Watson for Oncology analyzes patient medical records, along with millions of pages of articles and textbooks, to make treatment recommendations. In 2011, a supercomputer won 1 million on Jeopardy! In 2016, that same supercomputer is tackling a challenge quantified not in millions of dollars but in millions of cancer patients. The goal is to use Watson's natural language processing to mine the medical literature and a patient's records to provide treatment advice. And this month the Watson computer system is drastically expanding its reach -- from one hospital in Thailand to six in India and a planned 21 more in China.

Concrete is one of the most prevalent materials in our built environment, but it's hasn't seen much innovation. That's why it's so exciting that a team of Singapore researchers developed a new flexible concrete that's lighter and tougher than existing mixtures. In other design news, a developer in Germany is building the world's largest passive housing complex with a total of 162 units. Stanford researchers created a tiny black rectangle that uses sunlight to purify water in minutes instead of hours. In a stunning example of biomimicry this week, scientists studied squids to invent a high-tech fabric that repair itself and neutralizes toxins.

The global market for intelligent machines is set to more than triple to 153 billion by 2020, says Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch, which has pinpointed companies particularly poised to ride the robotics wave. "Robots and AI are becoming an integral part of our daily lives as providers of labor, mobility, safety, convenience, and entertainment," strategists in London led by Beijia Ma wrote in a note dated Nov. 3. "Demographics, energy efficiency, productivity, urbanization, and wage inflation suggest long-term sustained growth." Bank of America expects robots to be performing 45% of manufacturing tasks by 2025, versus 10 percent today. Driven by China, 2014 was the third consecutive year for record sales of robots worldwide -- a jump of 29 percent, BofA said.

A day in the life of a Star Citizen!! My Artificial Intelligence and I grow a special bond while we are away on a special retrieval mission. JavaScript is currently disabled, this site works much better if youenable JavaScript in your browser. An exhibition dedicated to art stars Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei guarantees a visual and conceptual feast. But two other qualities make "Andy Warhol/ Ai Weiwei" one of the finest exhibitions The Andy Warhol Museum has mounted in its illustrious 22 years.

This article focuses not what the athletes are putting into their bodies, but what they are putting on their bodies and shows how technology affects gears used by them. An hour long lecture by Demis Hassabis, the CEO of DeepMind, where he discusses what is happening at the cutting edge of AI research, including the recent historic AlphaGo match, and its future potential impact on fields such as science and healthcare, and how developing AI may help us better understand the human mind. Here, Margaret Boden, a Professor of cognitive science at the University of Sussex, examines what it means to be "creative" and whether we can ever translate this into our computers. Steven Pinker believes there's some interesting gender psychology at play when it comes to the robopocalypse. Could artificial intelligence become evil or are alpha male scientists just projecting?

Five years ago, Tim Cook officially took over as CEO of Apple amid questions about his ability to live up to the legacy of Steve Jobs. This week, as Cook celebrates his fifth anniversary as head of the company (the exact date is Wednesday), questions continue to swirl. When Jobs officially stepped down from the top spot, he said he believed "Apple's brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it." Cook's track record leaves you scratching your head. Yes, Cook has had some big wins.

Even a decade ago, talking to your computer was probably a sign that you'd been working too hard and could do with a lie down. Today, no such stigma applies. That's because chatbots -- the conversational agents capable of simulating intelligent conversations with human users -- have made some massive leaps forward. From changing the way kids learn in schools to picking you out the perfect meal this evening, here are the seven of the most interesting chatbots doing the rounds at the moment. From MOOCs (Massive open online courses) to the use of iPads in schools, there's no doubt that technology is changing the way that we learn.

Poverty could be predicted by reading the satellite images using artificial intelligence. By indicating the areas where the most help is needed, these images could help eradicate global poverty. One can make an idea of a country's wealth by examining how much it shines at night. A comparison between China and South Korea's intense brightness and North Korea's dark mass could be one of the best examples found by the scientists. This kind of information could only be obtained by sending legions of survey-takers in populated rural areas.

In the not too distant future the smartphone of a farmer in India will not only track the weather forecasts but perhaps advise him on the next best action to take if the weather turns inclement. It might even go a step ahead and help him make a decision on locking up the best future price for his produce. A smart fishing app will learn from the past performance of fishing trips on the high seas to guide Indian fishermen on improving their catch while an intelligent learning app will coach Indian students to cope better for competitive examinations. A clever tax collection app will help the government detect sophisticated methods of tax evasion while a subsidy app will better target benefits to those who need them the most, helping plug leakages. All of these have a chance of becoming a reality in the next decade, given the recent advances in artificial intelligence if only we in India wake up and get our act right.

Exploration of hydrocarbon resources is a highly complicated and expensive process where various geological, geochemical and geophysical factors are developed then combined together. It is highly significant how to design the seismic data acquisition survey and locate the exploratory wells since incorrect or imprecise locations lead to waste of time and money during the operation. The objective of this study is to locate high-potential oil and gas field in 1: 250,000 sheet of Ahwaz including 20 oil fields to reduce both time and costs in exploration and production processes. In this regard, 17 maps were developed using GIS functions for factors including: minimum and maximum of total organic carbon (TOC), yield potential for hydrocarbons production (PP), Tmax peak, production index (PI), oxygen index (OI), hydrogen index (HI) as well as presence or proximity to high residual Bouguer gravity anomalies, proximity to anticline axis and faults, topography and curvature maps obtained from Asmari Formation subsurface contours. To model and to integrate maps, this study employed artificial neural network and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) methods. The results obtained from model validation demonstrated that the 17x10x5 neural network with R=0.8948, RMS=0.0267, and kappa=0.9079 can be trained better than other models such as ANFIS and predicts the potential areas more accurately. However, this method failed to predict some oil fields and wrongly predict some areas as potential zones.