The iMerit Blog

From casual to cultured, the iMerit blog tackles a wide array of topics related to security, expertise, and flexibility in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning data-enrichment marketplace.

Nov 9, 2020

Federal Agencies Learn to Embrace AI

Among the top-line statistics in the “Artificial Intelligence in Federal Administrative Agencies,” report that was developed by researchers at Stanford

Nov 9, 2020

Data is Ground Truth For Government AI

In the public consciousness, AI conjures Hollywood images of metaphysical life forms (Steven Spielberg’s “AI”), holograms (Obi-Wan Kenobi in “Star

Nov 9, 2020

The Growing Role of CDOs and AI in U.S. Agencies

Will future governance of the United States be operationally administered mostly with artificial intelligence (AI)?  Predicting the future is commonly

Aug 4, 2020

How United Nations SDG 5 Became SDG 1 at iMerit

iMerit has been working aggressively against United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 since the company was founded in 2012. But,

Jul 15, 2020

The E-Commerce Cat and Mouse Between Humans and Machines

Algorithm development is in part the art and science of building the equivalent of human pattern recognition into a software

Jul 1, 2020

Building a Top Shelf, E-Commerce, AI Logic Engine

Often lost in valuing projects to develop commercially viable e-commerce AI algorithms is the human factor – the teams of

Jun 26, 2020

Geospatial Technology: Next generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) to be next big thing!

Few initiatives illustrate the opportunities and challenges inherent in the use of geospatial data as well as the move to next generation 9-1-1 services (NG9-1-1). As emergency response systems transition from switched network landline infrastructure to Internet Protocol communications, the

Jun 18, 2020

Is it necessary for autonomous vehicles to ‘see’ like humans?

Before an autonomous vehicle can reason its way out of trouble on the road it needs to understand what it’s

Jun 18, 2020

Medical AI: Is the field suffering from a lack of data?

Medical AI does not suffer from a lack of data. Millions upon millions of images — of internal organs, tumors,

Jun 18, 2020

It’s official: Not all domain experts are created equal

Where do domain experts come from? The words “expert” and “experience” share the same root, and indeed, to become a

Oct 18, 2019

ML Models: The Whole is More Than The Sum Of Its Parts

It was Aristotle who said the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Systems thinkers believe this concept

Oct 11, 2019

Humans and ML Models: Are They Really That Different?

Would you argue that the brain is the most important organ in the human body because it is the body’s