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Artificial Intelligence: Attempts to Make Black-Box Algorithms Explainable

By Dick Weisinger

Many recent successes using Artificial Intelligence have been stunning. But a major criticism of the technique is that often AI results can not be fully explained or are not totally reproducible.  Even the designers of the AI algorithm are not…

Blockchain: Everybody’s Talking, but Adoption’s Still Tepid

By Dick Weisinger

Has Blockchain stalled?  Performance is slow and adoption has been relatively tepid. Christian Catalini, As MIT professor, said that “some of these platforms are developed to be kind of replicas of the old system, where the trusted intermediary has almost the…

Security: The High Cost of Remedying Data Breaches

By Dick Weisinger

Your IT infrastructure has been breached.  Now what?  What are the implications?  What are the costs? Victims of data breaches will need to cough up a lot to remedy the loss.  A study commissioned by IBM and conducted by Ponemon…

Machine Speech: Digital Assistants and Speech-Enabled Interfaces Coming to the Workplace

By Dick Weisinger

Natural Language Interaction. It’s two-way voice communication between humans and machines. Gartner says that the technology is improving and can be expected to become increasingly used within the workplace, and not just for call center interactions. Matthew Cain, analyst at…

Open Data: AI Defends Open Data Against Malicious Graffiti, but is not yet Foolproof

By Dick Weisinger

Open Data projects like Wikipedia provide useful repositories of information.  But open data repositories are often targets of malicious edit attacks. Data is changed in ways to alter or deface information. Three years ago, Wikipedia deployed AI to try to…