A $50 ‘GenBI’ Tool for the Rest of Us

The ChatGPT revolution has spawned a tidal wave of AI assistants that do all sorts of things, like writing stories, generating images, and even making music. Data analysts and data engineers at small and midsize business Read more…

Meta Releases AI Model That Translates Over 200 Languages

If you’ve ever witnessed the bizarre word stew that Facebook sometimes concocts when translating content between languages, you have seen how translation technology doesn't always hit its mark. That could be changing s Read more…

Narrowing the AI-BI Gap with Exploratory Analysis

The worlds of AI and BI occupy distinct places in the analytics continuum, which is most often understood with concepts like descriptive analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics. Users can leverage des Read more…

Apple Looks to Machine Learning to Improve Siri

As it pulls the plug on iPhone jacks, Apple is making what appears to be a concerted move into machine learning as it seeks to upgrade its next operating system to improve its Siri virtual assistant along with emerging m Read more…

Your Big Data Will Read To You Now

One of the biggest challenges in big data analytics is communicating insights back to users. Many organizations rely on dashboards and visualization tools to display the analytic results. Now a new crop of tools is using Read more…

Military Insurer USAA Embraces IBM’s Watson

IBM said this week it is expanding commercialization of its Watson cognitive computing technology through a deal with military financial services provider USAA that will result in what IBM said will be Watson's first com Read more…

Wolfram: Software the Hard Part

The development of algorithms that enable non-data scientists and executives the ability to access big data will be the over-arching trend over the next 5 years said luminary Stephen Wolfram in a recent interview. Read more…

Watson: Coming to a Cloud Near You

The cognitive computer known as Watson will soon be available as a service in the cloud. For now, we'll resist calling this "WaaS" and opt instead to point it as another step along the path of creating more robust, big data-ready cloud services. Read more…