Tag: machine learning

• Stores get smart about AI

  March 18, 2019

    From personalised recommendations to targeted newsletter offers, artificial intelligence is a bedrock of e-commerce. Key takeaways: https://www.voguebusiness.com/technology/artificial-intelligence-physical-stores-kering-nike-alibaba more ›

• Why The Future Isn’t Digital

  February 22, 2019

  In a famous scene in the 1967 movie The Graduate, a family friend takes aside Dustin Hoffman’s character, Benjamin Braddock, and whispers in a conspiratorial tone “Plastics.  There’s a great… more ›

• Analytics are reshaping fashion’s old-school instincts

  February 14, 2019

  When Detroit-based luxury goods brand Shinola began working on its new Vinton watch, the team designed with a woman in mind, but testing the product through analytics platform MakerSights, which… more ›

• Cameras that understand: portrait mode and Google Lens

  February 13, 2019

  I’ve talked quite a lot about the impact of machine learning and computer vision in general on everything from e-commerce recommendation to social to all kinds of cool industrial applications,… more ›

• Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality

  December 31, 2018

  Forecasting musical taste. Detecting metastatic tumors. Generating synthetic scans of brain cancer. Creating virtual environments from real-world videos. Identifying victims of human trafficking. Defeating chess grand masters and expert Dota 2 esports… more ›

• Google’s DeepMind aces protein folding

  December 7, 2018

  Google’s DeepMind aces protein folding Turns out mastering chess and Go was just for starters. On 2 December, the Google-owned artificial intelligence firm DeepMind took top honors in the 13th… more ›

• [Essay] Known Unknowns | New Dark Age by James Bridle | Harper’s Magazine

  July 22, 2018

  [Essay] Known Unknowns | New Dark Age by James Bridle | Harper’s Magazine This cautionary tale, repeated often in the academic literature on machine learning, is probably apocryphal, but it… more ›

• London: The AI Growth Capital of Europe

  June 18, 2018

  London: The AI Growth Capital of Europe » AI innovation across London London’s unique strengths as a global hub of Artificial Intelligence. more ›

• The Sublime and Scary Future of Cameras With A.I….

  April 17, 2018

  The Sublime and Scary Future of Cameras With A.I. Brains – The New York Times Something strange, scary and sublime is happening to cameras, and it’s going to complicate everything… more ›

• Virtual robots that teach themselves kung fu could…

  April 17, 2018

  Virtual robots that teach themselves kung fu could revolutionize video games » In the not-so-distant future, video game characters might practice kung-fu kicks in a digital dojo before bringing their… more ›