Like the Industrial Revolution before it, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is the great story of our age.  Entire industries and job categories will be created, elevated, reshaped and even eliminated, while entire classes of human interaction will be redefined. In addition to its societal impact, AI is forecast to add $15.7 trillion to the […]

Jerry Smith - May 21, 2019 - 253 views

Organizations typically suffer two common constraints when it comes to growing effectively: a lack of resources and flawed decision-making. But when both are present, it can be a bellwether of an extinction-level event. It’s one thing to lack the resources to adequately lead and deliver tomorrow’s business value today. But when suboptimal decisions are made across […]

Mark Miller - April 19, 2019 - 140 views

The healthcare industry has been a champion of whole-person care for decades, yet we seem no closer to a solution for proactive health management than we were in the early days of nurse advice lines and disease management programs. In the past, public and private healthcare organizations looked toward Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to help […]

Risto Miikkulainen - March 28, 2019 - 469 views

Deep neural networks (DNN) have produced groundbreaking results in many complex applications of AI, such as natural language processing, facial recognition, sentiment analytics and object recognition. For instance, the accuracy of Google’s machine translation system improved 60% using a DNN approach. Finding the right network architecture – that is, the components of the network and […]

Matt Smith - February 19, 2019 - 322 views

For many people, the general idea of artificial intelligence still conveys a dark, robot-master future.  Yet simply add the word “conversational” in front of it, and suddenly it’s a whole lot friendlier.  Maybe that’s why conversational AI is this year’s “everywhere topic.” It’s a consensus pick in every technology forecast, a keynote subject at business, […]

Antonella Bonanni - February 6, 2019 - 149 views

“I was so tired, I started talking to Alexa.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people refer to Alexa as something more than a digital assistant this past year. More people are talking to and asking questions of voice-activated digital assistants and cognitive-powered colleagues than ever before. Nearly 19 million homes in the U.S. […]

Ben Pring - January 23, 2019 - 365 views

In his famous 1962 book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” Thomas Kuhn outlined how changes in orthodoxies occur. Popularizing the term “paradigm shift,” Kuhn examined how dominant doctrines – broadly shared and agreed upon – are overthrown by new ideas first thought to be from the lunatic fringe but that, in turn, become the new orthodoxy. […]

When it comes to high-tech, nothing seems high-techier than artificial intelligence (AI). But when businesses get started on AI initiatives – which most respondents in our recent study are doing – the challenge today is less about technical questions and technology capabilities, and more about crafting a strategy, determining the governance structures and ethical practices […]

Jerry Smith - January 11, 2019 - 683 views

There’s a lot of chatter out there regarding just how artificial intelligence will impact jobs. Some say we’re headed for an AI apocalypse, the end of the world as we know it. Others see a new shiny robotic city upon a hill, looking through AI-tinted glasses at an emerging utopia. The wonderful thing about predictions […]

Bret Greenstein - December 27, 2018 - 784 views

In 2019, artificial intelligence (AI) will increasingly become a mainstream presence in our work and personal lives, inspiring our purchase decisions and digging deeper into business outcomes and events. At the same time, expectations surrounding AI will also grow, as calls for transparency and fair play become too loud for businesses to ignore. Here are […]