Traditionally famine is classified in five stages, from "minimal" food insecurity through "crisis" to "famine". Modelling of last year's famine in Somalia suggested intervening before stage five could reduce aid costs by 30 per cent. But the real saving, Mr Kim said, would be in preventing the permanent developmental damage done to children by malnutrition, which leaves them with "fewer neural connections" and less ability to participate in the workforce. Research shows that children born during a famine earn around 13 per cent less over their lifetime. Mr Kim said: "One of the things that has been shown in Ethiopia is that if you think a famine is coming, if you do something really simple like double the amount of cash transfers that poor people get, you can actually stop the famine from going forward. "We have not yet had a system like Artemis that tells us about potential famines that early in the process... our hope is that by working closely with it we'll be able to detect potential famines early enough that we can start investing in things."

The field of machine learning is quite a hot topic. We know that this type of artificial intelligence (AI) provides computers with the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. For people like me who need it in simpler terms, machine learning deals with systems that can learn from past data and experience to improve performance of a particular task. Machine learning already is touching our daily lives, both personally and professionally, more than anyone could've imagined. For example, a home's lawn sprinkler system can be trained to tell the difference between squirrels and cats, and to turn on when cats walk on the grass in order to shoo them away.

With the loud bang of the gavel on the lectern, meeting number 453 of the West Rand Toastmasters was declared open. The Club's President, Esther Dreyer, welcomed everyone at the meeting, and one of the new members, Jacky Motaung, gave the Toast to South Africa. Lynette Harris was the first speaker of the evening. She spoke about the evening's theme, which was Artificial Intelligence. The word for the evening was'excel', something which all members definitely did in their various roles and speeches. Alwyn van Wyngaarden took on the role of Joke Master, and had everyone in stitches.

With the loud bang of the gavel on the lectern, meeting number 453 of the West Rand Toastmasters was declared open. The Club's President, Esther Dreyer, welcomed everyone at the meeting, and one of the new members, Jacky Motaung, gave the Toast to South Africa. Lynette Harris was the first speaker of the evening. She spoke about the evening's theme, which was Artificial Intelligence. The word for the evening was'excel', something which all members definitely did in their various roles and speeches. Alwyn van Wyngaarden took on the role of Joke Master, and had everyone in stitches.

The Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Market research report tries to understand the pioneering tactics taken by vendors in the global market to offer product differentiation through Porter's five forces analysis. It also points out the ways in which these companies can reinforce their stand in the market and increase their revenues in the coming years. Ongoing industrial advancements and the persistent penetration of Internet in the remote corners of the world are also responsible for the noteworthy growth of the Global Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Market. This Healthcare Artificial Intelligence market intelligent report highlights on the key retailers in this market everywhere throughout the world. This domain of the report contains the business formats, insurance, and product illustrations, volume, generation, contact statistics, price, and revenue.

It seems artificial intelligence (AI) is the way to go for businesses and corporate. Going by a recent study, as many as 90 per cent of executives feel AI will have a positive impact on their company's growth. The findings are a part of the study entitled, "Intelligent Economies: AI's Transformation of Industries and Society, that explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) on markets and societies across the developed and developing worlds. The study, conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and sponsored by Microsoft, surveyed more than 400 senior executives from various industries, including financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, retail and the public sector. The survey was conducted in eight markets: France, Germany, Mexico, Poland, South Africa, Thailand, the UK and the US.

Amazon has scrapped a "sexist" tool that used artificial intelligence to decide the best candidates to hire for jobs. Members of the team working on the system said it effectively taught itself that male candidates were preferable. The artificial intelligence software was created by a team at Amazon's Edinburgh office in 2014 as a way to automatically sort through CVs and select the most talented applicants. But the algorithm rapidly taught itself to favour male candidates over female ones, according to members of the team who spoke to Reuters. Amazon wage increase could result in lower pay for some employees Black Friday 2018: The best Amazon deals Will Amazon's deliver-on-demand smart homes be the future of housing? Will Amazon's deliver-on-demand smart homes be the future of housing?

But first, let's dive a little deeper into understanding AI and how it uses various technologies to create practical applications for the CPG industries: Making intelligent business decisions is critical for any industry, but particularly so for the CPG segment. Effective decision-making across a variety of business areas forms the backbone of the CPG business. These decisions have to be made fast and with utmost accuracy. But how can businesses achieve this when they're bogged down by massive amounts of data? Coupled with the sheer amount of data is the challenge of not being able to leverage any manner of advanced technology to convert it into actionable intelligence.

New facial recognition technology has identified three impostors at Washington Dulles International Airport. Citing a U.S. Customs and Border Protection release, The Washington Post reports a woman arriving on a Monday flight from Accra, Ghana, presented a U.S. passport, but the facial recognition technology reported a mismatch. A secondary inspection and biometric examination identified her as a 26-year-old citizen of Cameroon, not the United States. The release says the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority partnered with CBP to use biometric entry and exit technology using facial comparison to bolster security and efficiency for international travelers. Officers at Dulles previously intercepted a Congolese man using a French passport Aug. 22 and a Ghanaian woman using a U.S. passport Sept. 8. Posing as another person when entering the United States violates immigration law.

In this, the first episode of the Deep Learning Indaba series, we're joined by Sara Hooker, AI Resident at Google Brain. I had the pleasure of speaking with Sara in the run-up to the Indaba about her work on interpretability in deep neural networks. We discuss what interpretability means and when it's important, and explore some nuances like the distinction between interpreting model decisions vs model function. We also dig into her paper Evaluating Feature Importance Estimates and look at the relationship between this work and interpretability approaches like LIME. We also talk a bit about Google, in particular, the relationship between Brain and the rest of the Google AI landscape and the significance of the recently announced Google AI Lab in Accra, Ghana, being led by friend of the show Moustapha Cisse.