Among the top companies in attendance was General Atomics, a San Diego-based defense contractor known for its Predator drones. The UAE previously purchased some $200 million worth of surveillance-only Predator drones.

Despite efforts to tackle corruption around the world, progress is still frustratingly slow, according to the latest report from Transparency International. Its annual Corruption Perception index reveals some alarming trends. It shows public service corruption is still a huge problem for two-thirds of the world's economies. The report uses a scale of zero to 100 to rank countries: zero is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. New Zealand comes out on top but with a score of 89.

It is predicted that the AI market will reach $153 billion in coming years. AI is slowly but surely making its presence felt in our daily lives. There are many applications of AI we are using today, from voice based personal assistant like Siri, Google Voice, Facebook bots, and Alexa, to more major advancements, like behavioural algorithms, suggestive searches, and self-controlled, self-driven vehicles boasting intense predictive capabilities. There are bots that can work as your personal assistant and help you order your food or clothes or even can book movie or flight tickets for you. However, artificial intelligence is still in its early stage.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised Indian Scientists in his Mann Ki Baat on Sunday. Har Gobind Khorana and Satyendra Nath Bose, he said they are the proud of the country. Pointing out the increasing importance of Artifiacial intelligence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Scientists to find ways in which we can enhance lives of our'divyang' brothers & sisters through artificial intelligence. Prime minister also asked,"can we make use of Artificial intelligence in early detection of natural calamities?" Talking about natural calamities prime minister Narendra Modi said most of these disaters happens due to our negligence.

VR that lets you hurtle headfirst down an ice track. Welcome to the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, where emerging technologies seem to be everywhere. South Korea is trying to use the event to highlight its leadership in wireless connectivity by building the world's first large-scale deployment of 5G, the next generation in cellular networks, which is expected to launch globally starting in 2020. Visitors can get hands-on with 5G at Pyeongchang's "ICT Experience Center," an exhibition space that showcases five information and communications technologies, from 5G to the internet of things, AI, virtual reality, and ultra-high-definition TV. Organizing the technologies this way underscores how 5G enables the other services by transmitting masses of data in real time with high-resolution quality.

China's artificial intelligence (AI) industry received about 180 billion yuan (28 billion U.S. dollars) of investment and financing last year, according to a recent report. Intelligent driving, big data and data service were among the main areas of investment, according to a report released by China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. China gained 28 new AI enterprises in 2017, compared with 128 new ones in 2016, the report said, adding that the fluctuation will not affect a long-term trend of growth. China's AI enterprises were mainly in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong last year. Beijing had the biggest number, with more than 260 AI enterprises.

NEW DELHI: Stressing that the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) will not make jobs disappear, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc said that on the contrary it will create more jobs. Wozniak was speaking at the fourth edition of the Economic Times Global Business Summit at New Delhi on Saturday. "We will require lot more jobs to build those machines," he said. Wozniak added that the next generation will have different types of jobs to choose from. The American inventor, electronics engineer, programmer, philanthropist, and technology entrepreneur who is created to be the developer of Apple I which led to the launch of Apple, said that even though he designed the machines, it required an entrepreneur like Steve Jobs to "market it".

The government budget for bolstering artificial intelligence in fiscal 2018 is less than 20 percent the amount to be spent by the U.S. and Chinese governments, a Kyodo News tally has found, potentially exacerbating Japan's competitive disadvantage in the field. Planned AI-related spending totals ¥77.04 billion ($720 million) in the draft budget for the year starting April 1, up some 30 percent from the current year, but still far short of the approximately ¥500 billion and ¥450 billion expected to be spent by the U.S. and Chinese governments, respectively. Both government and private companies in the United States and China are aggressively investing in AI technologies, which are expected to dramatically improve productivity and accelerate innovation. The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is promoting the use of AI to improve productivity in Japan, which has a rapidly graying population and is already grappling with a labor shortage. Still, the widening gap in AI-related investment between Japanese and U.S. firms suggests it will be difficult for Tokyo to challenge American dominance.

Ayesha Khanna, CEO of ADDO AI joined us in a conversation on the subject of artificial intelligence aka AI.

Automakers testing their self-driving cars on California roads might be able to go fully autonomous as soon as April, according to the state's DMV. Instead of putting someone behind the wheel to take over in certain circumstances, such as when the self-driving system isn't working as well as it should, the companies will be required to link their cars to remote operators. Those remote drivers' job is to keep an eye on multiple cars and to take over their controls if and when needed. The automakers are allowed to hire third-party companies to handle remote operation. Some of them, though, including Waymo and Nissan, have already developed their own remote-driving technologies -- Nissan even built a monitoring center for its driverless taxi's tests, which will begin in March and take place in Tokyo.