Posts Tagged ‘AI’

Before the holiday season arrives, IT professionals get their own holiday gift by way of IDC’s annual FutureScape, presented by their internal analysts. These predictions are meant to guide the industry through trends and issues of importance for the next 3 years ahead, including a strategic a blueprint for what CIOs and IT leaders will […]

Stock market investment has been a topic of discussion for much of the last century. From maximizing returns to understanding trends, the process has generally been manual. The cognitive cloud is changing that. Disruptive technologies are fundamentally altering the financial technology industry. They’re reducing the complexity of investment decisions by making offers and products more […]

OK, it’s not really versus because in many cases, AI will enhance the work doctors and surgeons are doing. But that said, we should monitor just how good AI is getting in the healthcare world.   Given the complexity of these scenarios, you can see how this would extend to other industries.  All that said, ieee.org […]

The practical development and deployment of bots has accelerated in the last year within healthcare. bots are playing a role in the improvement of consumer-member-patient interactions with providers as well as health plans by enhancing customer service support, supporting wellness programs for patients with chronic conditions, and an array of other applications. Additionally, bots make […]

When we think of driverless (or autonomous) cars, we often picture a futuristic time in which someone is relaxing in the passenger seat while the vehicle safely navigates its way to the desired destination. Believe it or not, certain aspects of that kind of technology already exist. Toyota Safety Sense, Active Cruise Control from BMW, […]

Today’s Guest Keynote at the 2017 Sitecore Symposium featured Kenneth Cukier, author of Big Data. The following are my notes from the session: Question: Is AI overhyped, underhyped, or don’t know? Over: about 6% Under: about 7% Don’t know: Not enough to add up to 100% Story: Nascar racing has a couple key questions. One […]

The 2017 Sitecore Symposium kicked off with a video highlighting multiple customers wanting to be free: To get the things they want To be understood Mark Frost, new CEO of Sitecore, kicked it off. He spoke about significant tech improvements that help brands connect with their customers. Stats: 2,900 attendees from 57 countries 600 companies […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to mature as companies such as IBM, Amazon, and Google race to bring AI into the daily life of consumers. Underlying the technology of AI is natural language processing, which integrates fields as diverse as linguistics, neuroscience, anthropology, computer science, and psychology. As AI begins to permeate healthcare, its vast potential […]

Technology consolidation is constant theme transforming industries. For example, personal computers have merged with tablets and mobile phones as consumers show their interest in computing power on the go. Even applications have gotten smaller, with traditional software replaced by lightweight applications. Logically speaking, the same is happening in the enterprise software world where DevOps, security, […]

Two weeks ago, we held a webinar on the business use case of Watson within the insurance industry, highlighting the business savings of artificial intelligence in customer support and self-service. Artificial intelligence spending is skyrocketing, with worldwide spending expected to hit $47 billion in 2020, according to research from IDC.  Whether it’s insurance, higher education, […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being heralded as a game-changer – and rightly so. The combination of Big Data with improved processing power and machine-learning (algorithms that can learn from experience rather than explicit human programming) has the potential to affect every corner of our lives. From retail and healthcare to transportation and the internet-of-things, AI […]

Artificial Intelligence Computers can process information much faster than we can. But computers lack certain human attributes like reasoning and perception. These “general intelligence” traits are being studied and computer science geeks are working on translating these traits into computer algorithms. Goal setting is the main focus and research is being conducted on these complex […]