#Gains: Planet Fitness wants to beef up with AI

Using data, Chief Digital and Information Officer Craig Miller wants to create a personalized fitness experience, or an "adaptive coach," to better engage customers and promote gym loyalty.

By Naomi Eide • Dec. 8, 2017

The magic recipe for making AI possible? A sprinkle of cloud, intelligence and data

While intelligent and advanced systems are already used in production in businesses across sectors, technologists have a tendency to hype AI’s capabilities, thinking first of the long-term promise it shows.  

By Naomi Eide • Dec. 6, 2017

Get 'em while they're hot: Google's AI serves up the perfect chocolate chip cookie

After about two months and 59 batches, the AI-based experiment, learn and repeat process helped produce the chocolate chip and cardamom cookie recipe.   

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 6, 2017

AI is biased: Who's to blame?

AI collects data and produces answers without explanation, so resolving the bias problem could take years, according to researchers. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 5, 2017

Yawn, study, cuddle: IBM, MIT roll out video data set for AI model training

An AI lab has created a massive database classifying short clips of basic actions to help AI models learn to identify videos as accurately as they can identify still images.

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 4, 2017

Up-and-Coming Tech of the Year: Democratized AI

AI may have moved from fantasy to reality, but for most companies this reality is still not accessible. Democratized AI tools are beginning to hit the enterprise and change this.

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 4, 2017

AWS brings in new customers with AI, ML, security tools

While Amazon's spot as the No. 1 IaaS provider has never been in question, Microsoft and Google have been able to tout their own cloud platforms thanks to the wide array of AI, ML and Big Data tools.

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 1, 2017

Airbnb: Now hosting AI

The company introduced a machine learning AI system in 2014 and has spent the last few years developing its ability to personalize search results.

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 5, 2017

More companies prioritizing robotics investments over mobility and cybersecurity

In an IDC ranking of the top three investments across industries, more than half of surveyed companies prioritized robotics.

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 5, 2017

AI can help astrophysicists study distant galaxies

Analyses of space distortions using AI are 10 million times faster than traditional methods, shortening the time it takes to reduce image distortions from weeks to seconds.

By Justine Brown • Sept. 1, 2017