Big Data

Future Of Railways May Include IoT, Big Data, AI: RailTel Chief

Source: inc42.com As the Indian government plans modernisation of railways, the government’s plans for the future of technology interactions within railways include internet of things (IoT), big data and artificial intelligence. Speaking at an industry summit in Bhubaneswar, RailTel chairman and managing director Puneet Chawla said the Indian Railways will rely heavily on technology as it focusses Read More

Human Intelligence

“Coincidence?” –Climate Change May Have Powered Evolution of Human Intelligence (Weekend Feature)

Source: dailygalaxy.com Following the appearance of the neocortex some 250,000 years in our past, Homo sapiens evolved as the only species on planet Earth that created sophisticated technology from the clock to the radio and the quantum computer. In Apeman to Spaceman, the BBC reported that about two million years ago, something extraordinary started happening in Read More

Data Science

Joy Mustafi Joins Aviso As Chief Data Scientist

Source: pulse2.com Aviso — a pioneer in AI-powered sales guidance and forecasting — announced it has appointed veteran artificial intelligence and machine learning researcher Joy Mustafi as Chief Data Scientist. Mustafi is a former Principal Researcher for Salesforce’s Einstein platform and he will utilize decades of experience to help Aviso customers accelerate deal-closing and expand Read More

Data Robot

BOSTON DYNAMICS’ ROBOTIC DOG GETS A JOB WORKING AN OFFSHORE OIL RIG

Source: syfy.com See Spot walk. See Spot sit. See Spot roll over. See Spot run onto a Norwegian oil rig to sniff out lethal gas leaks! Boston Dynamics’ next-generation robotic device, affectionately nicknamed Spot, will soon be embarking on a new test mission aboard an offshore oil rig for petroleum product producer Aker BP and Read More

Machine Learning

Using Transfer Learning to Overcome the Barriers Facing Machine Learning in Materials Science

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

Google AI

Applied AI technology makes its mark on national suicide monitoring system

Source: miragenews.com Monash University and Eastern Health’s Turning Point are using a $1.2 million (AUD) grant from Google to address major mental health challenges in society. A joint project between Monash University and Eastern Health’s Turning Point, are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to streamline the coding of national suicide-related ambulance data to help paramedics respond Read More

Data Mining

We know ethics should inform AI. But which ethics?

Source: gigabitmagazine.com Artificial intelligence (AI) relies on big data and machine learning for myriad applications, from autonomous vehicles to algorithmic trading and from clinical decision support systems to data mining. The availability of large amounts of data is essential to the development of AI. But the scandal over the use of personal and social data Read More

Artificial Intelligence

THE COMBINATION OF HUMANS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CYBER SECURITY

Source: analyticsinsight.net Artificial intelligence has transformed pretty much every industry in which it’s been embraced, including healthcare, the stock markets, and, increasingly, cybersecurity, where it’s being utilized to both enhance human work and strengthen defenses. As a result of recent improvements in machine learning, the dreary work that was once done by people, filtering through Read More

Deep Learning

IIT Gandhinagar hosted ACM- India’s Annual Event 2020 with more than 1200 participants from all over the country

Source: indiaeducationdiary.in Gandhinagar: Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) hosted the Association for Computing Machinery- India (ACM-India)’s annual event 2020 on February 15. The event saw an overwhelming participation of more than 1200 students, researchers, faculty members, and professionals of computer science and allied areas from all over the country. The prestigious event was graced Read More

Data Robot

Harmonized human-robot collaboration key to Industry 4.0, says Omron executive

Source: digitimes.com Despite automation equipment, robotic arms and AGVs (automated guided vehicles), manual operation is still necessary for some manufacturing industries and thus harmonized collaboration between workers and robots is essential to Industry 4.0, according to Shinyi Fukui, executive officer for Technology Development under Omron. Fukui made the remarks at the Robot Development & Application Read More

AI-ONE

AI and facial recognition in 2020: where’s the line?

Source: datacenterdynamics.com As we enter the new decade, artificial intelligence is both one of the most innovative and the most polarizing emerging technologies out there. It is the electricity powering the fourth industrial revolution, progressing at such a fast pace that we may not understand its full potential for decades to come. Over the last Read More

Data Science

Oracle Data Science efforts advance with new services

Source: searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com Oracle introduced new data services that expand the number of services available on its cloud platform. The marquee new service from the software giant is the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Science offering — an evolved version of the DataScience.com platform that Oracle acquired in 2018. The Oracle Data Science service provides an automated Read More

Reinforcement Learning

How We Trained a Deep Neural Pilot to Autonomously Fly the Skydio Drone

Source: spectrum.ieee.org A version of this article was originally published on Medium. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. We here at Skydio have been developing and deploying machine learning systems for years due to their ability to scale and improve Read More

Artificial Intelligence

Challenges of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Healthcare

Source: hitinfrastructure.com February 14, 2020 – Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption is gradually becoming more prominent in health systems, but 75 percent of healthcare insiders are concerned that AI could threaten the security and privacy of patient data, according to a recent survey from KPMG.   Although 91 percent of healthcare respondents believe that AI implementation is increasing patient access to care, Read More

Big Data

Big Data is key to creating sustainable travel solutions, say experts

Source: traveldailynews.com 44 per cent of travel technology experts predict that ‘Big Data’ will have the biggest impact on the growth of sustainable travel, according to a survey by Travel Technology Europe. Big Data, which enables patterns, trends, and associations relating to human behaviour and interactions to be identified and analysed, was highlighted alongside a number Read More

Deep Learning

Applying deep learning to PET/CT scans helps clinicians diagnose neurodegenerative disorders

Source: healthimaging.com Deep learning can segment white brain matter in PET/CT scans to help clinicians diagnose a variety of neurodegenerative disorders, according to a new study. A team of South Korean researchers created a type of artificial intelligence known as a generative adversarial network using an existing model called pix2pix, they said Feb. 10 in the Journal of Digital Read More

Machine Learning

Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning. Which Does Your Business Need?

Source: rtinsights.com In recent years, artificial intelligence research and applications have accelerated at a rapid speed. Simply saying your organization will incorporate AI isn’t as specific as it once was. There are diverse implementation options for AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning, and within each of them, a series of different algorithms you can leverage Read More

Google AI

Google’s new AI can intelligently crop videos for any screen size

Source: thenextweb.com How many times have you seen a video being badly cropped when you watch it on a mobile device? It’s quite frustrating and annoying, and most of the time, there’s not much you can do about it. To address this problem, Google’s AI team has developed an open-source solution, Autoflip, that reframes the Read More

Microservices

Migrating a Monolithic Architecture to Microservice Architecture

Source: towardsdatascience.com Microservice is a hot topic these days. But why does everyone talk about microservice? What is a monolithic architecture and what is microservices architecture? I will explain that by going through the migration process from a monolithic architecture to a microservice architecture. I will also introduce the characteristics, advantages of microservices architecture, and Read More

Reinforcement Learning

Sony imagines a world full of artificial intelligence, from kitchen bots to games

Source: newsdio.com In 1997, Hiroaki Kitano, a research scientist at Sony, helped organize the first Robocup, a robot soccer tournament that attracted teams of robotics and artificial intelligence researchers to compete in the picturesque city of Nagoya, Japan. At the beginning of the first day, two teams of robots took the field. While the machines Read More

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence to be $100 billion sector by 2025

Source: cxotoday.com AI, an effective tool for Indian Judiciary System  : CII Summit and Expo on AI Application & Digi-Tech Day two of Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) Summit and Expo on AI Application & Digi-Tech, kick started with a thought-provoking panel discussion on AI in Public Service. The session highlighted the benefits of AI interventions in Agriculture, Smart Cities, Read More

Google AI

Google’s Meena AI chatbot to eventually find its way into CX

Source: searchcustomerexperience.techtarget.com Meena, Google’s latest AI chatbot built on neural networks, is a technological leap forward toward human conversation, analysts said. While Meena has potential to improve web and call center customer service by taking on more complicated tasks than current chatbots, the rip-and-replace may be painful because the bot potentially will require more — Read More

Data Robot

Digital Surgery to add AI and data to Medtronic surgical robotics

Source: roboticsbusinessreview.com Medical technology leader Medtronic PLC announced today that it has acquired Digital Surgery, a privately-held pioneer in surgical artificial intelligence, data and analytics, and digital education and training. Medtronic said the purchase will strengthen its robot-assisted surgical platform and its broader portfolio. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Dublin, Ireland-based Medtronic has Read More

Machine Learning

Machine learning could help Apple Maps fix bogus GPS coordinates

Source: appleinsider.com While GPS is a widely-used technology for geolocation, one that is especially useful for navigation while driving, it isn’t necessarily as accurate as it could be. Mapping applications like Apple Maps occasionally show the wrong location for the user for a variety of different reasons. These issues can include interference in the GPS Read More

Microservices

Six Routing Challenges When Managing Microservices in Production and How to Avoid Them

Source: devops.com Even experienced DevOps teams can struggle with the nuances of managing microservices in production–where a greater spotlight on network communications can introduce new operational challenges beyond those common to traditional architectures. But, by being smart about your software-based routing components, it’s possible to avoid or reduce the impact of roadblocks in the following Read More

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

Top 10 Machine Learning-as-a-Service Providers 2020

Source: customerthink.com Machine learning as a service (MLaaS) is a set of cloud services that machine learning providers offer as a part of cloud computing services. MLaaS providers offer tools including face recognition, data visualization, application programming interface (APIs), predictive analytics, natural language processing, and deep learning. The main attraction of these services is that, Read More

Deep Learning

Deep Instinct, The Deep Learning Cybersecurity Innovator, Raises $43 Million Series C Financing To Accelerate Growth

Source: aithority.com Deep Instinct, the first and only cybersecurity company to successfully apply end-to-end deep learning to predict, identify, and prevent cyberattacks, announced its $43 million Series C funding. The round was led by Millennium New Horizons, with participation from Unbound, the London-based investment firm founded by Shravin Mittal, along with LG, and existing investor Read More

Big Data

Lost in Space; When the Lack of Big Data Fails to Lead the Way

Source: whichplm.com After a momentous 2019, ending with unexpected international travel lasting up to two days before Christmas, we were thankful to finally use the holiday break to sink into our cozy family room couch with our dogs Lilly and Oliver, browse our OTT app of choice, and catch up with the latest entertainment. We Read More

Data Science

Align Capital Partners’ E Source Platform Acquires TROVE Predictive Data Science

Source: aithority.com Align Capital Partners announced the closing of a third strategic add-on for its utility intelligence platform E Source. TROVE Predictive Data Science is a leading provider of predictive analytics solutions for the utility industry. TROVE’s talented team of data scientists and engineers have developed artificial intelligence software to help clients make better, data-driven decisions Read More

Big Data

How big data and AI can make supply chains better for consumers and the planet

Source: greenbiz.com “Big data.” “Artificial intelligence.” “Supply chain.” These buzzwords are fast becoming a part of our everyday lexicon. And because they’re bandied about so much, it’s worth taking a closer look at each of them and their role in shaping more responsible consumption. Consumerism isn’t going away — and we don’t believe it needs Read More