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Vertical Intelligence: Expert-Guided Big-Data Analytics

By Dick Weisinger

What do you get when you combine human expertise with the results from big-data analytics? Something called ‘Vertical Intelligence’. Experts in a particular area or vertical understand it well and they know that there are specific data indicators, relationships, and…

Artificial Intelligence: Teaching Machines to Learn Like Children

By Dick Weisinger

We’ve experienced startling successes with artificial intelligence over the last decade, but many researchers view the current state of the field as having plateaued. Part of the problem is that the current AI algorithms require massive amounts of data for…

Utilities: Technology Investment Needed to Reinvent the Industry

By Dick Weisinger

The utilities and energy sector has been a notorious laggard in modernizing and keeping pace with new technology. That may begin to change as climate change, energy prices, and energy-grid stress drive utilities to be more efficient in their operations.…

Artificial Intelligence: AI’s Carbon Footprint

By Dick Weisinger

The popularity of Artificial Intelligence and the massive computational resources required by AI create an industry with a mammoth carbon footprint. The computational resources for “best-in-class” AI models are doubling every 3.4 months which equals a more than 300,000 times…

Alternative Truths: Using Technology to Distort Scientific Research

By Dick Weisinger

For all the good that technology has brought, there has been an underside to it that is disturbing. Technology has made it easy to distort and lie. Tools like Photoshop and more recently tools based on AI make it easy…