Source: newindianexpress.com BEIJING: A man who had travelled to Wuhan — the central city at the heart of China’s coronavirus crisis — was surprised when police showed up at his door after he returned home, asking to check his temperature. The man, who had quarantined himself at home in Nanjing, eastern Jiangsu province, said he Read More
Source: telanganatoday.com Helsinki: A new learning model for identifying sleep stages with exact precision as that of a physician has been identified by a recent study. The study was conducted by researchers of the University of Eastern Finland. Sleep is manually classified into five stages, which are wake, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and three Read More
Source: militarytimes.com A team of researchers at the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Tampa, Florida, is revolutionizing the way cancer is documented by enlisting the help of a computer to diagnose the disease in one of the largest patient populations in the nation: veterans. Sophisticated artificial intelligence is capable of drastically altering how cancer Read More
Source: techannouncer.com Artificial intelligence, or AI, has undoubtedly been the 2019 buzzword in financial services. While not new – the term “artificial intelligence” was coined in 1956 – AI is seemingly becoming the future of everything. The hype around its potential is certainly justified economically. According to a recent report by Autonomous Next, the cost Read More
Source: fastcompany.com A recent study showing that data entry is one of the most redundant and hated workplace tasks raises questions about why, in the age of artificial intelligence, data mining, and smart technologies, this task is still being done manually. Is there any way it could be less despised? My ongoing fieldwork in a data-driven startup, referred to Read More
Source: fortuneindia.com When Albert Einstein spoke of how the human spirit must prevail over technology, little did the world know that decades later this statement would hold true for the human race trying its best to stay relevant in the world of ‘Globotics’. This interesting term has kicked up quite a storm recently when globalisation Read More
Source: theweek.in The mounting growth in data we are witnessing since the beginning of our digital era will not slow down anytime soon. The scale of big data is truly beyond our thinking, and it includes both the core aspects of personal and business life. Digital users are becoming more aware of the data breaches and Read More
Source: analyticsindiamag.com Aspirants and professional data science today swear by the popular and trending buzzwords. They use their energy in taking up numerous projects and eventually get exhausted. Rather than padding their resumes, aspiring data scientists should work on specific projects that have not been done yet. However, since most of the MOOCs have projects Read More
Source: createdigital.org.au Australian research into ‘active perception’ could change this – and eventually see high-tech assistants installed in our homes. The key lies in teaching robots to behave more like humans, said Doug Morrison, PhD researcher at the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision (ACRV). “You can have a robot doing the same thing over and Read More
Source: networkworld.com Intel is ending work on its Nervana neural network processors (NNP) in favor of an artificial intelligence line it gained in the recent $2 billion acquisition of Habana Labs. Intel acquired Nervana in 2016 and issued its first NNP chip one year later. After the $408 million acquisition by Intel, Nervana co-founder Naveen Rao Read More
Source: information-age.com Cybercriminals are utilising artificial intelligence to launch more effective attacks and it’s time to fight fire with fire, according to Martin Mackay, SVP, EMEA at Proofpoint Artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way since its humble beginnings. Once thought to be a technology that would struggle to find its place in the Read More
Source: eletsonline.com NBFC sector is at the forefront in driving new credit disbursals for the country’s underserved retail and MSME market playing a key role in India’s march towards financial inclusion. The NBFC sector in India has gone through a significant turmoil and transformation over the past few years. NBFCs play a key role in Read More
Source: techiexpert.com The big data space is in constant growth. Data creation continues to expand its role as decision making and business operations excel. With innovation and technology on the rise, it becomes a challenge for companies to choose the right framework resulting to gain benefit using big data. The idea behind creating a framework 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: venturebeat.com Facebook AI Research (FAIR) today unveiled PyTorch3D, a library that enables researchers and developers to combine deep learning and 3D objects. As part of the release, Facebook is also open-sourcing Mesh R-CNN, a model introduced last year capable of rendering 3D objects from 2D shapes in images of interior spaces. PyTorch3D was inspired by Mesh Read More
Source: news18.com With technology prevailing in nearly every single area of life, we often end up making conversations with artificially intelligent algorithms through our day. Think of when you asked Siri to identify a song for you, or Alexa to translate a particularly difficult Hindi word, or even the Google Assistant to read out a Read More
Source: zdnet.com Retailers are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence and robotics, both in brick-and-mortar shops and in warehouses, and with a new robot workforce comes the need for new management methods. That’s right: in the near future, HR departments won’t focus only on human employees, but also include a robot resources department to look after non-human Read More
Source: forbesindia.com Humans have misconceived robots. They are often observed as employment thieves, undermining labourers with redundancy. Artificial intelligence just aggravates their apparent danger. Machine intelligence can supplement human intelligence. We, humans, are innovative, creative, vital and strategic. Robots are more qualified for tasks that people dislike and find difficult. The assessment of tremendous amounts Read More
Source: businesskorea.co.kr The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) and the Data Science Lab of Myongji University have selected the 10 most promising technological fields by using big data and artificial intelligence. The fields expected to show a very rapid growth until the mid-2020s include autonomous driving, energy, machine vision, biotechnology and robotics. Read More
Source: zdnet.com A year ago, we spoke of Oracle’s positioning of its cloud as a second generation, both literally and figuratively. It’s no coincidence that Oracle’s cloud unit is based in Seattle and counts many AWS and Azure alumni among its team. A year later, Oracle has an agreement to link up to Microsoft Azure Read More
Source: news.berkeley.edu UC Berkeley’s new interdisciplinary division, launched in November 2018 under the provisional title of Division of Data Science and Information, now has a permanent name: the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS). The moniker, announced today (Feb. 5) after input and nominations from across campus, was chosen to reflect the broad span of Read More
Source: spacedaily.com Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Valiev Institute of Physics and Technology, and ITMO University have created a neural network that learned to predict the behavior of a quantum system by “looking” at its network structure. The neural network autonomously finds solutions that are well-adapted toward quantum advantage demonstrations. Read More
Source: mybusiness.com.au Company chief executive Andrew Penn announced on Tuesday that having recognised the importance of cash flow to business, Telstra will pay invoices from 85 per cent of its suppliers within 20 days before the end of this year. “This will mean small and medium businesses across the country will have cash in their Read More
Source: aithority.com dotData, focused on delivering full-cycle data science automation and operationalization for the enterprise, announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning (ML) Competency status. dotData achieved AWS ML Competency status only eight months after joining the AWS Partner Network (APN). The certification recognizes dotData as an APN Partner that accelerates 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: venturebeat.com Determining whether an AI system is maintaining fairness in its predictions requires an understanding of models’ short- and long-term effects, which might be informed by disparities in error metrics on a number of static data sets. In some cases, it’s necessary to consider the context in which the AI system operates in addition Read More
Source: pharmacytechnologyreport.com To better study the outcomes and costs of caring for cancer patients and emphasize value, oncologists at Hackensack Meridian Health’s John Theurer Cancer Center, in New Jersey, teamed with data scientists and engineers eight years ago to create their own analytics program to mine patients’ electronic health records for real-world data. Since then, Read More
Source: paymentsjournal.com The world of payments is in a state of transition and rapid innovation. Global companies need to satisfy a customer base spread out across the world, with different areas using different payment methods and currencies. Further complicating the landscape is that consumer demands are swiftly shifting. Consumers have more power and choice than Read More
Source: army.mil ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — A big data approach to neuroscience promises to significantly improve our understanding of the relationship between brain activity and performance. To date, there have been relatively few attempts to use a big-data approach within the emerging field of neurotechnology. In this field, the few attempts at meta-analysis (analysis Read More
Source: indulgexpress.com As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella emphasized on keeping Azure Cloud secure with integrated end-to-endidentity, security and compliance solutions, cybersecurity firm Check Point revealed that it identified twomajor security flaws in Microsoft Azure last year which have now been fixed. The researchers at Israel-based Check Point discovered that a user on the Azure network Read More
