Amazon Web Services Inc. announced today that it's adding support for PyTorch models with its Amazon Elastic Inference service, which it said will help developers reduce the costs of deep learning inference by as much as 75% in some cases. Amazon Elastic Inference is a service launched in late 2018 that enables customers to attach graphics processing unit-powered inference acceleration to a standard Amazon EC2 instance. Inference refers to the process of making predictions using a trained deep learning model. PyTorch is an open-source machine learning library that was first developed by Facebook Inc. It's used primarily for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing.

"Mike Kanaan is an influential new voice in the field of AI, and his thoughts paint an insightful perspective. "Kanaan's book makes us aware of the urgent need for international understanding and a formal agreement on AI. Without binding commitments, the future will pose threats, both military and social, that risk our very survival. AI may be a blessing, but it can also be the ultimate curse. The world must agree to draw a red line between the two, and make sure that no one crosses it." "Never have I read a book that did a better job of putting the challenges and prospects of artificial intelligence into context.

Carnegie Mellon University has shaped artificial intelligence (AI) from the field's very beginning. Today, researchers from all seven colleges across CMU continue to define AI as the next frontier in human progress and are working to help solve problems in areas from healthcare to education. Because of the interdisciplinary campus culture, CMU is a place where women are thriving in the field of AI, even though they are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) across the globe. CMU's women in AI -- from undergraduate students to distinguished faculty members -- discuss their research, its impact and their future in the world of AI.

How do you pronounce "agentive"? "Agentive" is a once-languishing adjective that is built on the word "agent," so I pronounce it emphasizing the first syllable, "A-jen-tiv." I like that this pronunciation points back to its root, which helps people suss out its meaning when they're hearing it for the first time. I've heard people stress the second syllable, as "uh-JEN-tiv," which rolls off the tongue just fine, but doesn't do much to help people's understanding. Did you invent this kind of technology?

This week on Talking Pop Health, host Eric Tower welcomes Star Cunningham, CEO and founder of 4D Healthware, to the podcast for a conversation about the hot topic of virtual medicine, which has become a primary source of communicating with patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Star discusses how 4D Healthware has utilized technology and health analytics to give patients the tools to take control of their health and lower their total cost of care. Star, who has a background in artificial intelligence, founded 4D Healthware in 2011. The company combines emerging technology, smart devices and health data analytics into a single platform that allows patients and providers to engage in RPM, Remote Patient Management. "Through our analytics, we can determine what time of day is best to contact patients. The patients are able to choose how they want to be communicated with, whether that be via a text message, email or phone call. Each patient is able to have a customized communication experience. The final piece to delivering them a customized experience is to ensure that the patient's needs are cared for when engaging with them."

Need some video game pursuits to keep you occupied during the stay-at-home measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus? Sony has a giveaway for PlayStation 4 players. Once you download the games, you can keep them. "People all over the world are doing the right thing by staying home to help contain the spread of COVID-19," wrote Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan in a post on the PlayStation blog. "We are deeply grateful to everyone practicing physical distancing and take our responsibility as a home entertainment platform seriously, so we are asking our community to continue supporting the safe choice and the need to Play At Home."

Academic reputation is a key driver for colleges and universities to attract the best students, but campus safety is becoming an increasingly important factor in the college-choice equation. Topping the list of safety concerns is the threat of gun violence at schools, which struck on a nearly weekly basis in the past year in the United States. Of the 45 school shootings that took place up to Nov. 19, 2019, 14 occurred on higher education campuses, according to a CNN report. The active-shooter-on-campus threat is real, and it's the primary threat that keeps campus safety leaders up at night thinking of new ways to detect, deter and react to such incidents. Other top campus crime concerns include burglaries, forcible sex offenses, vehicle theft, assault and robberies.

The challenge of handling an ever increasing amount of cargo in a safe, efficient and environmentally friendly way is the biggest questions facing ports and wider maritime industry. Not only are more vessels calling at ports but those vessels are also getting bigger, along with the amount of data being created and stored. That data is a challenge in itself, as is finding the best ways to utilise it. Ports are more often than not looking to artificial intelligence (AI) as a way forward – but what is AI and how does it benefit ports? AI is transforming transportation at sea, on land and in the air.

Insilico Medicine is pleased to announce that it has entered into a research collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim to utilize Insilico's generative machine learning technology and proprietary Pandomics Discovery Platform with the aim of identifying potential therapeutic targets implicated in a variety of diseases. "Insilico Medicine is very impressed with the Research Beyond Borders group at Boehringer Ingelheim capabilities in the search of potential drug targets. In this collaboration, Insilico will provide additional AI capabilities to discover novel targets for a variety of diseases to benefit the patients worldwide. We are very happy to partner with such an advanced group," said Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, founder, and CEO of Insilico Medicine. "We believe that Insilico's exclusive Pandomics platform will provide huge boost to our ability to explore and identify drug targets. We look forward to using AI to significantly improve the drug discovery process and contribute to human health," said from Dr. Weiyi Zhang, Head of External Innovation Hub, Boehringer Ingelheim Greater China.

In 1950, 746 Million people lived in cities but just one hundred years later in 2050, this is anticipated to surpass 6 Billion – some 66% of the world's population. In this increasingly urban, data-driven and hybrid world that integrates the physical and the virtual, the concept of'smartness' comes to the fore. The vision of a'smart city' has been in existence for many years but it is only recently that advances in technology have enabled tangible progress towards its real-world actualization. I believe this is also critical to the successful implementation of the United Nation's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGS). So, what does a smart city mean to you?