Rob May is the CEO and Co-Founder of Talla, a platform for intelligent information delivery in Slack and Hipchat. Previously, Rob was…
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How AI can help detect & filter offensive images and videos
Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning have transformed the way computers understand images and videos. Over the last few years, innovative…
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Announcing Gigaom AI 2017 in San Francisco, February 15-16
Since the coining of the term “Artificial Intelligence” in the 1950s, AI has always been the technology of tomorrow. For a while,…
Read MoreRob High talks Artificial Intelligence with Gigaom
Rob High is an IBM Fellow, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM Watson. He has overall responsibility to drive Watson technical…
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Manoj Saxena talks Artificial Intelligence with Gigaom
Manoj Saxena is the executive chairman of CognitiveScale and a founding managing director of The Entrepreneurs’ Fund IV (TEF), a $100m seed…
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The Seven Wonders of the Business Tech World
Just over 2000 years ago, Philo of Byzantium sat down and made a list of the seven wonders of the world at…
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Explore AI at Gigaom Change in Austin this September
The idea of artificial intelligence is an old one. But now, not only has it become a reality for businesses today, but…
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Bob Metcalfe to Keynote at Gigaom Change in Austin
One of the nice things about the Internet Age being relatively new is that many of its earliest pioneers are not only…
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Tech Goes Emo
There’s a soul-crushing moment in The Iron Giant when [spoiler alert] the alien robot chooses to save humans from an atomic bomb.…
Read MoreSome stats after a year of x.ai
Amy Ingram, the persona of the x.ai virtual assistant — which is a program — got asked out every month last year.…
Read MoreData isn’t going big, but AI is
Sometimes a chance mention in an otherwise plain-vanilla technology article can open your eyes to something foundational going on in our economy.…
Read MoreFacing threat of extinction: How pro services can compete in the age of AI
Alastair is president at Huddle. The professional service industry — any third-party consultancy or support service that helps businesses operate better —…
Read MoreCan the legal system be Moneyballed?
A Florida-based AI firm has released some very interesting revelations about lawyers and their rates of prevailing in lawsuits. The firm, Premonition,…
Read MoreHow AI can help build a universal real-time translator
The breakthroughs in natural language processing and machine translation brought by deep learning might enable us to build a trope of science-fiction…
Read MoreTake X and add AI, where X = web site design?
Kevin Kelly recently wrote about a new era in artificial intelligence (AI), saying: There is almost nothing we can think of that…
Read MoreNarrative Science raises $10M, taking it a step closer to automating this post
Narrative Science, the company that has developed software to automate writing reports based on structured data, has raised an additional $10 million…
Read MoreFalling in the middle in the debate on AI is still an uncomfortable place
As the inexorable rise of AI and robots proceeds, the division is growing between those that embrace cognitive computing and Intelligence as…
Read MoreHow to make devices sound less like robots: add lovable flaws
Human Machine Interactions founder and CEO Brant Ward wants designers to take cues from the movie AI to make voice interactions with machines more compelling.…
Read Morex.ai is the best scheduling tool — er, assistant? — ever
For the past few weeks, I’ve been using a virtual personal assistant called x.ai to schedule appointments and calls. The magic behind…
Read MoreThe next step for intelligent virtual assistants: It’s time to consolidate
We're unlikely to see one virtual assistant to rule them all. Rather, we'll have a team of assistants, each aware of its strengths and weaknesses, collaborating, delegating and stratifying based on the task at hand.…
Read MorePew releases AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs
It’s been quite a few days. The PewResearch Internet Center released their AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs report this week, where…
Read MoreLIFX plans to move beyond lightbulbs with plans for a switch
The smart home needs both intelligence and context, so in this week's podcast we're discussing data, AI and standards in the home as well as smart light bulbs with LIFX.…
Read MoreBeyond Verbal will help your computer recognize sarcasm
Beyond Verbal, a finalist in Gigaom's Structure Launchpad, has come up with a way to help computers understand the emotions behind the words people say.…
Read MoreIt takes an ecosystem: Building natural UIs isn’t just about sensors and software.
Building more powerful user interfaces isn't just about software, such as the newly launched product from Aquifi, but about providing more context. This will make UIs better and programming harder.…
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