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July 20 iot biggest impact tfriedman. The AI Threat Isn't Skynet. It's the End of the Middle Class. In February 1975, a group of geneticists gathered in a tiny town on the central coast of California to decide if their work would bring about the end of the world.

The AI Threat Isn't Skynet. It's the End of the Middle Class

These researchers were just beginning to explore the science of genetic engineering, manipulating DNA to create organisms that didn’t exist in nature, and they were unsure how these techniques would affect the health of the planet and its people. So, they descended on a coastal retreat called Asilomar, a name that became synonymous with the guidelines they laid down at this meeting—a strict ethical framework meant to ensure that biotechnology didn’t unleash the apocalypse. Forty-two years on, another group of scientists gathered at Asilomar to consider a similar problem.

האלגוריתמים לוקחים לכם את העבודות ואתם לא מתקוממים - הקצה. בעידן הביג דאטה בני אדם הם רק מצבור נתונים - הקצה. "הגיהנום הוא הזולת" (l'enfer, c'est les autres).

בעידן הביג דאטה בני אדם הם רק מצבור נתונים - הקצה

קביעה זו נחשבת לאחת מאמרות הכנף המוכרות ביותר של הפילוסוף האקזיסטנציאליסטי ז'אן פול סארטר, אך למעשה לא הוא אמר אותה, אלא דמות שכתב, גרסין, במחזה "דלתיים סגורות". Alexa Is Conquering the World. Now Amazon’s Real Challenge Begins. It’s easy to imagine a future in which your virtual personal assistant is everywhere you are.

Alexa Is Conquering the World. Now Amazon’s Real Challenge Begins

Before long, Alexa, Siri, Google, and others like them will be woven into the fabric of your home, ready to fulfill your every need whim. Need milk? Tell your fridge. Forgot to close the garage door? Building a Better Connected World. Community. The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding. When I ask people to picture a coder, they usually imagine someone like Mark Zuckerberg: a hoodied college dropout who builds an app in a feverish 72-hour programming jag—with the goal of getting insanely rich and, as they say, “changing the world.”

But this Silicon Valley stereotype isn’t even geographically accurate. The Valley employs only 8 percent of the nation’s coders. The AI Threat Isn't Skynet. It's the End of the Middle Class. Artificial Intelligence Is Driving Huge Changes at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. Fei-Fei Li is a big deal in the world of AI.

Artificial Intelligence Is Driving Huge Changes at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft

As the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Vision labs at Stanford University, she oversaw the creation of ImageNet, a vast database of images designed to accelerate the development of AI that can “see.” And, well, it worked, helping to drive the creation of deep learning systems that can recognize objects, animals, people, and even entire scenes in photos—technology that has become commonplace on the world’s biggest photo-sharing sites. Now, Fei-Fei will help run a brand new AI group inside Google, a move that reflects just how aggressively the world’s biggest tech companies are remaking themselves around this breed of artificial intelligence. Alongside a former Stanford researcher—Jia Li, who more recently ran research for the social networking service Snapchat—the China-born Fei-Fei will lead a team inside Google’s cloud computing operation, building online services that any coder or company can use to build their own AI.

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February 2 top 10 strategic technologies tlthayer 238851. Emerging Technologies in Higher Education. Top Strategic Predictions for 2017 and Beyond: Surviving the Storm Winds of Digital Disruption. Already have a Gartner account?

Top Strategic Predictions for 2017 and Beyond: Surviving the Storm Winds of Digital Disruption

Sign in to view this research document. Forgot username or password? New to Gartner? Register with us for FREE access to this research document. Summary Digital business innovation creates disruptive effects that have a wide-ranging impact on people and technology. Table of Contents Analysis What You Need to Know Strategic Planning Assumptions Gartner Recommended Reading © 2016 Gartner, Inc. and/or its Affiliates. Become a Client.

ImageimageSmartPbl. Hype cycle 2016. Hype Cycle for Education, 2016. Already have a Gartner account?

Hype Cycle for Education, 2016

Sign in to view this research document. Forgot username or password? Not a Gartner Client? Want more research like this? Learn the benefits of becoming a Gartner client. contact us online Summary The digitalization of education is gaining momentum and moving into execution mode. Table of Contents. 2016 eLearning Hype Curve Predictions.

This year, we are placing our annual (and very popular) learning technology predictions on the the hype cycle.

2016 eLearning Hype Curve Predictions

Here’s the short version. Below the fold, find the long version. Innovation Trigger: Internet-enabled Physical Simulators and EHR-integrated Performance Improvement Activities Online learning lags behind other industries in adopting new technologies. This is not because people in online learning are not interested in new technologies; it’s because we’re not a high-revenue industry compared to giant industries like consumer goods. We’ve now reached the point, however, where researchers at places like the University of Wisconsin-Madison are developing Internet-enabled physical simulation devices. Performance improvement activities have been an officially recognized part of continuing medical education for years. Quick hits – sorting through recent entries in the Innovation Trigger bin: Gamification: Not serious games or games for learning, but “true gamification.” Quick hits: Topstrategictrendswebinarfinal r casonato 225713.