Automation, AI, and Last Week Tonight

Automation, AI, and Last Week Tonight

Automation is a word that tends elicited a vicarial response. The fear of people losing their jobs to automated bots goes back to the early 1800s. At the time textile machinery was replacing workers and this led to the formation of the Luddites, a radical group which...
Get the Numbers Behind the Machine Revolution

Get the Numbers Behind the Machine Revolution

Machine Learning (ML) is rapidly proving its value to organizations. In fact, 89 percent of early adopters believe that their ML initiatives can provide a competitive advantage. And 45 percent say they’ve already gained more insights from these initiatives. Read this...
MIT Technology Review: The State of Machine Learning

MIT Technology Review: The State of Machine Learning

One thing is certain. Machine Learning (ML) is more than just the latest buzzword – it’s a real innovation that is already delivering ROI. A recent survey conducted by MIT Technology Review Custom and Google Cloud reveals that while the majority of businesses are...
Working at ClearObject: Our Newest Orr Fellows’ First 30 Days

Working at ClearObject: Our Newest Orr Fellows’ First 30 Days

In this blog post, I’d like to give a wORRm welcome to our newest Orr Fellows. (That’s how you Orr Fellows do it, right?) It’s no secret that ClearObject LOVES the Orr Fellowship. This fellowship attracts some of the best and brightest soon-to-be graduates from...
Can data give you an edge in your office’s Oscar pool?

Can data give you an edge in your office’s Oscar pool?

Spoiler alert – probably not, but we can still have fun looking at some insights. From a high level, this year’s Best Picture nominees are a very interesting selection of films: • Five films are bio pics (six, if you count Roma) • Two could be considered musicals •...
IBM brings Watson to any cloud!

IBM brings Watson to any cloud!

Yesterday at the Think 2019 conference in San Francisco, IBM announced that Watson AI services will now work on any cloud (Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure among others). The announcement is an IBM move to win over customers that want greater...