Companies be warned. People have troubling concerns about emerging technologies that would probably surprise your managers and executives — and these people include employees as well as customers.
Companies be warned. People have troubling concerns about emerging technologies that would probably surprise your managers and executives — and these people include employees as well as customers.
Somewhere between chatbots and the AI apocalypse, here we sit in 2017. Somewhere between Elon Musk shouting “AI will end the world” and Mark Zuckerberg “there’s nothing to see here. No one should be worried. The thousands of propaganda chatbots …
Recently, on what easily felt like one of the hottest days of the Summer so far, Tech 2025 held a lively workshop, 23 Guidelines to Avoid an AI Apocalypse According to Experts, on the recently-published guidelines developed to steer the safe development of …
Walking into the vast cacophony of the Jacob Javits Center, I’d forgotten how easy it is to become overwhelmed at a trade show. Living up to it’s description as “the East Coast’s largest annual design and manufacturing event,” the floor …
So many tech products are about solving problems that aren’t really problems — like leveraging facial recognition technology to identify your friends’ faces in photos or location data to ensure you always have an Uber waiting for you at the same time …
I just received an email from Amazon about the Echo Look. My first reaction was: what is this? After reading more about it, I asked, why would I want this? …
This past Thursday night, the Cognitive Artificial Intelligence Meetup hosted a talk by Dr. Dave Ferrucci, the leader of the team behind IBM’s Watson and the founder of a new company, Elemental Cognition, which is seeking to develop the next iteration of Artificial …
There is a palpable, ominous feeling in the air that something huuuge and unstoppable is about to happen to our world — a tectonic shift in our understanding of who we are, and how we define our reality, that we excitedly anticipate, but are …
(Event photos: http://bit.ly/2iTMFaS) It wasn’t exactly clear to me, at least immediately, whether a workshop about chatbots and conversational interfaces would be of interest to the general public. Sure, those of us in tech who are embedded in the bot community …