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Entrepreneur - Artificial Intelligence Will Be the Greatest Jobs Engine the World Has Ever Seen

01 March, 2019

Byron Reese

In the past few years, artificial intelligence has advanced so quickly that it now seems that hardly a month goes by without a newsworthy AI breakthrough. In areas as wide-ranging as speech translation, medical diagnosis and game play, we have seen computers outperform humans in startling ways. This has sparked a discussion about what impact AI will have on employment.

Related: Artificial Intelligence Is Likely to Make a Career in Finance, Medicine or Law a Lot Less Lucrative

Some fear that as AI improves, it will supplant workers in the job force, creating an ever-growing pool of...

Microsoft - Telefónica and Microsoft establish strategic partnership to design the telco of the future

01 March, 2019

February 25, 2019 | Microsoft News Center

Companies will work together to power transformative customer experiences and services and explore use of intelligent technologies on the network

Barcelona, Spain — Feb. 25, 2019 — On Monday at Mobile World Congress, Telefónica and Microsoft Corp. announced a strategic partnership to collaborate on projects to accelerate Telefónica innovation and transform the telecommunications industry. Building on Telefónica and Microsoft’s previous work together around the use of data and Telefónica’s Fourth Platform to power offerings such as Aura, its AI-powered...

INTEL AI - Exploring Term Set Expansion with NLP Architect

28 February, 2019

Jonathan Mamou

Deep Learning Data Scientist, Intel AI Lab

Natural language processing (NLP) is an exciting field within artificial intelligence (AI) that seeks to process and analyze large volumes of human language data, essentially helping machines to better understand what we’re saying. From search engines to voice-command applications like Siri*, Alexa*, and Google Voice*, modern NLP requires state-of-the-art deep learning in order to make sense of our words and phrases.

Inside the Intel AI Lab, we have been exploring NLP by running term set expansion using the capabilities of our NLP Architect open source library...

PAL Robotics - MWC 4YFN: Robotics, AI and Connectivity, the perfect mix

28 February, 2019

By Judith Viladomat

The future of mobile and connectivity landed in Barcelona this week with the Mobile World Congress and the 4YFN! The MWC Four Years From Now (4YFN) explores the trends that shape how the world will look like in a few years from now, one of which is clearly robotics.

Robotics, AI, and connectivity are three strongly related concepts. Robots need AI to understand its mission, combine it with the environment and take the right decisions; AI needs robots to embody its algorithms’ results; and fast connectivity is the bridge between the robots and the people who are in control of or need to...

Diario Financiero - Acciona, Orange y 5G Barcelona lanzan un proyecto piloto de robots autónomos

27 February, 2019

Por Juan Ramírez (Enviado Especial Servimedia)

Acciona, Orange y Mobile World Capital Barcelona, en nombre de la iniciativa 5G Barcelona, presentaron hoy en el Mobile World Congress (MWC) un proyecto piloto Robots colaborativos y autónomos, donde la tecnología 5G es la protagonista.

Con esta iniciativa, un trabajador puede controlar de forma remota un vehículo robotizado, resolviendo las altas tasas de atenuación y el riesgo de cortes de comunicación que se dan con otras tecnologías como el Wifi, LTEM o NBIoT. En el estand de Mobile World Capital, el público puede teleoperar este vehículo robotizado, que se...

El País - Telefónica y Microsoft firman una alianza estratégica para crear nuevos servicios

26 February, 2019

El presidente de Telefónica, José María Álvarez Pallete y el consejero delegado de Microsoft , Satya Nadella. TONI ALBIR EFE

SANTIAGO MILLÁN ALONSO

Telefónica y Microsoft Corp. han anunciado hoy una alianza estratégica para colaborar en proyectos para acelerar la innovación en la operadora y transformar el sector de las telecomunicaciones. En la jornada inaugural del Mobile World Congress (MWC) de Barcelona, ambos socios han explicado que el acuerdo tiene como base el trabajo conjunto que han realizado hasta la fecha ambas compañías tanto en el uso de los datos como en la cuarta plataforma de Telefónica, sobre la que se han desarrollado ya nuevos servicios como Aura, el asistente digital con inteligencia artificial (IA) de la operadora...

Gencat.cat - Butlletí RECERCAT La Comissió Europea i els estats membres treballen conjuntament per impulsar la intel·ligència artificial desenvolupada a Europa

25 February, 2019

La Comissió Europea va presentar el mes de desembre passat un pla coordinat elaborat amb els estats membres per fomentar el desenvolupament i l’ús de la intel·ligència artificial (IA) a Europa, incloent-hi Noruega i Suïssa. Aquest pla proposa accions conjuntes per a una cooperació més estreta i més eficient per millorar la competitivitat europea a escala global en el desenvolupament i la implantació d’una IA puntera, ètica i segura en àmbits d’interès públic, com l’assistència sanitària, el transport i la mobilitat, la seguretat i l’energia.

El pla d’acció coordinat garantirà que Europa obtingui els beneficis de la...

EXPANSIÓN - MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS BARCELONA - Telefónica, Seat, Ficosa, Mobile World Capital, Etra e i2cat prueban el coche conectado en el Mobile World Congress

25 February, 2019

FÉLIX GARCÍA

Seat, Telefónica, Mobile World Capital Barcelona, Ficosa, Etra e i2Cat sellaron el pasado 28 de enero una alianza para el coche conectado. Si bien, ese día se certificó la entrada de Seat, Ficosa e Etra al proyecto 5G Barcelona impulsado por Mobile World Capital Barcelona e i2Cat, del que Telefónica ya participaba.

Básicamente lo que trata este proyecto es de impulsar el coche conectado a través del 5G, tecnología básica para que el vehículo transmita y reciba información en tiempo real.

Así pues nos hemos subido a un Seat Ateca por el polígono que rodea la Fira de Barcelona junto a las...

C-SUITE NETWORK - How AI is Changing Sales

25 February, 2019

Christine Gilroy

Artificial intelligence (#AI) and big data are key areas in today’s technology that are changing how companies understand buying behaviors and interact with their customers. The big #CRM vendors (Salesforce.com, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle) are all developing AI applications to assist in the selling and in improved Customer Experience. By utilizing the science and engineering behind AI we start to enhance the way sellers interact with customers and prospects thus enhancing the Art of Selling.

With Big Data growing at an exponential rate and combining that data with AI, sellers will have more meaningful and...

Data Science Central - How Machines Are Learning From Customers And Predicting Human Behavior

22 February, 2019

Posted by Hemant Warudkar

Customers leave behind an incomprehensible amount of data while they go about shopping. Making sense of that data and reacting in real time are the two things that will keep companies one-step ahead of their customers (and competition) in the present-day customer-centric world.

Today, the average customer is spoiled for choice. Every time he goes shopping, he expects highly personalized, relevant offers. One poor interaction with a brand, and poof, the customer’s gone, almost-certain never to return. Customer retention’s turning into customer obsession, and only companies with the ability to paint...

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