Richard Benjamins London AI Summit 2019 The London AI Summit attracted thousands of visitors; so many more than when AI was still a niche thing in the 90-ies. As always with such big events, it was a...
Fernando Menéndez Telefónica: a data & Artificial Intelligence driven company Last week Chema Alonso, Chief Data Officer of Telefónica, and Irene Gómez, Director of Telefónica Aura, gave a keynote speech about the company’s vision and ongoing projects on data...
Richard Benjamins London AI Summit 2019 The London AI Summit attracted thousands of visitors; so many more than when AI was still a niche thing in the 90-ies. As always with such big events, it was a...
Ana Zamora #LanzamosLUCA: Dave Sweeney on using Mobile Data to disrupt Transport and Tourism This week we share the launch presentation of Dave Sweeney, our Commercial Lead for Public and Transport sectors in the UK. Dave told us all about about how mobile...
LUCA Chiemsee-Alpenland Tourism and Telefónica Next Examine visitors to the Chiemsee lake Original post by Cécile Schneider, Telefónica NEXT The touristic region of Chiemsee-Alpenland and our colleagues at Telefónica NEXT used data analysis to examine the profile of visitors to the Chiemsee...
LUCA Analysing tourist profiles in Spain with INE Tourism is one of the main sectors of economic activity in Spain. According to the National Institute of Statistics (INE), an autonomous body under the Ministry of Economy in...
LUCA Case Study: LUCA Transit and Highways England Helping the transport industry to become data-driven has been a key aim of LUCA since the beginning. In this post, we will take a look at the specific case...
LUCA International call traffic may tell you more than first thought This post debates the value of international phone calls in understanding society. Telefónica has a wide global infrastructure of networks which can be used by other service providers to carry...
Richard Benjamins London AI Summit 2019 The London AI Summit attracted thousands of visitors; so many more than when AI was still a niche thing in the 90-ies. As always with such big events, it was a...
Stefan Leadbeater Coca-Cola’s use of AI to stay at the top of the drinks market Coca-Cola is the largest beverage company in the world serving over 1.9 billion drinks daily across its 500 brands. Being such a large conglomerate active is so many countries around the...
Óscar Mancebo Movistar Home, the reinvention of the home thanks to Artificial Intelligence At the 2018 edition of MWC, we announced that we were working on Movistar Home, a device aimed at reinventing the home incorporating Aura, Telefónica’s artificial intelligence, for its...
Alfonso Ibañez Semi-Supervised Learning… the great unknown In recent years much progress has been made in solving complex problems thanks to Artificial Intelligence algorithms. These algorithms need a large volume of information to discover and learn, continuously, hidden patterns in the...
Cristina de la Cruz Do Virtual Assistants improve the user experience with telcos? Virtual Assistants are more and more relevant in people’s daily lives, especially when it comes to requesting traffic information, reminders, weather reports… However, when it comes to interacting with...
Fernando Menéndez “Artificial Intelligence is amazing, but it must act with principles and values.” This week, Telefónica has played a very important role as a Global Partner Leader in the Digital Enterprise Show (DES 2019), Europe’s largest professional forum dedicated to the digital...
LUCA Responsible AI by Design in Practice How organizations can minimize the risk of undesirable, unintended consequences of AI using a methodological approach The use of Artificial Intelligence is increasing rapidly and can be applied in many...
LUCA The future of OpenAI and the alternatives to its end as a non-profit business Just a few days ago, the well-known research company within the Artificial Intelligence environment, OpenAI, has announced the end of its non-profit operations. Since starting, OpenAI have championed the development and promotion...
Álvaro Alegría Macro data, macro responsibility On the 11th April 1945, just two days before his death, during the celebrations of Jefferson Day, Franklin D. Roosevelt uttered a phrase that would remain forever in history:...
Stefan Leadbeater AKQA uses AI to develop a completely new sport As we already know, AI technologies are being used both within sports and to create new sports, but these tend to be very similar to sports which already exist with slight...
Stefan Leadbeater DeepMindAI partners with Moorfields Eye Hospital to develop innovative sight-saving technology DeepMind has partnered with Moorfields Eye Hospital to develop a diagnostic technology to bring to market, which can help to detect the early signs of sight-threatening conditions, which, through...
LUCA The use of AI and Machine Learning in the beer industry Artificial Intelligence has made its way into so many crucial aspects of our lives whether it be in medical care, transport, or even catering, but there are also so...
Stefan Leadbeater Driverless cars…a reality or a distant dream? More and more we are seeing different companies developing what they are calling driverless cars, which, in reality are nothing more than cars which have certain aspects of autonomous...
Diego Martín Moreno Blockchain technology In the previous article we talked about the basic concepts of the blockchain, and now we will focus on the current technologies to implement a blockchain solution. Blockchain and Smart...
Álvaro Alegría Don’t give up on human intelligence while adopting the artificial one Artificial intelligence is here to stay, that’s for sure. Just look at the pink (and not that pink) pages of any newspaper or take a quick look at Linkedin’s...
Stefan Leadbeater Groundbreaking study exposes the extent of UK gender bias In previous years, various reforms have been used to combat the labour gap and to “make work pay” for all however we still find ourselves with an issue that...
LUCA Chiemsee-Alpenland Tourism and Telefónica Next Examine visitors to the Chiemsee lake Original post by Cécile Schneider, Telefónica NEXT The touristic region of Chiemsee-Alpenland and our colleagues at Telefónica NEXT used data analysis to examine the profile of visitors to the Chiemsee...
LUCA The best Data Science certifications Over the last 10 years, the amount of data we have generated has soared to unprecedented heights. It is said that by 2020, each person will be generating 1.7...
Santiago Morante Cendrero Warning About Normalizing Data For many machine learning algorithms, normalizing data for analysis is a must. A supervised example would be neural networks. It is known that normalizing the data being input to...
