We present V\=arta, a large-scale multilingual dataset for headline generation in Indic languages. This dataset includes 41.8 million news articles in 14 different Indic languages (and English), which come from a variety of high-quality sources. To the best of our knowledge, this is the largest collection of curated articles for Indic languages currently available. We use the data collected in a series of experiments to answer important questions related to Indic NLP and multilinguality research in general. We show that the dataset is challenging even for state-of-the-art abstractive models and that they perform only slightly better than extractive baselines. Owing to its size, we also show that the dataset can be used to pretrain strong language models that outperform competitive baselines in both NLU and NLG benchmarks.

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Yet the healthcare industry has been slow to commit to its potential. As recently as 2016, a Forrester Consulting survey found that just 34% of healthcare organizations had adopted predictive analytics, compared with 51% in all other industries. Healthcare was similarly behind in cognitive computing, at 23% versus 40% elsewhere. Among the pioneers, some organizations are already using AI to reduce physical trips to the doctor's office, improve patient care and rethink care delivery models that date to the 19th century. "I believe we can get to a world where we aren't just identifying your likelihood of utilizing the emergency room or being hospitalized, but getting in front of those situations and delivering proactive care," says Dr. Arta Bakshandeh, senior medical officer at Alignment Healthcare.

The Swedish startup company eEducation Albert is now launching an artificial intelligence application with focus on helping pupils with their homework in math during the last years of primary school. The startup-company intend to expand to other education-levels as well as the international market during the coming years. At the moment AI Albert is filled all available answers to questions to make good work with the pupils and the next week a paid version of the application is being launched to 65 schools in Sweden. "We have created a digital person that we have feeded with advanced logic and knowledge on how you teach the textbook the pupil is sitting with", says one of the founders Arta Mandegari in an interview with di.se. He and the other founder Salman Eskandari is graduates from the Chalmers, technological university of Gothenburg.