Source: The bipartisan Congressional Artificial Intelligence Caucus is concerned about the lack of coordination between individual federal departments’ AI offices. Rep. Pete Olson, R-Texas, sitting on a panel next to co-chair Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Calif., said that he wants the different offices throughout agencies dedicated to developing AI capabilities to interact with each other more Read More
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Source: tmc.edu When the X-ray was discovered at the end of the 19th century, a new medical discipline was born. Radiology became a way to study, diagnose and treat disease. Today, expertise among radiologists, radiation oncologists, nuclear medicine physicians, medical physicists and technicians includes many forms of medical imaging—from diagnostic and cancer imaging to mammography, radiation therapy, ultrasound, Read More
Source: crn.com Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems claims it has the “world’s fastest AI supercomputer,” thanks to its large Wafer Scale Engine processor that comes with 400,000 compute cores. The Los Altos, Calif.-based startup introduced its CS-1 system at the Supercomputing conference in Denver last week after raising more than $200 million in funding from investors, Read More
Source: computerweekly.com McKinsey’s Global AI survey has found that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in automating business processes has increased by 25% year on year, yet a number of sectors are struggling. In a global survey of 2,360 businesses, McKinsey found that 58% of organisations have embedded at least one AI capability into a process or product in Read More
Source: techrepublic.com It will take time, but at some point every application will have its share of “AI Inside.” Today, however, we’re far from that point, and false advertising of AI capabilities isn’t helping, something Arvind Narayanan, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Princeton, has called out as “snake oil” in a recent presentation. It’s not that there aren’t Read More
Source: qz.com In the early 1980s, presentations about Infosys began with the founders’ pointing out India and Bengaluru on a world map. Today, globally listed companies such as Dr Reddy’s, Tata Motors, and Reliance Industries have made that redundant. The country is also the third-largest startup nation. A number of its business-to-consumer (B2C) ventures, from Read More
Source: wired.com Microsoft’s recent victory in landing a $10 billion Pentagon cloud-computing contract called JEDI could make life more complicated for one of the software giant’s partners: the independent artificial-intelligence research lab OpenAI. OpenAI was created in 2015 by Silicon Valley luminaries including Elon Musk to look to the far horizon, and save the world. The newborn nonprofit said it had Read More
Source: retailcustomerexperience.com Artificial intelligence is touching almost every industry in the ongoing era of digital transformation. But what does it mean? Put simply, AI and machine learning — a closely related idea — are computer programs that emulate and learn human behavior to then make autonomous decisions. AI can be especially transformative in retail, helping Read More
Source: entrepreneur.com Only ten years ago, most people thought of artificial intelligence as a technology made for the futuristic world— of flying cars and having robots as friends a la The Jetsons. But in 2019, AI is really no longer an intimidating technology. Most don’t realize that some of the apps and services they regularly use Read More
Source: defenseone.com The importance of artificial intelligence to national security is a rare area of consensus between America’s political right and left, and between Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley. But disagreement is emerging around the issue of tech talent and the large number of Chinese students studying in the United States and getting jobs in the tech industry. That Read More
Source: smithsonianmag.com Last January, during a livestream on YouTube and Twitch, professional StarCraft II player Grzegorz “MaNa” Komincz from Poland struck a blow for humankind when he defeated a multi-million-dollar artificial intelligence agent known as AlphaStar, designed specifically to pummel human players in the popular real-time strategy game. The public loss in front of tens of thousands of eSports Read More
Source: nature.com Players of the science-fiction video game StarCraft II faced an unusual opponent this summer. An artificial intelligence (AI) known as AlphaStar — which was built by Google’s AI firm DeepMind — achieved a grandmaster rating after it was unleashed on the game’s European servers, placing within the top 0.15% of the region’s 90,000 players. The Read More
Source: hbr.org Like any new technology, artificial intelligence is capable of immensely good or bad outcomes. The public seems increasingly focused on the bad, especially when it comes to the potential for bias in AI. This concern is both well-founded and well-documented. But what is AI? It is the simulation of human processes by machines. Read More
Source: thejakartapost.com British billionaire Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways and a campaigner for LGBT+ rights, cannot be in all places at all times. Technology could soon change that. Uncannily familiar in appearance and voice, avatars of Branson and two human rights activists displayed on tablet devices were unveiled at a youth summit in Read More
Source: openaccessgovernment.org On 8th August 2019, Health Secretary Matt Hancock allocated an additional £250 million to be invested in an artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory that will lead to a better ability to screen for cancer, identify patients most at risk of diseases such as heart disease or dementia, build systems to detect people at risk of Read More
Source: edexlive.com At about $1.2 trillion globally, the fashion industry is one of the biggest in the world. Associated mostly with the glitz and glamour, the modern-day fashion world is moving at a rapid and aggressive pace where designers are expected to be not only creative but also experimental and innovative in their thinking, approach Read More
Source: aithority.com Inzata, the first full-service data analytics platform powered by artificial intelligence, announces the general availability of its AI-Powered Data Enrichment Services, launching with 38 new One-Click Enrichments for all subscription users. Inzata’s data enrichment services make any raw data more useful and accurate, and therefore more valuable. “Data enrichment” is the process of adding curated, Read More
Source: insidebigdata.com Inzata, the full-service data analytics platform powered by artificial intelligence, announces the general availability of its AI-Powered Data Enrichment Services, launching with 38 new One-Click Enrichments for all subscription users. Inzata’s data enrichment services make any raw data more useful and accurate, and therefore more valuable. “Data enrichment” is the process of adding curated, high-quality Read More
Source: hbr.org Artificial intelligence, including machine learning, presents exciting opportunities to transform the health and life sciences spaces. It offers tantalizing prospects for swifter, more accurate clinical decision making and amplified R&D capabilities. However, open issues around regulation and clinical relevance remain, causing both technology developers and potential investors to grapple with how to overcome today’s barriers to adoption, Read More
Source: openaccessgovernment.org The Digital Single strategy of the European Commission sets out to “open up digital opportunities for people and business and enhance Europe’s position as a world leader in the digital economy.”(1) This article will briefly examine a part of that by looking at the work of the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (Unit A.1). We Read More
Source: nextgov.com The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Assistant Director for Artificial Intelligence offered fresh details Wednesday into a memo being developed to help foster public trust and build agencies’ confidence in regulating artificial intelligence technologies. “This is a memo directed to agencies that suggests regulatory and non-regulatory principles for how you Read More
Source: inc42.com To encourage research on artificial intelligence (AI) ethics, Silicon Valley-headquartered Facebook said that it has now selected six projects from India that will focus on three key areas – governance, cultural diversity and operationalising ethics. The company announced Ethics in AI research awards in June with a regional focus on India. It had said Read More
Source: machinedesign.com Even early concerns related to artificial intelligence (AI) have not appeared to slow its adoption. Some companies are already seeing benefit and experts are saying companies not adopting new technology will not be able to compete over time. However, AI adoption seems to be moving slowly despite early successful case studies. Why AI Read More
Source: zdnet.com AI is advancing rapidly within the enterprise — by Gartner’s count, more than half of organizations already have at least one AI deployment in operation, and they’re planning to substantially accelerate their AI adoption within the next few years. At the same time, the organizations building and deploying these tools have yet to really grapple Read More
Source: indianretailer.com Companies are constantly reinventing themselves, resulting in creative-disruption or creation of new ecosystems. New innovative business models are springing up, inspired by Uber, Ola and Airbnb. The ability to create waves of innovation or ride them is what marks the difference between successful companies and those that are not. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is Read More
Source: forbes.com Artificial intelligence (AI) is creating massive ripples around the world. For some, it enhances customer experiences; for others, it reduces costs through automation. AI analyzes large data sets with ease, enabling better decision making and uncovering new business opportunities. Now, it’s also working its way into content management. We’ve already seen examples of AI Read More
Source: entrepreneur.com The way businesses engage with customers has seen a paradigm shift with the advent of one of the most disruptive technologies in the human history: artificial intelligence (AI). Armed with the insights drawn by AI from the torrent of data available to them, businesses can now make smart and timely decisions to increase sales and improve the efficiency of their communication with their target Read More
Source:indiatoday.in India is the largest producer and the second largest exporter of cotton in the world. Yet, for the farmers raising cotton crop the year 2017 was horrendous. Reason? Nearly 50 per cent of their yield was destroyed following an attack by the pink bollworm. This happened despite cotton farmers using nearly 55 per cent Read More
Source:- emerj.com Have you ever read a blog post or a whitepaper and heard the terms “data science” or “predictive analytics” used in ways that aren’t quite right? As it turns out, terms like these are often used incorrectly, but by the end of this episode of the AI in Industry podcast, you’ll have greater clarity Read More
Source:- techrepublic.com Karen Roby talks with Columbia professor Sameer Maskey about the lack of trained AI talent and why he believes underserved communities may be the solution to the problem. Nearly every industry is using artificial intelligence in one way or another to improve business outcomes. AI holds great promise as new and exciting applications are Read More