We spoke to Maria Axente, AI Programme Driver, PwC United Kingdom in the context of this event about how AI and big data can be used to drive enterprise using ethical principles. AI and big data are making big changes in enterprise. It is worth considering how we got to the stage we are at today, and the fact that AI as a discipline is around 56 years old but it has suddenly started to be implemented at a much larger scale. I think there are three main causes of this more recent widespread adoption of AI. One is the huge volume of data that is being collected via smart devices; mainly smartphones, but increasingly IoT devices.

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The next generation of leaders will be better armed against unprecedented technical transformation thanks to a new partnership between Western and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) that will establish a program focused on the ethical and social aspects of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), university officials announced today. A $3-million investment by RBC has established The RBC Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Project at Western, an expansion of the university's ongoing cross-disciplinary work in data analytics and AI focused on answering big questions for the good of society. RBC's backing helps take that work to the next level, while training the next generation of experts, explained Western President Alan Shepard. "This investment is a catalyst to help Western provide tomorrow's leaders with the skillset they'll need to navigate a world full of data and find solutions to the challenges they will inevitably face during their careers," Shepard said Thursday. "We're excited to be partnering with RBC to help provide and promote training of 21st-century talent that's not only technically proficient, but also ethically and socially aware."

How does your business interact with customers? Do you still use a phone-only helpline? Are you flooded with emails? How many employees are dedicated to answering those calls and emails? If you don't employ enough staff for the task, you could wind up with some seriously frustrated customers. That is one of the many reasons why so many businesses are opting to deploy AI chatbots.

While much work in data science to date has focused on algorithmic scale and sophistication, safety -- that is, safeguards against harm -- is a domain no less worth pursuing. This is particularly true in applications like self-driving vehicles, where a machine learning system's poor judgement might contribute to an accident. That's why firms like Intel's Mobileye and Nvidia have proposed frameworks to guarantee safe and logical decision-making, and it's why OpenAI -- the San Francisco-based research firm cofounded by CTO Greg Brockman, chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, and others -- today released Safety Gym. OpenAI describes it as a suite of tools for developing AI that respects safety constraints while training, and for comparing the "safety" of algorithms and the extent to which those algorithms avoid mistakes while learning. Safety Gym is designed for reinforcement learning agents, or AI that's progressively spurred toward goals via rewards (or punishments).

While Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an ever-increasing part of consumers typical daily lifestyles, the military uses of AI will have an even more effect in the global military market. A recent report from Zion Market Research sad that the global artificial intelligence in military market was valued at approximately USD 4,800 million in 2018 and is expected to generate around USD 16,300 million by 2026, at a CAGR of around 14.5% between 2019 and 2026. Another report from ResearchAndMarkets projects that the Global Military Artificial Intelligence Market report projects the market to grow at a significant CAGR of 18.66% on the basis of value during the forecast period from 2019 to 2024. It said that North America dominated the global military artificial intelligence market with a share of 48.23% in 2019. It added: "North America, including the major countries such as the U.S., is the most prominent region for the military artificial intelligence market. In North America, the U.S. acquired a major market share in 2019 due to the major deployment of countermeasures in the defense sector in the country. The global military artificial intelligence market has gained widespread importance owing to the rising adoption of artificial intelligence for the military operation."

Artificial intelligence has given us algorithms capable of recognizing faces, diagnosing disease, and of course, crushing computer games. But even the smartest algorithms can sometimes behave in unexpected and unwanted ways, for example picking up gender bias from the text or images they are fed. A new framework for building AI programs suggests a way to prevent aberrant behavior in machine learning by specifying guardrails in the code from the outset. It aims to be particularly useful for non-experts deploying AI, an increasingly common issue as the technology moves out of research labs and into the real world. The approach is one of several proposed in recent years for curbing the worst tendencies of AI programs.

Fox News Flash top headlines for Nov. 21 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com NASA recently showed off its new underwater rover that it hopes one day could help in exploring alien ocean worlds in the search for life. The robot, known as Buyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration (BRUIE), is designed to crawl under an ice cap. Right now, it is being tested in Antarctica, in hopes one day it could go to ocean worlds such as Saturn's moon, Enceladus, or Jupiter's moon, Europa.

Covenant Eyes is not the only tech firm to play on these concerns, however. California-based X3watch, for example, offers a similar tracking and reporting feature, albeit one that works by creating a categorised list of the sites users visit that is then shared with their accountability partners. 'This is an opportunity to know and be known,' the X3watch website argues. 'Whether your chosen partner is a friend or a spouse, or you've come across explicit activity on your children's devices, the true goal is liberation that blossoms from open and honest relationships with others who are dedicated to your well-being.' An annual subscription to X3watch is currently priced at $70 (£54) per year.

Ever since the industrial chemist Leo Baekeland began synthesizing phenol and formaldehyde in 1907, the world has developed a love-hate relationship with the resulting polymer: plastic. While plastic is convenient, durable, and cheap, 50% of all plastics (about 150 million tons every year, worldwide) are used only once and then thrown away. Even for those who dutifully recycle our plastic water bottles and sandwich bags, we're only tackling a small part of the problem. "Considering the size of the problem, there's relatively limited infrastructure in place to capture and treat stormwater," says Tony Hale, program director for environmental informatics at the nonprofit San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI). That's where SFEI is looking to use research and data--and most recently, drones--to make a difference.