Source- fortune.com Artificial intelligence requires us to draft a social contract with our technology, said Rana El Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of emotion AI company Affectiva, who presented on emotion and AI at Fortune’s Brainstorm Reinvent conference in Chicago on Monday. We’ve got to trust it, she explained. To build that trust between humans and technology, Read More
Source-forbes.com Amazon continued an autumn ritual this week releasing a new generation of Echo smart speaker products that ‘do stuff’ around the house. Echo, better known by its wake word, ‘Alexa,’ can be queried about the weather, stream news and music on demand and serves as a robotic assistant that responds to voice commands to Read More
Source-washingtonpost.com Despite being a slow-moving disaster, famine is notoriously difficult to predict. The reason for this, experts say, is that severe food shortages are hardly ever about food supply alone. A famine might be triggered by drought or some other climatic interference in crop production, but other powerful forces usually bring the scourge to full Read More
Source- vanillaplus.com The inclusion of open APIs, open source and virtualisation has become a de facto standard within the software community. For CSPs, who are desperately trying to transform into digital service providers and achieve web-scale success, this can’t have come soon enough. In order to become digital service providers, CSPs need to run their businesses Read More
Source- thenextweb.com The biggest actual threat faced by humans, when it comes to AI, has nothing to do with robots. It’s biased algorithms. And, like almost everything bad, it disproportionately affects the poor and marginalized. Machine learning algorithms, whether in the form of “AI” or simple shortcuts for sifting through data, are incapable of making rational Read More
Source- paymentsjournal.com Artificial intelligence is one of the most compelling areas of computer science research. AI technologieshave gone through periods of innovation and growth but never has AI research and development seemed as promising as it does now. This is due in part to amazing developments in machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks. Machine learning, Read More
Source-trak.in Artificial intelligence vs human intelligence is a long on-going debate. There are supporters and strong believers in the power of one form over the other and one replacing the other. Intelligence is the mental ability that is used in reasoning, problem-solving and learning and integrates the core cognitive functions of perception, memory, attention, focus, planning and Read More
Source-livemint.com The US, followed by China, India, Israel, and Germany, rank as the countries with the highest penetration of artificial intelligence (AI) skills among their workforce, according to a new report by professional networking site LinkedIn.com. The findings, released on Monday, further suggest that while changes driven by AI technologies may still be in their Read More
Source-postbulletin.com What role can artificial intelligence play in the future of health care? That was a big topic this week at the 2018 Individualizing Medicine conference, held Wednesday through Friday in Rochester, where researchers discussed ways to individualize treatments using AI. Many of the treatments discussed — using pattern-recognition programs to identify diseases or detect Read More
Source- forbes.com In today’s society, it can be hard to operate without relying on technology one way or another. Electronics have become an essential part of our daily operations. It seems we all use technology for productivity and communication. Can you imagine what would happen if we all stopped relying on technology all of a sudden? Read More
Source-analyticsinsight.net Data is definitely priceless. But it is not a cake walk to analyze it as greater things come at a greater cost. With the exponential growth in data, there requires a process to extract meaningful information as conclude to useful insights. Data mining is the process where the discovery of patterns among large sets Read More
Souce- thephuketnews.com No, this is not me on the psychiatrist’s couch. I’m far too much of the stereotypical man to admit there’s actually something wrong to another human. However, lying on my own couch with smartphone in hand, I’ve decided to reveal all… to a Woebot. Woebot is a digital service available on iOS and Android Read More
Source-techrepublic.com Data science jobs are among the most coveted careers in America, taking the no. 1 spot on Glassdoor’s Best Jobs in America list for the past three years, and boasting high average salaries for those with the right skill set. These professionals report high job satisfaction as well, according to a recent report from Figure Eight: 89% Read More
Source-nationalgeographic.com Yuval Noah Harari’s last book, Sapiens, was a global bestseller. In his new book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, one of the world’s most exciting young thinkers turns from the past to the present—and the future. What will life be like in 50 or 100 years? Will the liberal democratic order that has underpinned western societies survive? Read More
Source-railway-technology.com Engineering and design company Klas Telecom is to launch a new deep learning computer vision solution for the railway industry. The solution is due to be launched next week at the InnoTrans 2018 event in Germany. Alongside providing deep learning computer vision, the solution will offer object detection capabilities to trains and the network Read More
Source-edf.org This spring, regulators in Wyoming were scrambling to figure out how to process 10,000 applications for oil and gas permits filed since oil prices began to rise in early 2016. At the same time, new permits were streaming in at an unprecedented rate, raising concerns that some proposed energy projects would not get the Read More
Source-businesstoday.in Blowing the lid off what could possibly be one of the biggest data breaches of unique identity database of over a billion Indians, a report by Huffpost on Tuesday claimed that UIDAI’ database has been compromised by a software patch that disables critical security features of the software used to enrol new Aadhaar users. Read More
Source- newsweek.com Artificial intelligence (AI) is a bigger threat to national security than terrorism, the newly appointed president of one of the world’s oldest science institutions has warned. Jim Al-Khalili, the incoming president of the British Science Association and professor of physics and public engagement at the University of Surrey, U.K., told The Telegraph the looming dangers Read More
Source-itproportal.com Data science can be applied to the hiring process to help human resources work smarter — and be more successful in finding those elusive candidates. Today’s unemployment rate in the U.S. stands at 3.9 per cent. Talent managers, recruiters, and human resource professionals understand that the realities of the current labour market require using Read More
Source-datanami.com Hortonworks, IBM and Red Hat today announced they’re banding together to build a consistent hybrid computing architecture for big data workloads. Dubbed the Open Hybrid Architecture Initiative, the program pledges simplicity of deployment and freedom of movement for data apps. The rapid ascent of cloud computing platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud has given enterprises abundant new Read More
Source-geneticliteracyproject.org To understand the benefits that artificial intelligence can bring to the world of human medicine, consider the case of Ayako Yamashita, a 60-year-old Japanese woman, whose condition befuddled doctors in 2015. Yamashita was thought to be suffering from acute myeloid leukemia. But after several unsuccessful treatment attempts, her doctors decided to search for another answer to Read More
Source- bbntimes.com Machine learning has successfully made its way into various industries. MLaaS is a path-breaking offering for businesses interested in using machine learning but lack the technical know-how or the the infrastructural support. Machine learning is changing how the Internet works and is the fastest evolving technologies. It has transformed industries by making computing processes Read More
Source- news.com.au EVERYONE has heard about it. Nobody can describe precisely what it is. But demand for artificial intelligence is exploding — and far outstripping Australia’s capacity to produce it. According to the AI Collaborative Network, one of the rapidly developing field’s greatest challenges is that reality has far outstripped the public’s perception of what it Read More
Source – businessworld.in What on earth is machine learning? Machine Learning (ML) is a relatively new field and has been talked about quite a bit in the technology sphere. It’s one of the most important advancements since the invention of computers. While computers were these ubiquitous machines that could do a whole lot of things, they Read More
Source – analyticsindiamag.com Today, artificial intelligence is dominating most of the games — from board games to interactive fiction games. They are providing complex, decision-making environments for AI to experiment with. The ability of games to provide interesting and complex problems, offering creativity and expression, has made them one of the most popular and meaningful domain for AI Read More
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Online marketplace Snapdeal Wednesday announced an ‘AI Hackathon’ aimed at developing solutions based on the new-age technology that can help address challenges related to the e-commerce sector. “This competition challenges participants to solve interesting problems around computer vision and natural language processing. The winner will be selected based on his/her ability to Read More
Source – medicalxpress.com Artificial intelligence can help make medicine more efficient and safer. China is a forerunner in this field; we must not miss the boat, says Walter Karlen. A few weeks ago, I turned to the new Swiss TV show “Ärzte vs. Internet” (Physicians vs. internet). On the show, two teams duel to correctly diagnose Read More
Source – datanami.com achine learning (ML) pipelines consist of several steps to train a model, but the term ‘pipeline’ is misleading as it implies a one-way flow of data. Instead, machine learning pipelines are cyclical and iterative as every step is repeated to continuously improve the accuracy of the model and achieve a successful algorithm. To Read More
Source – phys.org Machine learning algorithms that can predict yeast metabolism from its protein content have been developed by scientists at the Francis Crick Institute. The findings could provide a basis for brewers to have greater control over the flavour of their beer, and scientists to personalise treatments for metabolic disorder patients, in the future. Metabolism Read More
Source – guardian.ng One of the major challenges faced in treating cancer is the constantly changing nature of tumours hence proposed treatment at a particular time may not be effective because tumours become resistant to drugs or proposed treatment. Artificial Intelligence in a new development has come in useful in predicting how cancers will progress and Read More