Abeja: This Japanese startup, founded in 2012, creates AI software for retailers and manufacturers and is backed by Salesforce and NTT DOCOMO, among others. Deepgram: This Mountain, View, Calif., startup has created AI that understands human speech. Deepgram's goal: help computers understand what you mean, communicate in real time and leave you satisfied, not frustrated. Deep Instinct: This Tel Aviv startup pioneered the use of AI zero-day attack protection -- using deep learning to identify attacks on vulnerabilities that haven't yet been made public. Entropix: You know those crime shows that show computer-equipped sleuth's enhancing grainy images?

SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based chatbot'Ruuh' that has begun changing the lives of handloom weavers in India is something that will shape the future of technology, the company's Indian-born CEO Satya Nadella has emphasised. 'Ruuh' has been built entirely by the research team in India. "What's incredible is that the team discovered how'Ruuh' can help handloom weavers in rural communities create new economic opportunity by generating design patterns, inputting pictures and colours with the help of neural networks," Nadella wrote on LinkedIn in a post titled "The people and projects that inspired me in 2017" late on Thursday. By creating new designs, said Nadella, "they're able to grow their markets and generate new revenue, helping to preserve this ancient art form and carry on a family business that spans generations". Not just'Ruuh,' social chatbots built by Microsoft have over 100 million users with 30 billion conversation sessions across five countries.

The nation could be shaped by geopolitics, momentum from robust economic growth, and a host of new leaders eager to implement new policy.

Islamabad - Artificial Intelligence is playing a key role in eradication of disability in people. However, Pakistan needs to change its outlook on Disability through far-reaching and persistent legal and social reforms, said experts on Thursday. STRIVE is a non-profit organisation working to eradicate disability in Pakistan. To achieve this goal, STRIVE has given the Vision 2025 – A World Free of Disability. Vision 2025 employs a multi-pronged approach of a) campaigning to raise awareness, b) introducing projects to effect policy change, and c) providing on-ground medical treatment and physiotherapy. 'Eradication' of disability is a goal that is becoming more achievable than ever with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

While 2017 witnessed debates around disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT), 2018 will see these conversations materialise into concrete steps and existing technologies experience a make-over, a top Lenovo India executive said on Sunday. "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and chatbots are becoming increasingly important and are something that brands and companies worldwide will use to enhance customer experience," Rajesh Thadani, Executive Director and Head, Consumer Business and E-commerce, Lenovo India, told IANS. AI capabilities have been made possible by the massive proliferation of data and computing power. "We will see AI inspire how products are designed and the technology will be infused in the products for customer's benefits this year," Thadani added. According to Nielsen's data, by 2030, 1.2 billion Indians are expected to own a smartphone, increasing internet penetration almost 4.5 times where 90 per cent of the content consumption will be through mobile devices.

China has been building what it calls "the world's biggest camera surveillance network". Across the country, 170 million CCTV cameras are already in place and an estimated 400 million new ones will be installed in the next three years. Many of the cameras are fitted with artificial intelligence, including facial recognition technology. The BBC's John Sudworth has been given rare access to one of the new hi-tech police control rooms.

Quantum Computing is becoming quite the hot topic lately. With research being done by Google, IBM, Microsoft, universities, and a number of other players, it's looking this is really going to happen. In fact, Google may just be weeks away from announcing the Quantum Supremacy milestone. If you aren't familiar with the concept of Quantum Supremacy yet, it's basically the point where a quantum computer can complete a computation in a short time where a classical computer can't complete it at all. While there are some simple quantum computers out there right now (you can try out IBM's via the Q Experience), this will be a big deal. I'm pretty sure it's not even for myself, but I am interested in the technology so I am intrigued to learn more. The point of this post isn't to teach you all of the details about quantum computing (because I am far from qualified to do that). It's to teach you some of the basic concepts you should go learn about and point you to resources on where to learn more. For my current limited quantum computing knowledge, I have learned from resources from Wikipedia, IBM, and Microsoft.

In this work we propose a method for anatomical data augmentation that is based on using slices of computed tomography (CT) examinations that are adjacent to labeled slices as another resource of labeled data for training the network. The extended labeled data is used to train a U-net network for a pixel-wise classification into different hepatic lesions and normal liver tissues. Our dataset contains CT examinations from 140 patients with 333 CT images annotated by an expert radiologist. We tested our approach and compared it to the conventional training process. Results indicate superiority of our method. Using the anatomical data augmentation we achieved an improvement of 3% in the success rate, 5% in the classification accuracy, and 4% in Dice.

Xinhua, the official press agency of the People's Republic of China has reported that the said park will be situated in the Mentougou district of Beijing, covering 54.87 hectares. The goal is to put a price of 1 trillion yuan on the industry, hosting the investment of 400 business companies and generating an output revenue of 50 billion yuan. The park shall mostly focus on the development of high-speed data, biometrics, cloud computing, a strand of AI known as "deep-learning" comprising practical applications in driverless cars, preventive healthcare, and even better movie recommendations. Tension regarding border security and international relations may ensue, as China not only aims at the expansion of technical advancements and commercialization of AI in'smart cities' but also plans on strengthening military prowess through the use of the same. This has caught the attention of the United States of America as Pentagon has recently reported the rising concern about Chinese firms' investments in US's start-up companies and recommended the use of more stringent controls.

Eastern Bank Ltd has launched the country's first ever artificial intelligence-based chatbot to render faster services to clients, in a development that can be viewed as a milestone for Bangladesh's banking sector. A computer programme that conducts a conversation via auditory or textual methods, chatbots are increasingly becoming popular in developed countries for customer services or as the first point of contact with companies. While some chatbots use sophisticated natural language processing system, many simpler systems scan for keywords within the input and then pull out a reply with the most matching keywords, or the most similar wording pattern, from a database. By way of Facebook Messenger, the EBL Digital Interactive Agent will inform the bank's customers about their accounts, credit card and prepaid cards as well as general service information. Viber and Twitter versions will be available shortly.