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Microsoft Research Finds Organizations Across Industries are “Embracing Tech Intensity As a Key Driver of Competitive Advantage”

Microsoft polled 700 executives across industries for their “State of Tech Intensity 2019” study. “Tech Intensity” is defined as the applied use of a creative, entrepreneurial mindset to invent new digital capabilities using advanced technologies such as AI and IoT. Key findings from the study: Every company is becoming a tech company: 73% of companies …

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Asset Management M&A Perspectives from Casey Quirk/Deloitte

Casey Quirk and Deloitte have taken a look at how M&A in asset management plays out and how firms might be able to achieve “more perfect unions” by focusing on post-merger integration. Click here for the full report on their site. The analysis focuses on: Organizational leadership (Less C-level headcount) Distribution strategies (more technology, less …

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Asset & Wealth Management Revolution: pwc identifies six game changers & four key trends for the decade ahead

pwc’s Asset Management research division in its latest snappy 32-page report identifies a number of key trends and game changers that might lead to an asset management and wealth management revolution. Click here for the full report on their site. Some stats from the study: The four key trends highlighted by pwc are: Further industry …

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BCG Asset Management Outlook – Fees, Tech, EMs, ESG and Fewer Winners

BCG in an Asset Management outlook for the next ten years identified a number of megatrends to be aware of and work with, none of them new but all of them looked at from an interesting angle. Click here for the full report on their site. Megatrends for the next decade: Active vs passive vs …

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DARPA’s $2B Next AI – KAIROS – and AIE Campaigns to Generate Actionable Understanding of Real-World Phenomena

DARPA wants to create KAIROS, a program to develop a schema-based AI capability to enhance reasoning about complex world events and generate actionable insights. KAIROS stands for Knowledge-Directed Artificial Intelligence Reasoning Over Schemas. KAIROS seeks to create a schema-based AI capability to enable contextual and temporal reasoning about complex real-world events in order to generate actionable …

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Warren Enskat Weekly AI Summary Jan 6, 2019 (WE-WAIS)

Warren Enskat / Weekly AI Summary (WE-WAIS) / 1-6-2019 Some of the AI developments and thoughts from this past week: – JP Morgan launches all mobile bank, Finn by Chase, with analytics/strategy exec at the helm: JP Morgan has been busy with ML, AI and data science hires. A few months ago they took Google’s Head …

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Warren Enskat Weekly AI Summary Jan 1, 2019 (WE-WAIS)

Warren Enskat / Weekly AI Summary (WE-WAIS) / 1-1-2019 Some of the AI developments and thoughts from this past week: – AI/Digital Startups within the US Government and the Hunt for AI Talent: recruit top designers, engineers, product managers, and digital policy experts and then pair these digital experts with the nation’s leading civil servants …

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It’s A Bright Future, If You’re An Algorithm / The Art of Computer Programming

A great in-depth read in the NYT on Donald Ervin Knuth, “the Yoda of Silicon Valley”, as he celebrates his 80th birthday. His bible of tech, “the Art of Computer Programming”, also known as TAOCP, as in Tao, for now consists of four volumes, each ranging from 750 to 1000 pages. Bill Gates famously wrote …

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Spinning Up in Deep RL

Spinning Up in Deep RL

I get a lot of questions around where and how to learn (about) machine, deep and reinforcement learning. Open AI (the non for profit group founded by The Who is Who of technology) recently created Spinning Up (https://lnkd.in/eNjGXAt), an educational resource to learn about deep reinforcement learning – it has terminology introductions, essays, a curated …

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