Switzerland vies to become Europe’s AI hub City Talk With approximately 8.6 million people and four official languages (German, French, Italian, and Romansh), Switzerland is uniquely at the heart of Europe but without being a member of the European Union. In global terms, Switzerland does not even enter the top five as an ‘AI leader’. But when it comes to Europe and its place [...]
20 times that AI has tried to make it in the music business City Talk Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming omnipresent across every segment of cultural and economic activity. But this phenomenon is not new – AI has been trying to carve a name for itself in the music business as a collaborator, composer, artist and lyricist since 1951… 1) The first computer generated music (1951) In 1951 British mathematician Alan [...]
How did we get here? A short history of artificial intelligence City Talk For over seventy years the story of artificial intelligence (AI) has been one of saturating the capabilities of AI to the level of computational power available, and then waiting for Moore’s Law to catch up. During that time there have been bubbles of AI hype, research booms, funding busts and a quiet rebirth. Here we [...]
7 weird and wonderful applications of artificial intelligence May 26, 2021 The Rewired investment fund focuses on enabling the technologies of the AI revolution by investing across five verticals including machine learning, robotics, bionics, sensors, mapping and localisation. Backed by technology investors including Tej Kohli, we believe that AI has the potential to positively impact every segment of economic activity and to improve every aspect of human life. Here [...]
Europe’s place in the global AI race May 26, 2021 History is a good predictor of the future. In the Eighteenth Century the industrial revolution led to technological, socio-economic and cultural changes that eventually transformed not just our quality of life, but also our expectations from life. The early adopters of technological change have compounded their progress ever since, and the earliest industrialized nations continue [...]
How AI is transforming drug discovery May 25, 2021 12 June 2007 marked a day in history that grow in significance in the coming decades. On that day a robot named ‘Adam’ ended the monopoly of humans over the discovery of scientific knowledge by identifying the function of a yeast gene. By searching through public databases, Adam generated hypotheses about the genetic codes for [...]
Your next GP might be Dr Alexa or Dr Siri May 20, 2021 One of the ways that artificial intelligence is transforming everyday life is through combination technologies which amalgamate innovations such as machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, image processing, natural language processing, speech recognition and more into brand new applications. The most active innovator and adopter of these ‘magic’ new combinations is the global healthcare sector. [...]
Do you know your bots? May 19, 2021 Robots are everywhere — from robotic wearables, bionic hands and arms, companion robots, medical devices and even biomorphic drones that model the behaviour of bees. The fastest and most significant new innovations are taking place right now in three subsectors of the robotics sector which focus respectively on cobots, drones and medical robots. Cobots Cobots [...]
AI is the next frontier for surgical robots May 19, 2021 The introduction of robots into surgery has changed modern surgical practise. The global surgical robotics market is expected to reach $98 billion in value by the end of 2024. Being minimally invasive, surgical robots are helping to perform complex surgeries with geometrical precision even in anatomical areas that are difficult for even human surgeons to reach. [...]
These are the jobs of tomorrow May 18, 2021 The future looks bright if you are a data analyst, a scientist, a robotics engineer, a business development professional or an artificial intelligence or big data-specialist. These are amongst the top twenty roles that are increasing in demand across all industries, according to the World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report. The report claims that [...]