Creating accurate maps today is a painstaking, time-consuming manual process, even with access to satellite imagery and mapping software. Many regions -- particularly in the developing world -- remain largely unmapped. To help close this gap, Facebook AI researchers and engineers have developed a new method that uses deep learning and weakly supervised training to predict road networks from commercially available high-resolution satellite imagery. The resulting model sets a new bar for the state of the art for accuracy, and because it is able to accommodate regional differences in road networks, it can effectively predict roads around the globe. We are now sharing the details of our model and making data available to the global mapping community through Map With AI, a new set of specialized map-editing services and tools. Map With AI includes an editor interface, RapiD, which allows mapping experts to easily review, verify, and adjust the map as needed.

I went to UCLA film school, did graduate work in media studies, and early on worked as a development executive at 21st Century Fox. Most weekends I see three or four movies in theaters. Now I work in technology, and I'm witnessing firsthand its transformative effect on the media and entertainment industry. Technology is enabling the democratization of content--access any time, anywhere, on any device--and the impact on media and entertainment company business models and consumer interactions is deep and far-reaching. Recently I spoke with media and entertainment expert Jukka Paajanen, a cloud solution hub senior director at Oracle, about the opportunities and challenges emerging technology presents to the industry.

Seven decades ago, agricultural scientists used high-yielding, dwarf varieties of wheat and rice to revolutionize agriculture across Asia and Latin America – and now European data scientists are teaming up with Kenyan farmers to use the fruits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to drive the next agricultural one. The Green Revolution produced massive increases in crop yields throughout Asia and Latin America, but even today, many smallholders –farmers who produce crops on small pieces of land – struggle to afford and utilize the mechanized equipment and agricultural chemicals that came with that revolution. When it comes to Africa, there is still great potential for productivity increases in agriculture. The number of small-holder farmers in Kenya could be between 5 million and 9 million people according to some estimates. In order to see how artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data could help those farmers, French consultancy firm Capgemini teamed up with a Kenyan social enterprise in the Kakamega region in Western Kenya.

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New York is always an exciting, energetic city to visit and ... was made even more so as I attended the (recent) 'HPC & AI on Wall Street' conference, which HPCWire are now championing. It was well worth the train ride from Boston and interesting to see the varied mix of attendees present and hear how HPC and AI is evolving in the world of finance. All sectors of the financial services industry (FSI) were represented at the conference from traditional, old school banks to venture capital firms, fintechs and hedge funds. AI adoptions varied from integrating machine learning into existing applications and processes to mining unearthly amounts of market data for a trading edge. My first lesson was there is a dichotomy between too much data volume and insufficient data context within this community. Don't worry the bank account and market value data is as solid as always.

Scientists can now weigh wild whales using remote-controlled drones hovering above them. In the past it has only been possible to measure the weight of free-living whales if they were dead and out of the water or stranded on a beach. But researchers have released aerial footage of them flying a drone over a mother and baby southern right whale, near Argentina, to work out how much they weigh. They can do this by taking photographs to work out the length, width and height of the animal. This can then be compared to past measurements of the density of that particular species of whale's body, to estimate its volume and weight.

The global AIaaS market is predicted to gather pace in terms of growth as it registers a healthy CAGR during the forecast period 2018-2026. Well-established tech companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and Google offer AI services alongside their technology services in order to stay competitive in the industry. They realize that offering AI tools and software is not enough to maintain their supremacy in the technology world. Other software or professional service firms may partner with AI solutions providers to expand their customer base. In this regard, it could be said that the demand in the global AIaaS market will increase in the next few years.

If there is one thing the general public is familiar with when the use of artificial intelligence than it is facial recognition. Whether it is opening their mobile phone or the algorithms Facebook uses to find eyes or other parts of a face in images, facial recognition has become a standard. But now scientists dealing with complex questions like the composition of the universe are starting to use a modified version of the'standard' facial recognition in an attempt to discover how much of the dark matter there is in the universe and where it is possibly located. As Digital Trends and Futurity note in their reports on the subject, "physicists believe that understanding this mysterious substance is necessary to explain fundamental questions about the underlying structure of the universe." It is the researchers gathered in Alexandre Refregier's group at the Institute of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland that has started to use deep neural network methods that lie behind facial recognition to develop new, special tools to attempt to discover what is still a secret of the universe for us. As Janis Fluri, one of the researchers working on the project told Digital Trends, "The algorithm we [use] is very close to what is commonly used in facial recognition," adding that"the beauty of A.I. is that it can learn from basically any data.

In Part 1 of a 3-part series, Marcell Vollmer, chief digital officer at SAP Ariba, shares his take on where digital procurement is headed. What is the role of e-procurement in B2B e-commerce and what is the role of the chief procurement officer? Vollmer: Procurement has earned an unfair reputation of being a complicated process, but let's break it down simply here. Procurement's role in B2B e-commerce is to streamline the purchasing process and ensure that businesses get the right goods and services that meet all of their specifications, from a corporate-approved vendor, for the right price. Call this the golden triangle of procurement.

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