In our Expert Takes, opinion leaders from inside and outside the crypto industry express their views, share their experience and give professional advice. Expert Takes cover everything from Blockchain technology and ICO funding to taxation, regulation, and cryptocurrency adoption by different sectors of the economy. If you would like to contribute an Expert Take, please email your ideas and CV to george@cointelegraph.com. According to TI's Corruption Perceptions Index for 2017, Spain slid eight points to be one of the EU's lowest ranked countries due to a spate of high-profile corruption scandals over the last decade -- with public procurement being particularly vulnerable. Albeit, Spain has been actively combating corruption by amending its anti-corruption laws and by developing blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.

One of the most recent automation technologies to emerge is robotic process automation, or RPA. RPA is a category of software tools that enable complex digital processes to be automated by performing them in the same way a human user might perform them, using the user interface and following a set of predefined rules. What sets RPA apart from other automation technologies is that its ability to imitate a human user of one or more information systems reduces development time and extends the range of functions that can be automated across a much wider range of business activities. It is frequently used to automate financial processes, such as comparing invoices with shipment notices, or transfering data from email and call center speech-to-text systems into transactional systems of record. Many organizations have adopted it for automating back- and middle-office processes, and many have achieved rapid returns on their investments.

SEO is one of the most fast-paced industries out there; constantly kept on our toes, it's one of the reasons we love it so much. But thinking about what the future holds for the industry can be both exciting and a little frightening. Will artificial intelligence (AI) ultimately make search better or worse? And what are the ramifications for SEOs? Plenty of questions and speculation abound.

On June 10, a car crashed into a supermarket in Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, injuring 14 people. At first the incident sounded like yet another elderly person losing control of a vehicle and causing destruction, but then it transpires that the driver was a 55-year-old man. Does that count as elderly? Police arrested the man on suspicion of negligent driving resulting in injuries. Reports say he bore down on the accelerator after he felt the right side of his body go numb, a condition that could be age-related.

We are living in an age of disruption and one of the drivers of that change is a development that many people call Artificial Intelligence. It is a very broad heading under which many people seem to pin their hopes and fears. AI has been portrayed as an existential threat to humanity, or as just an excel sheet on steroids. Some, like Ray Kurzweil, point towards the Singularity when we reach real Artificial Intelligence. Just like a gravitational singularity where gravitational tidal forces become infinite this Singularity will be an Event Horizon- a point of no return -- a place and time which we can't see beyond.

E3 is the biggest video games news event of the year, where Playstation, EA, Xbox, Ubisoft and more compete to show off their latest games (and announce new ones) at flashy press conferences and ostentatious booths in the Los Angeles Convention Centre. Now that the onslaught of announcements, trailers and general showing-off from the week-long show is over, here are ten big stories that emerged from the chaos. War-game Battlefield V includes female soldiers for the first time. The Last of Us Part 2, one of the biggest forthcoming games for PlayStation 4, stars a lesbian teenager, shown kissing her girlfriend at a party. Assassin's Creed: Odyssey features a choice of male or female main character to adventure through Ancient Greece.

DeepMind's foray into digital health services continues to raise concerns. The latest worries are voiced by a panel of external reviewers appointed by the Google-owned AI company to report on its operations after its initial data-sharing arrangements with the U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) ran into a major public controversy in 2016. The DeepMind Health Independent Reviewers' 2018 report flags a series of risks and concerns, as they see it, including the potential for DeepMind Health to be able to "exert excessive monopoly power" as a result of the data access and streaming infrastructure that's bundled with provision of the Streams app -- and which, contractually, positions DeepMind as the access-controlling intermediary between the structured health data and any other third parties that might, in the future, want to offer their own digital assistance solutions to the Trust. While the underlying FHIR (aka, fast healthcare interoperability resource) deployed by DeepMind for Streams uses an open API, the contract between the company and the Royal Free Trust funnels connections via DeepMind's own servers, and prohibits connections to other FHIR servers. A commercial structure that seemingly works against the openness and interoperability DeepMind's co-founder Mustafa Suleyman has claimed to support.

What trousers should i wear this shirt with? What bag goes well with this dress and these boots?This is a sort of question that would require a fashion brain. Standard way of find a vector image representation would be fine tune a pre-trained CNN (Inception Model) with fashion tags in a multi-label training environment. If we can assemble deep tags like neck types and skirt lengths etc, we can create a tag classification engine and use the last layer as the image representation.That representation can be used via transfer learning into multiple problems like similarity recommendations. The problem with such representations is that they contains only the visual cues on the image, such that all round neck t-shirts will be closer to each other in that vector space.This does not capture syntactic information or information based on things that co-occur.

Google has announced that it will establish an artificial intelligence research center in the Ghanaian capital later this year -- a first for the company on the continent. Expert machine learning researchers and engineers will work together at the new AI research center in Accra which will be dedicated to artificial intelligence research and its applications in a wider African context, according to Quartz. The research center will focus on using artificial intelligence applications in areas that include healthcare, agriculture and education. Announcing the AI research center in a Google blog post, senior Google AI fellow Jeff Dean and staff research scientist Moustapha Cisse wrote about the growing interest artificial intelligence has experienced across Africa. "In recent years, we've witnessed an increasing interest in machine learning research across the continent," the pair wrote in the Google blog post.