Winning with AI – Overcoming Cultural Challenges

A recent survey on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) reported that cultural challenges, not technological ones, were the biggest hurdle to overcome around Big Data and AI initiatives. According to this 2021 survey, the vast majority of respondents — 92% of mainstream companies — continued to struggle more with cultural challenges than with technological ones.

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Aiming for Digital transformation success? Focus on the fundamentals!

The track record for transformations has been disappointing for over three decades. In 1995, Dr. John Kotter found that only 30% of transformations succeeded and it’s been pretty much that way in survey after survey ever since. A recent McKinsey survey found that digital transformations may be even more challenging.

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A Deep Dive Into Remote Work For Our Future Of Work

In the age of innovation, as a topic of our future of work, we often envision remote work as an idealist scenario where you can achieve the ultimate work-life balance. Realistically, remote work is a conversation that needs to be explored in-depth, practiced over time and embraced by each individual of an organization.

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Cybersecurity When It Comes To Remote Work Means Zero Trust

Whether your organization has an extensive cybersecurity initiative in the event of a crisis such as this pandemic or not, there are things that you can do now that your employees are working remotely.

You can use this opportunity to increase cybersecurity awareness across your organization.

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How Far Are We From Achieving Artificial General Intelligence?

These days, when you browse the internet for news on artificial intelligence, you’ll find out about new AI that just managed to do something humans do, yet far better. Present-day AI can detect cancers better than human doctors, build better AI algorithms than human developers, and beat the world champions at games like chess and Go.

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The United Kingdom’s Role In The Future Of AI

The UK has played an important role in the history and development of AI. Alan Turing, a British mathematician, is considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and has deep roots in AI as well. In addition to crafting the foundations for modern computing, Turing envisioned the Turing test, which aims to determine a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

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Does AI Really Matter?

Artificial intelligence has been around for many decades. However, In the past decade, interest and investment in AI have skyrocketed. In the past few years, companies and organizations in just about every industry and across the world are adopting a wide range of cognitive technology solutions spanning the seven patterns of AI with applications in finance, retail, automotive, healthcare, government applications and many more industries showing adoption.

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How Is AI Helping To Commercialize Space?

Even before modern computers became a reality, science fiction gave us a plethora of examples of artificial intelligence and smart robots in the context of outer space. From Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey and the computer on Star Trek to C3PO and R2D2 in Star Wars and even the fantastic machines in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, it seems that AI and space go together.

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What the Field of Archaeology Can Teach Us About Responsible AI

“Forget everything you think you know about the ancient Minoan culture,” the historian said to me at the palace gates. The story she told me on that hot, dusty day in July has since been pressing on me, like a constant drumbeat -- a reminder of why our work in Responsible AI is so so unrestricted in importance by just the demands of the here and now. Let us take you on a journey so that you can understand the very direct correlation between what archaeology can teach us about our high tech field.

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How can AI be a Trustworthy Magic Mirror?

We have already jumped into the pool of AI innovation. Just to be clear, this isn't a human inventing the AI but the human-invented AI inventing something new. There have been interesting debates on the patentability of the “machine” inventor.

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Competing For The Future With Intelligent Agents... And A Confession

Creative Destruction – What Came Before What’s Coming Next

Prior to the beginnings of Internet-based e-commerce, the computer was essentially a filing cabinet, handling the affairs of the back office, programmed under the file clerk metaphor: capture, storage, and retrieval of records. Today, however, we are not only seeing Sun Microsystems’ early vision that the network is the computer, now we can observe that the network is the business!

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With AI At Hand, Don't Stop Learning!

In our modern world, tomorrows stretch before us in profusion. Our working lives could last for eight decades. Think of the implications. It was only 12 years ago that the first iPhone was released. Smartphones are everywhere now and we rely on them to an astonishing degree. Think what new technologies may emerge over another 70 years! No longer can we simply learn for a while, earn for a while, and then retire.

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