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• Knowledge Graphs or Semantic Vectors? The Answer Is Both!

  A decade ago, Google introduced the knowledge graph for search with the slogan “things not strings”, which represented the culmination of many years of effort to improve search. Knowledge graphs aim to render the meaning of text explicit, in terms of – yes, you…

• Your Next AI Project – Should You Build, Buy or Partner?

  If you’re an enterprise IT leader, you’re probably feeling the crunch when it comes to artificial intelligence. You know you could be using AI to gain more insights from your data and gain a competitive advantage. Increasingly you’re hearing that you’ll be left behind…

• Buying Twitter Followers is Sketchy. Could Artificial Intelligence be the (Legit) Alternative?

  If you’re doing marketing for a smaller company, you’re very likely doing it all: juggling campaigns, content marketing, SEO, website updates, PR, social media, and whatever else comes along. You know your followers on platforms like Twitter are an important marketing opportunity, and you’re…

• How Small Data Helps Understand Individuals in Real Time

  This article originally appeared in Inside Big Data In this special guest feature, Jeff McDowell, COO of Primal, discusses the importance of small data and big data analysis when providing timely and accurate AI recommendations based on interest compared to the stale irrelevant recommendations most…

• Small Data or Big Data – Which Matters Most for AI?

  By Jeff McDowell, COO at Primal In the past year, we have seen countless headlines about how artificial intelligence (AI) will transform business. AI promises to provide insight into data and customers at a level of individualization never seen before. In response, many companies…

• Bringing AI to its full potential with augmented intelligence

  It’s not even halfway through 2018 and the buzz around artificial intelligence (AI) is bigger than ever. It seems we’re finally starting to get past the overblown fear about a robot-dominated future, but the fear has been replaced by a lot of hype. AI…

• Communitech @20: Back where it all began

  Waterloo Region, September 29, 1993. It’s early morning when local entrepreneur Yvan Couture begins pitching an idea to a crowd gathered at the University of Waterloo’s William G. Davis Centre for the monthly meeting of the Computer Technology Network. Couture, then founder, President and…

• The Social Graph Must Die

  Have we reached the breaking point? Has our collective exhaustion with social media — the incessant notifications, the oppressive filter bubbles, the outright denial of our individuality — finally exhausted the excuses, apologies, and band-aid fixes? Here’s the #ElephantInTheRoom: The social graph is a terrible basis for matching…

• Are Machines Stealing Your Job?

  Three myths about artificial intelligence and its impact on content creators. Industrialization is transforming our information economy, destroying old business models and creating new opportunities. The impact it will have on content professionals will make social media seem tame in comparison. To understand this…

• Primal CTO Ihab Ilyas Awarded Thomson Reuters-funded Research Chair

  Thomson Reuters and the University of Waterloo are joining forces to fuel breakthroughs in data science and develop the next generation of global entrepreneurial leaders. The wide-ranging collaboration is valued at over CAD $20 million over the next five years. Their collaboration includes the…

• Azure-Backed Primal Delivers Personalized Content via Bing Search APIs

  Originally published on MSDN Channel 9: Primal is the maker of a web-scale network of personal intelligent assistants for content discovery. Primal uses Bing Search APIs in the Azure Marketplace to deliver highly personal content at web scale. The Bing knowledge and intelligence ecosystem…

• Automated Content Curation Your Readers Will Love: A WordPress Plugin That Uses Your Interest Graph

  Engage your readers with great content that expresses your interests! Primal for WordPress uses Primal’s powerful interest graph and content filtering technology to give your readers relevant and timely content that’s tailored to each individual page you create.

• The Industrialization of the Internet

  The industrialization of the internet is driven by the relentless pursuit of productivity advantages, not quality improvements. “The digital revolution is probably going to be as important and transformative as the industrial revolution.” — Ryan Avent, The Economist columnist, author of The Wealth of Humans (via…

• The History of the Semantic Web is the Future of Intelligent Assistants

  The Semantic Web provides an enticing vision of our online future. This next-generation Web will enable intelligent computer assistants to work autonomously on our behalf: scheduling our appointments, doing our shopping, finding the information we need, and connecting us with like-minded individuals. Unfortunately, the…

• Goodbye .@, Hello Messaging?

  A single-character change in how tweets are distributed highlights a massive strategic decision for Twitter. When I first started using Twitter, I’d start my tweets with the names of other users. I wanted to give them credit for their ideas. I later discovered very…

• The Surprising Potential of a De-Smooshed Twitter

  A unique real-world experiment, powered by an AI, that highlights the rewards and challenges of treating people on Twitter like individuals. Read the full report on Primal for Twitter, a personal intelligent assistant for content discovery. The Surprising Potential of a De-Smooshed Twitter