The post-COVID world will undergo a massive digital disruption that will impact business processes. With so many people working from home, digitizing assets, moving to the cloud, and digital transformation (connecting people where they are using various channels) are becoming key priorities to companies entering a disruptive 2021. It is interesting to know that McKinsey […]
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In a race to gather, analyze, identify, and personalize messaging for customers to capture, acquire, and maintain customer relationships, organizations need a clear vision and strategy about their customers. There are two parts of that strategy: Customer experience with an emphasis on design and empathy Customer intelligence with an emphasis on analytics and data […]
The Value of Data and 5 Things We’ve Learned From COVID-19
First of all, big kudos to first responders such as doctors, nurses, police, front-end-shop staff, and mental health workers for keeping your communities running during these troubling times. At the same time, my heart felt condolences for anyone who has lost a loved ones during this time. One of the things that the COVID-19 pandemic […]
5 Ways to Consider Digital and Data and An End-to-End Architecture
Digital and data are like TV and movies. Imagine the following three scenarios of watching a movie during a long weekend with different types of technology. Note, all these movies are rated high or low on IMDB. Watching an amazing movie like Avengers End Game or Avatar on a laptop or iPad Now, that same […]
10 Data and Analytics Trends in 2020
The importance of data and analytics will continue to grow in 2020 and there are ten trends your organization should take note of to stay competitive. In the video below, I’ve outlined these ten trends and what you can do to stay on top of them. 10 Data and Analytics Trends in 2020 [Video] Data […]
The Importance of Reinforcement Learning
A few years ago, BBC Earth highlighted a memory test performed by a Chimpanzee named Ayumu. The Chimp displayed traits of machine learning (ML) when it was shown the numbers 1 to 9 in a randomized order on a screen and able to correctly remember the sequence when the numbers disappeared almost 90% of the […]
Cambridge Analytica: Recommendations on Data Ethics
Before going deep into Data Ethics, I would highly recommend watching the documentary The Great Hack on Netflix which summarizes Cambridge Analytica’s involvement in the largest Data Ethics issue and how it played a role in Brexit, the Trump Campaign, the Cruz Campaign, and others. It is also interesting to know that the people who […]
Science is Interesting: The Human Brain Project
Have you heard about the Human Brain Project? It is one of the largest funded projects to build a super computer that will replicate the molecular architecture of the human brain. This was done to understand how brain comprehends diseases, genomic sequencing, and eventually to correct the defects behind human brains. It included nuero-scientists, data […]
Artificial General Intelligence and A Human-Robot Partnership
The famous example that would be given about artificial general intelligence (AGI) is when a autonomous car has the rational ability to make a strong decision of what direction to take. Take an example of a car driving in a lane autonomously. It has to make 1 of 2 options in an accident prone path. […]
The Science of Artificial General Intelligence
I was just listening to an Audio Book titled “The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity” and going through an interesting period of listening and comparing the Dualism Theory and Artificial General Intelligence. This is an interesting thought and wanted to share it with you expecting comments and thoughts. Let […]
5 Digital Transformation Interests for IT Service Providers
Gartner predicts a whopping 70% growth in artificial intelligence (AI), while niche vendors such as KenSci and viz.ai are shaking industries with their industry specific intelligence. In addition, software vendors such as Informatica and Microsoft are heavily investing in putting pervasive AI in their own technologies to efficiently use their software for better augmented intelligence […]
Moving from Narrow AI to Artificial General Intelligence
Microsoft’s investment of $1 billion in OpenAI to build Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) shows a market trend moving towards the next phase of AI. While this has economic benefits of scale, AGI is only possible if software and hardware work together in perfect harmony. In the last decade, the general AI community has been very […]