"Hello, Mr Kaiser!" Remember him? At least our dear German readers will: From the 1970s to the early 2000s he came to our living room before every newsreel. As the insurance representative of the nation, he embodied trust, closeness and fairness. Whether property, casualty or motor vehicle insurance, Günther Kaiser
May you live in interesting times – or so the old Chinese curse goes. Well, we’re certainly doing that. In 2017, the global economy was firing on all cylinders, and things weren’t looking too bad. Since then, a mixture of protectionism, the Sino-US trade war and economic uncertainty has changed
As Malcolm Gladwell reminded us at the World Business Forum There is a time to innovate and a time to reap success. History, both recent and less recent, is full of examples of great innovations that had to wait years, if not centuries, to become successful. Why was this, though?
It suddenly seems as if artificial intelligence (AI) is all around us. It is already having a huge impact in a wide range of sectors, including health care. We are now starting to see it move into the manufacturing sector as an important part of Industry 4.0, the digitisation of
So much debate still rages about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and what it means for the future of society and humanity. While this continues, governments around the world are actively embracing the prospect of transforming their departments into smart digital governments that are able to deliver improved services to organisations and
Considering the growing amount of data available and the rise of edge computing, we can expect rapid growth for AI and decisions on the edge (addressed in AI on the edge will kick IoT market adoption, not 5G). All of this influences how we can cope with the speed of
The question of what happens to the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland as the UK leaves the European Union is one of the most taxing challenges affecting the Brexit negotiations. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not something that magically produces an answer to every difficult question –
Incontrare Roberto Verganti in occasione di Analytics Experience 2018 è stata una grande emozione. E' un enorme piacere ascoltare dal vivo questo professore del Politecnico di Milano, che dal palco trasmette la stessa energia che ritroviamo nei suoi libri. Ho sentito parlare per la prima volta di lui nel 2010 quando
I have a confession to make. I’m a gaming enthusiast. Possibly even a gaming nerd. I really love computer games, and not just to play them. I’m interested in how they are made, how they work, and how they might develop in future. I’m particularly interested in how artificial intelligence
A picture paints a thousand words – to humans, at least. Traditionally, however, images have made little sense to computers, which have no conception of the meaning behind the strings of code that make up a digital image. Of course, some computers have long had the ability to identify and
