Bert Loomis was a visionary. This general session will highlight how Bert Loomis and people like him inspire us to build great things with small inventions. In their general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Harold Hannon, Architect at IBM Bluemix, and Michael O'Neill, Strategic Business Development at Nvidia, will discuss the accelerating pace of AI development and how IBM Cloud and NVIDIA are partnering to bring AI capabilities to "every day," on-demand. They will also review two "free infrastructure" programs available to startups and innovators. Speaker Bios Harold Hannon has worked in the field of software development as both an architect and developer for more than 15 years, with a focus on workflow, integration, and distributed systems.

The AI is able to create computer-generated singalong based only on a festive digital photo. Dubbed'neural karaoke', the software writes its own simple composition and also provides on-screen lyrics for any budding singers to join in Can MATHS help you win at roulette? Expert reveals the... Is THIS the future of shopping? You can now play Pac-Man in Messenger: Facebook adds... Are YOU smart enough to answer Google's tricky interview... Can MATHS help you win at roulette? Expert reveals the... Is THIS the future of shopping?

International Business Machines launched Watson solutions for enterprise in 2014. Even though close to 63% of its value stems from software (middleware and operating system) and technology services business, the fast changing delivery mechanism for software (Cloud Software as a Service) and its deployment (Infrastructure as a Service) has affected top line growth in more than one way. While IBM's middleware is loosing its sheen as application development moves to cloud, IaaS across its technology services is gaining momentum. However, IBM has carefully maneuvered itself into the next wave of tech growth that relies heavily on big data analytics with its cognitive computing system, Watson. Recently, IBM has introduced its first global consulting practice for the internet of things (IoT) on Watson.

Google, as a search engine as well as a company, has come a tremendously long way since the days of a simple web page and a list of links. Nowadays, there's little that we don't think Google is possible of, and with their recent approach to Artificial Intelligence, the company's historic motto of "don't be evil" could be helping the whole human race in the near future. Google's AI research has focused on training these algorithms to make decisions for themselves, and speed up the process exponentially. The firm has already been training their AI to improve the quality of smaller images when enlarged, but the Google Research Blog is sharing something much more important with us this week, the idea of using AI to catch Diabetic Blindness sooner, rather than later. Diabetes is a serious condition, and while many will know about the dangers surrounding the need to amputate a foot because of the disease, few will be familiar with Diabetic retinopathy (DR), a disease which puts as many as 415 Million diabetic patients at risk of blindness all over the world.

Japan's major cancer research institution has announced plans to use artificial intelligence to diagnose cancer and decide the best courses of treatment for patients. The National Cancer Center said Tuesday that it will work with other organizations, including the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, to make a system for cancer diagnosis and treatment for trial use within five years. The system will use a database created from massive amounts of data accumulated by the center that includes genetic information and results of blood tests and diagnostic imaging, and also check relevant medical research papers, it said. The center plans to use the system for finding new markers in detecting cancer at an early stage and developing drugs to fight the disease. Similar moves to utilize AI in the medical field are already underway at various institutions nationwide.

Of the three shopping days this weekend, Cyber Monday is arguably the most chatbot-friendly due to the digital nature of the day. "We're seeing a continued excitement for interacting with AI products, like chatbots, through the heavy holiday promotion of tech products with built-in AI, like Amazon's Echo and Alexa and Google's new Home," said Andrew Seay, director of mobile experience at Vibes. But as for exactly how chatbots played a role in the shopping experience and number of sales, experts say it's only up from here. "Chatbots will be giving Santa some help this holiday season for a few boys and girls on the digital nice list, but they are unlikely to give retailers the needle-moving sales boost they're looking for," said Jake Bennett, CTO at POP. "Chatbots are just too new, and there are too many logistical hurdles for widespread adoption in 2016." Bennett said that, on the one hand, chatbots provide an ideal platform for an interactive holiday gift guide -- quite literally guiding customers to certain products.

San Francisco,Nov30:Riva-Melissa Tez was searching online for research that might help her father. He'd gone into a coma after suffering a stroke, and she wondered what the latest recommendations said--whether playing music to him in his native language could keep him connected to this world, or if giving him Prozac could boost his chances of recovery as it had done for mice in a study last year. A company named Iris launched a first version of that type of assistant. The machine can currently read the abstract of a paper, map out its key concepts, and find papers relevant to those concepts. It provides a quick way to get a sense of the scientific landscape for a given topic, something especially useful when you don't know the exact keywords for the type of research you are looking for.

For basketball fans of a particular vintage, it conjures memories of a pint-sized shoot-first point guard who reportedly showed up for press avails under the influence of at least one mind-altering substance. Allen Iverson even established some general pop-culture visibility with his on- and off-court exploits. He was a quintessential "good news-bad news" basketball story. Though the former Philadelphia 76ers superstar is now an NBA Hall of Famer, nowadays AI is all about artificial intelligence. But this AI is more than a simple "good news-bad news" dichotomy.

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Since 2014, $6B USD has been raised by 900 startups globally in AI, making it one of the hottest technology themes. From entrepreneurs like Elon Musk to tech giants like Facebook and Google, enormous resources and focus is being directed towards pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities and applications. Much like the Internet re-defined technology industry in the last century, will AI revolutionize the technology landscape and Man-Machine equation forever? What role can AI play in shaping India's economy and innovation culture? With over 200 startups leading the way, there is a real opportunity for every entrepreneur to make a mark in this sunrise sector.