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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is finally coming of age after many a false start. The days of runaway robots are still futuristic, but the time has come when the confluence of AI, Big Data and human domain knowledge is happening, with exceptional results. AI is being applied in multiple domains. IT operations is one such domain that is ripe for taking an AI-first approach. While many companies contemplate the move from paying human employees to using a slave labor battalion of machines, the shortcomings of said machines become all the clearer, and other companies are working to fix these. One such company is Affectiva, who recently raised $14 million in a Series D funding round to pursue its work of giving robots a better understanding of human emotion and how it's displayed. Actually, I could likely write this as a reusable piece and just do a global find and replace on the words that define the technology. For instance this piece written in the 1980s might have said Quadraphonic, in the 1990s HD, and last decade 3D. Every one of these things had the same dirty little secret, the hardware comes out well in advance of the software. This is largely why Microsoft went to a HoloLens offering and targeted space exploration first because, in that market for a specific customer, the hardware and software are/were created in tandem It might seem like a misnomer, as the sharing economy has previously been thought to mean getting stuff for free. A new report from Juniper Research should dispel that notion, as it's projecting that, by 2020, the sharing economy's revenues are set to triple current levels and hit fully $20 billion annually. Ask ten people you know what the last thing they viewed live was and eight of them will tell you, a sporting event. The others may cite the occasional awards show and possibly the news, but most consumers dictate their own program guide through recording a program via a DVR, watching on demand, or signing up for a streaming service like Hulu or Netflix, which in turn makes appointment viewing seem almost passe. A great example of how simple tech innovations can make even the smallest things in our lives a little easier, the Oombrella, developed by Wezzoo, is a smart umbrella that links to an app that lets you know when it's about to rain, so you can always remember to take your umbrella with you when you need it.
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