The essence of digital transformation is applying digital technologies to fundamentally impact all aspects of a business. The likes of Airbnb, Alibaba and Uber have shown that traditional business processes can be disrupted by new offerings that leverage digital technology to provide a radically different approach.
Chris Bishop, director of Microsoft Research Cambridge, is one of the 50 distinguished scientists that have just been elected to Britain's Royal Society, Microsoft announced today. A recognized expert in artificial intelligence and machine learning, Bishop joined the European arm of Microsoft's research organization in 1997 and was later promoted as lab director in 2015.
Denmark is planning to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to decide which citizens and businesses get support or assistance from the government, the country's digital chief has told GovInsider. "If we could put the legislation in place, we could let a machine decide if you should have that grant or not," said Lars Frelle-Petersen, Director-General of Denmark's Agency for Digitisation.
HSBC has revealed how the success of five machine learning-related pilot projects is set to pave the way for deeper and faster adoption of cloud technologies across its business.
Actionable data is the best defense in today's security environment. Machine learning is not a solution in and of itself. Humans are better than machines at detecting new and sophisticated threats. What's needed is visibility into all the data, machine learning, and a human touch.
With Artificial Intelligence (AI) now being seen as an essential tool in various sectors, it is important for our generation to incorporate innovative dynamic learning needs into our global education system. But when cutting-edge sectors evolve at lightning pace, it is not always possible for traditional sectors to change at the same speed.
Microsoft is going beyond the concepts of image recognition and machine learning to make artificial intelligence smarter, and building systems that can read text, comprehend the context behind it and even ask and answer questions. This effort is in part the fruits of its acquisition in January of Maluuba, a Montreal-based company that uses deep learning to develop natural-language understanding.
