Corporate finance and IT departments along with supply chain managers are the largest benefactors of AI technology, according to an emerging technologies study released this week by Oracle. Separately, Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) new cloud-based database infrastructure along with an expanded interoperability partnership with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). The AI research released Wednesday (Feb. The survey of 700 finance executives and IT managers concludes that AI-driven technologies such as blockchain and the Internet of Things have "passed the adoption tipping point" and in some cases exceeded corporate expectations. Among the early results are reductions in errors within finance departments and greater use of digital assistants to increase productivity and accelerated financial analysis.

Machine learning is the latest to make waves in the field of Information Security, and for good reason. The support of complex algorithms that'learn' and grow is invaluable to human analysts, allowing them to focus on larger tactical fights and strengthen security systems to be virtually bulletproof. In both routine and structural changes to Information Security, machine learning plays an increasingly important role and will continue to do so, leading into the coming years. What is Information Security (InfoSec)? InfoSec refers to the systems, tools and processes that are designed and then deployed to field sensitive and confidential data from being compromised or tampered with.

Artificial Intelligence these days has become a new key driver of economic growth. It is a significant field in technology right now. While several countries are racing towards AI supremacy, Canada is attracting the world's tech giants that are pouring mammoth amounts in the region. The country is currently in the midst of the AI boom as companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Huawei, among others are spending huge capital on research hubs in Quebec, Ontario and Alberta. Canada is a world research leader and home to extraordinary AI-driven businesses, and has played a vital role in the advancement of AI.

In the midst of a surge in demand as more people shop online, the parcel delivery sector is struggling to keep up due to a chronic shortage of drivers. Meanwhile, restaurants are struggling to find ways to reduce waste in an industry notorious for razor-thin profit margins. A viable solution to both industries' conundrums could be artificial intelligence. Japan Data Science Consortium Co. (JDSC), a startup incubated at the University of Tokyo, believes it can solve this growing issue using its own AI patent that analyses household electricity data to calculate whether anyone will be home to receive a package during a given time period. In other words, the AI comes up with a delivery route for truck drivers based on the electricity data.

The National Transportation Safety Board held a hearing on Tuesday regarding a deadly 2018 crash in which a Tesla Model X slammed into a Mountain View highway divider at 70mph, was subsequently struck by two other vehicles and then exploded. During that announcement, the safety board revealed that the driver, Apple developer Walter Huang, was playing a mobile game on his phone at the time of the accident, while the vehicle's Autopilot feature was engaged. "Government regulators have provided scant oversight" over the semi-autonomous driving systems that are quickly becoming standard features on modern automobiles, NTSB chair Robert Sumwalt declared. While the NTSB does not have the authority to enforce safety measures, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration can issue recalls for unsafe vehicle tech. The NTSB also determined via cellphone records and device data that Huang's phone was running a mobile game at the time of the crash.

We have started tracking the AI industry in India over the last two years. The result of this is our annual AI study- The Hitchhiker's Guide to Artificial Intelligence 2019-2020, where we look at the key AI trends dominating the Indian AI market. The study covers professionals, salaries, AI jobs across different Indian cities, and the companies leading in terms of AI hiring in the country. The most significant outcome of the study is the much-accelerated growth of the AI industry since last year. Growing by 80%, we see AI is no longer in a hype stage and has observably entered the period of real productivity.

Footage taken of New York City has been colorized and upscaled using artificial intelligence (AI) more than 100 years after it was shot, and the results are astonishing. In 1911, Swedish production company Svenska Biografteatern visited the United States and shot extensive footage of the streets. Over a century later, still in mint condition, it was cut by YouTuber Guy Jones, and slowed down to a more natural speed. The result, A Trip Through New York City, can be viewed below. From that footage, another YouTuber (loving your work here YouTube, prefer this a lot to your anti-vaxx and pseudoscience content) was able to upscale and colorize it using neural networks.

This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. Fighting fake news has become a growing problem in the past few years, and one that begs for a solution involving artificial intelligence. Verifying the near-infinite amount of content being generated on news websites, video streaming services, blogs, social media, etc. is virtually impossible There has been a push to use machine learning in the moderation of online content, but those efforts have only had modest success in finding spam and removing adult content, and to a much lesser extent detecting hate speech. Fighting fake news is a much more complicated challenge. But they have limited reach.

The dynamic design duo of Karen Ann Donnachie and Andy Simionato are set to receive the Tokyo Type Directors Club award for their AI reading machine project – a machine that essentially transforms books into short Haikus accompanied by related images. It does this by using computer vision and optical character recognition to'read' books. Then with machine learning and natural language processing, it selects a poetic combination of words while erasing the rest to form an artsy-looking Haiku. While doing this, the reading machine also using Google to search up images that relate to said words. Donnachie and Simionato have released a series of books that we know and love with a slight twist.

Until a decade ago, the only option people had to reach out to a company was to call or email their customer service team. Now, companies offer a chat team to provide better round-the-clock customer service. According to a Facebook-commissioned study by Nielsen, 56% of people would prefer to message rather than call customer service, and that's where bots come into play. Bots are revolutionizing the way companies interact with their customers. A decade ago, bots were considered a passing tech fad.