CogX is a two-day AI extravaganza that brings together the biggest, best and brightest minds in Europe to really talk about the future of AI, blockchain and the future. Hold this conference in China or the US and you'd have a completely different conversation thanks to investment levels, protectionism and talent strategies - a key theme of several of the early panels and people I spoke to. The panel on the main stage who opened up CogX in London were tasked with setting the scene for the future of AI and where we are right now. The tone set felt distinctly like we're losing to the US/China, mixed with'we're on a knife-edge of bad things happening' sprinkled with distinctly hopeful tones that potential issues are not inevitable. Made up of some of the best minds currently thinking about such things, the focus seems to have moved from potential to'winning races' and protectionism.

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China has recently published its first artificial intelligence (AI) textbook for high school students, following a plan by central government last year to include AI courses in primary and secondary school. Under the joint efforts by the research center for MOOC at East China Normal University and AI startup SenseTime Group, the nine-chapter textbook, named Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence, was written by eminent scholars from well-known schools nationwide, Xinhua reported on Sunday. It includes the history of AI and how the technology can be applied in areas such as facial recognition, auto driving and public security. "The textbook focuses not only on basics of AI, also on practical use of AI in daily life," said Chen Yukun, a professor at East China Normal University, who is also a contributor to the book. At present, about 40 high schools across the country have joined the first batch of AI high education pilot program, by introducing the textbook in curriculum.

In Ensenada, a Mexican city about two hours south of Tijuana, a new crime fighter has taken to the skies. And over a few months on patrol, it's had quite the impact. The city's police department claims the solitary DJI Inspire 1 Quadcopter led to more than 500 arrests and a 10 percent drop in overall crime rates, with a 30 percent drop in home robberies. It's the latest example of drones slowly finding their place in civilian life, like soldiers returning from war, seeking to apply their skills to life in a country not entirely comfortable with what they were up to overseas. Unmanned aerial vehicles may have gotten their start with the military, flying recon missions in Vietnam and dropping bombs over Afghanistan.

Amazon is being called out for the poor working conditions in the China-based factory that manufactures its products. New York-based China Labor Watch published over the weekend its report on the factory that produces Amazon's Echo speakers and Kindle e-readers. The report, which summarizes what the watchdog group found throughout its investigation from August 2017 to April 2018, seemingly paints CEO Jeff Bezos and Amazon in a bad light for allegedly taking advantage of low-paid laborers. "[Our] investigation revealed a number of rights violations at the Hengyang Foxconn factory, which manufactures Amazon's Kindle, Echo Dots and tablets," the report stated. "The investigation revealed that dispatch workers made up more than 40 percent of the workforce, a clear violation of the legally mandated 10 percent."

Microsoft just showed off all of its new games for PC and Xbox One at its E3 Press Conference. There's a lot to unpack, so scroll through our live coverage below to watch all the trailers and see all the new announcements You can also re-watch the entire thing, if you like, and follow along with our commentary and insights below. We'll be back for Sony's press conference tomorrow night! 'A few very exciting games shown, and interesting to see how Xbox's newly acquired studios will fare' Well that certainly had a lot more going for it than the EA press conference. Trailers upon trailers upon gameplay demos, and new reveals all over the place.

These models are computer algorithms, or smart apps, that seek to give computers the ability to learn like children for a variety of tasks. Here, we highlight how an author's work may solve a particular set of real-world tasks or problems. By doing this, we aim to foster more and more machine, learning works, to be done by more and more Jamaican people. Today, we'll highlight the machine-learning work, a paper/algorithm called'Modelling Sensorineural Hearing-impaired Listeners' Perception of Speaker Intelligibility in Noise", by UWI lecturers Dr Lindon W. Falconer, Dr AndrÈ Coy, and their overseas colleague, Professor Jon Barker. Jordan: How would you describe your work? Dr Coy, et al: Disabling hearing loss is a major challenge faced by many individuals in societies throughout the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that approximately 6.1 per cent of the world's population has disabling hearing loss, and about 93 per cent of these people are adults.

Google is planning to bring support for more languages to its Google Assistant AI, so that its Google Home speaker could appeal to more consumers. Digitimes Research reported late last week that Google is planning to push sales of its Google Home speakers to more markets this 2018. With this in mind, the search engine giant is aiming to bring support for up to 30 languages to its voice assistant. Amazon's Alexa only supports three languages at present. To take advantage of the situation, Google wants to enable Google Assistant to support up to 30 languages with the use of its deep research in multi-language and semantics.

It's often difficult for people to maintain the enterprising spirit they had when they first entered the workplace, fresh out of university. Especially in a large company it is difficult for people's voices are heard, and often they feel isolated as there are not many opportunities to get to know others who share their passions. Many eventually give up asking questions and coming up with new ideas, and start to just go with the flow. In the hope of changing this sense of stagnation and lifting the spirits of young employees at major companies, Makoto Hamamatsu, 35, an employee at electronics giant Panasonic Corp., co-launched a group in September 2016 that would allow people in their 20s and 30s to connect, share ideas and create innovation. Named One Japan, the community has grown in less than two years from some 120 members in 26 firms to roughly 1,200 people in 50 large companies, including Toyota Motor Corp., Canon Inc., NTT group, Japan Post Holdings Co. and Fuji Xerox Co. "We call it a community where the wisdom and passion of young people who work for major companies come together," said Hamamatsu, who currently works at Panasonic's consumer electronics business development section. By connecting people within and outside companies, he hopes to create innovation and revitalize the firms where they work, he said.

Investors from Shanghai have joined a completed $5.5 million Series A1 round for AI business Cambridge Touch Technologies which aims to build on hard-won attraction in Asia. CTT is developing AI-driven, 3D multi-touch sensing technologies for smart devices. Existing investors - Parkwalk Advisors, Cambridge Enterprise and Amadeus Capital Partners - participated in the round and were joined by new investors China Materialia of Shanghai and Downing Ventures of London. Ascendant Corporate Finance provided advice to CTT on the fund raising. The Cambridge UK company's technology uses what is regarded as the world's simplest architecture to deliver an all-screen, multi-finger 3D touch solution that can scale to all device sizes at a fraction of the cost of existing approaches.