The Ethics of A.I. Doesn’t Come Down to ‘Good vs. Evil’ Dice Guest, September 10, 2019 16 min read The Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Brain Chip will be the dawn of a new era in human civilization. The Brain Chip...
Can Alexa and Other Digital Assistants Conquer Businesses? Nick Kolakowski, September 4, 2019 4 min read Digital assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri are becoming more ubiquitous in the consumer space, but...
Jack Ma: You’ll Thank A.I. for That Ultra-Short Workweek Nick Kolakowski, August 30, 2019 4 min read Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma thinks that artificial intelligence (A.I.) will allow humans to work 12-hour...
A.I. Offers Jobs Beyond Data Science Mark Feffer, August 29, 2019 6 min read Tech professionals almost reflexively associate artificial intelligence (A.I.) jobs with data, and with good reason....
Automation Leaves Humans Vulnerable to Job Losses. Can Devs Help? Nate Swanner, August 28, 2019 4 min read Automation is about as 21st century as it gets: Robots doing all our busy work, while us humans... well, that’s...
Is Alphabet’s DeepMind in Deep, Deep Trouble? Nick Kolakowski, August 23, 2019 3 min read DeepMind, the A.I.-centric subsidiary of Alphabet, is bleeding money: last year, it lost $571 million, according to...
Microsoft Cortana: First Casualty of the Digital-Assistant Wars? Nick Kolakowski, August 19, 2019 3 min read Amazon has Alexa, Google has its voice-activated Assistant, and Apple has Siri. Anxious to compete in the growing...
Survey Results: Alexa, Siri, Google Voice Queries Should Not Be Heard Nate Swanner, August 15, 2019 4 min read Two weeks ago, we asked if you thought voice-activated A.I. queries made via Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, or...
Survey: Should Apple, Amazon, and Google Let Humans Listen to Your Voice Queries? Nate Swanner, July 30, 2019 3 min read Over the weekend, The Guardian reported that Apple employs external contractors to listen to Siri requests in an...
Facebook FTC Agreement Could Impact Its A.I., Product Plans Nick Kolakowski, July 25, 2019 8 min read After years of privacy-related controversies (and months of not-so-secret negotiations with the federal government),...