Source: meritalk.com The geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) industry and workforce is undergoing a seismic shift driven by artificial intelligence (AI), with 91 percent of stakeholders believing AI has the potential to greatly improve GEOINT productivity, capacity, and capability. That potential impact, however, appears to be racing ahead of on-the-ground planning as just 33 percent of GEOINT Read More
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Source: nationalheraldindia.com Using Artificial Intelligence (AI), researchers have developed a quick test to identify which people with glaucoma are at risk of rapid progression to blindness. A new test can detect glaucoma progression 18 months earlier than the current gold standard method, said the study published in the journal Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics. Glaucoma, Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net In the past few years, machine learning has highlighted the strength of information technology in discovering the fundamentals of life and the environment. With the volume of data generated every day, it has become necessary to acknowledge smart analysis solutions to know more about the world we live in. In particular, machine learning Read More
Source: arcweb.com ARC’s Harry Forbes, Research Director for Automation, interviewed Christine Boles, Intel’s Vice President of the IOT Group/General Manager, Industrial Solutions Division, at the ARC Industry Forum in Orlando. Discussions ranged from Intel’s position in the value chain for industrial systems, new technologies, and AI in manufacturing. Intel is a provider of many products and Read More
Source: meritalk.com The director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and government scientists from countries around the world are calling for publishers to make COVID-19-related research available to the public including in formats where they can apply artificial intelligence (AI) to the task of analyzing the data. Along with OSTP Read More
Source: finance.yahoo.com The survey, performed at RSA Conference 2020, reflects the need for security organizations to incorporate both AI and human element offerings WhiteHat Security, an independent subsidiary of NTT Ltd. and a leading application security provider, today released the results of its “AI and Human Element Security Sentiment Study,” based on a survey of Read More
Source: financialexpress.com Artificial Intelligence (AI) is opening up the next phase of technological advances. Riding the AI wave, Google has started six AI-based research projects in India. These projects would focus on addressing social, humanitarian and environmental challenges in sectors such as healthcare, education, disaster prevention and conversation. Google Research India, based in Bengaluru, will Read More
Source: syncedreview.com In their wonderfully titled A Gentle Introduction to Deep Learning for Graphs, researchers from Italy’s University of Pisa present a clear and engaging tutorial on the main concepts and building blocks involved in neural architectures for graphs. Graphs are everywhere. In chemistry and material sciences for example they are used to represent the molecular structure Read More
Source: allaboutcircuits.com Machine learning’s ability to perform intellectually demanding tasks across various fields, materials science included, has caused it to receive considerable attention. Many believe that it could be used to unlock major time and cost savings in the development of new materials. The growing demand for the use of machine learning to derive fast-to-evaluate Read More
Source: governmentciomedia.com The Government Accountability Office identified to lawmakers potential use cases for machine learning in drug development to help drive efficiencies and cost savings. The Food and Drug Administration has been tracking the use of artificial intelligence in drug development. Although the FDA does not currently have a regulatory policy around machine learning in drug development, GAO Read More
Source: syncedreview.com “Generalization” is an AI buzzword these days for good reason: most scientists would love to see the models they’re training in simulations and video game environments evolve and expand to take on meaningful real-world challenges — for example in safety, conservation, medicine, etc. One concerned research area is deep reinforcement learning (DRL), which Read More
Source: cnbc.com Artificial intelligence and machine learning are crucial to Google and its parent company Alphabet. Recently promoted Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has been talking about an “AI-first world” since 2016, and the company uses the technology across many of its businesses, from search advertising to self-driving cars. But regulators are expressing concern about the growing Read More
Source: itweb.co.za Research shows that insurance executives are recognising the opportunities associated with big data. Of course, they are no stranger to the importance of data analysis, given how the industry is built around understanding market requirements and developing solutions accordingly. With the help of technological advances, says Kelly Preston, data analytics manager at SilverBridge, it Read More
Source: info.umkc.edu Students looking to find a career in what Harvard Business Review describes as “the sexiest job of the 21st century” are in luck. UMKC is launching a new data science program to propel students further into data education with workshops designed to provide hands on research experience in the field. The Institute for Data Read More
Source: mobihealthnews.com A study published in Nature has demonstrated how artificial intelligence (AI) research can drive and accelerate new scientific discoveries. Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind has created a dedicated, interdisciplinary team to explore using AI to predict the 3D structure of a protein based solely on its genetic sequence. Its system, AlphaFold, builds on prior research using large genomic Read More
Source: practicalecommerce.com As ecommerce grows, so does the data that is stored and used. Only a fraction of that data is utilized, however. But that will likely change, as data scientists are getting better at merging, standardizing, and analyzing. All of this will impact ecommerce merchants. What follows are my data predictions for 2020. Impact Read More
Source: The incredible exponential growth in the volume of research data shows no signs of slowing down. Take the databases used by the European Bioinformatics Institute, headquartered in Cambridge, which continue to double in size every one to two years. And, thanks to powerful digital processors, advances in materials science and innovations around data transfer, Read More
Source: fiercehealthcare.com The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) wants to become a leader in artificial intelligence and launched a new national institute to spur research and development in the space. The VA’s new National Artificial Intelligence Institute (NAII) is incorporating input from veterans and its partners across federal agencies, industry, nonprofits, and academia to prioritize AI R&D to improve 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: 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: beebom.com Google’s AI research team has developed a new machine learning system that they call “Form2Fit” in collaboration with researchers from Stanford University and Columbia University. The project makes use of deep neural networks to teach a robot arm to recognize and assemble objects. “If robots could learn “how things fit together,” then perhaps they Read More
Source: infoq.com Horace He recently published an article summarising The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019. The article utilizes several metrics to argue the point that PyTorch is quickly becoming the dominant framework for research, whereas TensorFlow is the dominant framework for applications deployed within a commercial/industrial context. He, a research student at Cornell University, counted the number of papers discusing either PyTorch or TensorFlow Read More
Source: Most companies remain in the research and development phase of AI implementation, and one reason why few have actual AI deployments is that data science teams are facing data shortages. Analysts agree that the more data you have, the better trained your models will be. So how does a data shortage factor in when 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: syncedreview.com After running the industrial robot operating system startup “Cobot” for three years, founder Miao Li has decided to axe 98 percent of the company’s “fancy services” and just focus on drug logistics and sorting mushrooms. Although the countless pages of operating system manuals he’d produced represented an investment of over US$15 million, Miao Read More
Source: gadget.co.za There are two common misperceptions about data science that exist in many organisations today, and which are holding them back from unlocking the full value of the discipline for themselves and their customers. The first of these is that data science is all about algorithms, big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning. And Read More
Source: slashgear.com Hyundai has announced a world’s first technology that it called Machine Learning based Smart Cruise Control (SCC-ML). SCC-ML is a technology that is meant to incorporate the driver’s patterns into the self-driving behavior to create a custom experience for the driver. Hyundai says that the tech is an industry first and plans to Read More
Source: news.mit.edu If you’ve ever seen a self-driving car in the wild, you might wonder about that spinning cylinder on top of it. It’s a “lidar sensor,” and it’s what allows the car to navigate the world. By sending out pulses of infrared light and measuring the time it takes for them to bounce off Read More
Source: ladailypost.com KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE ― The Air Force Research Laboratory will begin maneuvers today, Oct. 20, as the first-ever inspection mission to support real-time on-orbit spacecraft anomaly resolution operations. This effort will be a rendezvous between the experimental Mycroft satellite and a second experimental AFRL satellite called the Small Satellite Space Surveillance System, or S5. Read More
Source: fastcompany.com The robot itself looks like if you crossed Honda’s Asimo with the glowing gamepad from Dance Dance Revolution. In other words, it’s your typical, white plastic humanoid robot, but with a twist. Built as part of new research out of the Technical University of Munich, the H-1 is the first robot in history to be covered Read More