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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. We’ll see more innovation if emerging AI tools are accessible to everyone, such that a dispersed ecosystem of new firms, start-ups, and AI tools can arise. But not all rents are bad.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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What is APM?

Dynatrace

Application performance monitoring focuses on specific metrics and measurements; application performance management is the wider discipline of developing and managing an application performance strategy. Every day, customers use apps to shop, stream TV shows and movies, connect to social media, manage finances, and work.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver. Marketers use big data and artificial intelligence to find out more about the future needs of their customers.