And this is especially true in China, the country in which I live and work for more than 20 years. China has become the first country for e-commerce, and it could soon become the most powerful country for AI in the world. The Chinese government is rolling out very large-scale data analytics systems to improve governance at the smallest level. This is the development the country is putting into action. I think this is real change, it's real revolution!

While Artificial Intelligence and automation technologies is still nascent, the building blocks exist to suggest that Machine Learning could ease the burden of complex analysis, surface insights and trigger actions on behalf of managers. Workforce management is essentially the art and science of managing people in order to have a productive workforce. While there is a lot of science and methodology around this domain, with many current modern methods evolving from the foundational scientific management techniques propounded by Taylor over a century ago, it still requires the fine art of understanding an individual's capabilities and balancing human expectations to get the most out of people. Traditionally, in high empathy countries like India, this has largely been the responsibility of the manager, who balances an organisation's needs with individual wants and abilities. In short, the manager decides who needs to do what, when and where.

A flagship'iPhoneX killer' smartphone launching today features technology to rival Apple's £999 ($999) device at a fraction of the price. The new Honor 10 will set you back just £399 ($540), £600 ($800) cheaper than the handset, but is packed with a whole host of features to rival the high-end gadget. That includes AI powered cameras, which feature facial recognition unlocking, as well as an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. The device, which launched in China last month, goes on sale from 4pm BST (11am ET) today in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, with 21 additional international markets from Asia to Africa to follow. Europe is key for the brand beyond China, because it has been banned from the lucrative US market based on unspecified national security concerns.

NEW DELHI: Country's second-largest telecom service provider Vodafone India, in its strategic digital focus, is embracing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data technologies to enhance consumer experience. The UK-headquartered telco, in its digitalisation quest, seeks to deliver instant consumer services, in tandem with arch rival Bharti Airtel's recent push to transform information technology (IT) infrastructure. "Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Big Data are helping us understand customer preferences better and that enable us to cater to them accordingly," a Vodafone executive who do not wish to be named told ETTelecom. Customers, according to the telco, proactively receive most appropriate plan or pack options to choose from basis the history of their voice and data usage. Carriers worldwide are aggressively adopting AI, Big Data to serve customers better by integrating analytics into each customer profile thereby tracking voice and data consumption behavior and that also reduces dependency on physical customer care operations.

SoftBank Corp. ("SoftBank"), a leading mobile operator in Japan, has implemented an innovative method for radio access network design from Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), based on machine intelligence. The service groups cells in clusters and takes statistics from cell overlapping and potential to use carrier aggregation between cells into account, thus reducing operational expenditure and improving network performance. Compared to traditional network design methods, it cut the lead time by 40 percent. Ryo Manda, Radio Technology Section Manager at the Tokai Network Technology Department of SoftBank, says: "We applied Ericsson's service on dense urban clusters with multi-band complexity in the Tokai region. The positive outcome exceeded our expectations and we are currently proceeding in other geographical areas with the same method and close cooperation with Ericsson."

Japan-based mobile operator SoftBank, looking to improve radio access network (RAN) design as the process becomes more complex with the move to 5G, tested a network automation service from Ericsson which uses machine intelligence and big data analytics. The operator applied the service to dense urban clusters with multi-band complexity in the Tokai region. Ryo Manda, radio technology section manager at SoftBank, said the outcomes exceeded its expectations and it is implementing the design method in other areas. Ericsson said in a statement the foundation of the method is a thorough analysis of the actual radio network environment, for example taking cell coverage overlap, signal strength and receive diversity into consideration. The high number of possible relations between cells requires substantial computational power and state-of-the-art machine learning techniques.

HONG KONG – The technology boom powering Asia's economies is about to get a reboot. Explosive growth in new-era gadgets such as wearable devices and internet-linked home appliances is tipped to offset cooling sales of smartphones, which have already dinged Asia's tech manufacturers. "Where demand may be softening in some areas it will be strengthening in others," Koshy Mathai, a senior official in the International Monetary Fund's Asia Pacific Department, said in an interview. He pointed to upcoming demand from "a vast middle class in China, India and other frontier markets." The world is in the early stages of a shift from the late-stage mobile internet era to a new, data-centered computing era, Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in a report last month.

Artificial Intelligence is already changing our economy; replacing human workers with more efficient alternatives. Here, GovInsider takes a look at four industries that are using AI to do business. These case studies indicate the potential of tech to change our workplace in the future. A massive truck moves up the hill from the mine, but something is different: there's no driver. Instead, artificial intelligence is powering autonomous trucks.

Bengaluru, Disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) will enable organisations to deliver a million midday meals to schoolchildren in India, said a top official of software major Accenture on Thursday. "We have applied AI, IoT and block-chain to exponentially increase the number of midday meals served to children in state-run schools under'Million Meals' project with NGO Akshaya Patra," said Accenture Labs Managing Director Sanjay Podder in a statement here. Block-chain is a distributed database that compiles a growing list of ordered records called blocks. The US-based Accenture collaborated with the city-based Akshaya Patra Foundation, which operates the government-funded MidDay Meal Scheme in state-run and state-aided schools, in implementing the novel project with new IT products and solutions. "The project has also demonstrated how new technologies can help address challenges in mass meal production and delivery by revolutionising supply chain and operations," asserted Podder.

Many of the biggest names in the technology industry are consumed with developing an artificial general intelligence, or AGI. Unlike today's leading artificial intelligence software, an AGI wouldn't need flesh-and-blood trainers to figure out how to translate English to Mandarin or spot tumors in an X-ray. In theory, it would have some measure of independence from its creators, solve complex, novel problems on its own, and herald an era in which humankind is no longer superior to machines. The consensus among our pitiful fleshbrains is that if humans ever manage to create an AGI, it'll arise in Mountain View, Calif., Beijing, or Moscow. All three cities are near world-class AI research universities and are home to companies that have pumped billions into the AGI race. There exists, however, a chance that the breakthrough will come from the Swiss city of Lugano. The picturesque slice of Switzerland's southern tip is home to about 60,000 people, including a computer scientist named Jürgen Schmidhuber. He's a professor, a researcher, and the co-founder of a 25-employee AI startup called Nnaisense.