BROWSING: AI

How Artificial Intelligence will impact the human workforce

Listen to the podcast here: The fear that AI will take away a significant number of jobs is somewhat exaggerated, says Rana Gujral. Gujral is the CEO of Behavioral Signals and an expert on AI. Behavioral Signals creates software that introduces emotional intelligence into speech...

Live a smart life with All-In-One home media terminal

  As Moore's Law predicts the future of technologies, the performance of processors improves exponentially at regular intervals without changing the price, thus reducing the popularization threshold and cost of various new technologies. This also happens to AI technologies. With the improvement of NPU computing capability...

Rohde & Schwarz White Paper: 5G Evolution – On the Path to 6G

5G deployments have only recently started, and releases beyond R15 will continue to tap into the tremendous potential of 5G. However, as a new generation of cellular technology typically appears every 8-10 years, 6G can be expected around 2030. 6G could offer high-fidelity holograms,...

Nokia White Paper: Tomorrow’s Agile Operations

This Appledore whitepaper shows how various operations functions fit together and how you can reduce the frequency of “re-invention”, by re-using both software and experience. It shows how CSPs can make 100:1 improvements in many cost and agility metrics and make agile innovation realistic. And,...

Nokia White Paper: The Future of Operations

The 5G telecommunications services market has an estimated value of $2 trillion worldwide. To claim their share, service providers need to adopt new ways of working that support novel business models built around the network as a platform for value creation. They need to...

‘Smart cities that fail to master AI will be left behind,’ says Singapore

Singapore, ranked the smartest city in the world in certain polls, has warned cities they must get a handle on artificial intelligence (AI) if they are to succeed as ‘smart cities’, trusted by citizens and enterprises to manage data correctly. The warning came at Smart...

The Future of Work: Key Trends for the Next Decade With Alexandra Levit

Listen to the podcast here: Robots and AI are poised to make life a lot easier for us. But that reality is causing a lot of people to lose sleep. Workers will be displaced, industries will be disrupted, and our workplaces will be changing. Guest Alexandra...

‘Deep learning won’t work in the real world’ – open-source AI is the only way to ‘reason’, says Dell

Higher-order analytics tools are being embedded in the industrial space, as data science and data capture practices advance, and as compute power and wireless networking become more flexible. But machine learning is limited in its current form, and the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ will slow...

Ericsson Webinar: Integrating AI into wireless communication

The evolution to 5G will see an unprecedented increase in network complexity - from new uses cases to different service classes, network function virtualization and large volumes of data. Today’s complex networks are designed to being operated by humans and their complexity is expected...

Verizon eyes enterprise applications of 5G, edge and XR

Pooling GPU compute at the edge translates 5G latency gains into user experience Edge compute is seen as a key piece of delivering monetizable, enterprise-facing 5G services. But what kind of compute in service of which applications has been an open question as carriers are...

How 5G will Transform the Workforce With Kevin Shatzkamer

Listen to the podcast here: Talk about 5G is everywhere. But usually the conversation is about the challenges of building the network. Or it’s about the faster speeds, lower latency, and better devices. But thinking about 5G as “just another access technology” is a mistake. As...

National Instruments White Paper: Enabling AI Research for 5G Networks with NI SDR

Today, artificial intelligence (AI) adds new technologies to 5G research that can help address several challenges. This white paper examines the current opportunities to accelerate the future of 5G communications networks with the help of AI. It is not an exhaustive list nor a full description...

Arm offers bespoke silicon and closer ties to drive innovation and scale in IoT

In a trio of announcements at Arm TechCon 2019 in San Jose yesterday (October 8), chip design company Arm walked the line on increasing flexibility and reducing fragmentation in the IoT space, as the rise of 5G and AI place ever-higher demand on compute...

Cities not ready for AI – even the world’s smartest can’t handle getting any smarter

No city in the world is ready for the disruption that artificial intelligence (AI) will bring. This is the conclusion of a new review by management consultancy Oliver Wyman, which considers the readiness of 105 cities to cope with AI-inspired digital change, and finds...

Top tech for industrial intelligence – seven systems for factory AI

Factories are bringing intelligence to the production line in a number of ways. Most are focused on integration between machines on the factory floor and leveraging sensor data for actionable insights.  Texas-based software firm Epicor identifies certain examples: shop-floor scorecard systems for reviewing performance, touchscreen...

Distributing AI to the edge cloud and on-device

Qualcomm sees 5G and AI as important adjacent technologies SAN DIEGO--5G is about a lot of things that have a key commonality--the devices that connect to 5G will consume and create a lot of data of myriad profiles. Fortunately 5G is designed to handle all...

Digital Factory Solutions Report Series: Operational Intelligence

How is data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) transforming the manufacturing sector? In the third installment in a new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman looks at the role of data analytics techniques to bring intelligence to manufacturing operations.

Digital Factory Solutions Report Series: Operational Intelligence

How is data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) transforming the manufacturing sector? In the third installment in a new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman looks at the role of data analytics techniques to bring intelligence to manufacturing operations.

Big Mac and AI: McDonald’s drives-thru deal for second AI firm in six months

McDonald's has announced a deal to acquire Silicon Valley speech recognition startup Apprente for an undisclosed fee. It is the burger chain’s second acquisition of an artificial intelligence (AI) software firm in less than six months. Both newly-acquired Apprente and recently-acquired Dynamic Yield have been...

Nokia, Telia marry 5G and AI in pollution pilot, as Nordic leaders rally around green tech

Finnish telecoms duo Nokia and Telia have equipped 5G-connected drones with computer vision technology to monitor environmental conditions in the Baltic Sea. A pilot solution is being used to track levels of potentially toxic blue-green algae. It may be expanded for additional environmental monitoring,...

Kagan: After Apple apology for Siri privacy breach, what’s next?

Apple is finally admitting that their Siri AI technology has been quietly breaching your privacy and listening to everything around you. The problem is, it’s not just the technology which has been listening. So have Apple workers. This breach is a shock to iPhone...

Semiconductor industry preps workers as AI, 5G presence grows

Accenture report shows semiconductor industry is preparing workers for new roles as tech continues to evolve According to the latest annual report by Accenture, which predicts key technology trends likely to redefine business over the next three years, the semiconductor industry is optimistic about emerging technology and how...

5G deployment–5 commandments for success (Reader Forum)

“A goal without a plan is just a wish” – so wrote French novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the early twentieth century. Nearly a hundred years later, these words ring true to mobile operators as they seek to deploy 5G networks. The fifth generation of...

CenturyLink targets 5 milliseconds latency with edge computing investment

IoT, AI and machine learnings are key edge computing use cases, CenturyLink says There widespread consensus that edge computing will be a key piece of opening up latency-sensitive 5G applications like autonomous vehicles and augmented and virtual reality. Where there's not widespread consensus is around...