With the rise of machine learning, concerns are being voiced about the future involvement of humans in jobs that computers can handle. But at the same time, alternative views are being offered on ways in which the human element will influence the direction of data science, with passion playing a large role in that survival. "I think data science is one area in which a woman … will have a huge opportunity to move the needle," said Stephanie Gottlib-Zeh (pictured), president of Agyleo Sport. In her view, insularity is something more likely to damage an enterprise than to sustain it, and drawing in a diversity of viewpoints is a big step toward protecting against that sort of stagnancy. Gottlib-Zeh (pictured), president of Agyleo Sport, shared her thoughts on the ways in which data is changing business and how tech workers should aim for jobs that excite them.

Artificial Intelligence is transforming the entire world of technology, but AI isn't new. It has been around for decades, but AI technologies are only making headway now due to the proliferation of data and the investments being made in storage, compute and analytics technologies. Much of this progress is due to the ability of learning algorithms to spot patterns in larger and larger amounts of data. In this insideBIGDATA Guide to Artificial Intelligence, we provide an in depth look at AI and deep learning in terms of how it's being used and what technological advances have made it possible. Artificial Intelligence is an amazing tool set that is helping people create exciting applications and creating new ways to service customers, cure diseases, prevent security threats, and much more.

VocalIQ concentrated its deep-learning capabilities to better understand human speech. This could provide Siri with an upgrade. Perceptio can run neural-network algorithms and perform advanced calculations locally on a cellphone, without uploading user data to the cloud. This would help Apple protect consumer data by keeping it local to each phone. Emotient attempts to read facial expressions in order to determine a person's emotional state.

Chess enthusiasts watch World Chess champion Garry Kasparov on a television monitor as he holds his head in his hands at the start of the sixth and final match 11 May 1997 against IBM's Deep Blue computer in New York. Kasparov lost this match in just 19 moves giving overall victory to Deep Blue with a score of 2.5-3.5 (STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images) This week's milestones in the history of technology include the invention of the integrated circuit, the first singing telegram, and the first widely-publicized triumph of the machines over humans. Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments (TI) files for a patent on the integrated circuit. For this invention he received the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physics. The notion of an integrated circuit was there.

The featured guest for episode 148 is Paul Roetzer, Founder & CEO of PR 20/20, a well-known marketing agency specializing in inbound marketing strategies. Paul is the author of two popular books: The Marketing Agency Blueprint and The Marketing Performance Blueprint. In November 2016, Paul launched the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute (MAII). On this episode, we dive deep into what MAII is, why it exists, and why you should care. If you're not familiar with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Paul describes it as "the umbrella of the tools and technologies that are designed to make machines smarter."

This post will demonstrate some examples of what pipeleaner can currently do. Fitting all of these models takes about four lines of code in pipelearner. Head to the pipelearner Github page to learn more and contact me if you have a chance to test it yourself or are interested in contributing (my contact details are at the end of this post). Thanks for reading and I hope this was useful for you. For updates of recent blog posts, follow @drsimonj on Twitter, or email me at drsimonjackson@gmail.com to get in touch.

How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) help companies operate in the 21st century? And, when Ardire talks about Machine Intelligence, he means intelligent computers "that process data for pattern discovery, discern context, make inferences, reasons, learns, and improves over time" without supervision by humans. According to the study, for 80 percent of enterprise executives artificial intelligence makes workers more productive and creates new jobs. "Powerful Artificial Intelligence can help make sense of the conversations people have on their networks."

Thank you for subscribing to the monthly THINK Marketing newsletter. Today's most advanced cognitive technology users offer a glimpse into the possibilities and tangible benefits of creating intelligent businesses. While scientists and engineers have been exploring cognitive and AI technologies in labs for decades, the big data explosion and recent advances in computing power have propelled them into mainstream applications. We wanted to find out exactly how businesses are applying these technologies across their organizations, and what tangible benefits they're beginning to realize. We surveyed 600 early adopters of cognitive technologies and wanted to share our learnings through an interactive visual.

Have you ever wanted to bottle-up and save that feeling when you have had a great vacation? Now, that joyful excitement of travel can be bottled in'Holiday Spirit' -- a new rum that's crafted using artificial intelligence. According to Joe Harrod -- a big data analyst and Artificial Intelligence expert -- Virgin Holidays used IBM Watson's linguistic AI to interpret millions of social media posts to pick out key emotions associated with holidays. IBM Watson then analyzed thousands of rum reviews to uncover which ingredients elicit different emotions and sensations in reviewers. The second data set analyzed the language and tone of 5,000 rum reviews and tasting notes found online.

As technology keeps improving, product, market and jobs innovations appear. Marketing can now analyse customer behaviour, predict churn and address tens of thousands of people with the right topic through email automation – welcome to marketing 4.0. Artificial intelligence is said to be one of the most important marketing trends of 2017. So what does it actually bring to marketing? There's still work to do to make chatbots completely efficient but they sure are going to grow bigger.