Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered by Google's DeepMind algorithm may be more accurate at spotting breast cancer than real life doctors. The findings, published in Nature.com on Wednesday, come after researchers from Imperial College London and Google Health "trained" a computer to spot abnormalities on X-ray images of nearly 29,000 women. Separate studies used imagery from U.K. and U.S. women and concluded that in both countries the computer reduced instances where a cancer was either incorrectly identified or incorrectly missed. In the United States, the improvement was more noticeable -- offering a reported reduction of 5.7% in false positives, where a mammogram is wrongly diagnosed as abnormal. There was also a reduction of 9.4% in false negatives, where a cancer is missed. "In an independent study of six radiologists, the AI system outperformed all of the human readers," claimed the report.

The year 2019 saw unprecedented growth in AI research, development and deployment. Great technical progress has been achieved in image recognition, image generation, natural language understanding and other fields; while challenges remain with data management, efficiency measurement, computational capacity and other issues. To welcome 2020 with some fresh AI perspectives, Synced spoke with global researchers from Google Brain, Sony AI, Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial (formerly known as Alipay), Israel-based AI processor company Habana (recently acquired by Intel), Russian tech giant Yandex, Vietnam's newly established research lab VinAI Research, French deep learning inference acceleration startup Mipsology, and China-based remote sensing data platform TerraQuanta. Colin Raffel, Senior Research Scientist, Google Brain In 2019 the community made huge progress on learning from limited labels. MixMatch, UDA, S4L, and ReMixMatch produced huge gains on standard semi-supervised learning benchmarks.

The immense capabilities artificial intelligence is bringing to the world would have been inconceivable to past generations. But even as we marvel at the incredible power these new technologies afford, we're faced with complex and urgent questions about the balance of benefit and harm. When most people ponder whether AI is good or evil, what they're essentially trying to grasp is whether AI is a tool or a weapon. Of course, it's both -- it can help reduce human toil, and it can also be used to create autonomous weapons. Either way, the ensuing debates touch on numerous unresolved questions and are critical to paving the way forward.

Much attention has been focused on the potential loss of jobs that robotics and artificial intelligence may bring. However, advancements in robotics technology and their application in new areas can make jobs easier, more pleasant and safer. Exploring opportunities to automate the "dull, dirty and dangerous" work that humans are still doing in the digital age, we see the potential to improve the quality of work, enhance capabilities and reduce employee risks. We may be well into the digital age, but there is no shortage of work that still requires human intervention. Some of these jobs are laborious.

Health products powered by artificial intelligence, or AI, are streaming into our lives, from virtual doctor apps to wearable sensors and drugstore chatbots. IBM boasted that its AI could "outthink cancer." Others say computer systems that read X-rays will make radiologists obsolete. "There's nothing that I've seen in my 30-plus years studying medicine that could be as impactful and transformative" as AI, said Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist and executive vice president of Scripps Research in La Jolla, Calif. AI can help doctors interpret MRIs of the heart, CT scans of the head and photographs of the back of the eye, and could potentially take over many mundane medical chores, freeing doctors to spend more time talking to patients, Topol said.

Artificial Intelligence is no doubt a big boon in this world, however, a few notable scientists feel that it can be a bane to an extent that it can prove out to be an evil to all. We know AI to be among the hot topic of discussion in the recent past and people now have started putting some concerns about the same. The same people feel that by creating something that remain smarter than human beings and prove fatal to the very same people who want to employ the same. As per reports, Rich Walker a known Scientist at Shadow Robot Company and also the Director of the asme group is among the ones who feel the growing unregulated development of AI technology can prove lethal to the people. If we see the technology is employed it should be used in the same way we have seen treating the technologies people have been using for the desperate situations. We do not allow people to use chemical during the war claims the experts.

The technologies identified by the U.S Federal Government should offer better operational efficiency, productivity and most importantly, security. Fremont, CA: A recent discussion made with government leaders has made their areas of interest concerning technology, clear. Their interest is varying with respect to mission, budget and outlook of different technologies. Here are the four most significant technologies that are likely to gain more attraction, according to the U.S. federal government tech predictions for 2020. Although quantum computing is one of the geekiest of technologies, it will not deter the federal government from their continuous exploration of possibilities around quantum computing in 2020.

Education is the foundation any country is built upon. It is through education that our children can reach their full potential, both as principled, responsible citizens, and as being productive members of the country. But, how is it possible to build an education system which best develops the adults of tomorrow? It's not an easy task to build schools which will cater to the needs of those in the fast-changing world of the 21st Century. Education is the ability to pass knowledge.

Seattle-based smart home appliance maker Wyze, which is popular for selling its products cheaper than its competitors, has been accused of a data breach and trafficking the data to Alibaba Cloud servers in China. In response to the alleged data breach against its production database, Wyze logged outfits users out of their accounts and has strengthened security for its servers. "Customers endured a lengthy reauthentication process as the company responded to a series of reports claiming that the company stored sensitive information about people's security cameras, local networks, and email addresses in exposed databases.", Texas-based Twelve Security, a self-described "boutique" consulting firm, claimed of a data breach against Wyze's two Elasticsearch databases on Medium yesterday. The data has come from 2.4 million users from the United States, United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and parts of Malaysia.

There's no doubt that Artificial Intelligence has become a major buzzword these days. You might already be aware of it as this trailblazing technology that has made captivating headlines in terms of the innovations that it brings along and the risks that it poses. Be it a self-driving car, a sex robot that can breathe, or a healthcare tool that detects possible breast cancer better than the experts, Artificial Intelligence is dominating almost every industry that we can think of. It has remained one of the biggest stories in tech in a course of the last few years and we wanted to know what its future holds. To see a picture beyond the mainstream AI, we interviewed Karan Bajaj, Founder and CEO, WhiteHat Jr, who shared with us his insight around Machine Learning, need for ethics around AI, and AI's impact on education.