Artificial Intelligence

Humans will work increasingly closely with machines, and we need to prepare people for that, write Terence Tse, Mark Esposito and Danny Goh Artificial intelligence (AI) has been developing at a frightening pace. It is debatable to what extent it has improved our lives – being able to use geolocation and search for the best…

Read more here.

By Rizal Raoul Reyes, Businessmirror, Dec 21, 2017 ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) is the way to go if the nearly three-decade-old business-process outsourcing (BPO) industry’s voice services want to grow.

Artificial intelligence will be a steady undercurrent, but it won’t be the only factor affecting job seekers in the coming year, says Glassdoor. BY ABRAR AL-HEETI, DEC 20, 2017 Employee demands and really smart tech could change the way companies hire and retain talent in 2018 — and maybe even the way you do your…

Read more here.

Read more here.

AI: Welcome to the machines If you think you won’t face disruption, it’s not because you won’t — it’s because you don’t yet know how it will happen. Recently we read the appointment of the UAE minister for artificial intelligence (AI). It set off a lot of discussions (and excitement) on social media networks –…

Advances in computer vision, speech, analytics, and mobile robotics promise to affect any jobs related to these skills. By Bob Violino | November 9, 2017 There’s much concern about the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on jobs and the economy. And while it’s difficult to know for certain which types of jobs will likely…

Read more here.

By Catherine Talavera (The Philippine Star), Sep 28, 2017 MANILA, Philippines — The automation of the information technology-business process management (IT-BPM) industry will create the need for mid-skilled jobs and high-skilled services, industry groups said.

by Patrizia Paola C. Marcelo, Businessworld, Sep 25, 2017 Based on a study conducted, customer service providers and consumers do not meet eye-to-eye in terms of artificial intelligence services or chatbots. CUSTOMER SERVICE providers (CSPs) are not able to meet expectations when they resort to artificial intelligence (AI), including chatbots, a software and services company…

By Lara Parpan, CNN Philippines, Sep 6, 2017 Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, September 6) — The Trade Department is sounding the alarm on the threat posed by artificial intelligence (AI) on hundreds of thousands of jobs in the country’s $25-billion business process outsourcing (BPO) industry.

by Dr. Olaf Groth, Ph.D., Sep 6, 2017 We stand at a watershed moment for society’s vast, unknown digital future. A powerful technology, artificial intelligence (AI), has emerged from its own ashes, thanks largely to advances in neural networks modeled loosely on the human brain. AI can find patterns in massive unstructured data sets, improve…

by Othel V. Campos, Aug 30, 2017 The Philippine contact center industry expects to sustain an 8-percent annual growth over the coming years, despite the growing popularity of artificial intelligence that began to take over simple voice services.

New research puts hard numbers behind the staggering growth of automation in recent months By Greg Nichols for Robotics, Aug 25, 2017 The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) just rolled out new research confirming record growth in the areas of robotics, machine vision, motion control, and motor technology for the first half of 2017.

by Stephane Kasriel, Aug 14, 2017 Whenever I talk to people about the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, it’s clear there is a lot of anxiety surrounding these developments.

by Stephane Kasriel, Aug 14, 2017 Whenever I talk to people about the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, it’s clear there is a lot of anxiety surrounding these developments.

Read more here.

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

by Vyacheslav Polonski, Aug 9, 2017 There has never been a better time to be a politician. But it’s an even better time to be a machine learning engineer working for a politician. Throughout modern history, political candidates have had a limited number of tools to take the temperature of the electorate. More often than…

‘The most important economic resource is trust in the future.’ by William H. Saito, Special Advisor, Cabinet Office (Government of Japan), Aug 3, 2017 Artificial intelligence (AI) is making speedy progress in acquiring skills that were previously regarded as exclusively human. Whether it’s beating masters at the ancient game of Go or getting better and…

Robotic sewing machines help bring clothing manufacturing back to the US. By Kelly McSweeney | July 28, 2017 A quick peek at your clothing tag is a reminder that industrial sewing, like so many manufacturing sectors, has moved out of the US to take advantage of cheap overseas labor. There was a dramatic drop in…

by Sam Shead, Jul 26, 2017 Billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are fighting publicly about the future of artificial intelligence (AI). On Sunday afternoon, while smoking some meats in his back garden, Facebook CEO Zuckerberg questioned why Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and OpenAI is being so negative about AI.

by Ajay AgrawalJoshua GansAvi Goldfarb, Jul 26, 2017 With the recent explosion in AI, there has been the understandable concern about its potential impact on human work. Plenty of people have tried to predict which industries and jobs will be most affected, and which skills will be most in demand. (Should you learn to code?…

by Jeff Morgan, Jul 26, 2017 Robots have been taking our jobs since the 1960s. So why are politicians and business leaders only now becoming so worried about robots causing mass unemployment? Again, in an ideal scenario, humans may be able to focus on doing the things that make us human, perhaps fuelled by a…

Read more here.

Read more here.

Read more here.

by David Z. Morris, Jul 16, 2017 Appearing before a meeting of the National Governor’s Association on Saturday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk described artificial intelligence as “the greatest risk we face as a civilization” and called for swift and decisive government intervention to oversee the technology’s development. “On the artificial intelligence front, I have access…

by Terence Tse, Jun 12, 2017 The application of the computational analysis and learning techniques described in previous research, manifest themselves in the form of artificial intelligence (AI). AI represents the ambition to create machines that can think, learn and create solutions to problems with the same range to which the human mind can be…