How exciting is our industry right now? You might say I'm easily excited, and I'd probably agree, because I just love this stuff, especially when we are talking manufacturing and more. But really, if you take a look at what's happening with AI (artificial intelligence), machine learning, robotics, automation, 5G, blockchain, autonomous vehicles, AR (augmented reality), VR (virtual reality), and all of their enterprise applications … it is truly a great time to be in tech. Innovation is our lifeblood in this industry. As you and I both know, tech often seems to happen at the speed of light.

It takes minutes for most new Minecraft players to work out how to dig up the diamonds that are key to the game, but training artificial intelligence to do it has proved harder than expected. Over the summer, Minecraft publisher Microsoft and other organisations challenged coders to create AI agents that could find the coveted gems. Most can crack it in their first session. But out of more than 660 entries submitted, not one was up to the task. The results of the MineRL - which is pronounced mineral - competition are due to be announced formally on Saturday at the NeurIPS AI conference in Vancouver, Canada.

This article was submitted in response to the call for ideas issued by the co-chairs of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, Eric Schmidt and Robert Work. It addresses the fourth question (part a.) which asks what international norms for artificial intelligence should the United States lead in developing, and whether it is possible to create mechanisms for the development and enforcement of AI norms. In 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower asked the world to join him in building a framework for "Atoms for Peace." He made the case for a global agreement to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons while also sharing the peaceful uses of nuclear technology for power, agriculture, and medicine. No one would argue the program completely prevented the spread of weapons technology: India and Pakistan used technology gained through Atoms for Peace in their nascent nuclear weapons programs.

We are excited to announce the first edition of AI Latin American SumMIT at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from Jan 21-23 2020, save the date! The sumMIT is organized by a multidisciplinary team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology coming from all corners of Latin America. The sumMIT aims to bring leaders in government, industry, universities and the non-government sector across the Latin American region to discuss the development, adoption, and risks that Artificial Intelligence is set to have in the region. The sumMIT will be focused on Artificial Intelligence and its relationship to potentially solve some of the most pressing problems in the region such as: No Poverty, Good Health and Well-being, Quality Education, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Climate Action and Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. We hope you can join us at the sumMIT.

The successful candidate is expected to join an established bioinformatics team. The ongoing projects in BSML focus on precision medicine, functional roles of genetic variants in complex disease, next-generation sequencing and single cell RNA sequencing method development and data analyses, deep learning, and regulatory networks. Integrative genomics and deep learning approaches are often applied. Funding (NIH grants, CPRIT, and lab/center startup) is available to support this position for 3 years and promotion to faculty positions is possible. The candidate will have the opportunity to access many high throughput datasets and interact with investigators across UTHealth and Texas Medical Center.

Since the last decade, the auto industry has experienced technological breakthroughs that have transformed the automotive landscape. Keeping up with the growing demand, almost every major carmaker has launched or has plans to dive into the electric vehicles market. Mumbai -based ION Energy was born out of the desire to tackle the threat of climate degradation by enabling a much more environment-friendly mobility solution. Founded in 2016, ION acquired an 8-year-old French Battery Management System (BMS) developer – Freemens SAS, in a first of its kind cross-border acquisition. In 2018, ION came out of stealth mode and unveiled its first product UDYR, a portable battery for electric scooters and started commercialising its flagship BMS platform.

Shounak Banerjee and Pradeep Chandra from IIT Kharagpur opted for winter internship 2019 at Leadingindia.ai, a hotspot for Artificial Intelligence (AI) mentoring at Bennett University, Greater Noida. Similarly, Lovepreet Singh from IIT Gandhinagar selected Bennett University to learn Artificial Intelligence and Data Science after receiving outstanding feedback from the previous interns. As per'MARKETSANDMARKETS' report, the artificial intelligence (AI) market is expected to reach USD 190 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 36.62%. Linkedin, in a recent report, mentions Artificial intelligence as one of the most sought after technical skills by businesses in the coming year. The trend is no different at Bennett University with a growing number of internship applications compared to last year.

World is on the cusp of a revolution about new possibilities in AI and Machine Learning. Deep Learning is being used to solve many critical healthcare related issues apart from other important areas that impact society. India has aspiring young students in thousands of educational institutions in the country. Due to lack of quality faculty and curriculum design issues many of these students are not able to get access to latest skill sets required by the industry. Industry all over the world is facing huge scarcity of trained manpower in machine intelligence.

Yandex, the Russia-based company specializing in internet-related products and transportation services, is getting into the lidar sensor business. In a Medium post in which the company revealed that its autonomous cars have driven over 1.5 million miles combined, up from 1 million in October, Yandex detailed two custom software-defined lidar sensors it says it has been testing on vehicles in Moscow. Yandex expects that it will also eventually use them on its recently revealed delivery robot, Yandex.Rover. Lidar sensors measure the distance to target objects by illuminating them with laser light and measuring the reflected pulses. They're a core part of a number of driverless vehicle systems, including those developed by Alphabet's Waymo, Uber, and GM's Cruise, and their applications extend to verticals like robotics, industry, security, and agricultural sectors.

Britain is failing to realise its AI ambitions, experts have warned, as a report shows that the UK is a leader in the industry but is struggling to convert research into real progress. The 2019 AI Index report found that while the UK was one of the world leaders in AI research, it lagged behind competitors in real-world impact. It was the fourth-largest producer of published AI research papers and submitted more conference papers than any other European country, but fell to sixth, behind Germany and France, in terms of AI patents published between 2015 and 2018. Erik Brynjolfsson, an MIT economist who helped put together the report, said fear of change and a lack of practical expertise were...