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Barry Cousins of Info-Tech Research Group Looks At Fact Checking and AI By Barry Cousins As an analyst, I’d like to have a universal fact checker. Something like the carbon monoxide detectors on each level of my home. Something that would sound an alarm when there’s danger of intellectual asphyxiation from choking on the baloney put forward by certain sales people, news organizations, governments, and educators, for example. For most of my life, we would simply have turned to academic literature for credible truth.  There is now enough legitimate doubt to make us seek out a new model or at a minimum, augment that academic model. I don’t want to be misunderstood: I’m not suggesting that all news and education is phony baloney. And I’m not suggesting that the people speaking untruths are always doing so intentionally. The fact is, we don’t have anything close to a recognizable database of facts from which we can base such analysis. For most of us, this was ...

With Human Emotion Recognition AI, MJI's Tapia Robot Can Now Understand Your Emotion Tapia Integrates Human Emotion (photo courtesy of MJI) Japanese robot maker, MJI , announces that they integrates human emotion recognition AI into their communication robot Tapia . MJI adopted Smartmedical's Empath, a vocal emotion recognition technology utilized in various business fields such as mental health, call centers, and entertainment. With Empath, Tapia can understand human emotion through dialogue with users: joy, calm, sorrow, anger, and vigor.

Leading M&A Firm Magister Advisors Issues Exit Guidance for AI Startups Hello AI startups. Listen up. Magister Advisors, the leading global M&A advisory firm to the technology industry, has issued the following analysis, pinpointing the inversion of conventional M&A ‘laws’ for AI companies.- (1)  Pre-revenue AI companies being acquired for more than $2M per employee; (2)  Tech industry experiences its first 'Deep Blue moment' as AI and machine learning attract buyer premiums; (3)  AI firms without revenues are more valuable than those with, as buyers look for pristine competitive advantage

Robert Atkinson of Think Tank ITIF Talks about Current Myths of Artificial Intelligence © Agsandrew | Dreamstime.com -  Emergence of Artificial Intelligence If you are a believer in a1st and 4th of   Kranzberg’s Laws  of Technology where " Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral." and " Although technology might be a prime element in many public issues, nontechnical factors take precedence in technology-policy decisions." These laws could apply how one could look at  Artificial Intelligence or AI.   In the news recently, from Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk citing the grave fears of AI development, we look at the opposite side of the coin, that slowing down technological development of Artificial Intelligence could hurt our society in the benefits that it can bring us. We had a great opportunity to talk with ITIF President Robert  Atkinson , who released a report which debunks these and other prevailing myths  about A...

ORA.TV Broadcasts Stephen Hawking on Larry King Now Show Shot of Stephen Hawking on Larry King Now Courtesy of ORA.tv Stephen Hawking – one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers, and a man who rarely gives interviews – joins Larry on the Emmy nominated series “Larry King Now , live from the Starmus Festival, to discuss the greatest issues facing the planet, where artificial intelligence is headed and what he makes of Kurzweil’s singularity theory (man and machine to become one). Plus, astrophysicist Garik Israelian and creator of the Starmus Festival, talks about the festival which is this year dedicated to Hawking. ORA.tv is Larry Kings Internet TV channel launched in 2012 . Check it out below from ORA.tv .

Fynd.me  Hopes to Refine Product Searches for Your Fashion Taste What is the beauty of e-commerce? - access to thousands of choices. And that is the issue. With the breadth of choices, convenience and ease of fulfillment, fashion e-commerce continues to grow with Amazon.com taking the lead(~ $16B in 2015(est. $52B in 2020), 5% of total apparel sales ). But, even with the Amazon.com search, it can take a long time to zero in on your tastes. That is where New York based fynd.me comes in. The service learns your preferences and becomes your personal "concierge." Their current business model only works with department stores which is quite great. The quality of the photos that mature department stores offer and a solid fulfillment backbone isn't a bad starting point. In the future, I can see a Pepper robot embedded with Fynd.me algorithm to be an in-store salesperson someday.  Last week, we spoke with co-founder Charese Embree of  fynd.me  on what their service ...