The first thing many of us think about when it comes to the future relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity is Skynet--the fictional neural net-based group mind from the "Terminator" movie franchise. But at least one security professional (with a somewhat rosier view) suggested that AI must be understood across a broader landscape, regarding how it will influence cybersecurity and how IT can use AI to plan for future security technology purchases. Earlier this year, Dudu Mimran, chief technology officer (CTO) at Telekom Innovation Laboratories in Israel, discussed the relationship between AI and cybersecurity in a speech and subsequent blog post for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Forum 2018. I caught up with Mimran at his office in Beersheba, Israel for an interview, which we continued later over email. "While the threat of cyberattacks powered by AI is increasingly likely, I am less concerned in the short- and midterm about machines making up their minds and being able to harm people," Mimran said.

In a time when real intelligence is so hard to find, we are now seeing an unusual growth of the artificial type. I don't want to quibble, but have we not had enough of artificial stuff such as sweetener, artificial lemon flavor and artificial lips? Naturally, it is wonderful that people have created artificial arms or legs. But what were they thinking when creating an artificial brain? However – this is true – right now in Japan there is a beloved artificial intelligence "boy" who has many friends.

Residents of Shenzhen don't dare jaywalk. Since April 2017, this city in China's Guangdong province has deployed a rather intense technique to deter jaywalking. Anyone who crosses against the light will find their face, name, and part of their government ID number displayed on a large LED screen above the intersection, thanks to facial recognition devices all over the city. If that feels invasive, you don't even know the half of it. Now, Motherboard reports that a Chinese artificial intelligence company is partnering the system with mobile carriers, so that offenders receive a text message with a fine as soon as they are caught.

While analytics has touched upon every field, Pentation Analytics, a 2015 founded startup, as an InsurTech is providing state-of-the art analytics applications to the insurance industry. With its evolutionary analytical product--Insurance Analytics Suite, it is targeting core insurance to deliver solutions in the areas of soliciting & customer acquisition, risk assessment & policy development, fraud analytics etc. It also offers cutting edge analytics to banking, financial services, capital markets and payment sectors. Predictive analytics, which is the core of Insurance Analytics Suite,exploits algorithms and techniques such as artificial intelligence, natural language processing, deep learning to analyse structural and unstructured data residing at various sources. Analytics India Magazine caught up with Pentation Analytics to have a deeper insight on their analytics solutions, journey so far, how is BFSI industry using their solution and much more.

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google's DeepMind, poses with late physicist Stephen Hawking. Hassabis, Hawking and Tesla CEO Elon Musk all endorsed a set of guidelines last year for ethical AI development that will benefit humanity. AI has been a buzzword in Korean society ever since. As AlphaGo retired from competitive gaming in March 2017, the company has instead been concentrating on tackling "a very wide range of problems" that humans find difficult to resolve. "The majority of the AlphaGo team now devotes their time to new projects with the intention of using these general-purpose algorithms to help solve some of the world's most complex challenges in science and medicine," said Demis Hassabis, co-founder of DeepMind, in an email interview with the JoongAng Ilbo to mark the two-year anniversary of the high-profile match.

Tech honchos in Silicon Valley are deeply worried at China's rapid progress in harnessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology that has shown encouraging results in changing the way we work and live. Measured by start-up financing deals and dollars from venture capitalists, the United States' AI start-up ecosystem currently dominates -- followed by China, says a recent Accenture analysis titled "Rewire for Growth". When it comes to India, the number of AI start-ups has increased since 2011 at a compounded annual growth rate of 86 per cent. But the size of funding till date is substantially smaller in India than in the US and China, reflecting the limited success of India's AI start-ups in achieving scale so far, the report noted. "According to our analysis, AI has the potential to add $957 billion, or 15 per cent of current gross value added, to India's economy in 2035," said Accenture.

The former RBI Governor in his address outlining the vision for India at #FUTURE Global Digital Summit organised by the Kerala government also expressed fears that Artificial Intelligence would take up jobs – both high skilled and unskilled.

Bangalore: In 2016, The Times of India reported that 253 farmers from Lalkheda village in Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh received an average of Rs 2.83 (4 US cents) each as insurance payouts for the loss of their soybean crop under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (the flagship prime minister's crop-insurance scheme). The insurer blamed the farmers for taking insufficient cover. The story got 29-year-old Prateep Basu, then an engineer with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), thinking. How was it possible, he wondered, that a country which had been using remote-sensing technology for decades could fail to use it for accurate crop forecasting when the lives of so many millions crucially depended on such information? The four of them went on to form SatSure, a data-analytics startup with "a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide an accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets."

Artificial Intelligence is set to change the dimensions of anything and everything in the coming days. Machine learning techniques are going to handle a lot of things with far better excellence and accuracy than the humans. Media industry was buzzing when US-based The New York Times and China-based Southern Metropolis publications made use of the robots to run pilot programs. However, an India-based company NewsBytes has worked on a bot called Yantra which by using the machine learning technology will deliver contextual news and reports to the users. The AI-engine of the company termed as'Brahmastra', their in-house engine uses natural language processing techniques and has an inverted'Question-Answering' system developed by the company which has dedicated questions and different sets of answers.

Construction on a brand new Universal Studios in Beijing is underway! Estimated at about 300 acres large, the theme park and neighboring resort will include attractions from other Universal theme parks as well as new attractions that reflects China's cultural heritage. Universal Studio's first theme park in China also aims to be a "smart city" in its development and management, and it will be constructed with the help of advanced technologies such as Building Information Modelling (BIM), augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), and artificial intelligence. In fact, Autodesk and BSH Investment recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore the use of VR, human and machine interaction and Autodesk's Forge platform for the development of the world-class tourist destination. The use of advanced technologies in the construction of Universal Studios Beijing is aligned with China's 13th Five-Year Plan.