A year or so ago, I wrote a piece of fiction called Reccr. Reccr was supposed to be an AI-driven recommendation engine that filtered life around you and used any and all data about you to refine that filter. We already see a rise of that behavior: Faceboo...

Quantitative and qualitative assessments of the rise of the machines and of robots replacing humans. (more…)

The marriage of document management and artificial intelligence could well change how we think about both technologies. (more…)

​On July 20, China’s State Council issued the “New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan” (新一代人工智能发展规划), which articulates an ambitious, three-step agenda for China to lead the world in AI. (more…)

Emotions run deep in every conversation we humans have. Deciphering these underlying emotions is the key to making machine interactions more human.  Detecting emotions in text is difficult enough for human beings, let alone artificially created machines, ... (more…)