Critics of Silicon Valley are having a bit of fun with Juicero, the San Francisco–based startup seeking to disrupt the juicing industry by selling a US$399 Wi-Fi-enabled juicer and $8 bags of fruits and vegetables. The company had raised nearly $120 million in venture capital funding.
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OSLS Linus Torvalds believes the technology industry’s celebration of innovation is smug, self-congratulatory, and self-serving. The term of art he used was more blunt: “The innovation the industry talks about so much is bullshit,” he said. “Anybody can innovate.
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Enterprises are moving toward chatbot technology to help them scale and automate certain business processes such as customer interaction and workflow.
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What distinguishes Elon Musk’s reputation as an entrepreneur is that any venture he takes on comes from a bold and inspiring vision for the future of our species. Not long ago, Musk announced a new company, Neuralink, with the goal of merging the human mind with AI.
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Google is working on a machine learning technique that allows deep learning models that reside on a mobile device to learn directly from the user’s input without having to send the user’s data to the cloud.
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If you look past the hype, existential concerns, and fear that Alexa is a CIA mole, there are some genuinely exciting developments happening in the world of artificial intelligence.
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In 2011 Google realized they had a problem. They were getting serious about deep learning networks with computational demands that strained their resources.
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Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, is rapidly making its way into the enterprise, perhaps on its way to becoming as revolutionary a technology for business transactions as the internet was for communications in the late 1990s.
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At the center of every significant innovation is always an idea. Clarence Birdseye’s idea about freezing fish revolutionized the food industry and American diets. Charles Schwab’s idea about flat commissions changed investing forever.
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The concept of innovation has become a core competency for organisations to remain competitive within their respective industries.
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