Have months of quarantine left you longing for social interaction? Social robots are on their way. Who needs human friends, anyways? "I don't need friends, they disappoint me." In all seriousness, social distancing can have detrimental effects on your mental and physical health, says an International Social Psychiatry Journal article published in April.

Vedantu, a pioneer in LIVE online learning platform in India, is assisting the Ministry of Health (Govt of Karnataka) to impart COVID training and communication to doctors across the State. To assist the Karnataka State Government & Doctors in the ongoing battle against Covid-19, Vedantu has volunteered to offer its WAVE platform. This initiative is helping the ministry to reach out to 250 doctors across Karnataka and train them LIVE using Vedantu's platform to improve their understanding on the following – This training is led by senior officials – Dr. Ravi Kumar, Senior Regional Director at Ministry of Health & FW, Govt of India and Dr Mahamood Shariff, Research officer, NVBDCP, Directorate of H&FW, Govt of Karnataka. Speaking on the partnership, Dr. PC Jaffer (IAS), Secretary to Govt (Expenditure), Finance Department, Karnataka Govt Secretariat, said, "In the current times, taking the risk of face to face training was out of question for us. It was imperative to find a solution that mirrors, but also has the same impact as the face to face training. Hence, we decided to choose Vedantu's platform, given its rich and interactive platform capabilities, to train and converse online with our COVID warriors across the state. We are glad as our training sessions are happening smoothly now and we continue our fight against COVID. "It is Vedantu's great honour to support doctors who are in the front line of the fight against the pandemic.

Robotic process automation (RPA) software company UiPath has announced that it has added conversational AI capabilities to the end-to-end hyperautomation platform. The capabilities will fuel UiPath Robots and industry-tailored chatbots, and new automation capabilities will enhance employee productivity and ensure always-on, scalable, best-in-class global support experiences. The company will also be deploying its powerful Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with Oracle cloud infrastructure and business application to streamline critical workflows and complex processes. "As a member of the Oracle Partner Network, combining our powerful RPA with Oracle's cloud infrastructure was a practical next step. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, this collaboration allows users to quickly pivot and respond to the ongoing challenges today's environment presents," said Dhruv Asher, Senior Vice President of Alliances and Business Development at UiPath, speaking exclusively with Toolbox "Demand for quality digital customer service has increased greatly as the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded. By combining Druid's chatbot platform with our Hyperautomation Platform, enterprises can truly achieve end-to-end automation for customers and employees – improving both customer self-service and employee productivity."

A YouTuber has used artificial intelligence to write a fake Nirvana song -- you can listen to the end result, 'Smother', below. YouTuber Funk Turkey is behind the creation, having used a similar methodology recently to create fake "new" songs by AC/DC, Metallica and Nickelback. Funk Turkey explained in'Smother"s accompanying description that they used lyrics.rip The YouTuber then performed, mixed and mastered the music and vocals "in my kitchen, on a sparkly red cheap Stratocaster, a crappy mic, and an old copy of ProTools". You can hear the end result, 'Smother', below. Speaking about programming the drums using'Superior Drummer 2', Funk Turkey added: "I know Dave Grohl hates computer drums but it's the best thing I got, soooo… Sorry Dave.

An often overlooked aspect of building a strong AI team is diversity. This is as important in a team as its broad range of hard skills. It's how you avoid running one of the biggest risks in building AI models: bias. For example, take a model that focuses on projecting the success of entrepreneurs in a certain country. If you look at the Netherlands, for instance, where approximately 37 percent of entrepreneurs are women, and correlate successful startups with gender, you'll find out that men are significantly more successful in business than women--an unfair conclusion because the model doesn't take into account the gender imbalance in the population of entrepreneurs.

In July 2017, China's State Council released the country's strategy for developing artificial intelligence (AI), entitled'New Generation.

The word "deep" in "deep learning" refers to the number of layers through which the data is transformed. Deep models are able to extract better features than shallow models and hence, extra layers help in learning the features effectively.

Drawing on the expertise of rights holders, broadcasters and technology providers from across the sports ecosystem, SportsPro's latest Insider Series event returned to the theme of over-the-top (OTT) and broadcast, providing a wealth of insight into the technology that the industry is tapping into to put live sports on our screens. With much to unpack, SportsPro writers select five key takeaways from across the two days, covering piracy, machine learning and remote production. Cameron Andrews, BeIN Media Group's legal director for anti-piracy, said sports rights holders "were slow" to react to the incursion of BeoutQ, but described the Saudi bootlegging operation as "a very good case study" for piracy "and the impact it can have". "I think some rights owners are certainly aware of that and are very engaged," he said. "But unfortunately I think a lot of other rights owners are still quite some way behind." The emergence of BeoutQ has shone a light on the threat piracy poses to the sports industry, and Andrews called on rights owners, such as leagues and governing bodies, to come together to tackle the issue.

I tend to notice a lot of people still have cold feet around AI because it seems like an intimidating and costly solution – but it shouldn't be. AI can solve many of the little problems people struggle with. AI is at it's best when using small meaningful steps to make people's lives better. In order to survive the age of filtering bots and automated buying, this can be an important way to prove your value. There are five great cases where companies have used AI to enhance customer experience.

With all the buzz surrounding artificial intelligence, it is so important that we roll out our technologies and toolkits to bring global healthcare forward. From surveillance of cases to the progression of mutative strains (perhaps more relevant to viruses), it is no doubt that many parts of the world have leaps and bounds to make in improvement, as highlighted in our COVID-19 pandemic. Even though we are still using age-old methods such as quarantining to this day, it is no doubt that AI could play a fundamental part in our future technologies to combat the next viral arrival. However, there must be a great deal of caution in the ethics of deploying AI toolkits on demographics that vary greatly from those used in the training dataset. How we can get a rapid solution to this conundrum will be paramount in helping developing regions catch up with the west.