As artificial intelligence (AI) and big data technologies become more prevalent, a survey has found that three out of four people in China are worried about the threat that AI poses to their privacy, challenging the popular notion that the Chinese care little about giving up personal data. State broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) and Tencent Research surveyed 8.000 respondents on their attitudes toward AI as part of CCTV's China Economic Life Survey. The results show that 76.3 per cent see certain forms of AI as a threat to their privacy, even as they believe that AI holds much development potential and will permeate different industries. About half of the respondents said that they believe AI is already affecting their work life, while about a third see AI as a threat to their jobs. Anxiety has risen over how intrusive AI will be and if they will steal jobs away from humans as companies increasingly deploy the technology, from recommending videos and songs to replacing cashiers with facial recognition and mobile payments.

The UAE Cabinet has formed a council for artificial intelligence (AI) that will oversee AI integration in government departments and the education sector. The ten-member UAE Council for Artificial Intelligence will be chaired by Omar Al Olama, the 27-year-old who was appointed Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence in October's Cabinet reshuffle. The council includes representatives from every emirate. The council will identify how and where AI can be incorporated in government, what supporting infrastructure it requires and investigate its incorporation at different levels of education. The formation of the AI council was one of five themes outlined in the government's AI strategy launched last October.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and deep learning are taking the healthcare industry by storm. They are not pie in the sky technologies any longer; they are practical tools that can help companies optimize their service provision, improve the standard of care, generate more revenue, and decrease risk. Nearly all major companies in the healthcare space have already begun to use the technology in practice; here I present some of the important highlights of the implementation, and what they mean for other companies in healthcare. The best metaphor I found describing the importance of AI is presented by Bertalan Meskó in one of his articles. It seems that the question is not "if" but "when" AI will revolutionize the healthcare. It took some time for the medical community to accept the stethoscope.

Israel is among those countries everyone would want to watch her steps in matters security. No debate, the country has it all when it comes to criminology and everything weaponry related. But, in its current move to use artificial intelligence as a tool to fight crime, that's a serious move that requires deep thinking especially with the current fears associated with the technology. Since the release of the report that revealed how AI is vulnerable for use against human security, to date, experts have been arguing fiercely over whether this technology should be declared illegal or wiped from the earth, but that seems too late now. Like a month ago, the government of Spain made it official that they'll be employing AI to help stop corruption by predicting where it likely occurs most.

The conventional wisdom is that being in the right location is critical to success in retail. As one Japanese convenience store pursues an expansion, it may be getting some non-human help to decide where its stores should go. Convenience store chain Lawson is considering using artificial intelligence (AI) to determine where to place its new store locations, according to the Japan Times. The chain plans to use AI to collect marketing data, such as household distribution patterns and traffic volume, to determine a given store's chances of success in an area. Generally, the chain makes such decisions based on information gathering and analysis of an area carried out by staff.

There's a dirty little secret about artificial intelligence: It's powered by an army of real people. From makeup artists in Venezuela to women in conservative parts of India, people around the world are doing the digital equivalent of needlework --drawing boxes around cars in street photos, tagging images, and transcribing snatches of speech that computers can't quite make out. Such data feeds directly into "machine learning" algorithms that help self-driving cars wind through traffic and let Alexa figure out that you want the lights on. These repetitive tasks pay pennies apiece. But in bulk, this work can offer a decent wage in many parts of the world -- even in the U.S.

Apple employees keep walking into the walls at its new office, 911 calls reveal. At least three of the company's staff have collided with the glass in its new buildings, with enough force to require colleagues to call the emergency services. Those calls for an ambulance have been revealed by local newspaper the San Francisco Chronicle, and which describe one employee smashing into the glass so hard that he was expected to need stitches. The new Apple campus in Cupertino was built to be "the best office building in the world", according to Steve Jobs, who championed the building as one of his last acts as Apple's boss. He heralded how the office would be a picture of modern perfection, full of sweeping glass – including panes that are among the biggest pieces of glass ever used in such a building.

AI can pluck images directly from a person's brain. Given an fMRI scan of someone looking at a picture, an algorithm can reconstruct the original picture from the scan. Though the results aren't yet perfect, they are still often recognisable and hint at what may be possible in the future. Guohua Shen at Japan's Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute and his colleagues experimented with three types of images: "natural" pictures of things like bats, snowmobiles and stained …

This August 2017 photo provided by Shamima Khatoon shows Khatoon in New Delhi. Khatoon's job of annotating cars, lane markers and traffic lights at an all-female outpost of data-labeling company iMerit in Metiabruz, India, represents the only chance she has to work outside the home in a conservative Muslim region of India. This August 2017 photo provided by Shamima Khatoon shows Khatoon in New Delhi. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- There's a dirty little secret about artificial intelligence: It's powered by an army of real people. From makeup artists in Venezuela to women in conservative parts of India, people around the world are doing the digital equivalent of needlework --drawing boxes around cars in street photos, tagging images, and transcribing snatches of speech that computers can't quite make out. Such data feeds directly into "machine learning" algorithms that help self-driving cars wind through traffic and let Alexa figure out that you want the lights on.

NEW DELHI: India has an opportunity to create a locally designed Artificial Intelligence plan that would work for its needs and help nurture world-dominating companies specialising in this emerging field, say experts. So far, the country is seen as lagging behind the US and China in building capabilities in AI due to the lack of large internet companies that harness data of users. However, growing investments across sectors in building data-based businesses and the recognition by the government to create enabling policies for AI is throwing up opportunity for entrepreneurs. "India could have a very large role to play, all the pieces are in place, it has a great opportunity, and is upto India to either succeed or fail," Andrew NG, one of the most prominent experts of AI told ET. NG, who was the cofounder of Google Brain and is the founder of online learning platform Coursera added that he gets pitch notes from Indian startups.