The rapid advances made in artificial intelligence and machine learning have paved a path toward a more accessible, efficient, and optimized future. However, best practices and ideal applications are still undecided. Recently, robotic “dogs” — that is, quadruped robots capable of independent motion and various functions — have become a…

Today, we use AI with the expectation that it will make us better than we are — faster, more efficient, more competitive, more accurate. Businesses in nearly every industry apply artificial intelligence tools to achieve goals that we would, only a decade or two ago, derided as moonshot dreams. …

Big data has far and away transcended its status as a technology buzzword. It has become a full-fledged infrastructural norm; countless business leaders have embraced its potential to provide enhanced insight, trend discovery, and other key variables contributing to their annual goals. …

The technology holds great promise, no question — but deployment must be done strategically, and with the understanding that you likely won’t see gains on its first attempt to integrate. This article was originally published on ChiefExecutive.net If you achieve the improbable often enough, even the impossible stops feeling quite so out of reach. Over the last several decades, artificial intelligence has permeated almost every American business sector. Its proponents position AI as the tech-savvy executive leader’s magic wand —…

At this time in 2018, the very idea of bitcoin becoming an accepted currency among major corporations would have been unlikely. Now, the idea still attracts some raised eyebrows — but it isn’t as immediately dismissed. Cryptocurrency had its first spotlight moment in 2018. It was the modern era’s equivalent…

Of all the circumstances that we might have imagined kickstarting America’s smart city aspirations, a pandemic surely wasn’t on our list. And yet, our anxieties over disease transmission might just be the fuel that propels us towards a future in which autonomous cars become the urban norm. A huge setback for public transit For the last…

Ever since COVID-19 made its American debut in March, corporate spaces across the country have gone dark. Once-bustling floors are silent; workstations sit empty as employees log into their work emails from the isolation of their home offices or dining room tables. According to recently-published statistics from Stanford, a remarkable…

Once more, titans of industry have fallen under censure for perceived monopolization and the abuse of their considerable power. But this time, their names aren’t Carnegie, Rockefeller, or Vanderbilt, but Bezos, Zuckerberg, Pichai, and Cook. In recent weeks, all four have faced hard questions about perceived corporate misbehavior. The concerns…

Contrary to what every inspirational entrepreneur biopic might imply, entrepreneurship isn’t a solitary pursuit. How can it be, when the challenges of building a business are so complicated, and usually demand such complex solutions? As someone who was once a rookie entrepreneur, I can tell you this: despite being acutely…