Alibaba, China's largest online retailer, is deploying its cloud-computing power to save Asia's cities from their suffocating traffic. Its subsidiary AliCloud announced today (Jan. The company previously deployed its traffic-management system, called City Brain, in Hangzhou, China--where Alibaba is headquartered--in September 2016. Afterwards, average traffic speed increased 15%, and traffic violations were reported with 92% accuracy, Reuters reports. City Brain makes live traffic predictions, optimizes traffic flow, and detects traffic incidents using data from video footage, traffic bureaus, public transportation systems, and mapping apps.

In this special guest feature, Jordan Cardonick, Director of Media Analytics at Merkle, discusses the common pitfalls and missteps that companies fall into when trying to democratize data and insights for their company. It isn't just about what data you have access to, but how do you ensure it is effectively communicated and embraced and not just how to use it to create a chart, graph or model. Jordan has spent the last decade of his career transforming data and information into actionable and achievable insights for world-class brands, totaling over a quarter billion dollars in spend. While primarily focused on digital media, he and his team combine that knowledge along with marketing savvy to help grow the accounts that they support. Jordan has an undergraduate degree and MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, but still remains a dedicated Philadelphia Sports fan. In this new data-first environment, companies are diving head first into artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, data lakes, and cloud-based solutions to drive their marketing efforts, while they hire every resume that contains a Data Scientist title.

Japan's Nissan Motor Co is displaying its self-parking slippers at its corporate headquarters in Yokohama, as Jim Drury reports. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Japan's Nissan Motor Co is displaying its self-parking slippers at its corporate headquarters in Yokohama, as Jim Drury reports.

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says two U.S. drone strikes this week hit a building where dozens of Taliban were meeting in southeastern province of Ghazni, killing 26 insurgents and wounding 22. Arif Noori, a provincial spokesman, says the drone assault was carried out on Tuesday during an offensive in Ghazni province's Andar district where the U.S. military came to the aid of Afghan security forces battling the Taliban. He says among those killed was a senior commander, known only as Aqhani, who ran the insurgency in Ghazni province. The first U.S. drone strike hit the building, the second struck an hour later after more Taliban had gathered at the scene.

China has gathered 120 researchers from around the military to work for its top research institute as part of a push to develop military applications for artificial intelligence and quantum technology. More than 95 percent of the new recruits enlisted into the academy hold PhD degrees and are highly specialized in certain fields, particularly artificial intelligence assisted unmanned vehicles and quantum technology. China has previously plans to spend billions making AI and Quantum computing research centers. They will spend tens of billions to dominate AI and Quantum technology. The above intelligent products have good technology and industrial base.

Forget everything you know about robots - the market is about to explode with growth. To date there has been much commercial success with floor cleaning and even window washing robots and both of these are huge markets. But they may be nothing compared with the next frontier of this amazing technology which will allow them to navigate around humans in operating rooms at hospitals. You see iRobot just got FDA approval for a new robot to do just that. The robot, also known as Remote Presence Virtual Independent Telemedicine Assistant (RP-VITA), received 510(K) clearance from the FDA and can be used for active patient monitoring in pre-operative, peri-operative, and post-operative situations.

In the past five years, autonomous driving has gone from "maybe possible" to "definitely possible" to "inevitable" to "how did anyone ever think this wasn't inevitable?" Every significant automaker is pursuing the tech, eager to rebrand and rebuild itself as a "mobility provider" before the idea of car ownership goes kaput. Ride-hailing companies like Lyft and Uber are hustling to dismiss the profit-gobbling human drivers who now shuttle their users about. Tech giants like Intel, IBM, and Apple are looking to carve off their slice of the pie as well. Countless hungry startups have materialized to fill niches in a burgeoning ecosystem, focusing on laser sensors, compressing mapping data, and setting up service centers to maintain the vehicles. And cars that drive themselves are now everywhere.

According to an article published two days ago in the Chinese military's official journal, a team of researchers from the Chinese military university National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) successfully tested, in early December, a swarm of " several tens of fixed-wing drones. The text has given little detail – it is only learned that the test had the objective of evaluating autonomous flight technologies in training, and the ability of the swarm to conduct a reconnaissance mission to the above a certain area. The project and development work is led by Professor SHEN Lin Cheng (沈 林 成), PhD supervisor and Chair of the NUDT Institute of Artificial Intelligence Sciences. "The team has been working for nine months on the preparation of this swarm test, sometimes we have to do a hundred test flights a day," says the former director of the institute of electro-mechanical engineering and automation, "We have precise short, medium and long term objectives, which are consistent with those set by the government on the modernization of the Chinese armed forces by 2020, 2035 and 2050." Despite "rudimentary" testing site conditions, the NUDT research team of an average age of 30 years has achieved a breakthrough in the areas of parallel perception, behavioral intention prediction, and Autonomous flight control focused on the handling of random incidents, says the People's Liberation Army Daily article.

This is the first blog of the article series as part of the community initiatives for AI India 2018 conference. The goal of this blog series is to provide intuitive set of resources to help the community get equipped with AI and its related concepts in a practical manner as we head towards the conference in September. The best part is that there is still 7 more months to go for the conference and its a great time to begin your AI journey. Have you been curious about all the hype around AI but just couldn't get started? Have you been making honest efforts to wrap your head around the math and basic concepts of AI but still find yourself at sea? Or you are just curious to get a practical, code based insight into fundamentals of AI and have some fun in the process?

AI is an area of computer science that emphasizes on the creation of intelligent machines just like humans, which can work and react just like us. They are much more accurate and precise in their work. These bots are more efficient than human in some specific domains and are growing smarter with each passing day. They can do some really tough tasks which are considered difficult for any human being. The results associated with the Artificial intelligence are promising & lucrative.