Registration is open for #StrataData San Jose. Transcript Cory: [0:00] Are welcome to 2018 folks I'm your host for this big date of your podcast and Thomas along with their beers along for this fun ride. And it's everybody is probably aware machine learning is easily one of the hottest topics topics in Analytics. And big data for not only the back half of 2017 definitely the hottest thing happened in 2018. And I'm sure it's going to stick around for a while and a handful of a sewer students of this big data space in the. The environment where our fans of machine learning think it's a cool Trend and think it's going to have a lot of power we've started poking around and look at it companies. Do an interesting work to accelerate machine learning in the Enterprise and we wandered into these these folks are did a robot and we thought. It sucks you're doing some pretty interesting work simplifying how organizations and frankly aspiring data scientist can leverage machine learning in real life and such a real life unicorn. West Side at least it is pictures of very robust Big Data mustache his name is dr. Greg: [1:21] Hey thanks for having me although I'm I'm sad to report that my mustache did not survive the Christmas holidays that's what the New Year's resolution. Cory: [1:31] I have to assume I have to assume by casually you mean that it got taken off as you were trying to eat a turkey leg and it got pulled off that's the only acceptable answer.

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Though there's a human sitting inside, a careful observer would spot that the truck is calling all the shots. That's because the vehicle is one of a fleet of five autonomous trucks that a Chinese startup called TuSimple is using to ferry containers around the terminal – the first-time self-driving trucks …

Key players and experts from the artificial intelligence realm gathered in Dubai on Wednesday at the start of Artelligence - The Artificial Intelligence Forum 2018 - to discuss various topics surrounding the technology and how societies can benefit from it. AI investments in the UAE is expected to hit Dh33 billion in 2017, with the figure growing over 70 per cent over the past 3 years. Business Insider says the government would be using AI to account for around 50 per cent savings in costs. "You need to get your feet wet with AI," Wesam Lootah, chief executive officer of Smart Dubai Government, said in his keynote speech. "AI is not something for tomorrow; it's available today. The possibilities are there, and it can touch every aspect of life."

Business Secretary Greg Clark and Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Matt Hancock (second left) talk with Alistair Cohen (left) and Brent Hoberman, Chairman of the Founders Factory (right), as they meet with artificial intelligence companies at Northcliffe House in Kensington, London as part of the launch for the Artificial Intelligence Sector Deal. Britain wants you to know that even as it stumbles towards Brexit, it's racing ahead on one of the most important technological innovations of our time - artificial intelligence. The U.K. government announced Thursday that it had put together "an AI deal worth more than £1 billion" that includes public and private funding. The money is going towards research and grants, with around £145 million from two foreign venture capital firms going into British, emerging-tech startups. It comes a couple of weeks after France announced its own commitment to AI.

The BBC is "really worried" by a new tactic by fake news propagandists and fraudsters who are exploiting the rise of chat apps to spread false content carrying the broadcaster's trusted branding. The organisation has found itself repeatedly targeted by what appears to be a mixture of state-backed political activists, opportunistic fraudsters and malicious pranksters, who are grafting the BBC's famous logo onto false reports that are shared on the largely unregulated chat platforms. The trend represents a new dimension in the fake news threat and a major challenge to democratic processes and to news organisations in protecting their brand reputations. The BBC last week felt obliged to issue a formal warning after a clip purporting to show the BBC reporting on the outbreak of nuclear war between Russian and NATO forces in the Baltic went viral on WhatsApp and other chat platforms as a piece of breaking news. In other instances, the BBC's branding has been used to give a false sense of authentication to concocted election results, and in creating malicious news'reports' designed to damage corporate targets.

Neanderthals may have died out because they lacked part of the human brain that helps us adapt to change and be sociable. Our ancient cousins had less grey matter in an area vital for memory, thinking and communication skills, suggests a new study. This would have affected their social and cognitive abilities, and could have been a major factor in their demise, scientists said. Neanderthals would have been less able than humans to adapt to climate change by innovating, for example. Researchers scanned the skulls of Neanderthals to assess their brain matter.

On a fine early afternoon in late March a young German-Iranian friend and I walked into the Garage Gallery at the Fire Station in Doha, Qatar - and we wondered. We were there to see the famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's "Laundromat": "A traveling installation", as the official description of the exhibition says, "that brings the current European migrant crisis into sharp focus." We had read before that "the work is centered around a vast makeshift camp near the village of Idomeni, on the border with the Republic of Macedonia. As part of his recently released documentary Human Flow, Ai Weiwei has borne witness to the brutal plight of refugees worldwide." Does the brutal plight of refugees worldwide - those from Syria in particular - need a witness?

Building a self-driving car, it turns out, is a bit like planning a wedding. No matter how much time you give yourself, you risk being overwhelmed by the sheer number of things that need doing. In 2016, when BMW said it would deliver fully self-driving cars, as part of a ride-hailing service, by 2021, it seemed to have plenty of time. But now it has just three years left; in an industry where developing a new car can take seven years, it's a good thing the automaker has gotten around to picking its lidar supplier. Today, BMW struck a deal with industry supplier Magna, and Magna's partner Innoviz, to provide the lidar laser scanners for its self-driving cars.

Japanese engineers have unveiled a robot that transforms into a car that can actually carry people on board, in what developers claim is a world-first. The 3.7-metre (12.1-feet)-tall two seater robot'J-deite RIDE' can transform into a sports car in a process that takes about a minute. It can walk at 18.6mph (30 km/h) or run on its four wheels but developers say they've never really tested it outside the factory cargo bay area. The 3.7-metre (12.1-feet)-tall two-seater robot'J-deite RIDE' can transform into a sportscar in a process that takes about a minute As a car, it measures 4 metres (13 feet) long and 1.4 metres (4.6 feet) high. During the transformation the car seats and hood lift up and the robot's head appears, writes Asahi.