The federal government is proposing to establish an agency that will focus on robotics and Artificial Intelligence, the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu has said. He disclosed this on Monday when he received a delegation of the Academy of Science in his office in Abuja. Dr Onu noted that when established, the agency will help to improve the quality of research in the nation's universities and industrial laboratories. He said the Academy of Science is well-placed to advise the federal government on issues bordering on Science, Technology and Innovation. The minister also said it was high time Nigeria takes its place among the leading nations of the world in terms of Science, Technology and Innovation.

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Despite its role in early 20th-century fiction, AI has been part of the professional conversation for barely 70 years. AI was first studied at a Dartmouth College conference in 1956. The 1960's saw gains in machine translation and analysis. But AI underwent a "winter" from the 1970s through the early '90s. Researchers shelved their work largely because of the problem of "combinatorial explosion." A U.K. professor who first described the AI concept worried that too many variables would make it useless outside of lab settings. In the early '70s, groups like the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency pulled funding. Research failures had become the norm. Interest in AI grew during the 1990s and early 2000's. Processing power and data volumes increased. At the same time, data sets grew massively. Algorithms gained more "meat" on which to train. Advances in game theory and data modeling led to new approaches. Today, best-in-class infrastructures can support 100,000 or more computers. Two-and-a-half quintillion bytes of data are now generated every day. Globally, private firms are spending tens of billions of dollars per year researching and improving AI initiatives. In fact, 2018's investment amount is more than 50 percent larger than last year's alone. Add it all up, and AI seems ready for a leap forward unlike any seen in its history. But, after slow decades followed by speedy discoveries, few outside the field feel they truly understand it. A recent Dell Technologies report found that 67 percent of leaders said their companies were struggling to implement AI. A similar two out of three consumers don't even realize they're using it, according to a HubSpot survey. "By far the greatest danger of artificial intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it."

Artificial intelligence technology is proliferating fast across the world and is being deployed in applications from speech recognition to deepfake videos and monitoring traffic congestion. It's also increasingly being used to monitor and track citizens, according to a new report. At least 75 out of 176 nations surveyed globally are actively using AI technologies for surveillance purposes, according to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. These include facial recognition systems, smart policing tools, and the establishment of safe city platforms. The leading vendors of these systems globally are Chinese firms, led by Huawei, which has supplied these technologies to at least 50 states worldwide.

As the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of drug development increases, market growth is greatly favored. Artificial intelligence (AI) is called engineering and science adopted to design intelligent machines, such as intelligent computer programs. A system that applies multiple human intelligence-based functions, such as learning, reasoning, and problem-solving skills in areas such as computer science, biology, linguistics, mathematics, and engineering. Artificial intelligence is regarded as the next boundary of medical innovation. Healthcare's AI is implemented to align structured and unstructured data.

In the last ten years, 2 billion people were affected by disasters according to the World Disasters report 2018. In 2017, 201 million people needed humanitarian assistance and 18 million were displaced due to weather related disasters. Many of these disaster-prone areas are literally "missing" from the map, making it harder for first responders to prepare and deliver relief efforts. Since the inception of Tasking Manager, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) community has mapped at an incredible rate with 11 million square kilometers mapped in Africa alone. However, large parts of Africa with populations prone to disasters still remain unmapped -- 60% of the 30 million square kilometers.

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AI-IRSF is an AI system that prevents a fraud that involves hacking of IP-PBX (IP telephony exchange) to generate illegal calls to international numbers. With this Cooperation Agreement, KT will develop and supply more AI based FMS modules to integrate with WeDo's Fraud and Risk Management system. Additional AI based modules will also run on the WeDo's system, and the modular capability of RAID will allow CSPs to choose from different fraud detection models for their market similar to how one chooses applications from a smartphone app store. The open architecture of RAID will also allow other CSPs to develop their own models as well. WeDo Technologies is part of the Mobileum group, a leading enterprise software and analytics company in roaming, security, fraud and risk management serving more than 700 telecommunication providers in more than 180 countries.