Didi Chuxing shared its latest developments in AI technology applications with students, engineers and academic and industry partners, at the DiDi Tech Day in Beijing. The company shared the details of breakthroughs in the company's popular Express Pool service. When machine learning algorithms deliver a good user experience, carpooling is the most effective mobility option for drivers to increase their income, for passengers to reduce costs, and for cities to enjoy a high level of efficiency in the transportation system. Operating across more 100 cities in China, Express Pool now accounts for over 20% of all trips in many core markets. DiDi also debuted two pilot projects slated for street testing, its indoor augmented reality (AR) navigation and a driver voice assistant.

Microsoft says Russians are attacking US political groups ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. Fake websites that were meant to look like two American conservative organisations and the US Senate have been created by a hacking group linked to the Russian government, Microsoft said. But they don't appear to be focused on promoting specific parties, unlike the Trump-supporting hacks prior to the presidential election. Instead, they seem intent on undermining democracy as a whole, experts said. Microsoft didn't say what the pages looked like.

Artificial Intelligence is still a growing field! AI is becoming an integral part of most organisations be it Google, Facebook and others in solving some of the most significant problems faced by both companies and customers. In fact, this is one of the most well-funded segment in the field of technology comparatively. Having said that, almost every startup strives hard to bring unique propositions into the market. Recently, the French government under Emmanuel Macron has announced a program by investing $1.8 billion into AI over the next four years.

ASIA is a financial services giant, and Singapore and Hong Kong are two of its largest, most prestigious'international financial centers'. Ultra high net-worth individuals from across the region, and sometimes even overseas, invest in niche fund houses and funds with complex strategies -- all in search of'alpha' -- a return higher than the market benchmark. Up until now, generating alpha was the sole domain of gifted fund managers who used a mix of knowledge, experience, and their own brand of eccentricity. They made several bets, some of them panned out, some didn't, but the good ones managed to create oversized returns for investors from the overall portfolio. In today's day and age, however, AI can beat fund managers hands down.

The global insurance industry will grow more strongly than the global economy in 2018 and 2019, Munich Re predicts in its latest outlook. "This year and next, we expect global premium to grow by more than €460 billion in all. This is equivalent to average annual premium growth of 5.3% (in real terms, i.e., adjusted for inflation: 3.7%), whereas global GDP is expected to grow by only 4.9% (3.3% in real terms). Life insurance, in particular, looks set to return to strong annual premium growth of 5.6% (3.9% in real terms) after a weak 2017. Property-casualty insurance is benefiting from the currently favorable economic environment. In this segment, we are expecting annual growth rates of close to 5% (3.3% in real terms). Emerging countries are the primary growth drivers, but somewhat stronger growth rates in high-volume industrialized countries are also contributing to this positive development."

Tokyo: The government of Japan is planning to introduce English-speaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) robots in classrooms to help children improve their English speaking skills, considered one of the worst in the world. The Japanese education ministry would be launching a pilot programme to test the effectiveness of the initiative in April 2019, reports Efe news. The initiative will be initially rolled out in 500 schools throughout the country with the aim of fully implementing it in two years, public broadcaster NHK reported Saturday. The programme also includes study apps and online conversation sessions with native English speakers. Japan has proposed improving English skills ahead of the surge in tourists expected during the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Researchers have devised a new type of artificially intelligent camera system that can classify images faster and more energy-efficiently. The image recognition technology that underlies today's autonomous cars and aerial drones depends on artificial intelligence: the computers essentially teach themselves to recognize objects like a dog, a pedestrian crossing the street, or a stopped car. The new camera could one day be small enough to fit in future electronic devices, something that is not possible today because of the size and slow speed of computers that can run artificial intelligence algorithms. "That autonomous car you just passed has a relatively huge, relatively slow, energy intensive computer in its trunk," says Gordon Wetzstein, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University who led the research. Future applications will need something much faster and smaller to process the stream of images, he says.

At a Gamescom 2018 press conference in Cologne, Germany, Nvidia rolled out its newest generation of gaming chips - the RTX 2070, RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti. They are based on its recently launched chip blueprint called "Turing," which Nvidia is also using for higher-priced chips announced last week for game designers, movie makers and other computer graphics professionals. The chips will range from $499 to $999 and will be available in retail stores starting Sept. 20, Chief Executive Jensen Huang said at the event. The biggest selling point of the gaming chips released on Monday is an improvement in so-called "real-time ray tracing," or the ability for the chip to simulate how light rays will bounce around in a visual scene, which helps video games and other computer graphics more closely resemble shadows and reflections in the real world. Part of how the new chip achieves high resolution graphics quickly is a special section of the chip that finishes most of the image but then uses artificial intelligence to guess what the unfinished pixels should look like.

A new wave of innovation is surging ahead. And, the world's manufacturing powerhouse, Asia, is riding its crest. The billions of appliances, gadgets, machines, and vehicles that are routinely rolling off Asian production lines are becoming smarter and connected. So too are the factories that make them. Built with sensors, infused with artificial intelligence (AI) and enabled by machine learning (ML), these devices will push the boundaries of the Internet of Things (IoT) through the next decade and beyond.

Chris Paine's first documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car?, worried that a technological advance was so game-changing -- in a good way -- that powerful corporations might never allow it to enter the world. In Do You Trust This Computer?, he looks the other direction: at developments in artificial intelligence, seen as terrifying even by some involved in creating them, that may be out in the world before we even realize we want to stop them. Though it shows some strain in containing the topic's inherent sprawl, the doc is more thoughtful than some of its predecessors, and benefits from interviews with newsmakers like Elon Musk and, even better, Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan. Things start unpromisingly, when a long, overheated string of sound bites leads into a clip of James Cameron's Termin-- what do you mean you've seen this documentary before? Quickly, though, the doc moves from Skynet and HAL 9000 to Nolan, who worries that sci-fi has "cried wolf enough times" that, with AI now a real-world threat, the public may not be able to take it seriously.