White Wolf Rising

How AI Changed Chess Forever   Garry Kasparov is perceived by many chess players to be the greatest chess player in history. After becoming world champion in 1985, he dominated the game, for almost 20 years, with a dynamic style of play and a very strong personality. People who do not know much about chess are however aware that Kasparov is best known for losing to a machine in a chess match. In 1997, Kasparov was beaten by an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue. To be fair to him, this was the second match as he convincingly won the first one a year before, in 1996. However, his defeat introduced the beginning of a new era of machine mastery over man. Since then, personal computers have grown more powerful to the point that even mobile phones are now capable of running chess engines as powerful as Deep Blue alongside other apps. More significantly, thanks to progress in artificial intelligence, machines are learning and exploring the game for themselves and are now surpassing...

The Emergence of Data Engineers, Data Architects, Data Scientists, Citizen Data Scientists and Analytics Translators Within the next two decades, it is estimated according to the Economist magazine that 47% of all employment will be taken by machines. This will be the greatest challenge our societies, on a worldwide scale, will have to face. This state of affair will be mostly caused by the rapid evolution in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation of white collars jobs. Our societies must today prepare themselves to this challenge and a new model must be worked out to ensure that we do not endure major social unrest in the years to come as for example it is highly likely that a large number of today's babies will never work in their lifetime as we have in ours. Of course, this prediction may not be accepted by many people today who may feel that we will be able to create new jobs, etc... However, looking back at what happened to blue-collar workers when automatio...

AI and Pharma Industry: A New Love Story The medical industry has become a Research and Development (R&D) sector where Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made its entry in a very powerful manner. They are many signs that we are moving more and more toward speciality AI applications. The quality of any AI applications is directly related to the quality and consistency of the data that they are fed with. One of the most important areas of progress in AI will be the quality and consistency of available data. Therefore, the Internet of Things (IoT), and its ability to capture orderly and standardised data, will be the next revolution. To this date the major medical areas affected by AI have generally been: ·        Robotic Surgery: For example, laser eye surgery and hair transplants are typical procedures that are simple enough for effective treatments.         Image Analysis: AI automated systems are assisting ...

The consecrations of AI and human stupidity In the history of mankind, each century was marked by positive and negative events that affected not only humans but also the planet in ways that were not easily foreseeable beforehand. In the 20th century, the two world wars and the fast emergence of IT technologies are examples of major changes that affected our lives. Now that we have started the 21 st century, apart from the obvious rise of worldwide ultra-nationalism and global warming concerns, we have the consecrations of both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and of the more obscure one of human stupidity. What marks this century, more than any others, is the fact that any erroneous or just bad changes we implement could well result with the end of our civilisation. The following analysis for the evolution of both AI and human stupidity are based on established scientific studies and should therefore be seriously considered. As business workers and leaders, we have an ethical and...