The CMU poker AI, Libratus, has built a substantial in the Brains vs AI competition. Libratus has amassed a lead of almost $500,000 in chips in 49,240 hands of poker over the past nine days. The 20-day, 120,000 hand contest is a heads-up, no-limit Texas Hold'em poker tournament where four of the best poker players take on Libratus. Two Copenhagen-based designers ran The Wolf of Wall Street trailer through a neural network (YOLO-2) and captured the real-time object detection. Watch the algorithm try to make sense of things here.

Dr. Sindhu Joseph is the co-founder and CEO at CogniCor, one of the leading global AI-based platforms that offer enterprise-grade cognitive virtual assistant solutions. She is one of the leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence with multiple patents awarded for her ground-breaking research works. With over 15 years of industry experience, Dr. Sindhu has completed her doctorate from Artificial Intelligence Institute, Barcelona, Spain. She also has 6 patents and 4 publications delving into intricate Artificial Intelligence. In conversation with Dominic Rebello, Dr. Sindhu, who deems herself as a fighter, says, she strongly believes that any woman who is passionate for technology must approach it and must be provided with appropriate opportunities.

Elon Musk admits it, some of the greatest scientific minds agree. But the movies did warn us. Ever since Fritz Lang's Metropolis broke cinematic sci-fi ground way back in 1927, they've been telling us about the horrors of artificial intelligence. Smart devices that would track our every movement, robots who turn from helpful to harmful, and eventually, the whole virtual façade coming crashing down. So before the next major glitch happens and you wake up in some human-harvesting field covered in goo, prepare yourself with warnings of the coming storm.

Artificial intelligence and big data have the potential to revolutionize and democratize healthcare across societies. However, their use carries significant ethical implications. We must ensure that the right frameworks are in place so that new technologies help rather than harm, human welfare, and that we avoid missing opportunities to improve living standards. When it comes to technology, we have already seen successful applications of AI and big data in healthcare, including data analytics in clinical trials, prevention of re-admissions, faster diagnosis of rare diseases, and better predictions of diseases like cancer. So there is an urgent need to make progress on data ethics as well.

Earlier this year, the chairman of the UK's National Cyber Management Centre warned that "a major bank will fail as a result of a cyber attack in 2017". Scarily, this does not seem so far-fetched. Indeed, it is predicted that cyber crime costs will reach US$2 trillion by 20191. An increasingly connected world and rapid technological innovation is creating broader and more diverse opportunities for cyber attacks. Use of Artificial Intelligence ('AI') by companies to detect and counter such cyber attacks is becoming increasingly more commonplace.

It's been a week now since serial entrepreneur (and futurist) Elon Musk announced the launch of Neuralink Corp, and to be honest, it's still on our minds. With this new venture, Musk proposes developing a technology (known as "neural lace") that would potentially implant electrodes into human brains, allowing us to keep up with the advancement of machines--even uploading and downloading thoughts or fight brain disorders. The company is still in its "embryonic" phases, according to co-founder Max Hodak, and there are plenty of technological and safety barriers ahead. That said, it's the first of its kind as an application of artificial intelligence inside the human brain. Every visualization you've ever seen of a black hole has been an illustration. As Vox points out, the closest the scientific community has ever come to seeing one was through last year's observation of "spacetime-warping gravitational waves radiating" from the billion-year-old collision of two black holes.

Subscribe to our mailing list and get interesting stuff and updates to your email inbox. The National CxO Forum 2017 is an event organized jointly by FITIS and the Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure. It is aimed at empowering leaders in businesses organizations for better information and digital governments. Held under the theme of "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning", the event took place for the second consecutive year on the 28th of March at the JAIC Hilton Union Ballroom. Wasantha Weerakoon, CEO of TechOne Global and also the Chairman of FITIS for the year 2016/2017, was up to deliver the welcome speech at the National CxO Forum 2017.

Amsterdam, Netherlands/Stuttgart, Germany – Artificial intelligence is poised to fundamentally change the world: in the future, machines will be capable of autonomously learning from experience and acting on this basis. The foundation for this is deep learning. In the future, the University of Amsterdam and Bosch will cooperate closely in this field. To this end, the two partners have announced a research alliance in Amsterdam. Known as Delta Lab ("Deep Learning Technologies Amsterdam"), the alliance aims to promote regular professional exchange and knowledge transfer.

BUZ INVESTORS Artificial Intelligence Science fiction has long cautioned us that the rise of artificial intelligence will likely mean the end of humanity. The Matrix, Terminator, Blade Runner…the list goes on. But in the real world, while some are concerned about artificial intelligence in 2017, analysts see huge potential in the industry for some key AI companies. In fact, AI technology will be a key driver of some of the biggest tech companies as it continues to develop. And the AI wars have only just begun.

When Yoky Matsuoka was a small child in Tokyo, she dreamed that one day she would be the next Serena Williams. But while she never made it to Wimbledon, Matsuoka's pioneering work studying robotics and the human brain earned her the prestigious MacArthur "genius" fellowship. Speaking at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech dinner in San Francisco on Wednesday, Matsuoka discussed her work in the red-hot field of artificial intelligence and her career at Apple aapl, Google's googl experimental research group, and Nest, the home technology arm of Google's parent company. Matsuoka first became enamored with robotics when she attended the University of California at Berkeley. At the time she wanted to merge her love of tennis with robotics, and thought it would be cool to potentially build a tennis buddy "with legs and arms and eyes with computer vision" that could track a tennis ball and hit with her like a human. But building such a robot is very complex.