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Airbus will test prototype for self-FLYING taxi this year

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Last year, Airbus unveiled its plans to create a fleet of self-flying taxis to help commuters avoid the ever-growing issue of traffic during rush-hour. And it seems that we might not have to wait long to hail a flying car. Airbus has revealed that it plans to test its first single-person prototype by the end of 2017. Last year, Airbus unveiled its plans to create a fleet of self-flying taxis to help commuters avoid the ever-growing issue of traffic during rush-hour. And it seems that commuters might not have to wait long to hail a flying car.



China's Baidu opens augmented reality lab to boost waning profits

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese search engine Baidu Inc on Monday launched an augmented reality (AR) lab in Beijing as part of a $200 million effort to revitalise the company's shrinking profits with cutting edge technology. The lab, which currently employs 55 people, will initially aim to drive revenue through AR marketing, though will later explore healthcare and education. "AR marketing is taking off," Andrew Ng, the chief scientist overseeing Baidu's artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality and deep learning projects, told Reuters. "There are few content formats where the content is evergreen - AR will be like that," he said. Popularised in 2016 by Nintendo Co Ltd's Pokemon Go game, augmented reality involves rendering virtual images over real life settings viewed on a smartphone, headset or other device.


The 5 Biggest Artificial Intelligence Startups - Nanalyze

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You may have heard us talk about CB Insights before. What CB Insights does is provide a huge database of private company information that is collected using artificial intelligence. They then sell this data to 100s of firms that need accurate data. Sure, you can go pay $50 a month to Crunchbase and get private company data but you're getting crowdsourced data as opposed to data collected by AI agents and cleansed by people that don't live in Mumbai. We've talked about a fair number of these companies already, and we're already sharpening our pencils to make sure that we profile each and every one of them as fast as our little big hands can type.


Top Machine learning Books

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Machine learning is to learn from data repetitively and to find the pattern hidden there. By applying the results of learning to new data, in other word Machine learning allows computers to analyze past data and predict future data. Machine learning is widely used in familiar places such as product recommendation system and face detection of photos. Also, as cloud machine learning services such as Microsoft's "Azure Machine Learning", Amazon's "Amazon Machine Learning", and Google's "Cloud Machine Learning" are released. This article is written to help novices and experts alike find the best Machine learning books to start with or continue their education. So here is a list of the best Machine learning Books: Book Name: Machine Learning This textbook provides a single source introduction to the primary approaches to machine learning Good content explained in very simple language. The book covers the concepts and techniques from the various fields in a unified fashion and very recent subjects such as genetic algorithms, re-enforcement learning and inductive logic programming. Writing style is clear, explanatory and precise.


Machine Learning and Healthcare - DZone Big Data

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The last few years have seen a number of fascinating case studies that have used machine learning to produce medical diagnoses. There are a couple of new examples from both a corporate giant and a nimbler startup. On the giant side of the fence is a traditional player in this space. Researchers at Google have developed an algorithm for scanning our eyes in order to better spot a particularly common form of blindness. The project follows a familiar path, feeding the algorithm a bunch of medical images of the retina to train it to look for diabetic retinopathy, which is a condition believed to affect around 1/3 of diabetes patients.


Battle of the bots: How your AI can compete by meeting consumers' needs

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Sebastien Reeve, director of product management at Nuance Communications, explores why tech firms need to tailor their AI technology to the needs of consumers to succeed. From Facebook launching chatbots on messenger, to Alexa and Google Home bringing virtual assistants to consumers on a greater scale than ever before, this year will certainly be remembered as'the rise of the bots.' However, as this technology continues to transform our experience of engaging with companies and in the home, we'll see the wheat separated from the chaff. During this time, we'll see the good bots establishing industry best practices. To date, it hasn't all been plain sailing for the early innovators in the field. While a number of virtual assistants showed their true potential for positively revolutionising the customer experience, the chatbot that Microsoft launched on Twitter demonstrated how in the wrong hands this technology can have negative output, with the bot assimilating Twitter users' worst tendencies into its personality.


What's Next for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? - Tech Trends on Top Tech News

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Here are the four trends that will dominate artificial intelligence in 2017. We could call this "natural language processing" or NLP, but let's think more broadly about language for a moment. The key to cognition, for you mavens of Psychology 101, is sophisticated communication, even internal abstract thinking. That will continue to prove critical in driving machine learning'deeper.' One place to keep track of progress in the space is in machine translation, which will give you an idea of how sophisticated and accurate our software currently is in translating some of the nuance and implications of our spoken and written language.


IoT Hacking, Weaponized AI Are Top Security Threats for 2017 - RTInsights

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The World Economic Forum's "Global Risks Report 2017″ says tech firms must take responsibility for the disruption caused by their innovations. A new report by the World Economic Forum lists IoT hacking and weaponized AI among what they say will be the top security threats in 2017. The Global Risks Report 2017 surveyed business executives in the US, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, UEA and other countries across the globe. Those executives cited cyberattacks as the biggest risk facing their businesses. The report pointed out the risks involved with letting decision-making be taken over by AI applications and said both AI and robotics can be serious risks without proper regulation and governance.


Chinese Retail Giant Suning Unveils Artificial Intelligence Strategy at CES

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Virtual reality and artificial intelligence products took center stage at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the platform where the world's trends in scientific and technological innovations are put on display, with companies from China, which accounted for one third of the leading exhibitors at the event, visibly demonstrating their newfound stature. Suning also hosted the "China Innovation North America Summit Forum", giving 3C (computers, communications and consumer electronics) home appliance makers around the world a presentation on how to fast track their products into the Chinese market. The organizer of the exhibition was extremely complimentary in his comments about Suning. In a chat with Suning's exhibition team, Consumer Technology Association president and CEO Gary Shapiro said CES is a platform that connects all the participants in the world of high tech, while Suning is an important sales platform for innovative technological products and services, and, as a result of the role that Suning plays, he looks forward to seeing further cooperation between the two parties. Executive vice president of IT at Suning Commerce Joshua Xiang explained: "With the success of its transition to e-commerce, Suning plans to introduce intelligence into the retail industry as a new driving force for the further development of online retail".