The first way management AI software can assist managers’ jobs is in the task of hiring new employees.  While AI may not be able to interview candidates or make the call of bringing a new employee on the team, it can simplify this process.  AI software can sort through hundreds of résumés and search for crucial traits that match what an employer is looking for.  Not only that, this software can even broaden the search by looking at résumés beyond where the manager would look.  This management AI software can also allow companies to search out candidates rather than waiting for candidates to come to them.

The second way management AI software can assist managers’ jobs is by monitoring the work and whereabouts of employees.  There are several ways AI programming can monitor employees.  The software can track the computer usage of an employee – how many hours are they on Facebook and Amazon instead of on an Excel spreadsheet.  The program can even take periodic screenshots and keep the screenshots for a set time-period.  If an employee is up to something worse, the AI can send an alert to management.  Some companies have even created radio badges that can track the location of employees on an app and also send alerts if they trespass into unauthorized areas.  These monitoring protocols allow managers to have a better idea of when employees are doing their job, need to be correct, or beyond that.

The final way management AI software can assist managers’ jobs is by allowing managers to see aspects of their employees’ personal side.  For example, the software can examine the language and phrases used in emails to determine if the employee has a positive or negative attitude toward the job.  The software can also compare these observations over a set period and therefore see a change develop.  This software can go even further; it can predict if an employee is looking to leave the company.  The software can detect when an employee is considering a move to another company, and it can even give specific instructions on how to keep this employee.

Management is a job that will most likely always require a human to make decisions and direct other people.  AI technology has advanced to the point that managers can now be assisted in their work in ways that would have been thought science fiction only a matter of years ago.

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Technological breakthroughs in telescopes have provided more images of the universe than we could ever possibly sift through and analyze. One future telescope, for example, will be able to produce 15 terabytes of images in a single evening. In other words, telescopes are capturing more images of the universe than astronomers could ever go through in a lifetime. So what’s the answer? Artificial intelligence for astronomy, of course.

Astronomers are using the power of artificial intelligence for astronomy to organize and categorize the images taken by the satellites. AI is being used to help us better understand the universe in a couple of different ways. One of those ways is by recognizing the images and categorizing them in a system. Artificial intelligence does what it is trained to do. Astronomers can train the AI to recognize various patterns and types of galaxies, similar to the way Facebook uses AI to recognize faces. Then once the AI has mastered those galaxies, it can sift through thousands of pictures an hour and sort the various galaxies into their respective categories.

Another example of AI helping us understand the universe is in the work of astronomer Carlo Enrico Petrillo. He’s using this power to help identify gravitational lenses. A gravitational lens gives a closer look at extremely old and distant parts of the universe otherwise unable to be viewed. When a galaxy or black hole comes in front of another light source and a viewer on Earth, that galaxy actually bends the light around the light source.

This creates a viewing portal, or a lens, giving astronomers a look at deeper and older portions of space than ever thought possible. As you can imagine, finding these gravitational lenses is extremely important to astronomers. Yet it has proven equally as difficult. However, with the power of artificial intelligence, these gravitational lenses can be found much more quickly. Artificial intelligence for astronomy helps us understand the universe in ways previously thought unimaginable.

Petrillo explains the power of artificial intelligence in astronomy, “An extremely good human classifier would classify images at a pace of about one thousand per hour.” This put them at a rate of finding a lens every 30,000 galaxies. Realistically, this would provide around 10 lenses a month. By comparison, utilizing AI allows them to blow through 21,789 images in only 20 minutes. Even this staggering number can be improved according to Petrillo as he commented, “This time can be shortened by a great amount.”

Using AI to help understand the universe is not the end-all-be-all. Instead, it is a tool that greatly speeds up the process. Astronomers are able to set wide parameters as what classifies as a gravitational lens, in order to be sure the program doesn’t miss anything. Then the flagged images are sifted through with human eyes, making sure each legitimate case of a lens is correctly identified.

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Xively is a platform for building and managing connected products. Applications that Xively enabled use the platform to communicate with devices, manage users and access, provide service insights, and integrate an entire business with its intelligence system. From managing communication, enforcing security, and updating firmware, Xively is a powerful tool for real-time message, business logic, security, and integration.

How would Google use this technology? Xively would become a stepping stone for them. Xively would make Google a major player in the ever growing IoT marketplace by potentially connecting a projected 20 billion things together within the next two years.

Antony Passemard of Google wrote in a blog post, “This acquisition, subject to closing conditions, will complement Google Cloud’s effort to provide a fully managed IoT service that easily and securely connects, manages and ingests data from globally dispersed devices.”

Though device designers have already been building connectivity directly into the products they design through cloud-mobile connections between the app user and the connected item, Google could take this market to the next level through Xively’s technology.

What does this mean for LogMeIn? Bill Wagner, the President and CEO recently made the following announcement, “So the obvious question is, does this mean LogMeIn is exiting the IoT?  Well, if you mean the IoT connectivity platform space, yes, we’re leaving it.  We believe that Google Cloud, now armed with Xively’s team and great technology – and backed by their platform and developer heritage and reach – are a far better fit for the future of platform leadership.”

Wagner went on to add, “What we will continue to do is invest in our Support-of-Things initiatives for products like LogMeIn Rescue, Bold360, GoToAssist, Central, Rescue Lens and SeeIt – all offerings that will continue to help our customers support new types of connected products, as well as the connected consumers that use them.”

Moving forward, Google will give the cloud business a well-attested IoT platform that will enable even more growth for its already $1 billion per quarter cloud business. In competing with Microsoft, IBM, AWS, Google is making moves to compete with the top cloud market leaders.

Google’s Diane Greene recently told TechCrunch, “We are saying we crossed a billion a quarter in 2017 and according to publicly available numbers, we are the fastest growing cloud. If you step back and think about someone offering services and that’s revenue, that’s pretty darn impressive. Not too many companies can make a claim like that. It already puts you in the elite of companies.”

Expect even bigger and bolder moves for Google’s IoT plans in the future, with the decision to buy Xively as the first step of many.

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Simply defined, Net Neutrality is ensuring that Internet Service Providers treat all data that is delivered to customers equally.  In other words, consumers must have equal access to all data without being slowed down, blocked, or sped up.  The 2015 Obama administration regulations look to Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 for support.

The current chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, is hoping to dismantle the regulations from the Obama Administration.  Opponents charge that Pai’s plan would end net neutrality and unfairly favour large companies (hence the bowing as mentioned above to Comcast and Verizon article) and would eliminate a level playing field in which innovation can occur.  Proponents of Pai’s plan would argue this is not the objective of Pai’s plan, and that it eliminates overbearing government regulation and gives consumers more choices.

Opponents say that Pai’s planned dismantling of neutrality regulations would open the gate for ISPs to force companies to pay for faster Internet service, essentially creating a fast lane and a slow lane for companies to get on.  Naturally, only the largest companies could afford to get in the fast lane.  Another concern is that with these regulations dismantled, it could allow ISPs to block or slow down user access to websites.

Opponents also claim dismantling of neutrality regulations will eliminate the level playing field that allows start-up companies to exist.  Start-up companies do not have the revenue or publicity to pay these feared controls by ISPs.  Since these companies rely on an open Internet to garner attention, opponents argue this eliminates competition.

However, some proponents think Pai’s planned dismantling of neutrality regulations is a great move.  One of the arguments in favour is that it would curtail the current level of government regulation on the Internet.  Proponents make the case that agencies regulated by the government are not as efficient and cost massive amounts of money.  In contrast, private industries tend to be far more productive.  Also, since the exposure in 2013 of the government spying on its people – it is questionable if the government indeed has the best interests of the American consumer in mind.  Therefore, proponents would ask, should the government control and monitor the Internet activity of its citizens, knowing that it likely is being used for surveillance?

Lastly, proponents would argue that the dismantling of regulations will give consumers more choice.  In the statement released from the FCC, Pai stated he planned to, “require Internet service providers to be transparent about their practices so that consumers can buy the service plan that’s best for them and entrepreneurs and other small businesses can have the technical information they need to innovate.”

Pai’s planned dismantling of regulations will either spell the end to net neutrality according to opponents or bring about a more free market with more rights to consumers according to proponents.  This issue has become strongly divisive, and it waits to be seen what the actual effects would be.  Regardless, December 14th, 2017 will be a noteworthy day in the history of the Internet.

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50 Cent, the famous rapper had a genius idea back in 2014. He let fans purchase his album “Animal Ambition” with Bitcoin. Bitcoin was “only” worth $662 at the time and fans only had to pay a mere fraction of a single Bitcoin. The sales from that album campaign were over $400,000. Not bad, but nothing to write home about either.

But as we all know, Bitcoin has soared in value since 2014, with 2017 alone showing record climbs. And the best part, 50 admits he forgot he even had it. That means he never cashed out of his 700 Bitcoin, an estimated $7-8.5 million dollars.

Add 50 Cent to the list of crypto-genesius’ out there – 50 Cent and Bitcoin are now a thing.

50 Cent confirmed the report on his Instagram and Twitter accounts. He said, “Not bad for a kid from South Side, I’m so proud of me.” He even later admitted through a comment, “Ima keep it real, I forgot I did that shit lol.”

50 is lucky that he remembered his Bitcoin login info. If not, he’d join the illustrious ranks of all the other would-be millionaires who forgot their account info.

Instead, 50 Cent and Bitcoin become another of the success stories, and the rapper looks like a genius in the process. That Bitcoin investment paid off over 7 million times.

Many cryptocurrency enthusiasts jumped at the opportunity to welcome him to the community. And they were sure to give their own fifty cents on how he should use some of those Bitcoin to invest in other cryptocurrencies.

With Bitcoin value dropping in recent weeks, it’ll be interesting to see if 50 keeps his same tactic and leaves Bitcoin alone. Or, he could unload now while the value is still relatively high.

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