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This post summarizes what I think about when I refer to #digitalTransformation: What comes after smartphones? via @BenedictEvans

This post summarizes what I think about when I refer to #digitalTransformation: What comes after smartphones? via @BenedictEvans | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

There’s an old saying that the first fifty years of the car industry were about creating car companies and working out what cars should look like, and the second fifty years were about what happened once everyone had a car - they were about McDonalds and Walmart, suburbs and the remaking of the world around the car, for good and of course bad. The innovation in cars became everything around the car. One could suggest the same today about smartphones - now the innovation comes from everything else that happens around them.

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WHY IT MATTERS: this post is a bit theoretical for someone not bathing in digital transformation all day as I do (mostly). It explores what could come next but more importantly stresses an important fact: we now have a new platform - the mobile phone - in our pockets that has the potential to transform our world. We have started to see this with eCommerce - physical retail stores become irrelevant and we can price compare from anywhere - but we have yet to see the real impact of eCommerce+mobile+cloud+5G. THIS is what I think about most days...

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JPMorgan's massive guide to machine learning jobs in finance: summary of a 280 page report.

JPMorgan's massive guide to machine learning jobs in finance: summary of a 280 page report. | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

In May, J.P. Morgan’s quantitative investing and derivatives strategy team, issued the most comprehensive report ever on big data and machine learning in financial services.
Titled, ‘Big Data and AI Strategies’ and subheaded, ‘Machine Learning and Alternative Data Approach to Investing’, the report says that machine learning will become crucial to the future functioning of markets. Analysts, portfolio managers, traders and chief investment officers all need to become familiar with machine learning techniques. If they don’t they’ll be left behind: traditional data sources like quarterly earnings and GDP figures will become increasingly irrelevant as managers using newer datasets and methods will be able to predict them in advance and to trade ahead of their release.

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WHY IT MATTERS: AI will disrupt industries that had been left mostly alone by the digital Internet revolution: Finance, Accounting, Law, Medecine, etc. They are all industries that rely on visual or text analysis but require very simple processing to perform the most routine back office tasks. This report presents the impact in very detailed fashion and this summary is useful because it applies to many industries, if you adjust the terminology. It highlights one key element: learn to program and to analyze data because these are the jobs of the (near) future. For those crazy enough to read the 280 pages, here is the link: http://valuesimplex.com/articles/JPM.pdf 

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.@Stanford release the #AI index for 2017 full of data and analysis on the state of AI today #mustRead

.@Stanford release the #AI index for 2017 full of data and analysis on the state of AI today #mustRead | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

The AI Index is an open, not-for-profit project to track activity and progress in AI. It aspires to be a comprehensive resource of data and analysis for policymakers, researchers, executives, journalists and others to rapidly develop intuitions about the complex field of AI.
AI is the new electricity, and is transforming multiple industries. The AI Index will help current generations track and navigate this societal transformations. It will also help future generations look back and understand the AI's rise.

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WHY IT MATTERS: AI evolves rapidly and this report presents the state of the world (mostly the US at this time) as it relates to AI. Must read.

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McKinsey's State Of Machine Learning And AI in 2017

McKinsey's State Of Machine Learning And AI in 2017 | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Tech giants including Baidu and Google spent between $20B to $30B on AI in 2016, with 90% of this spent on R&D and deployment, and 10% on AI acquisitions. AI investment has turned into a race for patents and intellectual property (IP) among the world’s leading tech companies.
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This article from McKinsey provides an overview of the investments, improvements and priorities in AI and machine learning as of mid 2017.

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TensorFlow & Tensor Processing Units mean @Google will become the leader in #MachineLearning and #AI?

TensorFlow & Tensor Processing Units mean @Google will become the leader in #MachineLearning and #AI? | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

In just its first year, TensorFlow has helped researchers, engineers, artists, students, and many others make progress with everything from language translation to early detection of skin cancer and preventing blindness in diabetics. We're excited to see people using TensorFlow in over 6000 open-source repositories online.

Second-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are coming to Google Cloud to accelerate a wide range of machine learning workloads, including both training and inference. We call them Cloud TPUs, and they will initially be available via Google Compute Engine.

https://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-cloud-offer-tpus-machine-learning/ 

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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) are impossible to neglect today and recent announcements from Google on TensorFlow and Tensor Processing Units mean that more companies and developers will be able to explore how AI and ML can be leveraged in their applications and industries. Expect acceleration in this field.

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The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data via @TheEconomist

The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data via @TheEconomist | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

An oil refinery is an industrial cathedral, a place of power, drama and dark recesses: ornate cracking towers its gothic pinnacles, flaring gas its stained glass, the stench of hydrocarbons its heady incense. Data centres, in contrast, offer a less obvious spectacle: windowless grey buildings that boast no height or ornament, they seem to stretch to infinity.

Also read: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21721656-data-economy-demands-new-approach-antitrust-rules-worlds-most-valuable-resource 

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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

For a while the saying was that "If You're Not Paying for It; You're the Product" but it looks like today "If You're Not Paying for It; You're the Data". data is in fact so important today because it is essential to program the new algorithms of deep learning. Those that have plenty of Data - Facebook, Google, Apple, UBER, Tesla - will be able to have better software and thus hopefully better products.

Thus, you are the data. Think about it next time you use a computer or mobile phone...

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Searching the World Wide World @DescartesLabs @Medium

Searching the World Wide World @DescartesLabs @Medium | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Today, we’re unveiling a technology demonstration of machine learning at global scale, which we call GeoVisual Search. This release makes the global composite images we released last month a bit…
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The Jobs Americans Do #mustRead via @NYT

The Jobs Americans Do #mustRead via @NYT | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Popular ideas about the working class are woefully out of date. Here are nine people who tell a truer story of what the American work force does today — and will do tomorrow.
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This in-depth report by NY Times demonstrates clearly the impact of digital transformation. What remains are service level jobs that computers or robots cannot perform. Yet. 

A sobering - mandatory - read for our kids.

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Top 10 Hot Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies

Top 10 Hot Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Based on Forrester’s analysis in its latest TechRadar report, here’s my list of the 10 hottest AI technologies.
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23 AI Principles to Protect Us from the Negative Aspects and Ensure Humanity Benefits 

23 AI Principles to Protect Us from the Negative Aspects and Ensure Humanity Benefits  | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

These principles were developed in conjunction with the 2017 Asilomar conference (videos here), through the process described here. Artificial intelligence has already provided beneficial tools that are used every day by people around the world. Its continued development, guided by the following principles, will offer amazing opportunities to help and empower people in the decades …

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Moral Machine: @MIT let's you decide who should self-driving cars kill when faced with life-or-death situations1

Moral Machine: @MIT let's you decide who should self-driving cars kill when faced with life-or-death situations1 | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving cars. We show you moral dilemmas, where a driverless car must choose the lesser of two evils, such as killing two passengers or five pedestrians. As an outside observer, you judge which outcome you think is more acceptable. You can then see how your responses compare with those of other people.

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This is simply brilliant as it forces you to make moral decisions and then reports back on your biases based on your answers. Some of the choices are questionable (how will a self driving car determine if someone is homeless or a criminal) but overall the process is very useful when considering the decisions we will soon let machines make.

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The Doomsday Invention: a #longRead review & discussion on #AI and the book Superintelligence via @NewYorker 

The Doomsday Invention: a #longRead review & discussion on #AI and the book Superintelligence via @NewYorker  | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Raffi Khatchadourian on Nick Bostrom, an Oxford philosopher who asks whether inventing artificial intelligence will bring us utopia or destruction.
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Perfect Sunday morning reading which is guaranteed to make you reflect and ponder for the next weeks. The article is a typical New Yorker one, very well researched and written. So captivating that it got me to start reading the book which appears to be as captivating and surprisingly easy to read and understand. I love those finds and have the feeling this book will be the best complement to "Singularity is Near" and "On Intelligence" that I wrote about in the past.

 

- book "singularity is near": http://fmcs.digital/blog/singularity-is-near-an-essential-read-to-understand-why-technology-evolves-so-fast/ 

- book "on intelligence": http://fmcs.digital/blog/on-intelligence-mustread-to-understand-frontal-cortex-architecture-what-makes-us-intelligent/ 

- article "Why the future does not need us": http://fmcs.digital/blog/why-the-future-doesnt-need-us-a-reminder-that-ai-may-have-a-bad-side-via-wired/ 

- related posts: http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses/?tag=Singularity+is+Near 

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Perfect Sunday morning reading which is guaranteed to make you reflect and ponder for the next weeks. The article is a typical New Yorker one, very well researched and written. So captivating that it got me to start reading the book which appears to be as captivating and surprisingly easy to read and understand. I love those finds and have the feeling this book will be the best complement to "Singularity is Near" and "On Intelligence" that I wrote about in the past.

 

- book "singularity is near": http://fmcs.digital/blog/singularity-is-near-an-essential-read-to-understand-why-technology-evolves-so-fast/ 

- book "on intelligence": http://fmcs.digital/blog/on-intelligence-mustread-to-understand-frontal-cortex-architecture-what-makes-us-intelligent/ 

- article "Why the future does not need us": http://fmcs.digital/blog/why-the-future-doesnt-need-us-a-reminder-that-ai-may-have-a-bad-side-via-wired/ 

- related posts: http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses/?tag=Singularity+is+Near 

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The Doomsday Invention: a #longRead review & discussion on #AI and the book Superintelligence via @NewYorker 

The Doomsday Invention: a #longRead review & discussion on #AI and the book Superintelligence via @NewYorker  | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Raffi Khatchadourian on Nick Bostrom, an Oxford philosopher who asks whether inventing artificial intelligence will bring us utopia or destruction.
Farid Mheir's insight:

Perfect Sunday morning reading which is guaranteed to make you reflect and ponder for the next weeks. The article is a typical New Yorker one, very well researched and written. So captivating that it got me to start reading the book which appears to be as captivating and surprisingly easy to read and understand. I love those finds and have the feeling this book will be the best complement to "Singularity is Near" and "On Intelligence" that I wrote about in the past.

 

- book "singularity is near": http://fmcs.digital/blog/singularity-is-near-an-essential-read-to-understand-why-technology-evolves-so-fast/ 

- book "on intelligence": http://fmcs.digital/blog/on-intelligence-mustread-to-understand-frontal-cortex-architecture-what-makes-us-intelligent/ 

- article "Why the future does not need us": http://fmcs.digital/blog/why-the-future-doesnt-need-us-a-reminder-that-ai-may-have-a-bad-side-via-wired/ 

- related posts: http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses/?tag=Singularity+is+Near 

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Perfect Sunday morning reading which is guaranteed to make you reflect and ponder for the next weeks. The article is a typical New Yorker one, very well researched and written. So captivating that it got me to start reading the book which appears to be as captivating and surprisingly easy to read and understand. I love those finds and have the feeling this book will be the best complement to "Singularity is Near" and "On Intelligence" that I wrote about in the past.

 

- book "singularity is near": http://fmcs.digital/blog/singularity-is-near-an-essential-read-to-understand-why-technology-evolves-so-fast/ 

- book "on intelligence": http://fmcs.digital/blog/on-intelligence-mustread-to-understand-frontal-cortex-architecture-what-makes-us-intelligent/ 

- article "Why the future does not need us": http://fmcs.digital/blog/why-the-future-doesnt-need-us-a-reminder-that-ai-may-have-a-bad-side-via-wired/ 

- related posts: http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses/?tag=Singularity+is+Near 

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#Amazon Go: no registers, no cash, no lines - #retail store #digital #transformation huge leap forward

#Amazon Go: no registers, no cash, no lines - #retail store #digital #transformation huge leap forward | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
Amazon Go is a new kind of store featuring the world’s most advanced shopping technology. No lines, no checkout – just grab and go! Watch the video: amazon.com/go
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Take a minute to watch the video. This is the future of retailing.

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

Amazon has disrupted many industries with its online business. Recently, as other digital leaders have done, Amazon is trying to bring digital revolution in the world to blend our physical and digital experiences - think Google self driving cars, Starbuck mobile phone payment and geofencing app, Apple stores that are more showrooms and help centres than stores because eCommerce is there to fulfill orders to your door, etc.

Amazon has been focussed on grocery for the past 10 years to use this weekly recurring, low cost, high volume shopping trip to the supermarket as its pathway to bring digital into the real world and blend it with online e-commerce.

With Amazon Fresh for examples they have been busy putting trucks on the road to deliver groceries to your door overnight with minimal costs. Why grocery? Because its high volume guarantees that trucks will be on the road everyday in all areas. And once trucks are running around carrying groceries they can also bring other items - books, TVs, etc. - at little or no cost, effectively making FedEx irrelevant or at least giving Amazon huge negotiation power.

I wrote about this in many blog posts, just see here: http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses?q=amazon 

Here with Amazon GO, it addresses some of the major pain points of customers in grocery stores: waiting in line at the cash register. As they've done online, Amazon focusses on its customer issues to smash them or make them so irrelevant that they are not issues anymore. See "amazon secret sauce" for insights on this: http://sco.lt/979c4P

Take Amazon Prime for example. It addresses the delivery fee issue: we do not want to have to pay for delivery. So they make it a non issue, providing 2-day delivery for free for an annual fee. Side effect: if you've paid for prime, then you spend up to 5x more at Amazon (300$ annually for average client, 1500$ for prime member), basically becoming a loyal shopper. Wow.

Back to Amazon GO and why it is important. The grocery industry has not seen a major disruption since Costco started top sell grocery in bulk format years ago - grocers ost 10% market share with that new player in the field. But today, grocery stores are the same, the layout is the same, the process is the same than it was 50 years ago. There has been little or no innovation in stores recently (last one may be the barcode in 1970s) but GO shows that there may be a perfect storm of technologies that combine to make physical stores transformation a reality:

1- mobile phones are on every customer back pocket;

2- electronic payment is everywhere, making cash almost irrelevant;

3- loyalty programs and big data allows retailers unprecedented customer knowledge and forecasting trends;

4- artificial intelligence enables real-time image analysis, feature detection, and robotic improvements.

From the concept store video and the Amazon description, all that GO is doing is applying these new technologies on a new problem set: adding and removing items to shopping basket and speeding the checkout process.

Of course, at the end of the day, the winner will not be the grocer with the best technology. It will be the one with the lowest prices and the best selection (best marketing and customer service won't hurt either). On those fronts (price & selection) Amazon GO faces huge headwinds from established grocers that have long standing relationships with suppliers and way more volume than Amazon. But it does not mean Amazon cannot provide customers with a more enjoyable, easy, fast experience - especially to millennials - which may give GO 5% or 10% of the market (the "good" 5% by the way, those that spend more and spend on higher margin items) from established retailers. And this will hurt established grocers like hell.

 

Also see the analysis from business insider here: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-go-grocery-store-future-photos-video-2016-12/ 

 

and the plans for Amazon to open up to 2000 store in the future if GO concept works: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-2000-grocery-stores-10-years-2016-10

Flores Marisol's curator insight, December 7, 2016 9:04 AM
Wow! Now that would be nice! No standing in lines!
Emily Herbek's curator insight, November 4, 2019 10:51 PM
Amazon recently came out with another feature of their company called Amazon Fresh. This addition to the company propelled their business into the grocery industry. As a part of this new feature, Amazon incorporated the phrase amazon go. Once again, they promoted this feature via video.
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Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year

Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

At TechCrunch Disrupt SF this year, famed iPhone and PlayStation hacker George Hotz unveiled the first official product of his automotive AI startup, Comma.ai. The Comma One is a $999 add-on shipping before the end of the year, with a $24 monthly subscription for its software, which Hotz says will be able to drive your car from Mountain View to San Francisco without requiring a driver to touch the wheel, the brake or the gas.

Farid Mheir's insight:

Read the article but you can skip the 7min video. For a better - and more relaxed - discussion, consider watching this 1hr interview full of descriptions of self-driving car insights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zy_07g2IrM

 

For a more technical speech, view the Berkley presentation, even though there are elements that are redundant it provides additional insights into the technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxoke1lDJ9w

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

His approach is radically different than others and more "purist" from an artificial intelligence and crowd sourcing and I believe that makes his approach something to consider in other areas.

 

For more reading on the subject, this bloomberg paper also brings good insights: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driving-car/

 

Moreover it appears that Google lead is slowly shrinking: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-12/google-car-project-loses-leaders-and-advantage-as-rivals-gain 

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Understanding Aesthetics with Deep Learning

Understanding Aesthetics with Deep Learning | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
How EyeEm uses deep machine learning on GPUs to train aesthetics-based image search based on the knowledge of human photography curators.
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Image aesthetics is difficult to quantify adn thus difficult for computers to do: how can a digital system determine what makes a photograph "good"? This paper describes how one company has used deep learning techniques to do so.

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

With results like this one, we must all question what is possible and open our strategies to include things that in the past have proven difficult or impossible to do. To be successful, strategist must however ensure that they have at their disposal the raw materials required to train computer systems. In the past this would not have been as important but today's new algorithm require massive amounts of data and the resources to train machine intelligence in a good way.

 

For s shorter, less technical version of this article, go to https://medium.com/stories-from-eyeem/how-we-trained-an-algorithm-to-predict-what-makes-a-beautiful-photo-e8de8bccd642#.f6u7gxxwx 

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State of the Internet 2016: web stalls, voice+image recognition & car revolution grow

State of the Internet 2016: web stalls, voice+image recognition & car revolution grow | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

At 213 pages, there's a ton of data, but here are our Top 3 takeaways.

1) The internet itself is seeing slowing growth. In the past two decades, the internet economy was affected by macroeconomic trends, but it was external issues like the housing crisis and the financial crisis that were driving the slowdown. Now it is global internet growth itself that is slowing down.

2) Typing text into a search bar is so last year. In five years, at least 50 percent of all searches are going to be either images or speech.

3) The home screen has acted as the de facto portal on mobile devices since the arrival of the iPhone and even before. Messaging apps, with context and time, have a chance to rival the home screen as the go-to place for interaction.

Farid Mheir's insight:

218 slides of jammed packed information. Soon I will be able to blog one slide of this Mary Meeker State of the Internet annual presentation per day for the whole year. Wow...

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

This is an annual event for digital experts: the state of the Internet. This year, it focusses on deep learning (think voice+image recognition) and cars. Because really the Internet growth is slowing down. So is mobile phone usage. The trend thus appears to be what we build on top of the Internet and not the Internet itself. Finally.

 

Every company executive and board member should listen to this talk. Even if you don't understand everything you should ask yourself: how is our company positioned to address those trends? In most cases I assume the answer will be: we are not. This should be cause for concern and action.

 

For previous year presentations, go to http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses/?q=meeker 

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The future of mobile engagement may reside in droppping your app for chatbots

With users concentrating more of their time in fewer apps, companies are looking for new ways to connect with customers on mobile. Messaging platforms an
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Mobile is the future for most interactions with your customers. However it is more and more difficult to get your apps downloaded and used on a daily basis when you have to compete with Facebook, Google, Snapchat and the myriad of other high performance social tools out there. 

 

The solution may lie in the use of "chatbots", automated software that can respond to user inquiries via sms or messaging apps. This means you could have a customer service or ecommerce "bot" that responds automatically to customers inquiries they make using apps they have already on their phones and that they are using on a daily basis.

 

The video is quite short and provides examples of working products and solutions. I encourage you to listen and take note, then ask yourself how you can put this new technology to use in your digital strategy for the next few years.

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Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong

Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
It was hailed as the most significant test of machine intelligence since Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in chess nearly 20 years ago. Google’s AlphaGo has won two of the first three games against grandmaster Lee Sedol in a Go tournament, showing the dramatic extent to which AI has improved over the years. That fateful day when machines finally become smarter than humans has never appeared closer—yet we seem no closer in grasping the implications of this epochal event.
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Hearing so much about deep learning, Big data, and artificial intelligence these days it is useful to review some of the myths and set the story straight.

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The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage.

The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage. | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
A few days before Thanksgiving, George Hotz, a 26-year-old hacker, invites me to his house in San Francisco to check out a project he’s been working on. He says it’s a self-driving car that he had built in about a month. The claim seems absurd. But when I turn up that morning, in his garage there’s a white 2016 Acura ILX outfitted with a laser-based radar (lidar) system on the roof and a camera mounted near the rearview mirror. A tangle of electronics is attached to a wooden board where the glove compartment used to be, a joystick protrudes where you’d usually find a gearshift, and a 21.5-inch screen is attached to the center of the dash. “Tesla only has a 17-inch screen,” Hotz says.
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The story of a very bright kid that unleashes the power of deep learning and machine intelligence to tech his car how to drive. And it seems to be working. Someone to look at very carefully.

 

But also a story about the power that these new tools have on our world and should be leveraged more aggressively by corporations.

 

Look at the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrgRYa2wbI

Numalis's curator insight, March 15, 2016 3:32 AM
Technology is really accelerating. What an expert can do in one month could take years before. This is as exciting as it is uncontrollable. The only remaining question is to know if simple and fast prototyping could be a good canvas to build upon for safe and efficient designs.
Emeric Bailleul's curator insight, March 15, 2016 5:05 AM

The story of a very bright kid that unleashes the power of deep learning and machine intelligence to tech his car how to drive. And it seems to be working. Someone to look at very carefully.

 

But also a story about the power that these new tools have on our world and should be leveraged more aggressively by corporations.

 

Look at the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrgRYa2wbI

Murphy Ben International 's curator insight, March 16, 2016 4:20 PM

The story of a very bright kid that unleashes the power of deep learning and machine intelligence to tech his car how to drive. And it seems to be working. Someone to look at very carefully.

 

But also a story about the power that these new tools have on our world and should be leveraged more aggressively by corporations.

 

Look at the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrgRYa2wbI

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