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Why Big Data is Not Necessarily the Best Data for Business
You're a business, and you've collected data - now how do you now make sense of it? Bring in a technology called 'sentiment analysis', a form of machine learning that determines whether text is posit…
Published on 9 years, 7 months ago
Advocating a More Sustainable Business Culture in an Automated World
How does automation influence society today? This is an open-ended question with likely endless answers that can be observed in many different areas of society. As a Writer, Speaker, and Professor in…
Published on 9 years, 7 months ago
How Will the World Be Different When Machines Can Finally Listen?
This week's in-person interview is with Dr. Adam Coates, who spent 12 years at Stanford studying artificial intelligence before accepting his current position of Director of Baidu's Silicon-Valley ba…
Published on 9 years, 7 months ago
Closing Gaps in Natural Language Processing May Help Solve World's Tough Problems
People often mark progress by what they see, but there's often much more going on behind the scenes, the up and coming, that marks actual current progress in any particular field. The same can said t…
Published on 9 years, 8 months ago
The Rise of Neural Networks and Deep Learning in Our Everyday Lives
How do neural networks affect your life? There's the one that you walk around with in your head of course, but the one in your pocket is an almost constant presence as well. In this episode, we speak…
Published on 9 years, 8 months ago
Fear Not, AI May Be Our New Best Creative Collaborators
Statements about AI and risk, like those given by Elon Musk and Bill Gates, aren't new, but they still resound with serious potential threats to the entirety of the human race. Some AI researchers ha…
Published on 9 years, 8 months ago
Neural Nets Just One Strand in a Braided Approach to Building Strong AI
TechEmergence has had a number of past guests who have talked about neural networks and machine learning, but Dr. Pieter Mosterman speaks in-depth about the pendulum swing in this approach to AI from…
Published on 9 years, 8 months ago
Open-Minded Conversation May Be Our Best Bet for Survival in the 21st Century
Few astrophysicists are as decorated as Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, who was a primary contributor to the big-bang theory and named to the honorary position of UK's astronomer royal in 1995. Hi…
Published on 9 years, 8 months ago
Putting the Art in Artificial Intelligence with Creative Computation
When we think about AI, we often think about optimizing some particular task. In most circumstances through computation there is an optimal chess move, or an optimal way to determine pattern in data,…
Published on 9 years, 9 months ago
How Machine Learning Builds Meaning from Our Chats, Tweets, and Likes
There's a small lab in Pennsylvania that may know your gender, age, and understands facets about your personality, whether you're introverted or extroverted, for example…and it's using machine learni…
Published on 9 years, 9 months ago