the Coronavirus, the business impact of AI, and what the American public feels about it. Read more here

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Solving Coronavirus with Computer Power and Relevant Data

Posted on April 15, 2020 by

Can human ingenuity assisted by new and emerging technologies overpower Covid-19? Will faster processing of more—and more relevant—data, analyzed with the right models, yield better insights into mitigating the spread of future pandemics, designing effective treatments, and developing successful vaccines? … Continue reading →

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How Computer Graphics and Big Data Gave Birth to Today’s Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Posted on March 31, 2020 by

The explosion of breakthroughs, investments, and entrepreneurial activity around artificial intelligence over the last decade has been driven exclusively by deep learning, a sophisticated statistical analysis technique for finding hidden patterns in large quantities of data. A term coined in … Continue reading →

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AI by the Numbers: 87% of CEOs See Data as Strategic Asset

Posted on March 16, 2020 by

Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the progress and impact of AI highlight the growing respect for data and its uses by businesses everywhere and the increasingly positive—but still mixed—attitudes towards AI by US consumers. Read more … Continue reading →

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Digital Health, AI, and Israel

Posted on March 6, 2020 by

The global outbreak of the new Coronavirus brought to our attention an inconvenient truth about influenza: The seasonal flu kills between 291,000 to 645,000 people worldwide each year. Still, a December 2019 survey found that 37% of US adults did not intend to get … Continue reading →

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AI by the Numbers: Data Privacy or AI Supremacy?

Posted on March 5, 2020 by

Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the progress and impact of AI highlight the confusion and contradictory attitudes of consumers about the privacy of their data, the impact of AI on jobs, and the race for AI … Continue reading →

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Ramon Llull and His ‘Thinking Machine’

Posted on March 4, 2020 by

In 1308, Catalan poet and theologian Ramon Llull completed Ars generalis ultima (The Ultimate General Art), further perfecting his method of using paper-based mechanical means to create new knowledge from combinations of concepts. Read more here

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