Posts by Melody Smith
Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce
The constant anxiety and worry about automation and machines displacing workers continues. When in fact, the idea that technological advances aren’t necessarily driving us toward a jobless future is good news. This interesting subject came to us from MIT’s Sloan Management School in their article, “Why ‘the future of AI is the future of work’.”…
Read MoreUsing Emerging Technology in Peer Review
For the past year, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has been using artificial intelligence (AI) software on all manuscripts it has provisionally accepted after peer review. This information came to us from Nature in their article, “Journals adopt AI to spot duplicated images in manuscripts.” The aim is to automatically alert editors to…
Read MoreAnalytics and Job Growth
Technology jobs have long been on the rise, but with the pandemic changing the way many businesses operate, there is an increased dependency on analytics to determine strategy. The Economic Times brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Big data analytics forecasted to be the most in-demand skill in 2022: Monster Annual…
Read MoreNavigating the Data with Taxonomies
Most organizations today face challenges as they accumulate volumes of data on premises and in the cloud. How do they begin to locate what’s valuable, sensitive, or relevant when the time comes, and in an expedited manner? Content without access is relatively worthless. Enterprise search is how an organization helps people seek the information they…
Read MoreBehind the Search
We know search has been evolving and will continue to do so. Intelligent search is the power behind so much of our business world. A long way from the early days of keyword search boxes. This interesting topic was brought to us by the blogpost, “Insights on the Present and Future of Intelligent Search.” With…
Read MoreUsing AI to Fight Cybercrime
When you hear about cyberattacks, do you automatically link it to organized crime? Surprisingly, it is very active throughout both the private and public sectors, from banks to federal governments to small businesses. The Crime Report brought this information to us in their article, “A Cyber Weapon to Fight Cyber Fraud: Artificial Intelligence.” According to a…
Read MoreUnderstanding the Why
Technology can make a decision faster. That doesn’t make it fair. Algorithmic discrimination or bias is a new term, but not a new problem. This interesting news came to us from Wired in their article, “China Is About to Regulate AI—and the World Is Watching.” On March 1, China will outlaw algorithmic discrimination as part…
Read MoreIs Too Much Data Possible?
Data saturation is everywhere. The belief has long been that more is better; however, that actually isn’t true in the case of data. The rapid rise in our ability to collect data hasn’t been matched by our ability to support, filter and manage the data. CMS Wire brought this interesting subject to our attention in…
Read MoreRemote Working Exposed New Fraud Opportunities
COVID-19 has been the catalyst for many changes and, unfortunately, fraudulent digital activity is one of them. This topic came to us from Lombard Odier in their article, “Tackling cyber fraud using both human and artificial intelligence.” Hackers have switched their focus to people working remotely online, and used fear created by COVID-19 to actively…
Read MoreCollaboration with AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is still ethereal to some. Even organizations who have deployed the technology do not have a full understanding of how it works and how it achieves the desired results. ZDNet brought this to our attention in their article, “A call to bring more human-centered design to artificial intelligence.” The technology is not…
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