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Today, artificial intelligence helps doctors diagnose patients, pilots fly commercial aircraft, and city planners predict traffic. These AIs are often self-taught, working off a simple set of instructions to create a unique array of rules and strategies. So how exactly does a machine learn? Briana Brownell digs into the three basic ways machines investigate, negotiate, and communicate.
How many times have we heard this? How many times have we said it? Personally, I am certain that I say this more than once per day. Sometimes it’s out of frustration, sometimes it’s out of amazement, sometimes it’s just a moment where I give a look and think, “You gotta be kidding me” – it’s the…
Reuters reports on the jumbo jet, which for many years have been known as the workhorse of modern air travel, could now be close to ‘running out of runway’. Due to a slump in sales of the jets, questions are being raised over how long manufacturers will be able to sustain production. It has also fueled internal…
The Economist dives deep into the old Holy Roman Empire and the special significance it holds today for the European union. Not arguably, quite a lot had transpired by the time Ferdinand left for Vienna, with 164 ships floating down the Danube. Precisely what that was, however, has been a matter of passionate dispute among historians ever…
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Tim Jackson – internationally esteemed economist and researcher – studies the relationships between lifestyle, societal values, and the environment. In this TED-Talk, Jackson takes a look at the concept of prosperity and highlights the notion of global prosperity being a shared endeavor. He juxtaposes our often narrow definition of prosperity with our bleak, resource-poor future….
Who serves who? Does Technology serve the people – or do the people serve technology? I started my business during the “Golden Age of Technology” back in 1985. This was a time when the power of computing was being brought to the individual level; a time of personal computers (starting with the Apple-II and IBM-PC)…
Small teams in large corporations can ‘out small’ today’s successful smaller players, and win big. Smaller competitors to today’s largest corporations are consistently winning in customer satisfaction ratings without the so-called economies of scale associated with large (frequently out-sourced) customer care centers. For the largest companies in some key sectors – such as telecommunications, technology, andfinancial services – there is the potential…
