A man has been able to move all four of his paralysed limbs using a groundbreaking mind-controlled exoskeleton, scientists have said. The tetraplegic 30-year-old, known only as Thibault, said his first steps in the robotic suit felt like being "the first man on the Moon". The system, which works by recording and decoding brain signals, was trialled in a two-year study by French researchers at biomedical research centre Clinatec and the University of Grenoble. Scientists conceded the suit was an experimental treatment far from clinical application but said it had the potential to improve patients' quality of life and autonomy. Wearing the robotic limbs, Thibault was able to walk and move his arms using a ceiling-mounted harness for balance.

Minecraft's open-ended play environment could be ideal for AI research, some researchers say.Credit: Microsoft To see the divide between the best artificial intelligence and the mental capabilities of a seven-year-old child, look no further than the popular video game Minecraft. A young human can learn how to find a rare diamond in the game after watching a 10-minute demonstration on YouTube. Artificial intelligence (AI) is nowhere close. But in a unique computing competition ending this month, researchers hope to shrink the gap between machine and child -- and in doing so, help to reduce the computing power needed to train AIs. Competitors may take up to four days and use no more than eight million steps to train their AIs to find a diamond.

Today, Amazon announced a new approach that it says will put machine learning technology in reach of more developers and line of business users. Amazon has been making a flurry of announcements ahead of its re:Invent customer conference next week in Las Vegas. While the company offers plenty of tools for data scientists to build machine learning models and to process, store and visualize data, it wants to put that capability directly in the hands of developers with the help of the popular database query language, SQL. By taking advantage of tools like Amazon QuickSight, Aurora and Athena in combination with SQL queries, developers can have much more direct access to machine learning models and underlying data without any additional coding, says VP of artificial intelligence at AWS, Matt Wood. "This announcement is all about making it easier for developers to add machine learning predictions to their products and their processes by integrating those predictions directly with their databases," Wood told TechCrunch.

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Robots will soon be everywhere – especially if ordinary objects can be turned into them. A computer program can now use 3D-printing to turn household objects into hand-activated robots. It can be used to turn on the water taps on a bathroom sink with the wave of a hand, or to give a window the ability to shut itself when the weather gets cold. Xiang'Anthony' Chen at the University of California in Los Angeles and colleagues developed the tool, known as Robiot, to automate simple physical tasks.

"AI is the broader concept of machines being able to carry out tasks in a way that is considered smart. The smart processes include machines being able to function automatically, reason and learn by themselves," explains Claudia Ayin, an independent ICT consultant. Machine learning is the aspect of AI that allows computers to learn by themselves. "Machine learning is therefore a branch of AI that is able to process large data sets and let machines learn for themselves without having been explicitly programmed," she adds. According to MarketsandMarkets, an Indian research company, in 2018 the worldwide AI in agriculture market was valued at €545 million and, by 2025, is expected to reach €2.4 billion as more and more smallholder farmers adopt new, data-driven technologies.

In this issue of JAMA, Liu and colleagues1 provide a users' guide to reading clinical machine learning articles. Beyond a synopsis of selected concepts in modern machine learning, the authors elaborate step-by-step guidance for physicians seeking to evaluate this evidence with a critical eye. In an era when readers are bombarded with artificial intelligence in everyday life, from credit card fraud warnings and smartphones that anticipate their needs to life-like videos of people who do not actually exist, the sanity check provided by this article is most welcome.

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Teams that work with open data may feel like they face an explosion of information these days, but there are resources being brought to bear to process such data and stem the tide. Last week's FICO World conference in New York revealed some of the varied ways the credit niche of the financial world tries to apply big data analytics and so-called decision technology. The conference was largely a showcase for data analytics company FICO, but some presentations spoke to a broader context -- using machine learning and other resources to process vast amounts of data. Peter Maynard, senior vice president of data and analytics for strategic client and partner engagement at Equifax spoke about a partnership between his consumer credit reporting agency and FICO. He was joined by Tom Johnson, senior director with FICO, to discuss their joint effort combining data in a platform for decision making.