BOOSTING TRANSFORMATION TOWARDS A DIGITAL THAILAND This initiative is in line with the Government's digital roadmap laid out in 4 phases. Phase 1 includes investing and building a digital foundation. Phase 2 ensures everyone can reap the benefits of digital technology. Phase 3 drives the country towards digital technology and innovation while the final phase will help Thailand become a developed country. This is a one of a kind gathering of 300 pre-qualified CIOs, CEOs, CTOs, Heads of AI, Chief Digital Officers, Heads of Innovation and International AI & ML experts among others who will be a part of powerful keynotes, workshops, government and enterprise use-case presentations, product exhibitions, panel discussions and tech talks.

For years, people have joked that Boston Dynamics is more a maker of viral videos than of robots. The company has dazzled (and sometimes creeped out) the internet with clips of its robotic dog Spot walking, climbing stairs, jumping, dancing, and gyrating--but not doing any real work. In September, though, the company (which was previously part of Alphabet's X research arm) started leasing Spots to companies that want to put it to work, at least in pilot projects. The first to debut a full application using Spot is a German-American firm called HoloBuilder. It's equipped the robot to regularly walk large construction sites, collecting 360-degree images, a la Google Street View, so engineers can track the progress of work.

Customer expectations have always been mending, but this technology tsunami is a completely new phenomenon on the contemporary financing horizon. The Banks are pushed to the wall by extensively mushrooming competitors and rigorously reforming regulations. Amidst the rising fracas, two prime proceeds are certain: the role of these new technologies will increase and the regulations to curb their misuse will get more stringent. The change is exhaustive and will shake and stir all sections of this wide old giant sequoia right from the deepest roots to the crown. The most profound effect, however, can be seen in AI's dismantling of the conventional tradeoffs between service quality and cost.

But for all their fancy sensors and intricate data-crunching abilities, even the most cutting-edge cars lack something that (almost) every 16-year-old with a learner's permit has: social awareness. While autonomous technologies have improved substantially, they still ultimately view the drivers around them as obstacles made up of ones and zeros, rather than human beings with specific intentions, motivations, and personalities. But recently a team led by researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has been exploring whether self-driving cars can be programmed to classify the social personalities of other drivers, so that they can better predict what different cars will do -- and, therefore, be able to drive more safely among them. In a new paper, the scientists integrated tools from social psychology to classify driving behavior with respect to how selfish or selfless a particular driver is. Specifically, they used something called social value orientation (SVO), which represents the degree to which someone is selfish ("egoistic") versus altruistic or cooperative ("prosocial").

With a new $1.5 million grant, the growing field of transfer learning has come to the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. The grant was awarded to three professors -- Salman Avestimehr, Antonio Ortega and Mahdi Soltanolkotabi -- who will work with Ilias Diakonikolas at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to address the theoretical foundations of this field. Modern machine learning models are breaking new ground in data science, achieving unprecedented performance on tasks like classifying images in one thousand different image categories. This is achieved by training gigantic neural networks. "Neural networks work really well because they can be trained on huge amounts of pre-existing data that has previously been tagged and collected," said Avestimehr, the primary investigator of the project.

Tata Consultancy Services' New Unit will Help Enterprises Leverage the Power of AI, Machine Learning and Cloud to Pursue their Growth and Transformation Agenda using Microsoft technologies REDMOND MUMBAI, November 18, 2019: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, announced the setting up of a new Microsoft Business Unit (MBU). Offering a full complement of services and solutions around Microsoft technologies, and catering to all stakeholders in the enterprise, the new unit will work with customers worldwide to accelerate their Business 4.0 transformation journeys. The new unit will leverage TCS' deep domain knowledge across industries and global talent pool of nearly 50,000 engineers trained on Microsoft technologies, to help customers leverage the power of AI, automation and cloud to enhance customer experience, re-imagine employee empowerment, optimize operations and spur innovation. Moreover, TCS' unique Location Independent Agile model will help customers accelerate their transformation journeys and achieve superior outcomes with unmatched speed to value. For customers looking to scale up their innovation efforts, the new unit will provide a ready means of plugging into TCS' extensive co-innovation ecosystem and pushing the boundaries of possibilities using the full stack of Microsoft technologies to establish competitive differentiation.

Besides being a hot topic these days, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain have received a reputation for being especially male-dominated in an already bro-saturated tech world. However, the buzz around artificial intelligence and cryptography isn't without merit, as these technologies are much more than just one more thing to be mansplained. "It's expected that soon, artificial intelligence will combine the intricacy and pattern recognition strength of human intelligence with the speed, memory and knowledge sharing of machine intelligence." Similarly, decentralized blockchain systems have the potential to change our lives from the way we do business, to the way we drive, vote, make purchases and even prove our identity. With such diverse and far-reaching applications, it is clear that a diversity of perspectives will be necessary to create effective and sustainable solutions.

Jerry has extensive experience in machine learning, storage systems, online service, distributed systems, virtualization, and OS kernel. He has worked on high performance and large-scale systems at companies such as: Lyft, Box, Twitter, Zynga, and Microsoft. He has also authored the open-source project Lib Crunch and is a three-time Microsoft Gold Star Award winner. Jerry completed his master's degree in computer science at Shanghai University. His most recent startup is Datatron.

Repsol has acquired a stake in Belmont Technology, incorporating it as part of the participated strategic companies of their Corporate Venturing portfolio. The investment supports Repsol's initiatives to leverage artificial intelligence for its global energy business. Belmont Technology is developing the cloud-based Sandy platform for the Upstream Oil & Gas industry. Sandy offers unique knowledge management capabilities, continuously ingesting and structuring all types of industry data and making it consumption-ready for analytics and seamless queries in natural language. Sandy also features a breakthrough innovation; enabling real time, AI-based, simulation of subsurface scenarios from exploration risk assessment to oilfield development plans.

Dublin, 20th November 2019: Mastercard Labs, SAP, SoapBox Labs, INFANT Research were honoured at the AI Awards 2019 ceremony. The awards will also be further supported by the IDA Ireland, Alldus, ISG, McKesson, Mazars, Mason Hayes Curran, the ADAPT Centre and GeoDirectory. Founded in 2018, the AI Awards are part of AI Ireland, a Not for Profit Business which runs a number of community websites and monthly meetups supporting the area of Data Science, Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence in Ireland. SoapBox's plug and play API makes it easy for businesses to voice enable their products. Its near real time assessment capabilities ensure that the products it powers are more engaging, more useful, and more valuable to teachers, parents and the children themselves.