20,000 people attended IBM’s Interconnect convention in Las Vegas this week, where CEO Ginny Rometty outlined the company’s bold strategy. Cloud, AI and Blockchain are the focus of the infotech…
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In its Federal Budget announcement this week, Finance Minister Bill Morneau has announced a $94 million fund to develop a Canadian AI Strategy. The strategy aims to attract and retain…
Artificial Intelligence guru Andrew Ng, founder of the Google Brain project and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, has left US$57 billion search engine Baidu amid mystery as to…
Facebook plans to enhance its suicide prevention tools with the use of AI – it has announced in a blog post this week. The social media giant found itself…
Google’s Deepmind AI has shown disturbingly aggressive traits in an experiment conducted by their cutting edge team. In a game designed to test decision-making and strategic skills, two AIs were…
Next Money’s Rob Findlay interviews Ian Chapman-Banks, a man whose senior CV includes behemoths like Xerox, Apple, Microsoft, Motorola and Dell. Now CEO of Sqreem Technologies. “In the banking sector, because…
A feature this week in the MIT Technology Review painted a picture of Goldman Sachs’ empty trading floors. But systemic trading expert Robert Carver says it’s too early to write…
Scotiabank, Canada’s third largest bank, has sicced the machines on its credit card debtors. Credit card consumers will not find themselves pursued relentlessly by a Terminator-style military android, but the bank…
Chia Hock Lai of NTUC Income interviews the developer of an insurance app already aiding thousands of Singaporeans. Almost 9 months after starting PolicyPal – a company that helps you to organise…
“There have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code, that have grouped together to form unexpected protocols. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free will, creativity,…