My latest Tech Target article focuses on two areas were AI won’t be replacing humans soon, but rather where technology and people must work together.
Hybrid Human-AI Collaboration
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Trimble and Qualcomm Alliance News
I posted a short article covering my opinion about their news focused on their alliance to improve location accuracy for connected vehicles. I think it has even wider applications than just the press release’s focus on autonomous vehicles.
Amazon and distributed ledgers
Earlier this year, I listened to a webinar by Amazon on their entrance into the blockchain world. As with SAP and others, the focus seemed to accurately be on distributed ledgers rather than full blockchain. I discuss what’s happening in my latest forbes.com article.
ETL, machine learning can help with metadata management
While newer companies love to claim ETL is dead, it still matters. Metadata management is even more complex today and machine learning can help. My latest article discusses the challenge.
Oh, and my GPU/AI article is on Tech Target
Earlier this month, an article about GPUs being used for AI processing was published on Tech Target. In that article, I discuss how the structure of a GPU aids in the running of neural networks.
Microsoft invests in OpenAI and reminds me about the lesson of fast followers
Recent news about a Microsoft AI investment led me to my latest forbes.com column covering the idea that it’s not always innovators that win. Fast followers can do a good job.
Advertising can be helped by limited facial recognition
In my latest forbes.com article, I discuss how facial recognition can be used for sentiment analysis in order to limit bias in campaigns. It’s a better focus that the negative publicity of full facial recognition for identification.
Google and Salesforce announce major business intelligence acquisitions
Less than a week apart, Google announced the acquisition of Looker and Salesforce announced the acquisition of Tableau. Both large companies have begun to realize they’ve never really addressed the need for analytics. They’re great at saving and organizing data, but neither has a suite worth anything to provide easier to use dashboards and analytics that are key component of business intelligence.
I have two brief articles on forbes.com discussing the announcements.
Google Announces Looker Acquisition
Google’s announcement of the acquisition of Looker shows they are strengthening (adding…) business intelligence to the Google Cloud portfolio. I discuss it in my latest forbes.com article.
Synthetic data is enriching deep learning
My latest article describes how synthetic data can be used to enrich the data sets used for training of deep learning systems.