Reconsidering The Threat Of Automation As An Opportunity For Augmentation In The Era Of Smart Machines

People in all walks of life are rightly concerned about advancing automation: Unless we find as many tasks to give humans as we find to take away from them, all the social and psychological ills of joblessness will grow, from economic recession to youth unemployment to individual crises of identity.

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Internet Of Things And Smart, Connected Products Are Forcing Companies To Rethink Their Competitive Strategy

“Information technology is revolutionizing products, from appliances to cars to mining equipment. Products once composed solely of mechanical and electrical parts have become complex systems combining hardware, sensors, electronics, and software that connect through the internet in myriad ways. These “smart, connected products” offer exponentially expanding opportunities for new functionality,

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BrainFrame: An Operating System That Comes With A Smart Vision AI Developers Kit

Imagine being able to embark on a real-time computer vision project in a few hours, with no code to build a traffic control system, a warehouse monitoring system, or an in-store point of sale optimization system. Like the apps that are built on top of smartphone operating systems, these smart

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Translating Mobile Networks From Smart To Genius – 5G And Machine Learning

5G is ushering in a new breed of “genius” networks to deal with the increased levels of complexity, prediction and real time decision making that is required to deliver the performance gains promised not just in enhanced mobile broadband applications but also in IoT and mission critical use cases. At

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AI Strengthens Smart Factories To Overcome The Challenge Of Product Complexity

Manufacturing CEOs I’ve spoken with are in unanimous agreement that the best way to drive new revenue growth is by transitioning to more services-based revenue models based on next-generation products. Their product roadmaps include configurable, customized products capable of delivering data back to manufacturers they can monetize as services. Manufacturers are looking to get beyond relying on transaction revenue alone. They’re most focused on how they can use configurable products to launch higher-margin outcome-based business services, and their 2020 roadmaps reflect this goal. The following graphic from McKinsey’s Leveraging Industrial Software Stack Advancement For Digital Transformation (50 pp., PDF, no opt-in) explains why manufacturers’ 2020 roadmaps are dominated by more configurable products capable of driving new services-based business models.

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13 Smart Areas AI Can Be Used For In Almost Any Business

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a buzzword that most business owners have already heard of, even if they haven’t researched the technology deeply. AI has the potential to change the face of business in fundamental ways. Because of its innate flexibility, AI presents a wide range of potential applications that almost any business can leverage to make itself more efficient.

There are already companies that have started using AI to make their processes more productive and reduce their costs for both material sourcing and labor. Thirteen experts from Forbes Technology Council take a look at how the smartest business owners of today are employing AI and how it helps those businesses succeed at what they do.

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Confirmed: 2 Billion Records Exposed In Massive Smart Home Device Breach

A team of self-styled “hacktivist” security researchers, with an impressive track record of exposing breach after breach as part of a web-mapping project that searches for vulnerabilities within online databases, has disclosed one of the biggest to date. The researchers in question, Noam Rotem and Ran Locar from vpnMentor, found

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