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Welcome to the first of a series of posts where we dive into use cases that are shaping and expanding what's possible with machine learning. Each month, we'll post the Top 10 use cases from the IBM Machine Learning Hub -- where IBM hosts data scientists to collaborate on prototypes with our in-house ML specialists. We anticipate the Top 10 will change as industries adopt machine learning at different rates and as entirely new use cases emerge -- so check back. We kick off the Top 10 with a look at three off-the-radar ways that machine learning is driving vital improvements to government agencies. Next month, we explore health care use cases.

In the summer of 1977, Bobby Fischer was in self-imposed exile in Pasadena, California. The greatest chess player on Earth at the time, Fischer had joined an apocalyptic cult and covered the windows of his grungy apartment with tinfoil. Russian secret police and Israeli intelligence, he insisted, could spy on him through his dental fillings and influence him with radioactive signals. He hadn't played a recorded game of chess for five years, since defeating Boris Spassky and the Soviet machine in the match of the century in Reykjavik, Iceland, capturing the world championship and becoming an American Cold War hero. Nevertheless, gripped by paranoia and hidden away from the rest of the world, Fischer wrote letters. He sent two, never before published, to a Carnegie Mellon professor and computer scientist named Hans Berliner.

Technology firms s are bringing automation and robotics to the age-old task of battling mosquitoes. Firms, including Microsoft, are forming partnerships with public health officials in several US states to test new high-tech tools. They are hoping their efforts will help to spread Zika and other mosquito-borne maladies worldwide. American technology companies are bringing automation and robotics to the age-old task of battling mosquitoes (pictured). Smart traps - Roughly the size of large birdhouses, these smart traps use robotics, infrared sensors, machine learning and cloud computing to help health officials keep tabs on potential disease carriers.

With cybercrime projected to reap some $6 trillion in damages by 2021, and businesses likely to invest around $1 trillion over the next five years to try to mitigate that, we're seeing a rise of startups that are building innovating ways to combat malicious hackers. In the latest development, Darktrace -- a cybersecurity firm that uses machine learning to detect and stop attacks -- has raised $75 million, giving the startup a post-money valuation of $825 million, on the back of a strong business: the company said it has a total contract value of $200 million, 3,000 global customers and has grown 140 percent in the last year. The funding will be used to expand the company's business operations into more markets. Notably, Darktrace also separately (not in its funding release) announced today that it is now in a strategic partnership with Hong Kong-based CITIC Telecom CPC, a telecoms firm serving China and other parts of Asia, "to bring next-generation cyber defense to businesses across Asia Pacific." We're asking if CITIC, which owns the strategic partner, has also invested in Darktrace as part of this partnership.

Prosthetics of the future will not be limited to helping people with disabilities, if a bizarre creation by a young artist is anything to go by. The Third Thumb aims to extend the abilities of anyone who wears it, providing finer control when handling objects. The device could help its wearer to carry more, keep a tighter grip on their smartphone, or even play complex chords on the guitar. The human thumb has a dynamic range of movement, including its characteristic opposable directional ability, which the Third Thumb seeks to recreate. It uses two motors to create tension in a cable system, similar to a bike's brakes, to pull the thumb towards the fingers.

One thing that makes ISIS so hard to fight is that the terrorist network is diffuse and scattered, with small cells of operatives all over the world. Not only does this make it hard for law enforcement to predict where the group might strike next; it makes it incredibly complicated to track activity on the network--activity like banking transactions. Small sums of money flow from foreign fighter to foreign fighter, yet banks struggle to identify it within their systems. Banks have long used anti-money laundering systems to flag suspicious activity, and in the aftermath of September 11th, they have turned to those same legacy tools to catch terror-related transactions, too. But these legacy tools are not up to the job.

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Hello friends, today we will talk about something that I did not know so much, but that I was discovering little by little in these last months. It is about Artificial Intelligence and its effects on our way of life that comes with force. I recently participated in a conference whose name it caught my attention "Artificial Intelligence ... The end of privacy its effects on business, governments and people, organized by Diario Financiero and Analitytics10 in Santiago, Chile. The main speaker was Dr. Michal Kosinsky ... He is a psychologist and data scientist. His research focuses on studying humans through the use of digital footprints while using digitals platforms and devices. He is an assistant professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He said something very transcendent about AI ... "Sharing Data is like taxes, they serve a greater social good" Another thing he said also called my attention... "A like in Facebook, is enough to begin to predict the personality and behavior of a person" *Digital Marketing ... Content. He also said that data could be the most valuable commodity humanity would be producing so far ... when you combine Big Data with Artificial Intelligence, with machines and analytics, you can do two very useful things: understanding the past and predicting the future. Now, its predictive model (the fingerprint) allows to extract information of the behavior of a person. According to Dr. Michal, "computers can find statistical points, algorithm is able to take a small data and add it to other fingerprints," which creates a large digital archive with information available. All this information allows the markets to understand the trends, which in the long run will give them advantages over competitors. It is a data that builds me and I can sell it. To better illustrate this last part, I add that Waze and GoogleMaps sharing their data, you are creating value for society. To conclude this little reflection on Thursday ... We are leaving a growing number of fingerprints every day and computers are doing a better job in transforming them into accurate predictions of our "privacy" and the biggest risk is that technology brings I get the end of privacy. People have already lost the ability to control and understand artificial intelligence, becoming closer and more obsolete. "The relationship is going to be like the one we have with the pigeons.

The opinion that software will soon dominate and radically change every aspect of everyone's lives has become so commonplace, and repeated so frequently, that those of us in the tech industry treat it as a statement of fact. A less heralded but more concrete fact is that much of the productivity gains expected from the introduction of computer technologies have not been realized. As Tyler Cowen explains, "Labor productivity has been growing at an average of only 1.3 percent annually since the start of 2005, compared with 2.8 percent annually in the preceding 10 years." Software has increased productivity across the board for some industries, such as manufacturing, but for many other industries only certain companies have managed to capture the benefits. A study from 2003 showed that while Wal-Mart and Kmart both invested in IT, Wal-Mart did a better job of changing the rest of their business to work with the technology, and consequently saw "higher levels of productivity and market value".