Are You Ready for a Smart Hospitality Industry?

The hospitality industry is all about delivering the best guest experience. Whether this is in the local restaurant around the corner, the five-star beach resort that you visit during your holiday or the conference venue where you attend an event. Superior guest experience is what differentiates the winners from the

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Why the Government of Tomorrow is Also a Data Organisation

Nowadays, every organisation is a data organisation. This not only applies to commercial organisations, but also to governments. Governments at every level – local, regional, national and supranational – should take a different approach to organise their activities. However, becoming a data organisation is not an easy feat. It requires governments to

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How Artificial Intelligence Will Disrupt the Financial Sector

Artificial intelligence thrives with data. The more data you have, the better your algorithms will be. However, just having a lot of data is not sufficient anymore. You also need high-quality data, or in the words of Peter Norvig, you need better data: > “We don’t have better algorithms,

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Seen and Be Seen: How Facial Recognition Will Change Society

With the number of cameras drastically increasing in our world, facial recognition is rapidly taking flight. Facial recognition is a biometric faceprint, where artificial intelligence [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/understanding-elements-of-ai/] maps an individual’s face mathematically. This faceprint is then stored in data. Later, the stored data can be compared

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Seven Guidelines to Ensure Ethical AI

The organisation of tomorrow [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/the-organisation-of-tomorrow/] will be built around data, and it will require artificial intelligence to make sense of all that data. Artificial intelligence [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/understanding-elements-of-ai/] is a broad discipline with the objective to develop intelligent machines. AI consists of several subfields:

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Why AI Will Make Organisations More Humane

The organisation of tomorrow [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/how-build-organisation-of-tomorrow/] will be built around data. This will require smart algorithms to make sense of all that data. AI will enable organisations to leverage data and embed smartness [https://datafloq.com/read/why-the-future-will-never-be-slow-again/5010] in every process and customer touchpoint. When you

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How to Control AI that Becomes Too Advanced?

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming more advanced. One of the organisations working on AI is OpenAI; the not-for-profit artificial intelligence research organisation co-founded by Elon Musk. Last week, they produced a paper [https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/] demonstrating the progress they have made on predictive text software. The AI that

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Understanding the Elements of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is here to stay [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/emerging-technologies-future-will-never-be-slow-again/]. The development of AI is speeding up on a daily basis. Only recently, Google’s DeepMind created the AI AlphaStar [https://deepmind.com/blog/alphastar-mastering-real-time-strategy-game-starcraft-ii/] that secured a decisive victory against two grandmaster players of the game of StarCraft

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2018 in Review: The Year of Transition is Over

Last year, I called 2018 the Year of Transition [https://datafloq.com/read/the-top-7-technology-trends-for-2018/4085] because technological developments are accelerating, but they had not yet reached the state of full maturity. Indeed, artificial intelligence did leap forward, with Uber [https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612470/uber-has-cracked-two-classic-80s-video-games-by-giving-an-ai-algorithm-a-new-type-of-memory/?utm_source=datafloq&

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