University adopts predictive technology

Siri was not the first speech recognition application to grace our phones, but its success will help increase expectations for more artificial intelligence in business. Siri combines speech recognition and natural language processing with artificial intelligence and search algorithms in the cloud to behave like an intelligent human assistant. It stops short of predicting, but it sounds like it does. Even more predictive technologies are starting to be applied to business applications to help us wade through the seemingly unsurmountable volume of data compounding every day. Edith Cowan University in Perth is using a predictive model developed by IBM to identify students at risk of leaving a course before they finish.