Woodside reveals quantum computing partnership with IBM
ASX-listed oil and gas company Woodside has become the first commercial organisation in Australia to join the IBM Q Network, which is focused on the development and use of quantum computing.
ASX-listed oil and gas company Woodside has become the first commercial organisation in Australia to join the IBM Q Network, which is focused on the development and use of quantum computing.
UBank’s embrace of artificial intelligence has helped it grow its customer base while retaining a compact staff headcount -- and it’s also freeing up time for its employees as they attempt to understand the future of banking, according to chief executive Lee Hatton.
The conversation between the elevator in Kone’s Mascot headquarters and the company’s cloud is polite but banal.
IBM is moving Watson Cognitive Health to the hybrid cloud to offer greater access to a larger pool of payer and health record information for analytics.
John McEnroe, known for his on-court outbursts, would be in his element at next month's Wimbledon tennis tournament, where every fist-pump of elation and cry of angst will be analysed by artificial intelligence to compile video highlights.
The Department of Defence has become one of the first organisations in the world to deploy a highly secure on-premises version of IBM’s Watson cognitive computing platform.
NAB subsidiary UBank has released details of ‘RoboBrain’, a new cognitive assistant based on IBM’s Watson platform.
NAB has launched what it has described as a “digital virtual banker”: A chatbot designed to aid the bank’s business customers.
NAB’s UBank is experimenting with new interfaces for its online RoboChat service, with Facebook Messenger, Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home all considered potential front-ends for the chatbot, according to Jeremy Hubbard, the bank’s head of digital and technology.
OpenText has launched an artificial intelligence platform built on top of OpenText Analytics and Apache Spark.
IBM’s Watson for Oncology platform is being rolled out in Australia for the first time. Oncologists at Australian cancer care provider Icon Group will have access to the cognitive computing platform, IBM Watson Health announced.
Using cloud services to do the heavy lifting and full-wave inversion have led to better quality seismic imaging and a shorter time between data acquisition and data being made available to seismic interpreters at Woodside.
NAB subsidiary UBank has launched what it claims is Australia’s first AI chatbot for home loans.
As brands realise their customers not only don’t mind dealing with a virtual agent instead of a human – they actually prefer it – they are beginning to put them on the frontline of customer interactions.
While the complexity of the searching and result-ranking technology behind Apple's Siri would likely elude most of its users, the value of a context-sensitive personal assistant certainly has not.