AI & Robotics

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. This article was contributed by Steve Escaravage, senior VP and leader of Booz Allen’s analytics practice and AI services business. Today, almost any organization can prove AI’s capability in a non-production, innovation laboratory setting — but fielding AI in real-world environments is the true test…

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Two 5-year-old startups — one each from the U.K. and the U.S. — today announced a  partnership to design and build what they describe as “the next generation of AI infrastructure.” New York City-based Spell, which operationalizes deep learning at scale for natural language processing (NLP), machine…

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Retailers need more decision automation, faster coordination of supply chains, and faster interactions with consumers, which means they will increasingly rely on AI. Automated decisioning systems will soon be making fine-grained micro-decisions on the retailer’s behalf, impacting customers, employees…

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. This week in AI, DeepMind detailed a new code-generating system, AlphaCode, that it claims is competitive with top human programmers. Supermarket chains in the U.K. announced that they’d begin testing automatic age verification systems to estimate customers’ ages when buying alcohol. And EleutherAI, a…