Ayasdi offers an enterprise-grade artificial intelligence platform that leverages big data to make intelligent business applications; for instance, Ayasdi has an application that powers parts of HSBC's anti-money laundering technology stack. Headquartered in California, Ayasdi has further offices in London with global expansion demanding a third office potentially coming to Singapore for 2018. Lots of stuff is going on with AI. Broadly speaking there are two major ways of thinking about problems addressable by AI today. One side is around perception based problems – self driving cars and virtual assistants – these rely on data such as imaging and sensing the environment.

Artificial intelligence is already everywhere, so it's inevitable that it would invade the arts. Yahama showed a new kind of AI tech that translated the movements of renowned dancer Kaiji Moriyama into musical notes on a piano, "a form of expression that fuses body movements and music," the company said. He used it during a concert in Tokyo entitled Mai Hi Ten Yu, dancing and "playing" the piano with his body, accompanied by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Scharoun Ensemble. Yamaha's system ensures that the dancer plays music that makes some sense, rather than just random notes. Moriyama carried four types of sensors on his back, wrists and feet that translated his movements into data.

A new kind of doctor has entered the exam room, but doesn't have a name. In fact, these doctors don't even have faces. Artificial intelligence has made its way into hospitals around the world. Those wary of a robot takeover have nothing to fear; the introduction of AI into health care is not necessarily about pitting human minds against machines. AI is in the exam room to expand, sharpen, and at times ease the mind of the physician so that doctors are able to do the same for their patients.

Chinese chips could catch up and even stand out in the current Artificial Intelligence (AI) boom, according to a news report published in a U.S. technology magazine Wednesday. In the current wave of enthusiasm for hardware optimized for AI, China's semiconductor industry sees a unique opportunity to establish itself, said the report published by MIT Technology Review, a magazine founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The article cites Chinese chip "Thinker" as an example. Designed to support neural networks, "Thinker" could recognize objects in images and understand human speech. What makes the chip stand out is its ability to "dynamically tailor its computing and memory requirements to meet the needs of the software being run."

KOBE, Japan -- The smart speaker comes in the guise of a bright yellow chicken or a brown bear and seems just as smart as Alexa. Sorry folks, the Clova Friends speaker is not for sale in the U.S. Talking Tech just spent eight days in the land that pioneered the Sony Walkman and PlayStation, with much of our time in those mega, multi-story electronics shops that sell everything from cameras and TVs to toilets, LCD home lighting and toys. While much of what we saw was available in the U.S., at similar prices, many products we ogled were not available here. Come walk the showroom floor with us. Line's Clova smart speakers come in the guise of a chicken or bear.

The 21st century will forever be remembered as the century that ushered in two of the most disruptive technologies in the history of mankind; the internet and the blockchain. The breakthrough of these technological phenomenon continues to revolutionize all spheres of human endeavors. However, Robotics - one of the branches of disruptive technologies is still on their way to intervene within the overall process of innovation. From "robo" assistants to house keepers, drones and even human-like robots (Sophia, the first robot to be awarded citizenship, Saudi Arabia, 2017) are increasingly becoming integral to our daily lives. And so is their functions.

Let's say we had a way to distribute beacons around our solar system (or beyond) that could survive for billions of years, recording what our civilization has achieved. What should they be like? It's easy to come up with what I consider to be sophomoric answers. But in reality I think this is a deep--and in some ways unsolvable--philosophical problem, that's connected to fundamental issues about knowledge, communication and meaning. Still, a friend of mine recently started a serious effort to build little quartz disks and have them hitch rides on spacecraft, to be deposited around the solar system. At first I argued that it was all a bit futile, but eventually I agreed to be an advisor to the project, and at least try to figure out what to do to the extent we can. We just have to think about archaeology to know this is hard. What exactly was some arrangement of stones from a few thousand years ago for? Sometimes we can pretty much tell, because it's close to something in our current ...

The Nintendo Switch games console has outsold its predecessor, just 10 months after its launch. Nintendo sold 7.23 million Switch consoles in the previous quarter, bringing total sales to about 14.86 million devices. The Wii U, which went on sale in November 2012, sold 13.56 million units before it was discontinued in 2017 and was considered a commercial failure. Nintendo reported its most profitable quarter since 2009. The company announced an operating profit of 116.50 billion yen (£755m, $1.07 billion), up from 32.26 billion yen a year ago.

AI growth has dominated most of last year's technology news, from algorithms learning how to play Go without human input, through Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg disputing the dangers and benefits of AI to humanity, down to Russia and China declaring it to be a top priority. Looking ahead, 2018 will be a year of developing and deepening all available AI technologies. Deep learning, one of the most important subfields of research on artificial intelligence, will be especially promising. Generally speaking, the goal of artificial intelligence is to make computers as smart, or even smarter than human beings, by giving them human-like thinking and reasoning abilities. Among the many ways to achieve this, machine learning AI is the baseline technique, used widely across all industries.

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 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.