Electric bus maker Proterra is moving into the autonomous driving field, with a pilot program starting in Nevada. In an announcement Tuesday, the Burlingame, California, company said it was launching the "industry's first autonomous bus program" in partnership with the University of Nevada, Reno, and its Living Lab Coalition partners. As its basis, the program assumes the dawn of "eventual autonomous mass transit" and is therefore aimed at solutions that will build an image of safety about the future of mass transit. Toward that end, the "autonomous vehicle pilot will deal with real road conditions from the perspective of public transit systems, and emphasize the most challenging aspects related to mass transportation, which include dense and dynamic environments, degraded conditions, and a need for swift emergency response," according to a statement sent to International Business Times. In the first of the pilot's three phases, a Proterra bus operated by the Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe Country in Nevada (one of the Living Lab partners) will run on specific routes to sense and collect data.

Here at The Human OS, we are slightly obsessed with matchups between artificial intelligence and doctors. In many experiments (though not yet in many clinics), AI systems are showing great promise in diagnosing diseases, analyzing medical images, and predicting health outcomes. They've even performed better than human doctors in certain tasks like surgical stitching and diagnosing autism in infants. Now, in the latest win for AI medicine, researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK created a system that scanned patients' routine medical data and predicted which of them would have heart attacks or strokes within 10 years. When compared to the standard method of prediction, the AI system correctly predicted the fates of 355 more patients.

Apple's director of artificial intelligence, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, believes that the deep neural networks that have produced spectacular results in recent years could be supercharged in coming years by the addition of memory, attention, and general knowledge. Speaking at MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Salakhutdinov said these attributes could help solve some of the outstanding problems in artificial intelligence. Salakhutdinov, who retains a post as an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, pointed in his talk to limitations with deep-learning-driven machine vision and natural-language understanding. Deep learning--a technique that involves using vast numbers of roughly simulated neurons arranged in many interconnected layers--has produced dramatic progress in machine perception over recent years, but there are many ways in which these networks are limited. Salakhutdinov showed, for example, how image captioning systems based on the technology can label images incorrectly because they tend to focus on everything in the image.

Forbes magazine called artificial intelligence's potential for financial institutions "immense" because of its broad operational reach, such as: "including natural language processing (improving interactions between computers and human languages); machine learning (computer programs that can "learn" when exposed to new data); and expert systems (software programmed to provide advice) that help machines sense, comprehend and act in ways similar to the human brain."

The new Amazon Echo Look seems like a logical enough extension of Alexa, the company's AI-powered digital assistant. Previously, Alexa lived inside speakers. That progression belies just how much more the Echo Look could know about you than other Alexa hardware does--especially if Amazon ever unleashes the full power of its machine learnings smarts. Amazon envisions the Echo Look as a way to get fashion advice. Command it to take a photo of you, repeat across various clothing options, and get a recommendation of what you should wear. Along the way, Amazon will also suggest clothing you might want to buy.

Earlier this year, artificial intelligence scientist Sebastian Thrun and colleagues at Stanford University demonstrated that a "deep learning" algorithm was capable of diagnosing potentially cancerous skin lesions as accurately as a board-certified dermatologist. The cancer finding, reported in Nature, was part of a stream of reports this year offering an early glimpse into what could be a new era of "diagnosis by software," in which artificial intelligence aids doctors--or even competes with them. Experts say medical images, like photographs, x-rays, and MRIs, are a nearly perfect match for the strengths of deep-learning software, which has in the past few years led to breakthroughs in recognizing faces and objects in pictures. Companies are already in pursuit. Verily, Alphabet's life sciences arm, joined forces with Nikon last December to develop algorithms to detect causes of blindness in diabetics.

A US man has been arrested for allegedly knocking over a security robot while drunk. The incident took place in a car park in Mountain View, California. The autonomous robot, called K5, suffered a number of scratches but is now back on patrol. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

Arizona residents will soon be able to get a first-hand look at Waymo's self-driving car technology. Google's driving spinoff company is now accepting early applicants to its self-driving car trial program in Arizona. Read: One In Four Cars On U.S. Roads In 2035 Could Be Self-Driven Residents in the greater Phoenix area who are approved for the early rider program will be able to request a ride in Waymo's self-driving taxis. As Waymo noted, cars will also have a test driver riding along with passengers. As part of its increased testing rollout, Waymo also plans to bring an additional 500 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrids into its fleet.

Chatbots have moved into a unique position over the past few years. Rather than using chatbots to resolve customer service issues solely on company websites or for inside use at organizations, businesses have begun branching out to help optimize both internal and external organizational needs. While chatbots may be traditionally thought of as the standard instant message chat windows, they have evolved to meet the needs of today's fast-paced consumer. When it comes to chatbots, the available outlets for them reside in the cloud, resulting in text-based bots and voice-activated bots like Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri and Google's Home. In addition to these voice bots that are used for everything from playing music to looking up information, organizations have also dipped their toes into eCommerce with payment processing.