Feb 13, 2020 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Robots & Drones
It’s a cloudy day in early October and I’m circling my rented Jeep Wrangler around a maze of industrial buildings in Hamilton, Ohio. Hamilton is a small city 30 miles north of Cincinnati with a population of just over 62,000 people. Like much of Ohio,...
Feb 5, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Business
Tech giant IBM cemented its patent leadership in the United States, with over 9,000 received patents, including in artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain, in 2019. With the 9,626 patents secured, IBM became the company that received the most patents in the...
Feb 5, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence
Convenience store giant 7-Eleven revealed last week during the Re-Work A.I. conference in San Francisco that it had opened an experimental cashierless store in Dallas in November. Shahmeer Mirza, a 7-Eleven machine learning engineer, said people can pick up what they...
Jan 30, 2020 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Sustainability
Around the world, the appetite for seafood continues to grow. Per-capita consumption of fish products has gone from 22 pounds annually in the 1960s to more than 46 pounds today. With marine environments under increasing pressure and wild fisheries unable to satisfy...
Jan 22, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Business, Jobs, Smart Manufacturing
Despite the allure of working at the forefront of the latest and greatest technologies, there is a well-known skills gap facing the manufacturing industry. This represents a huge opportunity for workforce entrants and those looking to advance their...
Jan 22, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured
Google’s chief executive officer has left no doubt about how important he thinks artificial intelligence will be to humanity. “AI is one of the most profound things we’re working on as humanity. It’s more profound than fire or electricity,” Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar...
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