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Dave Coplin believes that the key to success for all of our futures is how we rise to the challenge and unleash the potential that AI and machine learning will bring us. We all need to evolve and fast. He looks at the10skillswe can nurture tofuture-proofour careers

I have been working with global technology companies for more than 30 years, helping people to truly understand the amazing potential on offer when humans work in harmony with machines.

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I have written two books, Ive worked with businesses and governments all over the world and recently Ive been inspiring and engaging kids and adults alike, all with one single goal in mind, which is simply to help everyone get the absolute best from technology.

The key to success for all of our futures is how we rise to the challenge and unleash the potential that AI and machine learning will bring us. We all need to evolve and fast.

In an age of algorithms and robots, we need to find a way to combine the best of technological capability with the best of human ability and find that sweet spot where humans and machines complement each other perfectly. With this in mind, here are my top ten skills that will enable humans to rise, to achieve more than ever before not just at work but across all aspects of our lives:

When it comes to creativity, I absolutely believe that technology is one of the most creative forces that we will ever get to enjoy. But creativity needs to be discovered and it needs to be nurtured. Our future will be filled with complex, challenging problems, the like of which we will never have encountered before. Were going to need a society of creative thinkers to help navigate it.

While the machines are busy crunching numbers, it will be the humans left to navigate the complicated world of emotions, motivation, and reason. In a world of the dark, cold logic of algorithms, the ability for individuals to understand and share the feelings of others is going to become a crucial skill. Along with creativity, empathy will be one of the most critical attributes that define the border between human and machine.

As well as teaching ourselves and our families to be confident with technology we also need to be accountable for how we use it.

Just because the computer gives you an answer, it doesnt make it right. We all need to learn to take the computers valuable input but crucially combine that with our own human intuition in order to discover the best course of action. Our future is all about being greater than the sum of our parts

One of creativitys most important companions is curiosity it is the gateway to the best way to be creative with technology. We now have at our fingertips access to every fact and opinion that has ever been expressed, but we take this for granted. And what do we choose to do with all that knowledge? Two words, cat videos. Im being playful of course, but part of the solution is to help all of us, especially kids, be curious about the world around us and to use technology to explore it.

Critical thinking will be the 21st-centuryhumans superpower. If we can help individuals both understand and apply it, we can, over time, unleash the full potential of our connected world. We should constantly question content we see, hear and read - and not just assume its true.

One of digital technologys key purposes is to connect humans with each other. Communicating with others is as essential to our future survival as breathing and yet were often just not that good at it, especially when were communicating with others who arent in the same physical space.

Learning to communicate well (and that includes really effective listening) regardless of whether that is on-line or off-line is one of the basic literacies of our digital world.

Building on our communication skills, collaboration is the purpose for much of the reason behind why we need to communicate well. Technology enables large numbers of people to come together, aligned around a common cause but we can only harness the collective power of people if we can find the best way to work together to unleash our collective potential.

The future doesnt stand still and now more than ever, that means neither can we. While we used to think about education as a single phase, early on in most peoples lives, the reality is that learning needs to be an everyday occurrence, regardless of our age or stage of life. Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, skills that are new today will be automated tomorrow and this means we can never afford to stand still.

The by-product of a rapidly changing world is that we need to help people learn to embrace the ambiguity such a world presents. More traditional mindsets of single domains of skills and single careers will have to give way to the much more nebulous world of multiple skillsets for multiple careers.In order to make the transition, people are going to need to find a way to preserve and develop enough energy to be able to embrace every new change and challenge so that they can both offer value and be valued by the ever-changing society they are a part of.

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As a technologist, and an optimist, we need to remember that the machines and algorithms are here to help.The success of our future will depend entirely on our ability to grasp the potential they offer us. Regardless of the career we choose, our and our childrens lives will be better, more successful, happier and more rewarding if we are confident in how we can use technology to help us achieve more at work, in our relationships and in how we enjoy ourselves.

None of these skills were picked by chance.They were specifically picked because they are the very qualities that will complement the immensely powerful gift that technology brings us.Better still, these are the skills that will remain fundamentally human for decades to come.

Now is the time to think differently about our relationship with technology and its potential.We owe it to ourselves and our children to help ensure we dont just learn to survive in the 21st century but instead we learn how to thrive. If we can get this right for ourselves and our kids, we are going to get some amazing rewards as a result.

The rise of the humans starts with us, and it starts now

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Retailers are harnessing the power of new technology to dig deeper into customer decisions and bring people back into stores.

The National Retail Federation's 2020 Big Show in New York was jam packed full of robots, frictionless store mock-ups, and audacious displays of the latest technology now available to retailers.

Dozens of robots, digital signage tools, and more were available for retail representatives to test out, with hundreds of the biggest tech companies in attendance offering a bounty of eye-popping gadgets designed to increase efficiency and bring the wow factor back to brick-and-mortar stores.

SEE: Artificial intelligence: A business leader's guide (free PDF) (TechRepublic)

Here are some of the biggest takeaways from the annual retail event.

With the explosion in popularity of Amazon, Alibaba, and other e-commerce sites ready to deliver goods right to your door within days, many analysts and retailers figured the brick-and-mortar stores of the past were on their last legs.

But it turns out billions of customers still want the personal, tailored touch of in-store experiences and are not ready to completely abandon physical retail outlets.

"It's not a retail apocalypse. It's a retail renaissance," said Lori Mitchell-Keller, executive vice president and global general manager of consumer industries at SAP.

As leader of SAP's retail, wholesale distribution, consumer products, and life sciences industries division, Mitchell-Keller said she was surprised to see that retailers had shifted their stance and were looking to find ways to beef up their online experience while infusing stores with useful but flashy technology.

"Brick-and-mortar stores have this unique capability to have a specific advantage against online retailers. So despite the trend where everything was going online, it did not mean online at the expense of brick-and-mortar. There is a balance between the two. Those companies that have a great online experience and capability combined with a brick-and-mortar store are in the best place in terms of their ability to be profitable," Mitchell-Keller said during an interview at NRF 2020.

"There is an experience that you cannot get online. This whole idea of customer experience and experience management is definitely the best battleground for the guys that can't compete in delivery. Even for the ones that can compete on delivery, like the Walmarts and Targets, they are using their brick-and-mortar stores to offer an experience that you can't get online. We thought five years ago that brick-and-mortar was dead and it's absolutely not dead. It's actually an asset."

In her experience working with the world's biggest retailers, companies that have a physical presence actually have a huge advantage because customers are now yearning for a personalized experience they can't get online. While e-commerce sites are fast, nothing can beat the ability to have real people answer questions and help customers work through their options, regardless of what they're shopping for.

Retailers are also transforming parts of their stores into fulfillment centers for their online sales, which have the doubling effect of bringing customers into the store where they may spend even more on things they see.

"The brick-and-mortar stores that are using their stores as fulfillment centers have a much lower cost of delivery because they're typically within a few miles of customers. If they have a great online capability and good store fulfillment, they're able to get to customers faster than the aggregators," Mitchell-Keller said. "It's better to have both."

SEE: Feature comparison: E-commerce services and software (TechRepublic Premium)

But one of the main trends, and problems, highlighted at NRF 2020 was the sometimes difficult transition many retailers have had to make to a digitized world.

NRF 2020 was full of decadent tech retail tools like digital price tags, shelf-stocking robots and next-gen advertising signage, but none of this could be incorporated into a retail environment without a basic amount tech talent and systems to back it all.

"It can be very overwhelmingly complicated, not to mention costly, just to have a team to manage technology and an environment that is highly digitally integrated. The solution we try to bring to bear is to add all these capabilities or applications into a turn key environment because fundamentally, none of it works without the network," said Michael Colaneri, AT&T's vice president of retail, restaurants and hospitality.

While it would be easy for a retailer to leave NRF 2020 with a fancy robot or cool gadget, companies typically have to think bigger about the changes they want to see, and generally these kinds of digital transformations have to be embedded deep throughout the supply chain before they can be incorporated into stores themselves.

Colaneri said much of AT&T's work involved figuring out how retailers could connect the store system, the enterprise, the supply chain and then the consumer, to both online and offline systems. The e-commerce part of retailer's business now had to work hand in hand with the functionality of the brick-and-mortar experience because each part rides on top of the network.

"There are five things that retailers ask me to solve: Customer experience, inventory visibility, supply chain efficiency, analytics, and the integration of media experiences like a robot, electronic shelves or digital price tags. How do I pull all this together into a unified experience that is streamlined for customers?" Colaneri said.

"Sometimes they talk to me about technical components, but our number one priority is inventory visibility. I want to track products from raw material to where it is in the legacy retail environment. Retailers also want more data and analytics so they can get some business intelligence out of the disparate data lakes they now have."

The transition to digitized environments is different for every retailer, Colaneri added. Some want slow transitions and gradual introductions of technology while others are desperate for a leg up on the competition and are interested in quick makeovers.

While some retailers have balked at the thought, and price, of wholesale changes, the opposite approach can end up being just as costly.

"Anybody that sells you a digital sign, robot, Magic Mirror or any one of those assets is usually partnering with network providers because it requires the network. And more importantly, what typically happens is if someone buys an asset, they are underestimating the requirements it's going to need from their current network," Colaneri said.

"Then when their team says 'we're already out of bandwidth,' you'll realize it wasn't engineered and that the application wasn't accommodated. It's not going to work. It can turn into a big food fight."

Retailers are increasingly realizing the value of artificial intelligence and machine learning as a way to churn through troves of data collected from customers through e-commerce sites. While these tools require the kind of digital base that both Mitchell-Keller and Colaneri mentioned, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can be used to address a lot of the pain points retailers are now struggling with.

Mitchell-Keller spoke of SAP's work with Costco as an example of the kind of real-world value AI and machine learning can add to a business. Costco needed help reducing waste in their bakeries and wanted better visibility into when customers were going to buy particular products on specific days or at specific times.

"Using machine learning, what SAP did was take four years of data out of five different stores for Costco as a pilot and used AI and machine learning to look through the data for patterns to be able to better improve their forecasting. They're driving all of their bakery needs based on the forecast and that forcecast helped Costco so much they were able to reduce their waste by about 30%," Mitchell-Keller said, adding that their program improved productivity by 10%.

SAP and dozens of other tech companies at NRF 2020 offered AI-based systems for a variety of supply chain management tools, employee payment systems and even resume matches. But AI and machine learning systems are nothing without more data.

SEE:Managing AI and ML in the enterprise 2019: Tech leaders expect more difficulty than previous IT projects(TechRepublic Premium)

Jeff Warren, vice president of Oracle Retail, said there has been a massive shift toward better understanding customers through increased data collection. Historically, retailers simply focused on getting products through the supply chain and into the hands of consumers. But now, retailers are pivoting toward focusing on how to better cater services and goods to the customer.

Warren said Oracle Retail works with about 6,000 retailers in 96 different countries and that much of their work now prioritizes collecting information from every customer interaction.

"What is new is that when you think of the journey of the consumer, it's not just about selling anymore. It's not just about ringing up a transaction or line busting. All of the interactions between you and me have value and hold something meaningful from a data perspective," he said, adding that retailers are seeking to break down silos and pool their data into a single platform for greater ease of use.

"Context would help retailers deliver a better experience to you. Its petabytes of information about what the US consumer market is spending and where they're spending. We can take the information that we get from those interactions that are happening at the point of sale about our best customers and learn more."

With the Oracle platform, retailers can learn about their customers and others who may have similar interests or live in similar places. Companies can do a better job of targeting new customers when they know more about their current customers and what else they may want.

IBM is working on similar projects with hundreds of different retailers , all looking to learn more about their customers and tailor their e-commerce as well as in-store experience to suit their biggest fans.

IBM global managing director for consumer industries Luq Niazi told TechRepublic during a booth tour that learning about consumer interests was just one aspect of how retailers could appeal to customers in the digital age.

"Retailers are struggling to work through what tech they need. When there is so much tech choice, how do you decide what's important? Many companies are implementing tech that is good but implemented badly, so how do you help them do good tech implemented well?" Niazi said.

"You have all this old tech in stores and you have all of this new tech. You have to think about how you bring the capability together in the right way to deploy flexibly whatever apps and experiences you need from your store associate, for your point of sale, for your order management system that is connected physically and digitally. You've got to bring those together in different ways. We have to help people think about how they design the store of the future."

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NEW YORK, Feb. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- VUniverse, a personalized movie and show recommendation platform that enables users to browse their streaming services in one appa channel guide for the streaming universe, announced today it's been named one of five finalists in the AI & Machine Learning category for the 23rd annual SXSW Innovation Awards.

The SXSW Innovation Awards recognizes the most exciting tech developments in the connected world. During the showcase on Saturday, March 14, 2020, VUniverse will offer first-look demos of its platform as attendees explore this year's most transformative and forward-thinking digital projects. They'll be invited to experience how VUniverse utilizes AI to cross-reference all streaming services a user subscribes to and then delivers personalized suggestions of what to watch.

"We're honored to be recognized as a finalist for the prestigious SXSW Innovation Awards and look forward to showcasing our technology that helps users navigate the increasingly ever-changing streaming service landscape," said VUniverse co-founder Evelyn Watters-Brady. "With VUniverse, viewers will spend less time searching and more time watching their favorite movies and shows, whether it be a box office hit or an obscure indie gem."

About VUniverse VUniverse is a personalized movie and show recommendation platform that enables users to browse their streaming services in one appa channel guide for the streaming universe. Using artificial intelligence, VUniverse creates a unique taste profile for every user and serves smart lists of curated titles using mood, genre, and user-generated tags, all based on content from the user's existing subscription services. Users can also create custom watchlists and share them with friends and family.

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TURIN, Italy--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The European Central Bank (ECB), in collaboration with Reply, leader in digital technology innovation, is organising the Supervisory Data Hackathon, a coding marathon focussing on the application of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

From 27 to 29 February 2020, at the ECB in Frankfurt, more than 80 participants from the ECB, Reply and further companies explore possibilities to gain deeper and faster insights into the large amount of supervisory data gathered by the ECB from financial institutions through regular financial reporting for risk analysis. The coding marathon provides a protected space to co-creatively develop new ideas and prototype solutions based on Artificial Intelligence within a short timeframe.

Ahead of the event, participants submit projects in the areas of data quality, interlinkages in supervisory reporting and risk indicators. The most promising submissions will be worked on for 48 hours during the event by the multidisciplinary teams composed of members from the ECB, Reply and other companies.

Reply has proven its Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities with numerous projects in various industries and combines this technological expertise with in-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and its regulatory environment.

Coding marathons using the latest technologies are a substantial element in Replys toolset for sparking innovation through training and knowledge transfer internally and with clients and partners.

ReplyReply [MTA, STAR: REY] specialises in the design and implementation of solutions based on new communication channels and digital media. As a network of highly specialised companies, Reply defines and develops business models enabled by the new models of big data, cloud computing, digital media and the internet of things. Reply delivers consulting, system integration and digital services to organisations across the telecom and media; industry and services; banking and insurance; and public sectors. http://www.reply.com

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With the great success of recent State of AI and ML event at Intel in January 2020, Valley Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ValleyML.ai or simply ValleyML) is organizing AI Hardware Expo on May 5th-6th 2020, AI Enterprise Expo on August 25th-26th 2020 and AI Robotics Expo on November 12th-13th 2020 at SEMI, Milpitas, Silicon Valley

ValleyMLis the most active and important community of ML & AI Companies and Start-ups, Data Practitioners, Executives and Researchers in the Silicon Valley. The goal is Advancing AI to Empower People.

ValleyML sponsors include UL, MINDBODY Inc., Ambient Scientific Inc., SEMI, Intel, Western Digital, Texas Instruments, Google, Facebook, Cadence, Xilinx.

These highly focused events welcome a community of CTOs, CEOs, Chief data scientists, product management executives and delegates from some of the worlds top technology companies. Companies interested in sponsoring ValleyML events can follow the instructions in the sponsor brochure documentas soon as possible as there are limited sponsorship opportunities available. A unified call for proposalsfor 3 AI Expo events is now open.

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ValleyML.ai s recent event State of AI and ML-January 2020 at Intel, Santa Clara on January 14th-15th was a great success with more than 36 speakers and 250+ attendees.Event updates, videos and pictures are at ValleyML website. These highly content oriented conferences are curated by an expert program committeethat included Dr. Koji Seto, Dr.Osso Vahabzadeh, Marc J. Mar-Yohana, Promila Agarwal, Dr. Mehran Nekuiiassisted by industry advisory boardunder the leadership of Dr. Kiran Gunnam,a Distinguished Machine Learning and Computer Vision Engineer with more than 100 inventions. The event featured prominent speakers such as Dr.Prasad Saripalli from MINDBODY, Dr.Ted Selker from C3.chat, Gajendra Prasad Singh from Ambient Scientific, Janet George from Oracle, a panel chair, John Currie from UL. This event received publicity help from local IEEE chapters and SF Bay ACM as well as great post-event coverage in a Forbes article titled Silicon Valley Event On Machine Learning Tackles The Latest Riddles Vexing AI Self-Driving Cars. In addition, registered attendees are eligible to get IEEE PDH (Professional Development Hours) Certificate.

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Dublin, Feb. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction to the Technology" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

These days, machine learning (ML), which is a subset of computer science, is one of the most rapidly growing fields in the technology world. It is considered to be a core field for implementing artificial intelligence (AI) and data science.

The adoption of data-intensive machine learning methods like reinforcement learning is playing a major role in decision-making across various industries such as healthcare, education, manufacturing, policing, financial modeling and marketing. The growing demand for more complex machine working is driving the demand for learning-based methods in the ML field. Reinforcement learning also presents a unique opportunity to address the dynamic behavior of systems.

This study was conducted in order to understand the current state of reinforcement learning and track its adoption along various verticals, and it seeks to put forth ways to fully exploit the benefits of this technology. This study will serve as a guide and benchmark for technology vendors, manufacturers of the hardware that supports AI, as well as the end-users who will finally use this technology. Decisionmakers will find the information useful in developing business strategies and in identifying areas for research and development.

The report includes:

Key Topics Covered

Chapter 1 Reinforcement Learning

Chapter 2 Bibliography

List of TablesTable 1: Reinforcement Learning vs. Supervised Learning vs. Unsupervised LearningTable 2: Global Machine Learning Market, by Region, Through 2024

List of FiguresFigure 1: Reinforcement Learning ProcessFigure 2: Reinforcement Learning WorkflowFigure 3: Artificial Intelligence vs. Machine Learning vs. Reinforcement LearningFigure 4: Machine Learning ApplicationsFigure 5: Types of Machine LearningFigure 6: Reinforcement Learning Market DynamicsFigure 7: Global Machine Learning Market, by Region, 2018-2024

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