Related: Samsung's Lee Jae-yong returns from Hong Kong, Japan David Eun as new Chief Innovation Officer at Samsung NEXT Investments will be made mainly in the US, but could later expand to other areas, including Europe and Asia, according to Samsung. "The creation of the new fund is part of Samsung's initiatives to seek innovation in new fields," a Samsung official said. The latest announcement came after David Eun, the head of the Silicon-based investment unit, was promoted to chief innovation officer last week. Samsung heir and Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, who has been focusing on seeking new growth engines in the face of neck-and-neck competition in the smartphone sector, is said to be behind the decisions on both the promotion and venture fund. The tech giant has been stepping up its efforts to take its AI capability to the next level to stay competitive against rivals, including Google, Facebook, and Apple, all of which are pouring a great amount of resources in AI and hiring AI researchers all over the world.

The World Cup 2018 has officially begun--which means, if you're a hardcore soccer fan, you're pretty tied up for the next month watching the matches. For those who can't or don't want to follow the action, here's a major spoiler: Germany is going to beat Vegas-favorite Brazil in the final, and Spain and France will round out the tournament's final four teams. That prediction comes courtesy of Unanimous A.I., an artificial intelligence startup that performs a kind of complex crowdsourcing. Founded by scientist and engineer Louis Rosenberg, Unanimous can be used to better understand the nuanced opinions of a population, which makes it useful for tasks like performing market research, diagnosing diseases, or making predictions about the future. Launched in 2014, the company's technology already has an impressive résumé of accurate forecasts.

Part of London Tech Week, the conference brings together 3,500 delegates and 400 speakers to explore what AI means for the world of business. The event is focused on near-term developments in AI, and real-world examples of how the vast amounts of data now available in our digitized world are being exploited to boost a company's bottom line. We discuss some of the key trends emerging from AI Summit 2018. Something extraordinary is happening to customer service. It's becoming increasingly common for common queries from real people to be treated by so-called'chatbots', a type of software that carefully mimics real conversations.

There are some frequent stereotypes you'll hear about Russian men, mainly that they're all a bunch of alcoholic football soccer fans who die early because of their love for vodka, leaving behind some of the most beautiful women on the planet who outlive them by ten years on average. While the stereotypes have some serious merit, Russia isn't just about hard drinking, chasing skirts, and hooliganism. All that vodka fuels some of the world's brightest minds, like Russia's fearless leader, Vladimir Putin, who believes that artificial intelligence will be the key to global supremacy. As China and the US are fighting for AI supremacy and the EU is scrambling to catch up, Russia's growing its footprint in AI with a seemingly low-key approach. Hearing less about Russian AI companies doesn't mean they don't exist though.

Description: H2O.ai is democratizing AI by automating machine learning. It fully automates some of the most challenging and productive tasks in applied data science such as feature engineering, model tuning, model ensembling and model deployment. Driverless AI turns Kaggle-winning grandmaster recipes into production-ready code, and is specifically designed to avoid common mistakes such as under- or overfitting, data leakage or improper model validation, some of the hardest challenges in data science. Avoiding these pitfalls alone can save weeks or more for each model, and is necessary to achieve high modeling accuracy. Now, data scientists of all proficiency levels can train and deploy modeling pipelines with just a few clicks from the GUI.

What are some open datasets for machine learning? We at Gengo decided to create the ultimate cheat sheet for high quality datasets. First, a couple of pointers to keep in mind when searching for datasets. Kaggle: A data science site that contains a variety of externally-contributed interesting datasets. You can find all kinds of niche datasets in its master list, from ramen ratings to basketball data to and even seattle pet licenses.

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The startup, Sure Inc., has developed a product for passengers to purchase accident and death coverage on an on-demand, per-day basis via a smartphone application. It covers costs of injuries sustained when traveling in a ride-sharing vehicle. One of the world's biggest property-casualty insurers, Chubb is part of an industrywide race to develop new products as the car industry goes through a monumental shift. Ride-hailing services continue to rise in popularity, while growth in autonomous vehicles will shift driving from humans to computers. Both trends threaten to cut into one of the industry's biggest product lines in the U.S.: car insurance bought by individuals.

The World Cup starts tonight, and Fortnite: Battle Royale isn't exactly letting this opportunity pass it by. Earlier this week, developer Epic Games dropped a massive soccer stadium onto the top of the map along with a bunch of makeshift pitches all over the place, and this morning it introduced a weekly challenge that asked players to go forth and score some goals. Tonight we got six soccer jersey skins you can buy in the store: 3 male and 3 female. And they're customizable, to boot: here's how you can change the number and country on your World Cup skins. The process should be familiar to anyone that's played around with the Carbide or Omega skins, which were the first customizable outfits introduced into Fortnite: Battle Royale, followerd by "The Visitor" skin earlier today.

Onstage at the launch of Amazon's Alexa Prize, a multimillion-dollar competition to build AI that can chat like a human, the winners of last year's challenge delivered a friendly warning to 2018's hopefuls: your bot will mess up, it will say something offensive, and it will be taken offline. Elizabeth Clark, a member of last year's champion Sounding Board team from the University of Washington, was onstage with her fellow researchers to share what they'd learned from their experience. What stuck out, she said, were the bloopers. "One thing that came up a lot around the holidays was that a lot of people wanted to talk to our bot about Santa," said Clark. "Unfortunately, the content we had about Santa Claus looked like this: 'You know what I realized the other day? Santa Claus is the most elaborate lie ever told.'" The bot chose this line because it had been taught using jokes from Reddit, explained Clark, and while it might be diverting for adults, "as you can imagine, a lot of people who want to talk about Santa Claus … are children." And telling someone's curious three-year-old that Santa is a lie, right before Christmas? That's a conversational faux pas, even if you are just a dumb AI.