AI brings a lot of promise and will become essential to the growth of the U.S. in the future, but without improvements in education and social services, it could also cause millions of job losses, the White House said in a report on the impact AI...
Starbucks is using AI to reach its customers in new ways and possibly increase its growth and boost sales in the process. Earlier this month, the company unveiled its plan to use AI and the cloud to deliver on “the future of personalization” during a presentation...
Ride-hailing app startup Uber announced Monday (Dec. 5) the creation of Uber AI Labs, which is a new unit of Uber that will be based in San Francisco and focused on research in artificial intelligence and machine learning. In conjunction with the new unit, Uber also...
If you think the emotion buttons on Facebook were an upgrade from the “thumbs-up” like button, you’re about to be even more impressed. Facebook says that, in the future, it may build facial gesture controls with the help of newly acquired FacioMetrics — a business...
We don’t have to wait for the future. It’s already here. This year broke records for robots in manufacturing. An astounding 14,583 robots were ordered by North American companies during the first half of 2016. In total, there are 265,000 robots in use in factories...
Samsung announced Sunday (Nov. 6) that the new Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone would launch with an artificial intelligence digital assistant, according to Reuters. Samsung recently acquired Viv Labs Inc., a tech firm run by a co-creator of Apple’s Siri. The AI platform, named Viv, will be...
Resolver, the U.K. startup that has created tools to help consumers complain and track the progress of their complaint, has raised £2.8 million in new funding, which it will use to apply artificial intelligence to make it easier for consumers to resolve issues. According to...
Regulatory compliance is about to integrate the use of artificial intelligence (AI). New AI technologies applied to regulatory requirements are expected to save big banks big bucks but also allow SMEs to comply with rules and policies for less cost.
Bazillion Beings, a creator of bots driven by artificial technology, is out to prove that bots can actually replace simple applications. Through the creation of an “independent online life form” — or “Lifo” (life form) — artificially intelligent bots can deliver services to users. TechCrunch...
