A mayoral candidate in Japan has vowed to replace politicians with artificial intelligence that he says will gather statistics on voters to create policies. Michihito Matsuda, outlining his campaign in Tama New Town, western Tokyo, insisted machines would be able to crunch data to form'clearly defined politics'. Photographs show his campaign poster, which features a picture of a metallic humanoid robot with female features, on cars and billboards in the area. Matsuda, 44, made an impassioned speech outlining his unusual political vision for the vast Tama New Town housing development, which was built in the 1960s and is the largest in Japan. He said: 'Tama New Town was the most advanced city in Japan 40 years ago.

Here is the fresh list of 10 startups in artificial intelligence and machine learning that are leading the race in the year 2018. These startups come from different backgrounds, such as providing AI services to healthcare, banking, fintech, diagnostics and HR, among others. Over the years startups have been striving to bring unique propositions into the market, and the developments listed by these companies prove it. While there are over 300 startups in the space in India alone, we have picked up these 10 names for this year's list. These startups are about two to three years old and have shown significant development over the years and are likely to do so in the year 2018.

There is a sense of urgency in Asia to capitalize on AI, not only to compete but to lead globally. Appier, established 6 years ago in Taiwan, is one of these firms. I recently attended their first analyst event in Taipei to better understand how this company approaches the AI opportunity and how it helps its clients deliver business and customer value. The young company – which has, so far, raised US$82 million in funding from firms like Sequoia Capital, UOB and Line – has a portfolio of AI based offerings that mainly focus on digital marketing use cases in Asia-Pacific. It leverages machine learning techniques to track online users across devices, without collecting any personal identifiable information.

SINGAPORE - Personal trainers can be expensive but for those looking to get fit, they can also provide the right motivation. Now you can install the personal coach GERI on your mobile device for free. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), GERI is designed to help users achieve their fitness goals. First, users select one out of four "health goals" - gaining muscle, losing weight, feeling better or getting fitter - on the application called GETGREAT. GERI, the personal coach on the app, will then assign the relevant programmes.

SHENZHEN: Telecom industry is not in a healthy state but artificial intelligence will help networks to solve structure issues at root and enable self-healing and self-optimizing of networks, according to Eric Xu, Rotating Chairman, Huawei. Speaking at HAS 2018, Xu explained how Huawei has been working on its SoftCOM AI network which is a new architecture enabling automation and digitization of networks. "Less than 10% organizations are actually able to create value from AI," said Xu. Huawei will continue to focus on ICT infrastructure and smart devices and will continue to invest in broadband and home network solutions, Xu added. "..we'll continue to make further investment in big data and network"." Xu told that Huawei will be applying AI to all its products and solutions and even use it for internal operations. "We aim to bring AI to cloud, network and smart devices and use it as extensively as possible," he stated. Talking about data and its applications, Xu said that the government and organizations have a very patchy situation when it comes to data utilization. "..data is not like oil for many enterprises because it's not processed properly." Xu also touched upon the company's situation in United States when asked about it, as it had previously received setbacks in the country. "There have been so many stories between US and China that one would need an entire day to explain.

Like much of the Japanese economy, the marine industry in Japan has been grappling with an ageing population and a shortage of workers required to deliver marine transport services that power 99.7% of the country's overseas trade. Check out the latest findings on how the hype around artificial intelligence could be sowing damaging confusion. Also, read a number of case studies on how enterprises are using AI to help reach business goals around the world. You forgot to provide an Email Address. This email address doesn't appear to be valid.

A group of South Korean scientists have developed a deep learning system based on artificial intelligence that can precisely predict interactions between drugs, the government said Tuesday. According to the Ministry of Science and ICT, the team led by Lee Sang-yup of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology developed the so-called deep drug-drug interactions technology, which can make it far easier to determine what kind of interaction will occur between various drugs. DDI is an important consideration in both drug development and clinical application as it can help prevent side effects caused by combining different drugs. Conventional methods could only predict what kind of interactions could occur between drugs but not detailed pharmacological actions.

A group of computer scientists have built a machine learning algorithm that can sniff out fake profiles lurking on social networks. It's likely that you and your Facebook friends have the same mutual friends. And on Twitter, it's also probable that your followers also follow the same people you do too due to common interests. These associations in social networks can be modeled on a graph as edges, where users are the vertices or nodes. The researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and the University of Washington, United States, hunted for fake social media accounts by developing an unsupervised learning algorithm that measures the probability of an edge existing between vertices.

Many stalls and urinals are also outfitted with television screens. As of last year, over 68,000 public toilets had been refurbished, which is 20% higher than the country had hoped, the South China Morning Post explained. For many years, China has suffered from sanitary issues in its public bathrooms.

Daniel Suarez has quickly established himself as the heir apparent to Michael Crichton with a string of fast-paced thrillers full of cutting-edge science. His new novel Change Agent is about a world transformed by ubiquitous genetic engineering and based on real-life research that's advancing at an astonishing rate. In Suarez's book, editing the genomes of human embryos is common, but strict limits are placed on edits that are considered too risky. That puts Interpol agents at odds with parents who want every genetic advantage for their children--as well as with the black market baby labs that cater to them. One of Change Agent's crazier plot points involves a criminal who attacks an Interpol agent and injects him with a substance that rewrites his DNA, transforming his body into that of a wanted criminal.