6 steps for negotiating winning AI deals

Predicting where and how AI technology can be used is hard, but creating a roadmap and identifying use cases before talking to suppliers is a must.

By Dave Blake • Jan. 23, 2018

While you were distracted: Intel rolls out AI and quantum tools

AI applications in motorsports and film festivals underscore the company's commitment to strengthening its non-PC segments.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 22, 2018

AI in recruitment isn't a prediction — it's already here

Don't worry, AI isn't deciding who your next colleague is, but it is taking a lot of monotonous tasks off the plate of recruiters and HR workers.

By Riia O'Donnell • Jan. 19, 2018

Slack using AI to remedy message overload

The communication platform uses a method similar to Google and Facebook to track employee relationships within a company.

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 19, 2018

Google rolls out ML, security and Salesforce tools

From democratizing AI and ML one step further to branching out interoperability with a major software provider, Google is beefing up its enterprise cloud offerings.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 18, 2018

Are you smarter than a robot? AI beats humans at Stanford reading test

Microsoft and Alibaba recently beat out human scores, giving Elon Musk another reason not to sleep at night.

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 17, 2018

The good, the bad and the not-so-work-related: CES 2018 in review

In many ways, CES embodies the spirit of innovation and triumphs in technology. But in other cases, it is a platform for technological excess.

By Naomi Eide , Samantha Schwartz , Alex Hickey • Jan. 12, 2018

Alexa to make its way onto Windows PCs. But what about Cortana?

Adding Alexa to Windows devices is unrelated to Amazon and Microsoft's partnership announcement last fall. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 9, 2018

Facing the unknown: Preparing accounting and finance departments for emerging technology

Today, a new generation of cloud-powered financial applications leveraging Big Data analytics provides finance and accounting departments with transformative capabilities. 

By Jim Walsh • Jan. 9, 2018

2018 business technology trends at a glance

This year, departments across a business are set to become more technical, concerned with up-and-coming technology like AI and Big Data. 

By Naomi Eide , Samantha Schwartz , Alex Hickey • Jan. 9, 2018

Relax your budget: Google's Preemptible GPUs make AI more affordable

Accessible tools, including processing hardware, are an important facet of AI and ML democratization, and customers can now access these tools for half the price of comparable on-demand instances.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 8, 2018

Will HR cover AI biases? 5 AI trends for 2018

Artificial intelligence is part of the new wave of technology. Just like the cloud's emergence, those who fail to implement AI now will struggle later. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 3, 2018

Can DeepMind save us all?

The company created "gridworlds" environments to run an intelligent agent through various scenarios. These tests measure an agent's ability to carry out its function alongside its ability to do so safely.

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 27, 2017

Andrew Ng: How manufacturers can bring AI into the industry

Because there is insufficient AI talent within the manufacturing industry, Ng wants to bring a consultant-like service to customers outside the tech sector. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 15, 2017

AI will help more than it hurts, just give it time

AI will complement many jobs and displace some in the coming decade, but it is set to be a positive job motivator by 2020. And its making the enterprise and Congress pay close attention.

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 13, 2017

AI experts caution Senate against heavy regulation

"AI is the single most important technology in the world today," said Dario Gil, VP of IBM Research AI and IBM Q, and companies and governments need to be willing to make the investment now.

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 12, 2017

Elon Musk: Tesla to make AI hardware

Following the hires of several AI experts and months of speculation, the tech magnate confirmed his automobile company is also working on one of his greatest fears — AI. 

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 11, 2017

#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