For all of us who follow with interest the progress of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robots, the recent news about the victory of Googles AlphaGo against grandmaster Lee Se-Dol has made us think if we face the evolutionary moment in which technology finally triumphed humanity and it was Google who just proved how unpredictable artificial intelligence can be. To Fear or Not … [Read more...] about To Fear or Not to Fear Robots, That’s the Question
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Big Data Ethics: How Does It Affect Your Privacy?
Big data enables to check, control and know everything. But to know everything entails an obligation to act on behalf of and to protect the customer. Such an obligation is that organization should do everything possible to protect (sensitive) data sets and to be open and clear what is done with that data. Big data ethics is also related to that although anything is possible to … [Read more...] about Big Data Ethics: How Does It Affect Your Privacy?
How Will The Future Of Big Data Impact The Way We Work And Live?
The semantic web, or web 3.0, is often quoted as the next phase of the Internet. In a previous post, I discussed the impact of big data on the semantic web, and I mentioned that the semantic web would enable all humans as well as all internet connected devices to communicate with each other as well as share and re-use data in different forms across different applications and … [Read more...] about How Will The Future Of Big Data Impact The Way We Work And Live?
How Coca-Cola Takes A Refreshing Approach On Big Data
As the worlds largest non-alcoholic beverage company, Coca-Cola generates Petabytes of data from various sources. Multi-channel retail data, customer profile data from loyalty programs, social media data, supply chain data, competitor data, sales and shipment data from bottling partners as well as transaction and merchandising data. Coca-cola collects vast amounts of data and … [Read more...] about How Coca-Cola Takes A Refreshing Approach On Big Data
In The World of Big Data, Nothing Is For Free
Big data is everywhere and more and more products are getting sensors and collect data. Thanks to the quantified-self movement, there are so many (free) apps that collect a lot of information of users. However, in the world of Big Data nothing is for free. Free products or services that are offered to users are paid for with data and it is unclear who owns that data from then … [Read more...] about In The World of Big Data, Nothing Is For Free
