Forbes: How AI can transform businesses 2. GigaOm's "Voices in AI" podcast features AI luminaries 3. NVIDIA's Inception Program for AI startups adds 2,000th member 4. NVIDIA teaches the world about deep learning in finance through workshops 5. What AI can accomplish right now – and the silicon powering it all 5. HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAN TRANSFORM BUSINESSES A question originally asked on Quora, Forbes shares the leading answer by Tony Paikeday, product marketing director at NVIDIA. After providing several examples of businesses across industries who are already using AI, he shares the quickest method to adopting AI: "The fastest way to accelerate AI for business is leveraging powerful and energy-efficient GPUs. READ ARTICLE 6. GIGAOM'S "VOICES IN AI" PODCAST FEATURES AI LUMINARIES GigaOm's "Voices in AI" podcast debuted this month, featuring episodes with leading researchers and AI luminaries – including NVIDIA's Bryan Catanzaro. In episode 13, Bryan focuses on AI and the future of work: "I like to think about artificial intelligence as making tools that can perform intellectual work. LISTEN TO PODCAST 7. NVIDIA'S INCEPTION PROGRAM FOR AI STARTUPS ADDS 2,000TH MEMBER Less than 18 months after its launch, NVIDIA's Inception program -- which helps accelerate startups pushing the frontiers of AI and data science -- has signed up its 2,000th member company.

Self-driving cars are no longer confined to controlled test tracks or even to placid suburban streets--they're tackling real traffic in US cities such as New York, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh. Learning how to drive in places like unruly Boston, a land of creative left turns and seemingly optional yields, comes with its challenges. Even Patriots fans look like goody two-shoes compared to drivers who have little to zero respect for lanes, traffic signals, warning signs, and speed limits. On wide roads without lanes and huge, anarchic intersections all over the world, human interaction dictates traffic flows, with each driver adjusting to others' maneuvers on the spot, regardless of what the rule book says. These informal systems work for the most part, but they come at a high cost.

YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar authorities have charged two foreign journalists, a local freelancer who works as an interpreter and their driver for allegedly flying drones illegally over and around the government's parliament buildings, police said Sunday. Mok Choy Lin, a Malaysian, and Lau Hon Meng, a Singaporean, journalists for Turkish Radio and Television, were detained along with their local interpreter and freelance journalist Aung Naing Soe after flying drones over the parliament building on Friday, police said. The four were charged under the Export and Import Law and face up to three years in prison if found guilty, police said, adding that a trial would begin at the end of a 15-day remand. Police officer San Aung said the drone was imported without permission. The detained journalists and driver have not been allowed to see family members since the arrest on Friday, one of the family members said.

The tech titan has moved away from relying on country-specific domains to serve up localized results on mobile web, the Google app for iOS, as well as Search and Maps for desktop. Now, your location dictates the kind of results you'll get -- you could go to google.com.au, for instance, but if you're in New Zealand, you'll still get search results tailored for your current whereabouts. You'll know the location Google recognizes by looking at the lower left-hand corner of the page, as you can see above. Google will automatically detect if you go to another country and serve you results for your new location. So, you'll get results tailored for Japan if you go there, but Google will seamlessly transition back to United States when you fly back home.

WASHINGTON – Apple will let you unlock the iPhone X with your face -- a move likely to bring facial recognition to the masses, along with concerns over how the technology may be used for nefarious purposes. Apple's newest device, set to go on sale on Friday, is designed to be unlocked with a facial scan with a number of privacy safeguards -- as the data will only be stored on the phone and not in any databases. Unlocking one's phone with a face scan may offer added convenience and security for iPhone users, according to Apple, which claims its "neural engine" for FaceID cannot be tricked by a photo or hacker. While other devices have offered facial recognition, Apple is the first to pack the technology allowing for a three-dimensional scan into a hand-held phone. But despite Apple's safeguards, privacy activists fear the widespread use of facial recognition would "normalize" the technology and open the door to broader use by law enforcement, marketers or others of a largely unregulated tool.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump will agree on their countries' cooperation toward the development of next-generation mobile communication and other new technologies when they meet in Tokyo next month, a source close to Japan-U.S. relations said Saturday. Such an accord will be in line with Tokyo's pursuit of mutually agreeable economic cooperation with Washington when the world's biggest and third-largest economies are at odds over the U.S. drive to promote bilateral free trade deals to address trade imbalance. Abe is also expected to make a renewed push for exporting Japan's high-speed rail and other infrastructure technologies as Trump visits during his first official trip to Asia, the source said. Areas of cooperation will include autonomous driving and next-generation computers for developing artificial intelligence, the source said. In the second round of the high-level economic dialogue between the two countries in Washington earlier this month, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence expressed the Trump administration's interest in commencing talks for a Japan-U.S. free trade agreement and stressed the need to reduce the U.S. trade deficit in goods.

When it comes to gender parity in financial services, Israel, where three of the nation's leading banks are run by women, is doing a better job than the US. That's one takeaway from a post penned by Bank Leumi's Rakefet Russak-Aminoach, which borrows inspiration from actress Gal Gadot. To be sure, there are plenty of Wonder Women today who could and should serve in leadership roles at US financial firms. But rather than focus just on today's sorry state, perhaps another way to promote greater gender diversity is to look at where financial services is going. As the great article furnished to us by Sultan Meghji shows (See below), Deep Learning specialists are in huge demand by Big Tech.

We hear a lot these days about how AI is changing the marketing technology landscape, helping us sell products and services in the 21st century. But during my two-week journey through Israel's startup scene, it was a medtech company that struck a nerve with me -- a deep learning imaging analytics startup called Zebra Medical Vision. Using AI to recommend related products, build a million split tests, or determine the optimal time to push a discount voucher may be effective from a marketing standpoint, but these applications are hardly life-changing. And they wouldn't have helped save my dad's life. He passed away from lung cancer in February this year, and there is a good chance that an early and accurate diagnosis could have given him a better chance at beating "the big C." Zebra's technology is making it possible to catch misdiagnosed diseases, early-stage cancers, and other life-threatening ailments, and the company today announced a significant change in its business model that makes its AI-powered medical scan recognition for hospitals more affordable.

There are few people who we can genuinely say are keen on bringing about the so-called technological singularity --i.e., that moment when intelligent machines become smarter than human beings. There's famed "future teller" and Google top engineer Ray Kurzweil, who's said the singularity isn't something to be feared. But, perhaps, no one is as dedicated to making the singularity happen as much as Masayoshi Son, CEO of Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank. Son recently spoke at the Future Investment Initiative held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he mentioned that the singularity might just happen in about 30 years, when artificial intelligence develops an IQ of 10,000 --and SoftBank's invested $100 billion to build chips capable of such IQ levels. That's well beyond what's considered average by human standards, which is at 100, and even greater than a human genius with a 200 IQ.

Saudi Arabia has granted citizenship to a robot in a move that appears to elevate its rights above those of women within the Middle Eastern country. The robot called Sophia was wheeled out in front of a crowd at the Future Investment Initiative summit in the capital, Riyadh. It was created by Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics. During the display the robot was informed of the decision to grant it citizen status. "I'm very honoured and proud for this unique distinction," Sophia said.