AI
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For New York University’s AI Now Institute, small startup tech companies and quite a few larger ones, the objective is straightforward: leverage new advances in computing, especially artificial intelligence (AI), to disrupt industries from social networking to medical research. Now it’s that disruption itself that’s under scrutiny. Many experts are working to ensure that, as…
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If you are reading this newsletter in the US, I hope you have a fabulous Labor Day long weekend. Travel safely. Cogito is an artificial intelligence program designed to help customer service workers communicate more clearly, empathize with frustrated callers, and improve their overall performance. Cogito was 45 people a year ago and has 150 now.…
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A great week for emails in response to my newsletters last week. In response to the newsletter about the preponderance of surveillance cameras, I received this email fromScott Nelson, President, Security & Risk Management Grp, “ Hi-tech crime prevention/solving tools – like facial recognition CCTV, DNA, crime forecasting, forensic analysis, surreptitious surveillance, behavioral analysis, AI –…
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Photo storage app Ever’s branding is warm and fuzzy. It shares your best moments and frees up space on your phone. But the photos people share are used to train the company’s facial recognition system. Ever then sells that technology to private companies, law enforcement and the military. Millions of people are uploading and sharing…
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Artificial intelligence or AI, is an umbrella term to describe types of technology that can simulate human intelligence. It is one of today’s hottest topics across many business sectors. AI techniques teach computers to organize data in a contextual manner to provide requested information, supply analysis, or trigger an event based on their findings. Marketers…