Here are some notes from Public First's Rachel Wolf, at @sthlmchamber: - European Commission seeks to tighten #tech regulations, with a focus on the #ethical aspects of #AI. To read up on the AI roadmap of the commission, check out https://bit.ly/2TKW6OY

We're now 10 months into 2018, and it's already evident that the term of the year in consulting will be robotics. Although techno-pessimists may prophesy that massive unemployment will hit skilled professionals (for example, see a report by two Oxford academics claiming that 47 percent of current American jobs are at ''high risk'' of being automated within the next 20 years, or Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future--a vision, virtually, of economic Armageddon), the helping industry is ripe for major disruption indeed. Numerous advisory jobs (such as medical consultants, lawyers, financial advisors, and management consultants) often involve going through a similar workflow: collecting data analyzing the data interpreting the results putting forward recommendations executing the action plan. In reality, artificial intelligence (AI) has already been at our service. In what follows, I will look into four positive AI-driven cases in point, and offer some preliminary recommendations on how the robo-advice industry can become more humane.

A FUTURISTIC city designed by Danish architecture practice Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and featuring autonomous cars, smart homes, artificial intelligence and other technologies is set to be constructed at the base of Japan's Mount Fuji. Above: The city will have substantial public spaces (image courtesy of Toyota). The so-called "City of the Future" prototype will be constructed on a 175-acre site by Toyota. Toyota will use its technologies to create a fully connected ecosystem powered by hydrogen fuel cells. The city will house over 2,000 full-time residents and researchers.

FirstWord MedTech's Digital Ten is a fortnightly round-up of the 10 most read and noteworthy headlines related to digital health, including industry deals, alliances, collaborations, innovations and R&D news. The biggest M&A deal inked this year so far comes from the telemedicine field with Teladoc Health agreeing to fork out $600 million to acquire InTouch Health, a provider of cloud-based telemedicine software and physician services for hospitals and health systems. Teladoc's existing telehealth service platform targets consumers and with this deal, it will gain a complementary business that is expected to generate revenue of $80 million in 2019, representing 35% year-over year growth, and a new facility-based virtual care platform. Mojo Vision's smart contact lens receives FDA breakthrough device designation In yet another first for 2020, Mojo Vision's Mojo smart contact lens is the first ophthalmic product to get FDA breakthrough device designation this year. The lens incorporates what the company describes as the "smallest and densest dynamic display ever made," along with a power-efficient image sensor optimised for computer vision, a custom wireless radio, and motion sensors for eye-tracking and image stabilisation.

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There Is a Range of Tasks Your Face Recognition App Can Be Designed to Perform If You Use the Right Face Recognition Methods. The Facial Recognition technology has been one of those, gaining ground fastest over recent years and one that is still, obviously, pretty far from its heyday. Invented to, virtually, enhance, or rather, extend one of the 6 human senses, it is finding new, often, critically important (for example, public security-related) uses and becoming more wide-spread globally by the day. According to Researchandmarkets.com, the total worth of the global Face Recognition software market is estimated to have constituted some USD 3.85 billion in 2017 and it is predicted to reach USD 9.78 billion in 2023, thus showing a nearly threefold growth. This can only mean that while giving those better equipped with Face Recognition apps an edge and an additional means of control, the rapidly developing Facial Recognition technology is also becoming a competitive factor for businesses in various industry sectors.

The field of artificial intelligence research was founded as an academic discipline in 1956. Despite a history of 60 years, the era is still at the very beginning, and the future has a bumpy road ahead when compared to similar disciplines, which is mainly driven by challenges in the domain of ethics and availability of data. Fluctuating Fortunes of AI Since its beginning, Artificial Intelligence has experienced three major breakthroughs and two periods of stagnation. Its most recent renaissance was triggered in 2016 with the historical moment of AlphaGo defeating the world's best players of Go, a game thought to be too complex for Artificial Intelligence. As we learned from the previous circles of AI, whenever it makes a leap forward, there is a lot of scrutiny and concern over what this means for the world; both in the industry as well as society.

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