Tag: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The smartphone high-end has been dominated by Apple and Samsung for a few years with many pretenders and no real contenders. Well Huawei is aiming right at that duo with their new P20 Pro. Huawei has just released the P20 series, jumping from last year’s P10 series to P20 as they feel the improvements made are huge. Steven Ambrose tests the P20 Pro and reports back.

Read our exclusive cover story entitled WHO TO SUE? | YOUR CHALLENGES IN TAKING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO COURT! by Brendon Ambrose, Associate Attorney, Spoor and Fisher, as well a host of other topical management articles written by professionals, consultants and academics in the April/May 2018 edition of BusinessBrief.

Will automation, artificial intelligence and robotics – or as it’s been called, the ‘rise of the machines’ – really reduce the value of people and their roles as meaningful contributors to society? Or will it unlock new avenues for creating value and new opportunities, which may manifest in greater industrial and economic futures for societies in Africa?

PwC's latest Global Consumer Insights survey, assesses the shopping behaviour, habits and expectations of over 22,000 consumers in 27 countries, including 1,000 from South Africa. Almost a third (32%) of consumers surveyed globally by PwC plan to buy an AI device, including robots or automated assistants, with retailers watching closely as ‘voice commerce’ develops in the home. In South Africa, 44.3% stated they plan to buy an AI device in the near future.

No longer the stuff of science fiction - Artificial Intelligence (AI) is (almost) here and is here to stay. So, have you ever wondered what you would do if an AI had to injure, defame, infringe or steal from you?

When it comes to Artificial Intelligence (AI), the law of copyright may be one step behind. Copyright is governed in terms of the Copyright Act which protects certain defined “works” including computer programmes, films, and literary, musical and artistic works. Up and until recently, these works have been created exclusively by humans. The advances in AI, however, have resulted in the possibility of an AI creating its own works with little, or even no, human input.

Sixty-five percent of jobs that will exist in future, have not been created. Technology is changing faster than most can keep up with. Is it man against machine, or man working hand in hand with machines? With the hype around the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics, there is concern as to the impact on jobs and future careers.

Once every few years a new Product sets the trend for the future. The New Huawei Mate 10 Pro is that Product. Artificial Intelligence or AI is fast becoming the hot topic for 2018 and beyond. Consumer Products are increasingly taking advantage of this capability. The Huawei Mate 10 Pro is one of the first new mobile phones with built-in AI Processing capability, and it shows in its performance.

Andrew Wilson | CEO | LucidView | andreww@lucidview.net | http://www.lucidview.net |

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Talk of monitoring and blocking employee access to certain types of Internet content might sound like draconian management measures. After all, we’re all adults in the workplace and we shouldn’t need to be told what we can and can’t look at on the Internet, right? Not exactly. There are many reasons why...

Quintus Kilbourn | Head of Equities | Absa Corporate and Investment Banking | quintus.kilbourn@absacapital.com | cib.absa.co.za | “Never in human history has the present been so temporary”...