Oct 8, 20193 min8 ways Artificial Intelligence can improve healthcare AI is a burgeoning opportunity for healthcare providers and tech companies. AI is helping to solve a myriad of healthcare challenges, such a
Sep 18, 20193 minUsing Artificial Intelligence to enhance Wealth Management Artificial Intelligence (AI), and its subset machine learning are changing every aspect of financial services. Wealth management is no exception. The rise of...
Sep 2, 20194 minEight ways to avoid costly AI mistakesRobots and bots are becoming famous for misbehaving. Social media is full of stories about mishaps caused by poorly designed AI programs
Mar 28, 201914 minWhat are 12 use cases of AI in Finance?Artificial Intelligence is a very powerful tool and its use in finance is expanding rapidly. If you are working in finance, but don’t have the specific exper...
Mar 19, 201919 minWhy Measuring Accuracy is Hard (and important!) - Part 4 - How to Measure Accuracy BetterThis is the last article in a 4 part series of articles about measuring accuracy. In the first article, I discussed Why exactly measuring accuracy is importa...
Mar 15, 201919 minWhy Measuring Accuracy is Hard (and important!), Part 3.This is the third article in a series of articles discussing the topic of measuring accuracy. In Part 1 of the series, we discussed reasons why measuring acc...
Jan 10, 201918 minWhy Measuring Accuracy Is Hard (and important!) Part 2Introduction This article is part 2 of a 4 part article series that I am creating on the challenges of measuring accuracy. If you haven’t read the first arti...
Jan 1, 20199 minWhy measuring accuracy is hard (and very important)! Part 1. Introduction We are kicking off a new series of blog articles on measuring accuracy. There is a lot of content to cover - when I first started writing this a...
Nov 6, 20188 minWhat AI startups are active in Chicago in 2018?Being able to recognize objects in images, detect faces and gradually passing the Turing test, artificial intelligence, also known as AI, is a field that has...
Oct 28, 201821 minLearning to OptimizeIntroduction Hyperparameter optimization is one of the most difficult problems in machine learning. How many layers should my neural network be? How many ker...
Oct 28, 201844 minOptimizing OptimizationIntroduction Since I first started learning programming many years ago, it has been a life-long mission of mine to contribute something of value to the open...
Jun 5, 20185 minWhat do you need to put into your next chatbot Request for Proposal?Introduction So you want to make a chat-bot, but you don’t have the skills to do build it in-house. You need to hire an outside firm to do build it for you. ...
May 29, 20188 minWhat are the active AI Startups in Vancouver in 2018?The software technology industry in Canada is booming. PWC estimates that AI development will add $15.7-trillion USD to the global economy by 2030 and Canada...
May 22, 20183 minHow much data do I need for my AI solution?One of the most common questions I get from people who are looking for AI solutions is How much data do I need? In a previous article called “Why small data ...
May 16, 20188 minWhat AI startups are active in Western Canada in 2018?According to PwC Canada, AI companies attracted $162 million in investments within the first half of 2017. Canada hasn't seen funding of this magnitude for o...
May 13, 20182 minWhy AI is a more important trend then blockchainI have to admit - I hear a lot about what is happening within the blockchain space these days. The crypto-bubble and the easier accessibility of blockchain t...
May 9, 20183 minHow do I know if my AI idea is possible?One of the questions that I get asked often as an AI consultant is, in some ways, the most simple: Is this possible? People will come to me with some very va...
May 6, 20189 minCan AI be sexist/racist?Human vs Machine bias Humans beings by nature are imperfect; research in psychology and studies of human behavior show that we have implicit biases and use h...
Apr 24, 20187 minWhat are the AI startups in Toronto in 2018?Toronto’s tech sector is booming. CBRE’s 2017 North American Scoring Tech Talent report showed us that Canada’s largest city added over 22,000 new technolog...
Jan 3, 20183 minBots talking to Bots I was recently thinking about a project. We were building an app, and part of it involved booking reservations at a restaurant. Most restaurants don’t have a...
