How to Pave The Road to a Digital Magna Carta?
One of the common beliefs among the tech scholars is that similar to the first industrial revolution replacing muscle power with machine power, the digital revolution is replacing brain power with computer power. Needless...
Thinking Differently About A.I.
The field of AI (artificial intelligence) has witnessed significant successes in terms of solving well-defined problems. Yet, so far, no step seems to have been taken towards the direction of creative problem-solving. It is often...
3 Reasons Why NLP Matters
“Each year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that depression affects over 300 million people, with nearly 800,000 suicides. This could either mean that a demand for clinical and counselling psychologists may grow as...
Why did the Tech hub of San Francisco ban Facial Recognition?
To put it simply... the fledgling technology is "Racist." Not the best course of action for the tech hub city as the proponents of technology would argue, but San Francisco's metropolis’ Board of Supervisors...
How to Transform Machine Learning?
One of greatest limitations of machine learning systems is that they are based solely on a statistical interpretation of data. In order to provide responses to the questions of why? and what if? a causal model is required. When...
Embedding Cyber Trust Into The Black Box
One of the shared issues in the fields of both information security and artificial intelligence (AI) is the need to make an explanation to the end user with the objective of gaining trust. Trust is...
Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence; How They are Perpetuating Each Other’s Progress
Before I even delve into these, if not the most, existential topics known to modern man, let’s delve into how these topics relate to us as humans. So, neuroscience. Basically, the brain studying itself....
Tech or No Tech, Keep it Real at Work
A conference call among people separated by cubicles and a few feet? Erica Keswin can attest to such head-scratchers and more in the war between technology and just being human. She has seen so many...
The Seductive Business Logic of Algorithms
Certain machine behaviors never cease to amaze me. I’m astounded by their ability to learn from their accomplishments and from their interactions with we humans. Unfortunately, many business managers still think of artificial intelligence (AI)...
Here’s How Machine Learning Is Transforming Investment Decisions for Financial Institutions
Two advancements in technology over the last few years have resulted in a potential opportunity for investors to begin working in a smarter, more profitable way. These two technologies are Big Data and Machine Learning...
Learning the Hard Way with AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) can act as a crucial power for good if related regulations enable its potential to flourish while eliminating its downsides during its integration into our daily lives. As a consequence, we...
Socializing AI
In our digital age, AI (artificial intelligence) applications outperform human-beings in various tasks. Being the real natives of the infosphere, artificial agents make us human-beings (aka analog creatures) to get used to this new...
Ethics and Robotics
In October last year, Saudi Arabia became the first country in the world to give a robot citizenship. When taking to the stage to announce “her” new status, Sophia said she was “very honored and proud for...
AI animates marketing returns
Known as The Computer Guy, Joseph Ngare once dreamed of being a sports commentator. Now his thoughts have turned to another sort of sport: artificial intelligence. He sees brands having a choice between embarking on...
The Employment-Based Economy WILL Soon Fail: What Can We do to Avoid Disaster?
Let’s look at what we know for sure: Artificial intelligence (AI) will soon surpass human ability to complete complex tasks. Right now, AI could do over 50% of all paid tasks better than humans...
Should AI Be Ethical At All?
As with any technology, AI’s potential to help or harm us depends on how it is applied and overseen. Ethical AI is garnering much interest, but it’s not always clear what this refers to....
DDI Editor’s Pick: 5 Machine Learning Books That Turn You from Novice to Expert
The booming growth in the Machine Learning industry has brought renewed interest in people about Artificial Intelligence and what it’s really about. Although movies like The Terminator, along with all its sequels and prequels...
The Myth of AIs’ Predictive Power
One of the most promising advantages of AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be its ability to predict the future preferences of consumers. Through means of data collection on past transaction or search histories, the...
Interpreting Machine Leaning Models: A Myth or Reality?
Despite the predictive capabilities of supervised machine learning, can we trust the machines? As much as we want the models to be good, we also want them to be interpretable. Yet, the task of...
The Challenge of Forex Trading for Machine Learning
Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that has grabbed a lot of headlines previously. People are fascinated by the concept of machines seemingly ‘thinking’, and learning how to carry out tasks more...
