The United States' largest military contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. announced Wednesday it will start using artificial intelligence software from NEC to analyze data collected by sensors in space. Intelligent machines are taking the technology world by storm, and have started to move to outer space. One of the most advantageous uses of smart software is to analyze data, and increasingly governments and industries see AI as the answer to the big-data deluge, much of it coming from space. "AI can revolutionize how we use information from space, both in orbit and on deep space missions, including crewed missions to Mars and beyond," said Carl Marchetto, vice president of new ventures at Lockheed Martin Space, based in Denver, Colorado. NEC Corporation is a global information technology firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Artificial Intelligence is transforming the landscape of human evolution, with one of the biggest landmarks for the technology being the declaration of an AI robot - Sophia - as a "national citizen" of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Despite the fact that the earliest footprints of Artificial Intelligence can be traced back to 1956, its impact had been behind the curtains, until recently. During the last decade, AI has sparked polar reactions from observers, with some crowning it as the "face of the future", while others demarking it as the "beginning of the end". Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, went as far as saying that AI would largely be attributable for the outburst of World War-III. On the other side of the fence, however, we have the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, who could not have expressed more hope and faith in the revelation.

It may have been the first bit of fake news in the history of the Internet: in 1984, someone posted on Usenet that the Soviet Union was joining the network. It was a harmless April's Fools Day prank, a far cry from today's weaponized disinformation campaigns and unscrupulous fabrications designed to turn a quick profit. In 2017, misleading and maliciously false online content is so prolific that we humans have little hope of digging ourselves out of the mire. Instead, it looks increasingly likely that the machines will have to save us. One algorithm meant to shine a light in the darkness is AdVerif.ai,

It is not the first center dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI) that inaugurates, but it is the first of these characteristics that it establishes in China. Google, in the middle of Google Developer Days event in Shanghai, has introduced its Google AI China Center "to work with the best artificial intelligence talent, wherever that talent is" and "to help find solutions to the world's problems" . The new Google AI China Center will materialize through a team of researchers specialized in artificial intelligence in Beijing . These professionals will have the help of the engineers that Google has in China. Fei-Fei Li, head scientist of artificial intelligence and machine learning in Google Cloud, will be responsible for directing and coordinating the work at the center with Jia Li, who will act as head of research and development of Google Cloud AI.

Google has been a long-time supporter of net neutrality and the general concept of a free and open internet. This is why, seven years ago, Google drastically slashed its business interests in China, even threatening to leave the country entirely: Chinese censorship and government control simply went against the values of Google as an entity, and Google wouldn't play ball. But a lot has changed in the past seven years when it comes to China. Now Google may be slowly warming up to the idea of doing major business there again…however reluctantly. Today, Google announced that it will be opening a Chinese research and development center focused on artificial intelligence.

NEW DELHI: Downplaying fears of jobs getting wiped out with Artificial Intelligence (AI), research firm Gartner said more jobs will be created than lost. The firm says 1.8 million jobs will be eliminated by 2020, but 2.3 million new jobs will be created by then. The number of jobs affected by AI will vary by industry; through 2019, healthcare, the public sector and education will see continuously growing job demand while manufacturing will be hit the hardest. Starting in 2020, AI-related job creation will cross into positive territory, reaching two million net-new jobs in 2025, Gartner said in a release. "Many significant innovations in the past have been associated with a transition period of temporary job loss, followed by recovery, then business transformation and AI will likely follow this route," said Svetlana Sicular, research vice president at Gartner, quoted in the release.

Tokyo: Jeffrey (Jeff) Dean is a Google senior fellow in a research group at Google where he leads the company's artificial intelligence (AI) project called Google Brain. Along with his team, Dean, who joined Google in 1999, is currently implementing the company's vision as articulated by chief executive Sundar Pichai--to build an "AI-first" world. In an interview on the sidelines of a "Google #MadewithAI" event, held recently in Tokyo, Dean explains what this vision encompasses and the challenges involved in implementing it. What are the major steps involved in this process of implementing the Google strategy of building an AI-first world? The steps involve making products that are useful, help others innovate and solve humanity's big challenges.

Google's popular search service might be blocked on the Chinese mainland, but that's not stopping the company from expanding its presence in the country's burgeoning artificial intelligence sector. Google's parent Alphabet said in a statement that it had launched the Google AI China Center on Wednesday in Shanghai, the company's first facility of its kind in Asia. The center is focused on "basic AI research" and will be made up of a team of researchers based in Beijing. The center will be headed by Fei-Fei Li, a Stanford University professor who is chief scientist of AI and machine learning at Google Cloud, and Jia Li, head of research and development at Google Cloud AI. The tech giant's AI push in China comes amid growing recognition of the country's rise as a major contender in the space.

In October 2017, the UAE Government launched'UAE Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (AI)'. This marks the post-mobile government phase which will rely on various future services, sectors and infrastructure projects.

As Israel prepares for yet another war directly on its border, the truth about Israel's vast military capabilities has been largely absent in the corporate media. However, if one were to be fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to be able to travel to Israel's border with Syria in the north and the Gaza strip in the south, they might see what looks more or less like a scene from RoboCop. Israel is the first country in the world to use unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to not only patrol its borders but also to replace soldiers on missions, as well. The new Border Patroller model can be armed with remote-controlled weapons, reconnaissance means, and additional components that cannot be fitted on the traditional Guardium model it had been using for years prior. The robot is also able to patrol underground and gather information for units that are present on the surface.