AI

Before presenting my thoughts on XAI as a behavior-regulating feature, it is important to recap an excerpt from what I wrote last month in my “five observations” post: Regulating AI behavior is necessary in order to mitigate harm. One approach for achieving this is imposing a legal requirement that prior…

Artificial Intelligence Policies in East Asia: An Overview from the Canadian Perspectiveprovides an overview of policies on artificial intelligence (AI) from three East Asian countries – China, Japan, and South Korea. This new report focuses on government policies, talent management, and ethical, legal, and social implications of AI, tomorrow’s leading…

Regulations governing marketing messages, whether phone calls, direct mail or digital, have historically required consumers to “opt-out” of receiving unwanted messages. This is in contrast to many other countries in which advertising messages cannot be sent unless the consumer opts-in. Recently, however, in part in reaction to Europe’s new General Data Privacy…

One of the world’s best poker players doesn’t have a poker face. In fact, it doesn’t have any face at all. Pluribus, an AI program, has demonstrated it can beat human pros in six-player, no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em, the most popular variant of online poker, according to its creators, researchers…

Canada’s largest grocery and pharmacy chain saw sluggish same-store sales at Loblaw Cos. Ltd. food stores in the most recent quarter as an “overzealous” attempt to implement algorithms using consumer data to increase profits ate into profits. The company, based in Brampton, Ont., reported Wednesday a second-quarter profit of $286-million,…

Artificial intelligence is a hot investment for venture capital firms. And as the use of the technology expands, some investors expect consumers to become more comfortable with offering their data for added convenience. U.S. consumers are still on the fence about the use of A.I. to crunch massive amounts of…

PERHAPS BECAUSE IT lies at the perfect nexus of genuinely-very-complicated and impossibly-confounded-by-marketing-buzzword-speak, the term “AI” has become a catchall for anything algorithmic and sufficiently technologically impressive. AI, which is supposed to stand for “artificial intelligence,” now spans applications from cameras to the military to medicine. The race is on, and if…

Two weeks ago, the United Arab Emirates hosted Ai Everything, its first major AI conference and one of the largest AI applications conferences in the world. The event was an impressive testament to the breadth of industries in which companies are now using machine learning. It also served as an…

As consumer expectations grow for more personalized, relevant, and assistive experiences, machine learning is becoming an invaluable tool to help meet those demands. It’s helping marketers create smarter customer segmentations, deliver more relevant creative campaigns, and measure performance more effectively. In fact, 85% of executives believe AI will allow their…

Within the next 10 to 15 years, the Canadian workforce could face complex forces ranging from automation to digitalization, as technology begins to progressively assimilate into daily life. As part of its Employment in 2030 project, a new report by the Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship explored the various trends compelling…