Source – insidehpc.com While artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep learning are often thought of as being interchangeable, they do in fact relate to very different concepts. It all began in the 1950s with AI and the idea that a computer could be made to simulate human learning and intelligence. A subclass of that is Read More

Source – zdnet.com Just as cloud computing used to be, so now artificial intelligence is the term that pretty much every tech start-up is required to mention if it’s going to be considered a contender for the Next Big Thing. If you don’t include machine learning and neural networks in your pitch, prepare to be ignored. Read More

Source – firstpost.com Indian business landscape is likely to be influenced by trends like artificial intelligence, automation, and digital currencies in the second half of this year, says a report. Investment Outlook report for 2017, which identified key trends that are likely to influence asset allocation decisions, noted that companies with disruptive leadership will thrive. “The advent of Read More

Source – nytimes.com SAN FRANCISCO — At OpenAI, the artificial intelligence lab founded by Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, machines are teaching themselves to behave like humans. But sometimes, this goes wrong. Sitting inside OpenAI’s San Francisco offices on a recent afternoon, the researcher Dario Amodei showed off an autonomous system that taught itself to play Coast Runners, Read More

Source – techcrunch.com There are few more credible authorities on artificial intelligence (AI) than Hilary Mason the New York-based founder and chief executive of the data science and machine learning consultancy Fast Forward Labs. So, I asked Mason, who is also the Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners and the former Chief Scientist at Bitly, whether today’s AI revolution is for Read More

Source – knowstartup.com Artificial Intelligence is changing the way we think of technology. It is radically changing the various aspects of our daily life. Companies are now significantly making investments in AI to boost their future businesses. According to a Narrative Science report, just 38% percent of the companies surveys used artificial intelligence in 2016—but by 2018, Read More

Source – financialexpress.com Businesses are mining data and discovering gold. But the riches hidden in massive public databases remain unexplored. Deciphering this data and analysing it can lead to better policies and favourable outcomes. CPC Analytics, an Indo-German start-up, hopes to solve real-world problems by leveraging this data through relevant analysis, insights and advice. CPC Analytics Read More

Source – digitaljournal.com Combating the human aging process, either for health reasons or reasons more attuned to simply living for longer, has occupied considerable amounts of scientific inquiry. The solution to combating cell aging may lie with artificial intelligence. The application of artificial intelligence is the research focus of start-up company Insilico Medicine. The medical technology company Read More

Source – imeche.org The smart materials of the future are likely to be discovered not in the lab, but on a supercomputer. Materials science has exploded in recent years – offering tantalising potential solutions to engineering challenges ranging from higher-capacity batteries to safer medical devices. There are materials that work at the molecular level to fight bacteria, Read More

Source – voanews.com LONDON — Artificial intelligence robots are turbocharging the race to find new drugs for the crippling nerve disorder ALS, commonly called Lou Gehrig’s disease. The condition attacks and kills nerve cells controlling muscles, leading to weakness, paralysis and, ultimately, respiratory failure. There are only two drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Read More

Source – techtarget.com exactly how many microservices it should include. The answer is important, because including too few or too many makes a huge difference in effectiveness and manageability. Read on to learn how to use containers and codebase analysis to decide. Why microservices? Microservices architectures have become popular over the past several years because they make Read More

Source – medicalxpress.com The benefits of a good night’s sleep have become widely known, and now neuroscientists at UC San Francisco have discovered that the animal brain reinforces motor skills during deep sleep. During non-REM sleep, slow brain waves bolster neural touchpoints that are directly related to a task that was newly learned while awake, while weakening neural Read More

Source – betanews.com Big data and analytics are topics firmly embedded in our business dialogue. The amount of data we’re now generating is astonishing. Cisco predicts that annual global IP traffic will reach 3.3 ZB per year by 2021 and that the number of devices connected to IP networks will be more than three times the global population Read More

Source – techtarget.com Cybersecurity machine learning is growing in popularity, according to Jon Oltsik, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group Inc. in Milford, Mass. Oltsik attended the recent Black Hat conference, where technology vendors were abuzz with talk of cybersecurity machine learning. ESG research asked 412 respondents about their understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity machine learning, Read More

Source – techtarget.com Brandon Wirtz was supposed to be a fifth-generation teacher. Indeed, the founder and CEO of artificial intelligence engine developer Recognant is a teacher — of robots, not people — and not the factory floor variety of bots, either. Instead, Wirtz sees AI changing a very human process: human resources. To reach the place where artificial intelligence and Read More

Source – abc.net.au Artificial intelligence is becoming commonplace, from your smartphone and your Amazon account to the driverless cars that will soon grace public roads in Australia. Often, the response to this reality is one of trepidation and concern, about mass unemployment and the dominance of Big Tech. But that’s not always the case. “Art is one Read More

Source – sdtimes.com Microservices are in the spotlight, as infrastructure building blocks, because they offer decoupling of services, data store autonomy, miniaturized development, testing set up, and other benefits that facilitate faster time to market for new applications or updates. The availability of containers and their orchestration tools has also contributed to the increase in microservices Read More

Source – cio.com Monsanto CIO Jim Swanson has outlined five key elements of Monsanto’s digital transformation: customer centricity, internal business process disruption, technology and automation, data and decision science, and leadership and change management. He views all of those facets as integral to breaking through the “clay layer” of mid-level employees, present in every organization, who Read More

Source – forbes.com University degrees are really, really expensive and there are plenty of new startups in Silicon Valley offering job readiness training for much cheaper. So, how does a $100,000 graduate degree in statistics stack up to an online course for 1/100th the price? The short answer is that I think for many jobs, an online certificate Read More

Source – itproportal.com Big data and analytics are topics firmly embedded in our business dialogue. The amount of data we’re now generating is astonishing. Cisco predicts that annual global IP traffic will reach 3.3 ZB per year by 2021 and that the number of devices connected to IP networks will be more than three times the global population Read More

Source – abc.net.au Musk is wrong to worry about artificial intelligence (AI) being a threat to humanity, so I agree with Zuckerberg. And Zuckerberg is wrong to dismiss all concerns about AI, so I agree with Musk. But neither of them are worrying about the right things. AI is transforming almost every aspect of our lives, Read More

Source – robohub.org As AI surpasses human abilities in Go and poker – two decades after Deep Blue trounced chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov – it is seeping into our lives in ever more profound ways. It affects the way we search the web, receive medical advice and whether we receive finance from our banks. The most Read More

Source – itworld.com You’ve probably encountered the term “machine learning” more than a few times lately. Often used interchangeably with artificial intelligence, machine learning is in fact a subset of AI, both of which can trace their roots to MIT in the late 1950s. Machine learning is something you probably encounter every day, whether you know Read More

Source – information-age.com The march of the machines is upon society: the vast power of machine learning has been freed from the confines of IT laboratories and is disrupting businesses across the world, delivering deep insight, accurate predictions and detailed learnings that have the potential to make huge transformation. But there’s an issue: these immense, invaluable Read More

Source – betanews.com In my series, I’ve looked at the different ways in which data can be deployed to help people make decisions. Over time, more of the decision-making process has shifted from people manually collating data from different sources in their heads to using data sets that can be automatically joined together. This networked approach Read More

Source – illinoisfarmertoday.com ST. LOUIS — Big Data in agriculture isn’t really new. The technology used to collect it may be, but common sense still rules its use. Steve Sonka realized the value of ag data during his childhood on the family farm in Iowa, where he milked cows and fed chickens. He learned early on Read More

Source – diginomica.com Deep learning, the branch of AI that uses artificial neural networks to build prediction and pattern matching models from large datasets relevant to a particular application, is having a sizable impact on both consumer and enterprise software. Whether for enabling home appliances to understand and respond to vocal commands or identifying hidden patterns endemic Read More

Source – sciencemag.org Can computers be creative? That’s a question bordering on the philosophical, but artificial intelligence (AI) can certainly make music and artwork that people find pleasing. Last year, Google launched Magenta, a research project aimed at pushing the limits of what AI can do in the arts. Science spoke with Douglas Eck, the team’s lead in San Francisco, Read More

Source – livemint.com Bengaluru: Last year, for the first time ever, an international beauty contest was judged by machines. Thousands of people from across the world submitted their photos to Beauty.AI, hoping that their faces would be selected by an advanced algorithm free of human biases, in the process accurately defining what constitutes human beauty. In preparation, Read More