IoT Seen Driving AI Adoption
While hardware vendors view it as another vehicle for selling more chips and servers that would allow enterprises to move processing power closer to data, the torrent of sensor and other information...
View ArticleCognitive Platform Sharpens Focus on Unstructured Data
Big data platform vendors are increasingly focusing on churning through unstructured data, especially for text, audio and even security applications like insider threat analysis. Among the companies...
View ArticleNSF Funds New Cognitive Science Research
As part of its BRAIN initiative, the National Science Foundation announced a second series of grants this week awarded to multidisciplinary teams to further explore cognitive and neural systems,...
View ArticleVeritone, Cognitive Media Startup, Raises $50M
The developers of a “cognitive media platform” designed to render audio and video content and make the results searchable have closed a $50 million funding round. Veritone Inc. announced this week that...
View ArticleSAS Goes Back to the Future of Cognitive Computing with Viya
SAS yesterday unveiled plans to bolster its entire product lineup under the new Viya architecture with hefty doses of cognitive computing in an effort to make the software easier to use, more...
View ArticleAI Platforms Seen Emerging in 2017
Technology predictions for next year are already filtering in, with artificial intelligence and full-blown analytics and other platforms increasingly seen as among the keys to opening the big data...
View ArticleHow Intelligent Machines Learn to Make Sense of the World
Home Depot uses it to show which bathtubs in its huge inventory will fit someone’s oddly shaped bathroom. Apple uses it to present customers with relevant apps from the app store. Intuit uses it to...
View ArticleAI Comes to Operational Analytics
Artificial intelligence is making inroads as a way of helping developers and IT managers oversee the delivery of distributed applications. Loom Systems said its AI-based operational analytics platform...
View ArticleIBM Broadens Collaboration on Anaconda
IBM, which recently extended support for the Anaconda data science platform to its open source mainframe, takes another step this week by offering the data platform on its Cognitive Systems platform in...
View ArticleJob Worries Grow as AI Shifts to Public Sector
Warnings about massive job displacement brought about by artificial intelligence are growing louder as researchers cite more examples of private sector and, more recently, pubic sector adoption of...
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