A Blog about Machine Learning, Data Privacy and what it takes to make sense of the digital words in the rise of the digital millennium.
Last week Bev from PWI’s group in Linkedin pointed me to a great HBR article: “How One Clothing Company Blends AI and Human Expertise”, by H. James Wilson, Paul Daugherty and Prashant Shukla. It describes how the company Stitch Fix works, using machine learning insights to assist their designers, and as you will see, they Read More …
Two weeks ago was the Data Innovation Summit 2016. I was due to speak using the presentation format of ‘ignite’. For the ones who don’t know this format, it’s a nightmare! Out of joke, it means that slides go automatically at regular intervals (15″ in my case). You cannot stop it, you don’t control the flow… Read More …
Due to last events in Belgium, the terrorist bomb attacks in Zaventem and Brussels, I couldn’t but remember the article from Bloomberg Businessweek talking about pre-crime: ‘China Tries Its Hand at Pre-Crime’. They refer us to the film Minority Report, with Tom Cruise, that takes place in a future society where three mutants foresee all Read More …
As you may know, I am a fan of Machine Learning, a subfield of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that englobes computer programs that exhibit some kind of intelligent behavior. The first researchers on AI began analyzing how we (humans) did intelligent tasks in order to create programs that reproduced our behavior. So look at the irony Read More …
Have you seen this article? It’s about the project Soli from the Google’s Advanced Technologies and Projects (ATAP) group. They have implemented a new way to comunicate with a computer: through radar. The radar captures the slight movements of the hand like in this picture, where just moving your fingers in the air makes you Read More …
Mid-February, Francesca Bria from Nesta presented the final study report on Digital Social Innovation (#DigitalSI) As NESTA puts it: This report coordinated by Nesta and commissioned by the European Commission, DG CONNECT is the first systematic network analysis of the emerging digital social innovation (DSI) ecosystem in Europe The study began 18 months ago with Read More …
David Auerbach has written this article pointing out that some classification algorithms may be racists : Can a computer program be racist? Imagine this scenario: A program that screens rental applicants is primed with examples of personal history, debt, and the like. The program makes its decision based on lots of signals: rental history, credit record, Read More …
Could you imagine a world where children will ask you to bring them to school? Well, that world doesn’t seem so far away… at least I know my son would be happy to go to the school Ian Livingstone is planning to open in 2016 in Hammersmith, London. Read what technology reporter Dave Lee wrote Read More …
Innovation is creating new materials, new sensors each time smaller, cheaper, more flexible, more powerful and at the same time less power-consuming. It allows to put them everywhere: we are surrounded with devices crowded with those sensors as our phones with cameras, gyroscopes and gps. And all those measurements captured by the sensors are being Read More …
I just came back from holidays, and I want to share with you my last reading: “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by David Kahneman. He describes our mind as having 2 different ways of functioning: a fast one, based on our ‘intuition’ and a slower one, where we have to do the effort of reasoning. The Read More …