AI & Big Data; Better Together

Big data, unstructured or structured, fast or slow, in multiple contexts or one is a beast to manage. Big data is growing fast fueled by the democratization of data and the IoT environment. Often organizations simply control what they know they get results from and then store the rest for future leverage. In fact, most organizations use less than 20% of their data, leaving the remaining 80%, and the insights it contains, to be left outside to the operational and decision-making processes. Imagine if you used only 20% of any service you paid for every month and ignored the other 80%! This is exactly what we are doing with data. Fortunately, there is hope as this is where Big Data can start to rely on AI and engage in a “cycle of leverage”. Presently, the interaction between AI and Big Data is in the early stages, and organizations are discovering helpful methods, techniques, and technologies to achieve meaningful results. Typically these efforts are neither architected nor managed holistically. Our work has shown there is an emerging “Cycle of Big Data” that we and would like to describe and share with you where we see AI can help.

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Digital Models from Scans Assisting with Industrial Security

If you have not heard of active shooter incidents recently, you have been living under a rock. Imagine what 2D floor plans and 3D models can do to assist these situations. Even without intelligent digital assistants, law enforcement can get a better handle on the structure involved with any particular incident. While these digital models are helpful, they are difficult and time consuming to create. This case study is about the evolving scanning, creation and leverage of visual digital models on a large scale.

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Artificial Intelligence In Humanoid Robots

When people think of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the major image that pops up in their heads is that of a robot gliding around and giving mechanical replies. There are many forms of AI but humanoid robots are one of the most popular forms. They have been depicted in several Hollywood movies and if you are a fan of science fiction, you might have come across a few humanoids. One of the earliest forms of humanoids was created in 1495 by Leonardo Da Vinci. It was an armor suit and it could perform a lot of human functions such as sitting, standing and walking. It even moved as though a real human was inside it.

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The Big RPA Bubble

Robotic Process Automation (RPA). It’s a hot topic among the C-Suite. Where to implement. How to implement. How many headcounts can be saved through robotic implementations? Business leaders want robots – powered by AI – to drive automation into every mundane task people now do … but there’s a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding about what bots can and can’t do for an organization.

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Beyond Art Galleries: The Business MoSAIC

As Jim Sinur and I wrote in the book Digital Transformation, A Brief Guide for Game Changers, “Similar to viewing an exceptional art mosaic, observing any of the environmental forces or enabling capabilities in isolation prevents one from recognizing the broader fundamentals in play. The entire picture does not emerge until the viewer steps back and embraces the ‘ah-ha’ moment of the overall mosaic, one in which the powerful message is revealed through the inter-related elements operating in concert.” For example, squint and peek through your eyelashes and see who the famous president is in this mosaic portrait by Salvador Dali.

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Emerging Tech Impacting The Security Industry

Emerging technologies are already impacting how we live and work. They're also changing how we approach, plan, and integrate security operations. With the advent of artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing, the Internet of Things, augmented reality, materials science, 3-D printing, and data analytics, the security industry is being transformed.

Certainly, we are living in an era where innovation, agility and imagination are all essential in order to keep pace with the exponential technological transformation taking place. For security, both physical and cyber, the equation is the same catalyzing many new potential applications for emerging technologies.

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Is AI Data Driven, Algorithm Driven, or Process Driven?

There are those that think that data is the oil of AI and the focus should be clean data, data science and deep understanding of what the data means. There are those that say data is meaningless without context that can be with other data, models/algorithms or processes. Let’s explore the arguments in a concise fashion to discover the advantage of each view.

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Four Emerging Technology Areas That Will Help Define Our World In 2019

2018 was surely a transformative year for technological innovation. We saw early development of ambient computing, quantum teleportation, cloaks of invisibility, genomics advancements and even robocops. Granted we're not flying around in our own cars like the Jetsons did yet, but we're closer. In 2019 we will continue on the transformation path and expand even more into adopting cutting edge immersive technologies. What's ahead for the coming year? I envision four emerging technology areas that will significantly impact our lives in 2019.

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AI At The Edge: Creating Coordinated Autonomy

Today organizations have to deal with so many emergent behaviors that the notion of central control as the only coping mechanism seems to be receding as a dominant management model. Freedom must be doled out further from the centrist idea by creating goals, constraints, boundaries and allowable edge behaviors. Someday software and hardware agents will negotiate their contribution to business outcomes on their own, but until then organizations will have to prepare themselves by managing coordinated autonomy.

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3. Automation: Digital Transformation Debts post-Covid-19

This is the third part of a ten-part series on Digital Transformation Debt, post-Covid-19. The Covid-19 pandemic is pushing many enterprises to re-consider their digital transformation and modernization initiatives, especially for Automation. The article covers all aspects of automation: RPA, AI-Assisted, and Cognitive Work. It also highlights robust Automation Strategies for a post-Covid-19 Automation roadmap.

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2. Operational Excellence & VSaaS: Digital Transformation Debts post-Covid-19

This is the 2nd article in the post-Covid-19 Digital Transformation Debts series. Organizations are now facing tremendous challenges to cut costs – becoming lean – while delivering high-quality products and services. These are incredibly challenging times.

Value Stream digitization and automation in the post-Covid-19 era have two salient showcases: (1) Operational Excellence especially for customer service and the associated intra-Enterprise processes; (2) Inter-Enterprise Collaboration through Value-Stream-As-A-Service.

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1. Culture: Digital Transformation Debts post-Covid-19

The impact of the Covid-19 lockdown of businesses and government will be felt for many years to come. It is causing mega-cultural trends that are already changing us. We might not be feeling it or appreciating the shifts that are happening. It is too close to home and we are in the midst of it. But it is happening, and it is very real. This is the first of a 10 part series on Digital Transformation Debt - post-Covid-19. It is the most important one, as it covers Culture.

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Intelligent Process Automation of Things (IPAoT)

IPAoT is the next phase in the evolution of IoT! Connectivity of devices in our homes, offices, and industries is ubiquitous. Connectivity is exploding. Several technologies such as 5G, Cloud, Blockchain, and AI are critical catalysts in the pervasiveness of robust and pragmatic solutions with IoT. But the glue that ties it together and connects IoT devices to people, enterprises, and trading partners is Process Automation. 

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Towards the Deployment of Safe Autonomous Systems

Autonomous systems are coming online in many contexts: vehicles, drones, weapons, industrial robotics, and financial services to name just a few. Many have their own policy stakeholders and regulations, but thousands of startup companies are releasing multi-use technologies without clear guidelines. In this article, Intel AI Senior Director Abigail Hing Wen lays out a general regulatory framework for deploying automated systems safely.

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Data Science: Earning Trust in Public Policy

As states, counties, and cities around the country struggle to find ways to combat COVID, a holistic approach is required to ensure that all communities are being properly monitored for the spread of the disease and that data that is being used to inform public policy is timely, relevant and maintains the privacy of people. This article details how Data Science, Education, and extreme collaboration should be used together as part of this holistic approach to create better and more trusted public policy for all.

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A Cyberneticist View on Humanitarian AI Today

Viewing the world from a cybernetic perspective encourages you to think of informational pathways from human to machine and back again. The idea is to extract as much information from as many sources as possible.

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Contextual AI vs. Keywords, Intelligence for Trust and Safety

AI is as good as the data gets, and it is as critical as the problem it's solving. Most solutions for content moderation on platforms today are based on Keywords -- looking for specific words by exact match within a single message. Yet, if you’re on a dating app where messages are typically personal and intimate, how would you determine a message is a flirting text versus a sexual assault? Or, on a freelancing marketplace, how would you take right action over platform circumvention between a genuine contract offer after repeating transactions versus true bad actors trying to go offline to avoid platform fees?

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