AI & RoboticsNews

AI is turning us into de facto cyborgs

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Progress in technology and increased levels of private investment in startup AI companies is accelerating, according to the 2021 AI Index, an annual study of AI impact and progress developed by an interdisciplinary team at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Indeed, AI is showing up just…
Read more
AI & RoboticsNews

The four most common fallacies about AI

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. The history of artificial intelligence has been marked by repeated cycles of extreme optimism and promise followed by disillusionment and disappointment. Today’s AI systems can perform…
AI & RoboticsNews

It’s time to train professional AI risk managers

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Last year I wrote about how AI regulations will lead to the emergence of professional AI risk managers. This has already happened in the financial sector where regulations patterned after Basel rules have created a financial risk management profession to assess financial risks. Last week, the EU published a 108-page…
Read more
AI & RoboticsNews

Predictive analytics startup Pecan.ai raises $35M to boost AI adoption

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Predictive analytics startup Pecan.ai today announced it has raised $35 million in a series B round led by GGV Capital. Cofounder and CEO Zohar Bronfman says that the funds will allow Pecan to expand its operations globally and help organizations adopt AI and big data. Data analytics is the science of analyzing raw data…
Read more
AI & RoboticsNews

Zammo unfurls conversational AI integration service

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Zammo.ai today launched a conversational AI platform that makes it simpler to engage customers via multiple voice assistants, interactive voice response (IVR)/telephony, and chatbots without having to write any code. That no-code approach, provided via the integrations the company has embedded within its…
Read more