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For more than 30 years, Gibbs has advised on and developed product and service marketing for many businesses and he has consulted, lectured, and authored numerous articles and books. Cool Yule Tools 2016: Digital disruption at Santa's Workshop Adobe's'Photoshop for audio' tweaks voice recordings to say words speaker... Cool Yule Tools 2016: Digital disruption at Santa's Workshop Adobe's'Photoshop for audio' tweaks voice recordings to say words speaker... In the awards winning short story, Cat Pictures Please, by Naomi Kitzer, an artificial intelligence with a predilection for cats photos inhabiting some unspecified system has taken to manipulating people to see if it can change their lives for the better. It's a clever story that raises several interesting issues about what the nature of an A.I. might be and one of the biggest concerns the A.I.'s fondness for pictures of cats. This fondness is understandable as cats can be very entertaining.

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The use of Machine Learning is growing widespread. Organizations are embracing it in various ways to improve their businesses. The rise of Machine Learning is coupled with the advance of open source big data processing frameworks which makes it possible to analyze tons of data in a cost-effective and efficient way. Apache Spark is one of those frameworks which have grown as a blue eyed technology in this Big Data processing world. Apache Spark provides two libraries- MLlib and ML Pipeline for implementing machine learning. Traditionally, MLlib was the only machine learning library in Apache Spark.

Replace polling with artificial intelligence… or this monkey posted at 7:01 pm on November 12, 2016 by Jazz Shaw We could spend all day analyzing what went "wrong" in the 2016 election, specifically how the major polling outfits missed by that much and did so almost uniformly. In fact, we already have done that here, as has everyone else. Four days should be a sufficient amount of time for navel gazing even on a subject of this magnitude, so it's time to move on to the solution. Let's just do away with the pollsters for elections. What's going to be a lot more fun is when we can replace them with artificial intelligence which bases its results on tweets and Facebook updates.

Nearly 140 private companies working to advance artificial intelligence technologies have been acquired since 2011, with over 40 acquisitions taking place in 2016 alone (as of 10/7/2016). Corporate giants like Google, IBM, Yahoo, Intel, Apple and Salesforce, are competing in the race to acquire private AI companies, with Samsung emerging as a new entrant this month with its acquisition of startup Viv Labs, which is developing a Siri-like AI assistant. Google has been the most prominent global player, with 11 acquisitions in the category under its belt (follow all of Google's M&A activity here through our real-time Google acquisitions tracker). In 2013, the corporate giant picked up deep learning and neural network startup DNNresearch from the computer science department at the University of Toronto. This acquisition reportedly helped Google make major upgrades to its image search feature.

Nikolas Badminton is a researcher and futurist based in Vancouver, Canada, and provides opinions about humanity, the future of work and life with technology. His opinions and thoughts on the future can be seen at nikolasbadminton.com. Money makes the world go round, or so they say. Payments, investments, insurance and billions of transactions are the beating heart of a fractal economy, which echoes the messy complexity of natural systems, such as the growth of living organisms and the bouncing of atoms. Financial systems are larger than the sum of their parts.

Up until very recently, computers needed a complicated and extremely precise set of instructions in order to accomplish even the simplest of tasks. Who among us remembers programming via punch cards? Computer programming languages have evolved over the years, but the biggest step has been moving towards the elimination of complicated programming. In other words, teaching computers to learn for themselves, dubbed machine learning. Because machine learning is such a promising leap forward in technological ability, it has the very real potential to affect every person in every field of business in the near future.