Day: February 20, 2016

  • Salesforce signs up machine learning company PredictionIO to its empire

    Salesforce signs up machine learning company PredictionIO to its empire

    Salesforce has signed a “definitive agreement” to buy startup company PredictionIO, which owns an open source machine learning server for developers and data scientists to build and deploy predictive applications. “We couldn’t be more excited to join Salesforce,” writes Simon Chan, co-founder and CEO of PredictionIO, on his blog. Just over six months ago, UK-based PredictionIO…

  • Nvidia profits from growing market for artificial intelligence systems

    Nvidia profits from growing market for artificial intelligence systems

    Chipmaker Nvidia claims it has earned record-breaking revenues in the last quarter thanks to its achievements in a range of newfangled technologies, such as driverless cars and deep learning. Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia, says: “Nvidia is at the center of four exciting growth opportunities – PC gaming, VR, deep learning, and self-driving cars.…

  • UN technology boss proclaims the end of human innovation

    UN technology boss proclaims the end of human innovation

    United Nations Chief Technology Officer Atefeh Riazi says the end is nigh for human innovation.  In an interview with TechRepublic, Riazi says all future innovations will be made by computers. “The next innovations will come through artificial intelligence,” says Riazi. “It will be the AI innovating. “We need to think about our role as technologists and…