Amid the hand-wringing about the rise of nationalism and populism, it's easy to miss that the past two years have also produced surprising and useful shifts in global opinion. Even Donald Trump can be good news for the world. Nowhere is this gestalt shift more evident than in how we approach policy dilemmas related to technology. The idea of "digital" as a magic, untouchable realm that was to bring prosperity to all, one disruption at a time, is now dead. The thorny questions are no longer the prerogative of affluent hippies at Wired magazine or TED talks; instead, they are returning to their original realms of international trade, national economic development and security.

As every good competent and loquacious speaker knows, no true gift of the gab is ever reasonably achieved without first visiting the Irish city of Cork to kiss the Blarney Stone. Digital transformation - the buzzword that we can't get away from. Enterprises need to accelerate their digital transformation journeys to avoid being left behind in an increasingly digital world. It's not an easy feat, but one that can be costly to get wrong. Join us as Computer Weekly takes a look at how businesses can stay on track through collaboration, innovation, and listening to user needs.

GE Healthcare has been tapped to build a centralized healthcare "command center" at the Bradford Royal Infirmary, an NHS teaching hospital in the U.K., to direct patient care delivery and allocate resources. The first of its kind in Europe, the center will use artificial intelligence and real-time information and analytics to help anticipate bottlenecks across the 800-bed hospital and recommend actions--streaming data to a wall of screens monitored by up to 20 Bradford staff, as well as to tablets and mobile devices across the building. The project aims to cut waiting times and reduce pressure on staff by reducing the unnecessary time spent in a hospital after a patient is fit to leave, as well as increase the total number of patients treated. In addition, it hopes to increase the number of patients who arrive and are admitted, transferred or discharged from the emergency department within four hours. Bradford's emergency department sees about 125,000 patients each year--up by more than 40% over the past decade, with about 350 to 400 patients a day--and with 96% of the hospital's bed capacity being used on a regular basis.

Sporting a trendy brown bob, a humanoid robot named Erica chats to a man in front of stunned audience members in Madrid. She and others like her are a prime focus of robotic research, as their uncanny human form could be key to integrating such machines into our lives, said researchers gathered this week at the annual International Conference on Intelligent Robots. Can you please tell me more?" Erica, who is playing the role of an employer, asks the man. She may not understand the conversation, but she's been trained to detect key words and respond to them. A source of controversy due in part to fears for human employment, the presence of robots in our daily lives is nevertheless inevitable, engineers at the conference said. The trick to making them more palatable, they added, is to make them look and act more human so that we accept them into our lives more easily. In ageing societies, "robots will coexist with humans sooner or later", said Hiroko Kamide, a Japanese psychologist who ...

How can you design an ethical robot lawyer? What regulations are needed for flying taxis? These are some of the questions the British government is hoping to answer with a new £10m fund for futuristic projects that pose significant challenges to existing rules and regulations. The business secretary, Greg Clark, said the regulators' pioneer fund, being awarded to 15 projects, would help regulators "unblock" innovation that might otherwise be hampered by red tape. Clark said the move would show that Britain had a flexible regulatory environment which could keep pace with technology.

This paper presents thirteen datasets for binary, multiclass and multilabel classification based on the European Court of Human Rights judgments since its creation. The interest of such datasets is explained through the prism of the researcher, the data scientist, the citizen and the legal practitioner. Contrarily to many datasets, the creation process, from the collection of raw data to the feature transformation, is provided under the form of a collection of fully automated and open-source scripts. It ensures reproducibility and a high level of confidence in the processed data which is some of the most important issues in data governance nowadays.

Sequence-to-Sequence (seq2seq) models have become overwhelmingly popular in building end-to-end trainable dialogue systems. Though highly efficient in learning the backbone of human-computer communications, they suffer from the problem of strongly favoring short generic responses. In this paper, we argue that a good response should smoothly connect both the preceding dialogue history and the following conversations. We strengthen this connection through mutual information maximization. To sidestep the non-differentiability of discrete natural language tokens, we introduce an auxiliary continuous code space and map such code space to a learnable prior distribution for generation purpose. Experiments on two dialogue datasets validate the effectiveness of our model, where the generated responses are closely related to the dialogue context and lead to more interactive conversations.

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Recently at the Delta Summit, the Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat spoke about the blockchain technology and the need for governments to understand the need for regulation. He also mentioned that Artificial Intelligence and best-in-class regulatory framework were the areas that were next in focus for the Malta government. The Prime Minister stated that the Artificial Intelligence technology can be beneficial to the blockchain industry. "We are sure that with AI we can replicate and improve what we are doing now here with blockchain." Joseph stated that they were moving away from a business model based on "decentralization of data."

This article illustrates how Geocoding uncovers the untapped value within generally overlooked insurance categories, such as Life and Annuity, and how it can help address modern-day business challenges remarked by Orszag. While Geocoding in Big Data is gaining prominence within Property and Casualty (P&C), we believe the real opportunity lies in the actuarial adoption of AI framework capable of processing consumable inputs that weren't visible in the erstwhile "Ease of Geocoding" era. Establishing this premise for Life and Annuity, we then pivot towards crafting a general purpose Geo-inclusive architecture that can help actuaries of all disciplines apply Machine Learning to solve new generation of business problems, such as, dwindling subscribers or risk-attributed challenges, such as, Adverse Selection. Nearly all of the data in the insurance business has a location attribute, e.g. However, many insurance companies have not fully utilized this component besides billing and mailing purposes.