For those of you old enough to have had it in rotation on a turntable or a CD player (let alone on eight-track, reel-to-reel, or cassette), The Who’s Who’s Next is a great album. One of the best lyrics comes in the final song, Won’t Get Fooled Again: “Meet the new boss… same as the […]
Machine Learning
Now’s the Time to Do Deep Learning in the Cloud
The AWS re:Invent conference is coming up, and predictions are starting to fly around what Amazon Web Services will announce there. A sure bet is that it will announce some sort of deep learning cloud service. Of course, Google, Microsoft, and IBM won’t be far behind; indeed, both Microsoft and IBM have their own special […]
AI in the Modern Enterprise and Why it’s Still Far Away
We discuss AI in the modern enterprise and why robots stealing jobs may not be a problem quite yet. We look at what enterprises should be thinking about in order to grow their AI practices in the future. The truth is, AI engines rely on an enterprise already having a strong data practice under control. It […]
“A Robot Stole My Job!” The Unintended Consequences of Artificial Intelligence
In the 2017 Winter Doppler Quarterly’s cover article, Disruptor or Disrupted, we explored how companies are using internet-based exponential technologies to gain a competitive advantage. This is the second article in our multi-part series discussing disruptive technologies and the strategies today’s businesses must adopt in order to thrive in a digital world. Machine Learning (a […]
Dark Data and How Cognitive Computing Figures It Out
We discuss dark data and how IBM Watson can understand it for decision-making. Normally when people refer to data they think of structured data in rows of numbers. But in the last few years, the data has changed into images, videos, medical scans, sensor scans, audio and telematics. This dark data is unstructured, which makes […]
AI is Here and It Will Change Everything
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic these days. We’re told everyone can use it. We all have our own ideas of what AI can do– some very accurate, some a bit, well, paranoid. If we set aside the AI fiction depicted in the Terminator movies, what is the reality of AI, and how does […]