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Artificial Intelligence: Biggest Tech Companies Monopolize AI with Brains and Bucks

By Dick Weisinger

AI could be the factor that shifts competitive landscape across a number of industries. A KPGM report found that “AI will play a role in creating new winners and losers. A key question now is who will move up the…

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Letting Humans Have the Final Say

By Dick Weisinger

The accuracy of many of today’s AI algorithms have been uncannily good. But not always, and that’s the problem. It’s hard to put trust in something that isn’t understood and often can’t be identically reproduced. Mission-critical applications aren’t able to…

Artificial Intelligence: Workers Prefer Robots over Humans

By Dick Weisinger

The results are in. A survey of managers found that they’d rather have robots working for them than people. And on the flip side, a parallel report found that workers would rather have robots for managers rather than a person.…

Patents: Can Inventions by AI be Patented?

By Dick Weisinger

Can patents be issued for technology or algorithms derived by artificial intelligence? That’s a problem that lawyers and researchers are now grappling with. Law firm Baker McKenzie predicts that “patentability of AI-created inventions, liability for infringement by AI, and patent…

Program Synthesis: Software that Writes Itself

By Dick Weisinger

Can AI algorithms ever take over the role of software engineers? It may be a long ways away, but researchers are trying to teach computers to write software, a task that they’re calling ‘Program Synthesis’ or ‘Automated Programming’. Rajeev Alur,…