"Now is the time for greater coordination and collaboration on AI," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a blog post for Slate on Tuesday. Like IBM, Google, Facebook, and other tech giants, Microsoft has jumped into AI full-force, releasing Azure Machine Learning, a cloud-based analytics tool, part of its Cortana Intelligence Suite, in 2015. It has also made mistakes, and recently sparked media attention with the release of Tay, a teenage chatbot that began uttering racist and sexist slurs on Twitter. Why Dick's Sporting Goods decided to play its own game in e commerce Dick's Sporting Goods has long partnered with eBay Enterprise on its e -commerce platform. Learn the benefits and risks of this multi -million dollar IT bet.

In just five years, every important decision made by businesses will be aided by cognitive systems that understand, learn and augment our decision making, according to IBM's chairman and CEO, Ginni Rometty. Speaking at the vendor's Thinkforum in Sydney on Tuesday, Rometty proclaimed the world is on the cusp of the next disruptive wave of technology driven by cognitive platforms that can take massive stores of data within an organisation and turn it into competitive advantage. "Regardless of role, every industry will be disrupted," she told attendees. "Every industry has its Uber or Tesla, and many people say they are going to be a technology company of some kind. An important question is: When everyone is digital, who wins? "Digital for all has to be the foundation, but it's not the destination.

Walk into a conference room on the 16th floor of an Uber Engineering building on Market Street in San Francisco. You enter an intense discussion around a table with software and data engineers, data scientists, modeling experts, and even a product manager. How to determine a fraudulent user. Fraud prevention is one of the fastest growing areas of research and development at Uber. As our platform has grown, so has the international underworld that tries to undermine it.

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"Now is the time for greater coordination and collaboration on AI," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a blog post for Slate on Tuesday. Like IBM, Google, Facebook, and other tech giants, Microsoft has jumped into AI full-force, releasing Azure Machine Learning, a cloud-based analytics tool, part of its Cortana Intelligence Suite, in 2015. It has also made mistakes, and recently sparked media attention with the release of Tay, a teenage chatbot that began uttering racist and sexist slurs on Twitter. Why Dick's Sporting Goods decided to play its own game in e commerce Dick's Sporting Goods has long partnered with eBay Enterprise on its e -commerce platform. Learn the benefits and risks of this multi -million dollar IT bet.

Dogs may be man's best friend when it comes to sniffing out bombs at airports, but they could one day be replaced by cyborg'insects'. Engineers hope to exploit the locust's incredible sense of smell to create robotic'noses' inspired by the insects that could be used by homeland security officers. The system would be capable of picking out certain smells from a jumble of other scents, just like locusts can do. To come up with a man-made equivalent of the locust's sense of smell, the experts will monitor neural activity from an insect's brain while it's exploring its surroundings and work out how it decodes the smells present As a swarm increases in size, the locusts in it are more likely to stay on course. In a small group, the researchers found that locusts don't really interact.

Global warming and pollution are causing severe stress to coral reefs across the world. Researchers from the University of California Berkeley and University of Queensland developed a deep learning process that automatically analyzes reef photos that will help measure reef health and changes over time. Reefs provide food and shelter for more than a quarter of all marine species, and support fish stocks that feed more than a billion people and provide jobs to millions of people in coastal areas. The new technology "will allow the world's scientists to more quickly assess the health of coral reefs at scales never dreamed of before," said Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, chief scientist of the global reef record and a professor at the University of Queensland. With that information, they can more effectively take steps to protect and save them.

Artificial intelligence (AI) will make society smarter, leaner and more efficient. But first, startups and businesses must enable the workforce of the future and pivot business models to incorporate AI. Mundane tasks such as driving, scheduling and logistics will all be handled by an AI assistant with multiple input points, such as microphones around your house and smartphones. The AI assistant will be the central nervous system of your life and connected smart home. In the future, when you summon a shared autonomous car from your phone to go out to dinner, your AI assistant will automatically notify the restaurant of your ETA and dietary restrictions.

KPMG plans to use IBM's Watson cognitive computing technology for its professional services in Australia. The artificial intelligence deal with IBM includes a focus on audit and assurance services. IBM's Watson has been doing everything from diagnosing cancer and recommending treatment to analysing the Harry Potter books and running online university courses. "Already, data and analytics techniques are transforming audit by allowing analysis of much bigger populations of data than traditional sampling from which to draw conclusions," says Duncan McLennan, KPMG's national managing partner of audit. "Cognitive technology will allow us to build on these data and analytics advances. They will be a game changer in how the value of audit is perceived by the marketplace."

A spacecraft launched into orbit by the Chinese space agency this week will be the first piece of technology aimed at tackling the growing problem of space debris, according to the Chinese government. But experts have warned the trash-clearing robot could may have been deployed for more nefarious ends, saying it could be poised to take out communications satellites. While China's space agency (CNSA), a branch of the military, has said the craft is aimed at collecting potentially hazardous debris, analysts have said it could remain dormant until needed in wartime situation. China's space agency (CNSA) has said a prototype craft launched aboard the Long March 7 rocket last week (pictured) aimed at collecting potentially hazardous debris, analysts have said it could remain dormant until needed in wartime situation The Chinese space agency (CNSA) has launched a robotic prototype into orbit which it said is aimed at tackling space debris. Analysts have warned that the if successful, more prototype could easily be produced and delivered into orbit.