Source: techxplore.com A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has put Singapore on the global map of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data analytics. Their open-source project, called Apache SINGA, “graduated” from the Apache Incubator on 16 October 2019 and is now Southeast Asia’s first Top-Level Project (TLP) under the Apache Read More
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Source: vox.com I spend a disproportionate amount of time reading and talking to two somewhat niche groups of people in American politics: democratic socialists of the Sen. Bernie Sanders variety (or maybe a bit to the left of that), and left-libertarians from the Bay Area who are interested in effective altruism. These are both small groups, Read More
Source: fleeteurope.com During the 2019 Geotab Mobility Connect even in Estoril, compelling evidence from two major fleets has revealed how telematics hold the key to unlocking significant fleet efficiency and dramatically improving customer service. The fleets operate in very different industries – fresh food delivery and waste collection – but there are strong parallels in Read More
Source: rcpmag.com Microsoft launched a private preview of “Project Cortex,” touted as a knowledge network for Microsoft 365 users, as part of this week’s Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla. Project Cortex largely has its roots in SharePoint technology, as described by SharePoint team members in a podcast. An allusion to SharePoint’s role also was made by Read More
Source: The US government funding in artificial intelligence has fallen short and the country needs to invest in research, train an AI-ready workforce and apply the technology to national security missions, a government-commissioned panel led by Google’s former CEO said in an interim report on Monday. The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), created 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: .crn.in Cyber-security is slowly, but steadily entering the books of enterprises, big and small. Its competitive advantage is being increasingly realised and business leaders aggressive about data security more than ever. K Purushothaman, CEO, K7 Computing, a veteran in the domain, talks more about cyber-security and how it’s trending today. What are the current Read More
Source: cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com Artificial Intelligence (AI) is possibly the most widely discussed technology trend. There are strong views about the applications and benefits of AI, while some feel that it will bring in the apocalyptic day of machine controlling human beings; a few others believe that AI will be extremely beneficial for humans. In the near term, Read More
Source: sdtimes.com Application performance management (APM) solutions need to adapt now that the age of monolithic applications has evolved into microservice-based architectures, which are innately distributed and complex and therefore harder to monitor. Collecting vast troves of data on how apps are performing is no longer enough, and APM providers have been adding new ways to analyze Read More
Source: healthitanalytics.com November 04, 2019 – What do the following numbers have to do with the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America: 2, 12, 32, 271, and 308? They refer to the presence of “artificial intelligence” at the show from 2015 to 2019, in that order. RNSA sees tremendous potential in the application of Read More
Source: innotechtoday.com While neurological diseases seem sudden, striking out of nowhere, many of them are actually progressive. The brain develops such conditions over time, and the symptoms can be barely noticeable until it is too late. The secret to helping such patients in time is befriending deep learning technology. Various types of image analysis software, mostly based Read More
Source: information-age.com There is no single moment when SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) arrived, because SaaS is a concept that involves numerous components. SaaS has evolved to the point where vendors and suppliers manage their own software and no installation is required because software is distributed instantaneously over the internet (via the cloud). Cloud computing allows businesses to Read More
Source: thenextweb.com An initiative that will use digital technologies such as artificial intelligence has been launched to empower community health workers, promising to help save the lives of at least six million children and women in ten countries by 2030. The Rockefeller Foundation initiative will be piloted in Uganda and India for its first phase that runs from this year to Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net analyticsinsight.net Artificial Intelligence has been gaining ground as an essential field of research that could revolutionize the world since the first computer revolution in the 1980s. The technology has seen several roller-coasters in its journey, and today, it has come out with many promises to society, accelerated by vast advances in computing capacity. Read More
Source: digitaltrends.com AlphaStar, an artificial intelligence program powered by Google’s DeepMind, was present at BlizzCon 2019, with the goal of beating any human that tried to go up against it in StarCraft II. Blizzard set up computers at the Blizzard Arcade section of BlizzCon 2019, which ran from November 1 to November 2 at the Anaheim Convention Center, Read More
Source: supplychaindigital.com Watson is IBM’s suite of artificial intelligence (AI) services, applications and tools. Watson aims to help businesses unlock the value of data in new ways and remove repetitive tasks from employees to shift the focus to high-value work. This is in addition to allowing companies to predict and shape business outcomes in order to rethink 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: dqindia.com Artificial intelligence is already impacting our lives in a major way. Be it getting driving instructions through our smartphone or getting daily reminders by our fitness device to increase our workouts, all these are manifestations of how artificial intelligence is changing the way we function. What is often less understood is the significant Read More
Source: siliconangle.com Google LLC today launched an enterprise version of TensorFlow, the popular open-source artificial intelligence framework it created to run machine learning, deep learning and other statistical and predictive analytics workloads. The TensorFlow framework simplifies the process of acquiring data, training models, serving predictions and refining future results. Common use cases include training algorithms for image Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Newark, New Jersey-based Duality Technologies, a provider of privacy-enhancing data science solutions, today announced that it’s raised $16 million in a series A round led by Intel Capital, with participation from Hearst Ventures and existing investor Team 8. Duality previously raised $4 million in a November 2018 round, which together with this latest Read More
Source: aithority.com There’s an old saying in the Artificial Intelligence community: once software starts working people stop calling it AI. You could make the argument that the opposite has taken place during the last ~6 years of the neural network renaissance with Machine Learning researchers returning to the term AI as the old stigma of exaggerated hype wears off. Read More
Source: business-standard.com In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Tamil Nadu government is working on a policy for safe and ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI). It will set certain parameters that will need to be fulfilled before rolling out AI-based solutions, especially for the government. According to a senior state government official, a policy on Blockchain is also expected to be released 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: techxplore.com Researchers from the University of Houston have developed an artificial intelligence-based ozone forecasting system, which would allow local areas to predict ozone levels 24 hours in advance. That would improve health alerts for people at heightened risk of developing problems because of high ozone levels. Yunsoo Choi, associate professor in the Department of Earth Read More
Source: thenextweb.com Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the free and open-source Firefox web browser, is partnering with Montreal-based artificial intelligence startup Element AI to push for ethical use of AI. To that effect, the two companies are exploring the idea of data trusts, a proposed data collection approach that aims to provide individuals with greater control over Read More
Source: dqindia.com IIT Hyderabad has invited online applications from students for a PhD program in its newly launched Department of Artificial Intelligence. The Department of Artificial Intelligence was launched earlier this year to offer BTech, MTech. and PhD programs, as well as a number of minor programs in artificial intelligence. The IT industry currently requires Read More
Source: scroll.in In this version of the future, people will still have a role working alongside smart systems: either the technology will not be good enough to take over completely, or the decisions will have human consequences that are too important to hand over completely to a machine. There’s just one problem: when humans and Read More
Source: infoq.com Facebook AI Research (FAIR) has released Detectron2, a PyTorch-based computer vision library that brings a series of new research and production capabilities to the popular framework. Since its release in 2018, the original Detectron object detection platform has become one of FAIR’s most widely adopted open-source projects. While the first Detectron was written in Caffe2, Detectron2 represents Read More
Source: zdnet.com Today’s Earth scientists are spending less time standing in fields collecting soil samples, and more time behind a computer screen. Most geoscience data is automatically collected by sensors and satellites. The big challenge is making sense of all that data so that scientists can get back to what they do best: Observing the Read More