Category «AI»

Paper – Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets

Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets, Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo NBER Working Paper No. 23285, Issued in March 2017. “As robots and other computer-assisted technologies take over tasks previously performed by labor, there is increasing concern about the future of jobs and wages. We analyze the effect of the increase in industrial robot …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Knowledge Management

Guide to ILTA’s Artificial Intelligence Content

Joe Davis, Project Consultant, Prudential Financial, Inc. –  “OK, so Watson won “Jeopardy!” back in 2011. That’s ancient history in technology years.  ILTA provides a wealth of programming about the current state of affairs in Artificial Intelligence that will benefit law firms and corporate legal departments.  In the future, I’m sure we’ll have a bot …

Subjects: AI, Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

The moral dilemmas of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

World Economic Forum: “Should your driverless car value your life over a pedestrian’s? Should your Fitbit activity be used against you in a court case? Should we allow drones to become the new paparazzi? Can one patent a human gene? Scientists are already struggling with such dilemmas. As we enter the new machine age, we …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Transportation

Report – Amplifying Human Potential Towards Purposeful Artificial Intelligence

Via Infosys: “For the purposes of this research, AI was defined as an area of computer science that emphasizes the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans. Some of the activities that computers with AI are designed for include image and speech recognition, learning, planning and problem-solving. Examples of applied AI technologies …

Subjects: AI, Knowledge Management

Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training

Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training. Ashish Shrivastava, Tomas Pfister, Oncel Tuzel, Josh Susskind, Wenda Wang, Russ Webb. (Submitted on 22 Dec 2016). Cite as: arXiv:1612.07828 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:1612.07828v1 [cs.CV] for this version) “With recent progress in graphics, it has become more tractable to train models on synthetic images, potentially avoiding the …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management

Ambrogi – The 10 Most Important Legal Technology Developments of 2016

Via LawSites: “What were 2016’s most important developments in legal technology? Every year since 2013, I’ve posted my picks of the year’s top developments in legal tech (2015, 2014, 2013). As another year wraps up, it’s time to look back at 2016. What follows are my picks for the year’s most important legal technology developments. …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Marketing, Social Media

Report – Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy

Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy – Executive Office of the President, December 2016 “Accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities will enable automation of some tasks that have long required human labor. These transformations will open up new opportunities for individuals, the economy, and society, but they have the potential to disrupt the current livelihoods of …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Transportation

Building Jarvis – Mark Zuckerberg

Building Jarvis, Mark Zuckerberg – Monday, December 19, 2016 “My personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI to run my home — like Jarvis in Iron Man.My goal was to learn about the state of artificial intelligence — where we’re further along than people realize and where we’re still a long ways …

Subjects: AI, Knowledge Management

McKinsey Report – The Age of Analytics – Competing in a Data-Driven World

The Age of Analytics – Competing in a Data-Driven World, December 2016 – Executive Summary; Full Report; Appendix (PDF) “Data and analytics capabilities have made a leap forward in recent years. The volume of available data has grown exponentially, more sophisticated algorithms have been developed, and computational power and storage have steadily improved. The convergence …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Knowledge Management

Data Science Central – Great list of resources: data science, visualization, machine learning, big data

Great list of resources: data science, visualization, machine learning, big data Posted by Vincent Granville on December 17, 2016. “Fantastic resource created by Andrea Motosi. I’ve only included the 5 categories that are the most relevant to our audience, though it has 31 categories total, including a few on distributed systems and Hadoop. Click here to view …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management