When a new innovation is uncovered to the world for the first time, it incites concerns and debates along with optimistic predictions on what advantage it will contribute to the humanity. This happens at a stage of the innovation-decision process, which is defined by Everett Rogers as “an information-seeking and information-processing activity in which an individual is motivated to reduce uncertainty about the advantage and disadvantages of innovation” (Rogers, 2005, pg.14). Likewise, Amazon’s drone delivery, a notable innovation which has been grabbing attention since 2013 when its plan is first unveiled, raises doubts and concerns on wide-ranging issues like privacy, … Continue reading Amazon’s Drone Delivery: Innovation or Surveillance?

You add to your Amazon cart something “inspired by your views”, you pick up a film pushed by Netflix, you read news you’re interested in appeared on your Facebook feeds… Artificial Intelligence is everywhere. Everyone is talking about it. In … Continue reading Adoption of AI: Gap Between Early Adopters and Early Majority

Recently a controversial research regarding to facial recognition drew attention of people who focus on artificial intelligence field. It’s a research at Stanford University conducted by Michal Kosinski and Yilun Wang(2017), which shows that a computer algorithm can accurately detect … Continue reading Where Can We Hide From Facial Recognition

Eight hours 53 minutes since Alibaba’s self-invented November 11th shopping festival, the company sold over one million voice assistant speakers called “AliGenie,” as reported. The sale marks the company’s grand entry in the market of AI voice assistants. AliGenie also becomes the first human-machine conversation interface in Mandarin Chinese. When Amazon Alexa, Google’s Home and Apple’s Homepod are vigorously fighting over the market shares in the western world, China-based tech companies are aiming at their own gigantic domestic market. Roger Everett in his book introduces us to the concept of diffusion — “the process in which an innovation is communicated … Continue reading How AI assistants enter our lives

The reason why people evaluate their IQ and EQ (Emotional Intelligence) in numerous occasions is that we need those two abilities to interact with other people and finish tasks every day.  However, nowadays, most of the people spend more than … Continue reading How Good is Your Online Intelligence? (OQ)

A social network is a graph where : Nodes represent people or groups of people Edges their social interaction. Social Networks are different from information networks as information networks have nodes as information sources and Edges as Logical Connections like Hyperlinks, citations, cross references. Through my Social Network I want to analyse my major introducers-that who introduced me to most no.of people and who were they, How connected I was- how I am socially with respect to others, some unknown insights brought alive through visualisation or the big picture of my e-mail life. So to get started I thought I must … Continue reading Social Network Analysis : Network Of E-mail Connections

  The reading this week introduced us to the world of social networks. Some of the concepts were about graphs, nodes, edges, several different datasets. The article by Duncan Watts talked more in-depth about the six degrees of separation and got us pondering the possibility of some modern research regarding social network analysis. It is a fascinating world we live in. We always talk about how we probably give up too much on our social media, but as long as we use anything online, even when it’s not social media, we are giving ourselves up to the data analysis people. … Continue reading Big Data Policing