As the pharmaceutical and medical care industries move toward adoption of artificial intelligence technologies, new possibilities are arising for improvements in drug trials through streamlined clinical operations processes. Worldwide Clinical Trials' recent partnership with Deep Lens could provide evidence of how future drug studies can benefit from AI-driven technologies. A recent study estimates the average dropout rate for all clinical trials at 30%.1 Such patient discontinuation can necessitate exponential increases in patient numbers to achieve required levels of statistical significance. The goal is to minimize additional recruitment costs and delays by improving efficiencies during study execution. As clinical trial stakeholders seek to streamline clinical processes, artificial intelligence emerges as an innovative approach to improving patient monitoring and clinical care, as well as enhancing and accelerating end point detection.

If anything can supersede the hype around artificial intelligence (AI) than it is probably Emotion AI, the irony is that the latter is the subset of AI itself. The hype around emotion AI revolves around the excitement of witnessing the mass infiltration of machines into complex world of human emotions. For too long machines have been considered as a beast that can interpret & simplify complex data but miserably falls short of replicating the same magic in the area of human emotion. However, this hypothesis and assumption is now being challenged by artificial intelligence. Emotion Ai is essentially one of emerging areas of AI where machines seek to analyze and comprehend human emotions by judging facial expressions, body language, gestures, voice tone so and so forth.

The award recognizes two of Veritone's innovative AI solutions, IDentify and Redact Veritone Inc. (NASDAQ: VERI), the creator of the world's first operating system for artificial intelligence, aiWARE, today announced that Business Intelligence Group has named Veritone as a winner in the 2020 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards program for its applications Veritone IDentify and Veritone Redact, both of which are powered by Veritone's aiWARE platform. "We are honored to be recognized as a top provider of AI solutions, particularly for our turnkey applications for law enforcement agencies, IDentify and Redact," said Jon Gacek, Head of Government, Legal and Compliance at Veritone. "For the last several years, our team has worked hard to provide innovative tools to accelerate workflows, save costs and valuable resources, and protect the public. This award aligns with the traction we are getting in the market and represents a huge milestone and great recognition for our team. We are excited to continue to bring innovative, pragmatic AI solutions to the table for these important sectors."

This week we had a chat with J. William Andrew, (Bill), President and CEO of Delaware Electric Cooperative located in Greenwood, Delaware, who educated us on what is the state of AI in his company, and how and why AI is important in the Electric sector. He also told us about different application and the future of AI in Electricity. TAI: How do you rate new / emerging technology adoption by electric co-ops? Why? Andrew: The simplest way I can explain my vision of the importance of the adoption of new technologies is that "The next level of reliability and operational efficiency will not come from adding linemen and bucket trucks but will come from technology adaptation". We must adapt to the wants and needs of our members.

In comics, television and film, there is almost no hiding from Superman because of his powerful X-ray vision. The famous exception is his inability to see through lead. Nearly 82 years since this superhero first appeared in Action Comics #1 on April 1938, the line between science fiction and reality is blurring fast in China, as more advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology are being used to help stop the coronavirus from spreading. Roving security staff at Hongyuan Park, part of the Xixi Wetland preserve in Hangzhou in eastern China, now have the power to quickly detect the body temperature of all park visitors from a distance of up to 1 meter, thanks to "non-contact thermal augmented reality" smart glasses supplied by AI start-up Rokid Corp. The company said on Thursday that each smart glass user will be capable of checking the temperature of several hundred people within two minutes – a vast coverage and speed that would make even Superman proud – to eliminate queues at the park entrance.

As thousands of workers commence working from home due to Coronavirus, the Internet is awash with memes about the tempting distractions of YouTube. The artificial intelligence used by YouTube to continually serve relevant distractions is a modern shoulder devil for the home worker. Baby Shark has nearly 4.8 billion views on YouTube. In 2011 Google revealed that streaming 1-minute of video on YouTube consumes 0.0002 KwH of energy. That means that so far, people watching the 136-second-long Baby Shark video have collectively consumed about 2,112,000 KwH of energy. To give that context, in 2019 the average UK home consumed 3,100 KwH of electricity.

The big guns are firing in the race to create a credible AI-assisted composing platform. First we had Amazon AWS's DeepComposer, a machine learning-enabled system that combines software and a dedicated MIDI keyboard, and now Sony Computer Science Laboratories has officially launched Flow Machines, an AI-assisted music production project. Sony CSL has apparently been conducting music research since 1996, launching Flow Machines as a research and development project in 2012. It's based on an AI-assisted plugin known as Flow Machines Professional (FM Pro), which: "combines music rules generated by analyzing a variety of music with advanced software technology to help creators to freely create various styles of melodies based on their own concepts". The thinking behind FM Pro is that it combines human creativity with AI-based music.

Wouldn't it be great if a medical diagnosis could be automated with machine learning and artificial intelligence? Skip waiting days or weeks for an appointment, then being asked questions with looking and poking. Just go online, get the questions from an AI, and then get a physical appointment if warranted. From cancelled conferences to disrupted supply chains, not a corner of the global economy is immune to the spread of COVID-19. But like all ML/AI apps, models need training.

With the ongoing spread of Covid-19, video conferencing, risk management, cloud services and digital transformation have drawn corporate interest for investment, says Accenture, a business consultancy. "We see no evidence that our customers, particularly in banking and retail, are putting less emphasis on technology or digital transformation projects," said Nontawat Poomchusri, managing director of Accenture in Thailand. During this crisis, businesses attach more importance to digital technology, which will be increasingly adopted, he said. Collaboration tools and video conference meetings should be more common for work as they reduce travel and facilitate working from home, said Mr Nontawat. Business continuity planning and risk management should become priorities, he said.

Every afternoon Flora, 9, and Kate, 10, turn on their laptops and iPads to collaborate on a play called "World War III," a futuristic tale of two sisters who try to save the world after being blown back in time by a bomb. The close friends, who live a couple miles apart in St. Paul, Minnesota, used to hang out together to dream up dialogue and plot twists. Now, separated by coronavirus social distancing measures, they Skype on one screen and, on the other, type in a Google doc. No longer able to meet up with friends at the movies or the mall, Flora's brother Brodie, 15, stays in touch on FaceTime and Snapchat and through online games Minecraft and Rainbow Six Siege. He says communicating online with high school pals helps him cope with real-world worries about the coronavirus.