Israel is well known for its strength in deep-tech, and is also home to a vibrant AI ecosystem that has been growing rapidly over the past few years. Israel’s unique tech ecosystem includes companies and startups that utilize AI technologies in healthcare, cybersecurity, autonomous driving, and many other fields.
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The Danger Of AI Is Weirder Than You Think
The danger of artificial intelligence isn’t that it’s going to rebel against us, but that it’s going to do exactly what we ask it to do, says AI researcher Janelle Shane. Sharing the weird, sometimes alarming antics of AI algorithms as they try to solve human problems – like creating new ice cream flavors or recognizing cars on the road – Shane shows why AI doesn’t yet measure up to real brains.
The IKEA Showroom At Your Home With Help Of Mobile Technology And Deep Learning
The company has taken a user-centric approach to how its customers’ data is used, in line with the IKEA customer data promise based on respect for people and their privacy. Accordingly, any photographs used with the new room design capability can be stored, reduced to just data components, or deleted entirely.
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning During A Pandemic
To say that change is a constant is an understatement with the coronavirus turning the whole world upside down. Paired with accelerating cloud technologies where there seems to be no “finish line,” we find ourselves in an environment that is more and more of a challenge for the IT skills of internal teams to keep up.
Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware | WIRED Documentary
The film looks at how the evolution of “Shanzhai” – or copycat manufacturing – has transformed traditional models of business, distribution and innovation, and asks what the rest of the world can learn from this so-called “Silicon Valley of hardware”.
Application Of AI To Healthcare, Cybersecurity And Digital Medical Records – The Israeli View
The global outbreak of the new Coronavirus brought to our attention an inconvenient truth about influenza: The seasonal flu kills between 291,000 to 645,000 people worldwide each year. Still, a December 2019 survey found that 37% of US adults did not intend to get a flu shot.
Time To Build “Picks And Shovels” For Machine Learning
Many multi-billion-dollar companies have been built by providing tools to make software development easier and more productive. Venture capitalists like to refer to businesses like these as “pick and shovel” opportunities, a reference to Mark Twain’s famous line: “When everyone is looking for gold, it’s a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.”
Holy Land: Startup Nations – Future Cities | WIRED Documentary
With the most tech startups and venture capital per capita in the world, Israel has long been hailed as The Startup Nation. WIRED’s feature-length documentary looks beyond Tel Aviv’s vibrant, liberal tech epicenter to the wider Holy Land region – the Palestinian territories, where a parallel Startup Nation story is emerging in East Jerusalem, Nazareth, Ramallah and other parts of the West Bank, as well as in the Israeli cybersecurity hub of Be’er Sheva.
What Is The Gig Economy, And What Does It Mean To You?
The development of new technology, better online connections, and stronger workplace mobility has led to the rise of the gig economy. While your gig economy definition may differ depending on who you ask, the general idea is that freelancers performing temporary “gig” assignments may be more beneficial than permanent in-house workers. If you’ve ever booked a getaway with Airbnb, ordered yourself an Uber, or worked with a freelancer on Fiver, you’re a part of the gig economy.
How To Make Them Better, Stronger, Faster Reporting APIs
In today’s digital economy, your data’s value will be limited and muted if it remains siloed within individual business systems. The power of digital transformation can only be unleashed when data flows freely between key business systems. The connective tissue between these applications is often APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).
Look Up To The Cloud(s), In The Era Of The COVID-19 Crisis
One of the biggest stories of the year is the growing impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus contagion. The global response is mind-numbing; the public is scrambling, the stock market is all over the place, and there are hundreds of stories published each day discussing the changing death rate, new cases, and even new strains of the virus.
Amazon, Jeff Bezos And Collecting Data | DW Documentary
No company stores more data than Amazon, the former online bookseller. Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has become the richest man in the world. Every second Euro in online trading is spent at Amazon. Is the IT giant, with its unabated growth, about to turn our economic system upside down?
