AI

Why BI Needs AI Business Intelligence busies itself with descriptive and diagnostic analysis in the main. Descriptive analysis is essentially a look in the rear view mirror, and diagnostic analysis consists mainly of exploring data to see why things were as they were. The current enthusiasm for visual analysis tools…

F50, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, today announced the Future 50 A.I. list of most promising North American startups from the United States and Canada. F50 evaluated over 500 startups and identified the top 50 companies that are using Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Image Recognition and Processing, and…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad church of techniques that can be used to create intelligent behavior. In fact, a really good place to start in all of this is to define intelligence – and it is not particularly glamorous or mystical. AI is concerned with the creation of intelligent…

Diligent observers of technology markets will realize we have another bubble in the making – the AI bubble. This is not a dismissive statement, AI will change all our lives – for better or worse. But in true style the developers of these technologies, their investors, and users of the…

The terms AI and machine learning are often used together, but they are quite different things. To a large extent machine learning can be considered as just one of many methods to build agents (things that do something) which exhibit intelligence. The word ‘intelligence’ does not bestow any mystical quality…

It’s OK to admit it – you are not alone: very few people have come across the term ‘Decision Management’, and it’s not exactly the sexiest name either. It competes with ‘paving stone’ or ‘green salad’ for impact. Artificial Intelligence however is everywhere because it intrigues, frightens and excites all…

Robots replacing human labor isn’t a future, it’s happening right now and will happen within your business some time over the next five years. Of course we all think that professions will be safe, but actually some of them are the least safe. A car repair mechanic may have a…

It’s hard to miss the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) has become the latest and greatest thing in the world of technology – and for good reason. AI is an umbrella term for a raft of technologies and techniques that allow software to behave in an intelligent manner. The word…

There is no widely agreed definition of AI, but for practical purposes we can say that it is concerned with the design and creation of rational agents. An agent is simply something that does things. The term rational is used to indicate we are not trying to emulate human beings…