by Kenneth Cukier | Aug 13, 2018 | AI, Big Data
The key resource of the AI era is labeled training data, and a quiet rivalry is on to get it. Clever firms rely on user interactions — and the “data exhaust” this generates — to improve their services in a continuous feedback loop. FULL...
by Kenneth Cukier | Aug 12, 2018 | Big Data
Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits but also big headaches. FULL...
by Kenneth Cukier | Aug 12, 2018 | AI, Big Data
New wireless technologies will link not just people but lots of objects too. That will be tremendously useful, but getting there will be tricky FULL...
by Kenneth Cukier | Aug 7, 2018 | Big Data
More isn’t just more. More is new. More is better. More is different. As businesses can collect, store and process more data, this changes what they do, how value is created and how organizations are run. — The basis of commercial enterprise is information. That...
by Kenneth Cukier | Aug 7, 2018 | Big Data
How It’s Changing the Way We Think About the World Everyone has heard of big data but few know what it means. In essence, we can do with a large body of data things we can’t do when working with smaller amounts: the change of scale leads to a change of...
by Kenneth Cukier | Aug 7, 2018 | Big Data
Vast troves of information are manipulated and monetized, yet companies have a hard time assigning value to it. FULL...
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