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Artificial Intelligence – Cognition conundrum

Deep Learning’s limitations laid bare. Work on analysing how deep learning neural networks work clearly shows that these systems have no real understanding of what it is they are doing....

Artificial Intelligence – Practitioners, pretenders & tricksters.

Taxonomy separates the men from the boys in AI. With 40% of “AI” companies not even attempting to use AI in their products and the likelihood of serious disappointment in...

Research Publication – Reality Bytes – AI: Winter is coming

February 22nd 2019: Radio Free Mobile updates its coverage of artificial intelligence with the publication of: Reality Bytes: AI: Winter is coming. RFM research subscribers will receive their copy directly by email. ...

Google vs. Amazon – Speaker stats.

Finally, some good news for Google. Smart speaker shipments for Q4 18 show that Google has made up some ground on Amazon, but it has a very long way to...

Google vs. Amazon – Stuck at 2.

Google fails again to close on Alexa. While Google is rapidly increasing the number of skills available for the assistant, it has failed to materially close the gap on Amazon...

Autonomous Autos 2018 – Rotten Apple

Waymo’s lead shrinks again to 2 to 1. Apple’s offering is awful. Analysis of autonomous testing data submitted to the California DMV for 2018, reveals that while Waymo is still...

IBM – Watson the wanderer.

Watson goes nomadic. IBM has sensibly decided to allow its AI offering (Watson) to run on the cloud offerings of its rivals as well as enabling an ability to run...

Apple Siri – Nose job.

The privacy religion may prevent the AI fix. In stamping his authority on Apple’s AI efforts, John Giannandrea has an opportunity to fix the problems that are plaguing Siri but...

Voice Assistants – All about auto

Integration with the vehicle is essential A recent survey has found that voice assistants are quite widely used in the vehicle, but I think that until they are properly integrated,...

Microsoft Cortana – Dead or alive.

Cortana offers more dead than alive. With usage at rock bottom and its Cortana leader resigned, Microsoft is clearly distancing itself and its products from the hapless Cortana which now...