THE YEAR OF THE MACHINES This fall, in Northwest Arkansas, the Tech Summit takes on the current zeitgeist Kris Adams, NWA Tech Summit Director EVERY YEAR, THE Northwest Arkansas Tech Summit begins with brainstorming sessions among our advisory committee of some 60 people representing entities from tech startups to tech accelerators to tech freelancers to […]
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Debanjan Mahata, Ph.D.Senior Machine Learning Research EngineerBloomberg FOR A LONG time, to the average person “machine learning” just seemed like one of those techy buzzwords with a vague meaning and an even more vague relevance. But in the few short months since AI jumped out of sci-fi movies into our everyday lives, the technology behind
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“LIKE HIRING AN INTERN” The data shows that AI has effortlessly become part of our everyday lives FROM PLANNING A garden to organizing a meal…making a playlist to designing a gift…writing an office memo to composing a wedding speech…skimming a reading list to sorting through massive photo archives—these days, AI is being used in all
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IN OBSERVANCE OF “The Year of the Machines,” I wanted to emphasize the need for our state’s workers to learn as much as they can about AI. To make the point of how effective AI can be in your working life, I asked our AI friend Bard, from Google, to help me say a few words: “As artificial
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