Close to half of US adults believe widespread use of driverless cars would be bad for society. Meanwhile, 26% think it’d be good for autonomous vehicles to rule the roads, and 29% aren’t sure.
Add robotaxis to the list of upcoming Tesla products: Struggles with fully autonomous driving, delivering on schedule, and safety are huge roadblocks to Tesla’s robotaxi flex.
Restaurants are experimenting with robots, but customers aren’t enthused: Labor crunches and high costs are pushing fast-food chains like Chipotle and Panera Bread to adopt automation front and back of house.
Panera’s new AI uses sensors, algorithms, and analytics to ensure coffee is optimally brewed: Restaurants are leaning into AI and automation, but will long-term effects lead to reduced hospitality and fewer customers?
Google continues to court consumers with a new visual shopping feature: The tech giant’s multisearch capability helps fend off competition from social media platforms by simplifying product discovery.
California law challenges bias in AI hiring tools: Proposed amendments could make AI decision-making tools illegal for screening protected-class applicants—but would also slow down hiring processes on a monumental scale.
Talk-to-code is coming: A radical CodeGen initiative by Salesforce is underway to turn programming into a conversational task anyone can do. The era of the keyboard is ending.
As of January 2022, 35% of people ages 12 and over in the US own a smart speaker, up just 2 percentage points from the year before. That’s following an increase of 6 percentage points year over year in 2021.
Retailers haven’t given up trying to make voice shopping happen: Amazon Prime users can now receive notifications about upcoming discounts and schedule purchases in advance.
Nearly half of marketers have increased their AI-related CX spending: Customer service and custom content are two of a few priority investment areas for companies.
Tripadvisor used conversational AI technology for a campaign executed on voice assistants like Alexa and Google Assistant with the goal of maintaining engagement during the pandemic, according to Adam Ochman, global head of marketing at Tripadvisor.
A new set of regulations on AI recommendation algorithms went into effect in China on March 1 in an attempt to introduce unprecedented oversight and inject transparency and accountability into an opaque industry. This is the first case of a major economy enforcing such sweeping rules on the machine, and the world is watching.
Big data, DevOps, and security are the highest-paying tech specializations: US-based programmers and engineers are earning the most as employers hire tech pros at pre-pandemic levels.
Anything Alexa can do, ElliQ can do better: Companionship AI has the potential to satisfy some human needs, but with a sketchy track record for in-home AI, there are also risks.
Matter rollout delayed because of growing adoption: More smart home manufacturers want in on the industry standard, but could delays stop larger manufacturers from releasing products?
No code? No problem for AI: No longer limited to use by programmers, a no-code AI movement opens doors to the technology, potentially upending the tech workforce and beyond.
Future Wi-Fi routers will sense movement: Smarter hotspots could find a niche in healthcare and patient-monitoring applications, but creating standards for different manufacturers’ devices to communicate will be a challenge.
A quantum leap for qubit cooling: The Icebox platform could mean brighter days ahead for quantum computing’s temperature-control limitations and herald a foray of diverse companies to the market.