At the helm of today’s progress is a technology that’s paved the way for monumental improvements in our lives — the internet has shaped our communications, commerce, entertainment, and of course, our insatiable thirst for information. It’s evolved over the years as other technologies have been built up around the expectant existence of the internet, providing the very bedrock for change across every field imaginable.
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Computer vision is a much larger piece of the AI pie than you may realize. Here are some of its more exciting applications to date.
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A series of startups are vying to become an “Uber of trucking,” leveraging truck drivers’ smartphones to quickly connect them with nearby companies looking to ship goods. The upstarts aim to reinvent a fragmented U.S. trucking industry that has long relied on third-party brokers, essentially travel agents for trucking who connect truckers with customers. But do these startups really understand the freight industry?
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It has been more than a year since Qualcomm has been struggling to get Chinese OEMs to comply with the new licensing terms laid out by the Chinese government. The company was accused of monopolistic practices by the NDRC of China and had to pay $975 million and lower its royalty rates in the region as a result of the settlement in 2015. However, slow progress by Qualcomm in implementing the NDRC licensing terms and non-compliance by Chinese OEMs of these terms have been affecting the company’s licensing profits since then. Nevertheless, recent developments, as discussed below, suggest that Qualcomm is making significant progress in solving the compliance issues in China and it can soon be over the hump in the large smartphone market.
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Las aerolíneas de bajo costo pueden abaratar sus precios con el uso de la inteligencia artificial. Esa es la apuesta de la empresa estadounidense Inbenta, que llegó a Latinoamérica el año pasado, para trabajar con compañías que utilicen servicio al cliente.
La aerolínea chilena Sky Airline tuvo recientemente una huelga de trabajadores. Sin embargo, el contacto con los pasajeros no se vio frenado gracias al manejo de atención al cliente liderado por la inteligencia artificial.
“Nosotros nos dedicamos al procesamiento del lenguaje natural en canales digitales”, dijo Guillermo Andrés Hernández, director de Inbenta para Latinoamérica en entrevista con Expansión. “Es decir, respondemos automáticamente a preguntas frecuentes en canales digitales, logrando automatizar el servicio y solo llegando al agente humano en casos particulares”.
Inbenta planea tener presencia directa en México en 2017, y ya han mantenido conversaciones con aerolíneas como Aeroméxico e Interjet, así como miembros de la banca, retail y utilities.
“El mercado mexicano es uno muy interesante para nosotros porque tiene una alta penetración de internet y al mismo tiempo tiene muchos usuarios, es decir, muchas personas usan las páginas de nuestros potenciales clientes”, considera Hernández.
La inteligencia artificial se convierte poco a poco en una necesidad básica, a la que las empresas deberán entrar sí o sí, ya sea con su propia investigación o contratando compañías como Inbenta.
El algoritmo que utilizan “es capaz de identificar por significado y no por palabras clave lo que las personas están escribiendo y buscando en las páginas web, redes sociales, cualquier canal digital. Nosotros podemos interpretar esas preguntas para dar una respuesta automática”, explica el director para Latinoamérica.
Según datos de Sky Airline, desde que utilizan el algoritmo, han registrado una eficiencia de 33% del tiempo de los agentes, porque atienden en menor tiempo cada caso.
De acuerdo con el presidente de Google, Eric Schmidt, la inteligencia artificial será la base esencial en toda ganancia importante de toda oferta pública de venta (IPO) en cinco años.
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Un equipo de investigadores ha desvelado una vulnerabilidad que afecta a todos aquellos vehículos de Volkswagen fabricados a partir de 1.995, y ojito porque es más grave de lo que parece. La alarma saltó en la conferencia de seguridad…
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It’s an obvious symbolism — one where the sun is overhead and spreading power and light compared to that of coal, which is underground where it is dark and dank. One is the future where the sky may be the limit and other is the past, where its workers will need to find new opportunities.
With the right incentives, coal industry employees could find the same gleam that their peers in the solar sector now have. That’s according to Michigan University associate professor Joshua Pearce and Oregon State University’s Ph.D student Edward Louie, who published a study that appears in the Journal of Energy Economics. Their premise is that the growth in solar energy employment in the United States over 15 years could offset and absorb the job losses that have occurred in the domestic coal business.
“The coal industry is on a downward slope from which it won’t get off,” says Professor Pearce, who teaches electrical engineering, in a conversation with this reporter. “There is too much competition from not just natural gas but also renewables, and especially solar.”
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There’s a revolution in laptops coming, and it’s the size of one web browser. The post Attention, Poor Students: Chromebooks Are About to Get Awesome appeared first on WIRED.
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