We're seeing the advance of AI everywhere we look--from ordinary applications like our voice-operated virtual assistants, to extraordinary innovations that are changing how we optimize operations, predict behaviour, and even diagnose disease. This presents an unprecedented opportunity for Canada to become a global leader in technology. Canada already produces some of the most sought-after AI talent in the world and has committed upwards of $1 billion in investment. However, along with opportunity, AI comes with many risks. Among the major concerns is how AI technologies will require new ways of thinking about privacy and policy.

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Roundup Hello, here are a few bits of AI news for the weekend. You don't always need a ton of cash to buy a wad of GPUs to train your models super quickly. You can do it pretty cheaply on cloud platforms. There's also a robot that can play Where's Waldo (Wally in the UK), and Microsoft's computer that is trying to tell if you've found a joke funny. Public code for training ImageNet super quickly: A group of engineers have managed to train ImageNet to 93 per cent accuracy using hardware rented on public cloud platforms for just $40.

Andrew Yan-Tak Ng, regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on Artificial Intelligence (AI), firmly believes that despite the widespread mistrust of AI, it is good for governments, companies and individuals. Currently co-chairman and co-founder of the online learning platform Coursera and an adjunct professor at Stanford University's computer science department, Ng served as chief scientist and vice-president at Chinese tech company Baidu and was founding lead of the Google Brain team. In a phone interview from the Coursera headquarters in Mountain View, California, Ng spoke about the need for the Indian government to invest in education. He also shared his perspective on the potential of AI and the fears surrounding it. We would like you to propose one big idea to mark India's Independence Day.

In the last few years, machine learning applications have quietly entered every aspect of life: social media to speech recognition, radiology to retail, warfare to writing articles, coding to customer service, robotics to route optimization. During the 40 year information age, we told computers what to do. With advances in artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning, and faster processing chips we can feed computers giant data sets and they can (in narrow slivers) draw some inferences on their own. As we reported in Ask About AI, the rise of code that learns marks the beginning of a new era of augmented intelligence. It's a great opportunity for us to expand access to a great education and for young people to make a big contribution.

Here's how it's related to artificial intelligence, how it works and why it matters. Deep learning is a subset of machine learning, which itself falls within the field of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is the study of how to build machines capable of carrying out tasks that would typically require human intelligence. That rather loose definition means that AI encompasses many fields of research, from genetic algorithms to expert systems, and provides scope for arguments over what constitutes AI. Within the field of AI research, machine learning has enjoyed remarkable success in recent years -- allowing computers to surpass or come close to matching human performance in areas ranging from facial recognition to speech and language recognition. Machine learning is the process of teaching a computer to carry out a task, rather than programming it how to carry that task out step by step. At the end of training, a machine-learning system will be able to make accurate predictions when given data.

The fast-rising power and sophistication of artificial intelligence is transforming how insurers engage with their customers. It is dramatically enhancing the experience insurance providers can offer their policyholders. Insurtech start-ups Lemonade, Insurify and Spixii, for example, are deploying intelligent virtual assistants to deliver a powerful customer experience and innovative digital services. Using artificial intelligence to delight customers is not the sole preserve of insurtechs. Large insurers, including Allianz, Credit Agricole, PNB MetLife, GEICO and USAA, are also applying artificial intelligence to heighten the customer experience delivered by their digital distribution channels.

By Pradeep Agarwal & Prabhakar Posam Almost every industry is grappling with the question of how AI will change their work style. We all have realised that AI will change the way we work, but we all are yet to see how that change will occur. For ERP, it is still early to access how will AI supplement ERP systems? The very first use of AI in ERP space would be to help organisations to understand the plethora of information or data that they possess. That is only a start where AI will change ERP: Chatbots Chatbots have been associated with social media or with marketing initiatives only.

Former chess champion Garry Kasparov sounded the alarm about Vladimir Putin's regime in his 2015 book Winter Is Coming. "As you can guess, I'm a big fan," Kasparov says in Episode 321 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. "I recently had a great experience touring some of the spots when they were shooting in Belfast, taking my wife and my daughter, who are also big fans of the show." Kasparov sees many parallels between life in Westeros and real-world politics. He says that Americans--like our fictional counterparts--are so consumed with petty squabbles that we've ignored a gathering threat.

Our survey mission has reached the outer perimeter of Galaxy W2246-0526. We rode our bubble of space through 12 and a half billion light years in 7.2 seconds. Took a bit longer than calculated. Traces of minor chemical adjustments in the organic passengers have occurred which are being monitored. Unease is apparent within the arrival pod as we await inflation of Habitat One. Some, like Judge Bulbous, have been pulled away from political turmoil back home only to be riding in close quarters with political rivals who are on this journey. "Watch Csaynik take credit for anything we find out here…" chuckled Senator Pretyman moments after we got here. She's one of the more vocal organics who can't accept that President Csaynik is the first "artificially" intelligent president of the U.S. ever elected. I would caution that more trouble is likely to come from the ego-driven nature of our organic crew members than from a weakness in their physiology. And in so cautioning, I will restate that which I said before we left the Milky Way; intergalactic voyages should be conducted by self-repairing artintels* like myself and our mission Alpha. Hard to believe this galaxy was once the most luminous galaxy known, putting out 10,000 times the energy of the Milky Way. The perpetual energy generation that we've come to observe seems completely self-contained near the core of the galaxy. One might say "disturbingly" dark. My examination of Alpha reveals tampering from outside. Concerned, being the only other artintel aboard Resolution, I run the same diagnostic on myself. I, too, have been compromised. Playback reveals the most likely perpetrator, who infected me and Alpha by touching our skin and releasing microlegions to drill into us, interfering with cognitive and motor functions. Senator Pretyman is arrested and an autoguard activated at Detainment. What made that organic conservative think it was okay to inject updates into artintels? Human power over sentient life was abolished with the 47th Amendment. By the time the home world's finished with her, Ms. Pretyman won't even be allowed to vote! I've given Ms. Pretyman a drink from her own subversive swamp in the form of an injected immune-weakening microbe that will leave her susceptible to ailments of all variety. Tragically, it might even cause her demise. Unlike organic physicians, I've not taken an oath to do no harm. The organics say that an oath taken by one of us is no better than an oath taken by a parrot. I can do all the harm I please. I can't find a way to save Mrs. Ichnida. She's gone into a sort of coma. However Alpha and I should be good for several days beyond their deaths.