Despite being born without this essential part, the woman learned to walk and talk, although her mother reported she learned these actions around age 6 and 7. (iStock) In 2014, a Chinese woman in her 20's sought treatment for recurring problems with balance and dizziness, reports a case study published in the journal Brain. But when doctors looked at brain imaging via a CT scan and MRI, they discovered their patient was living without her cerebellum. This young woman falls within a small group of nine people diagnosed with cerebellar agenesis, the study reports. Despite being born without this essential part, the woman learned to walk and talk, although her mother reported she learned these actions around age 6 and 7. However, the young woman had always struggled with walking steadily and had some trouble pronouncing words, according to the study. Scientists have long known about the cerebellum's function in finetuning motor skills and balance.

Volvo Buses demonstrated autonomous driving of an electric bus at a bus depot, which happens to be the first such demo at at real depot, used by bus operator Keolis, outside of Gothenburg, Sweden. The Swedish manufacturer notes that it will take years to make buses self-driving on public roads but depots are a fairly simple application for autonomous driving as the environment is known, with predictable and repetitive traffic flows. Having an option of autonomous driving, bus operators would be able to order buses to park, drive to the wash or charging station, all by itself. It's expected that bus operators will be able to purchase such systems within 5-10 years. "During the demonstration, the fully-electric 12 m autonomous bus successfully drove itself between the parking bay and several workstations including cleaning, servicing and electric charging, before parking itself in the correct bay – all while carrying passengers." "This marks a very important step in our autonomous journey as we now have successfully shown the commercial benefits an autonomous solution can deliver in a bus depot.

Volvo Buses demonstrated autonomous driving of an electric bus at a bus depot, which happens to be the first such demo at at real depot, used by bus operator Keolis, outside of Gothenburg, Sweden. The Swedish manufacturer notes that it will take years to make buses self-driving on public roads but depots are a fairly simple application for autonomous driving as the environment is known, with predictable and repetitive traffic flows. Having an option of autonomous driving, bus operators would be able to order buses to park, drive to the wash or charging station, all by itself. It's expected that bus operators will be able to purchase such systems within 5-10 years. "During the demonstration, the fully-electric 12 m autonomous bus successfully drove itself between the parking bay and several workstations including cleaning, servicing and electric charging, before parking itself in the correct bay – all while carrying passengers." "This marks a very important step in our autonomous journey as we now have successfully shown the commercial benefits an autonomous solution can deliver in a bus depot.

Two branches of AI - Deep Learning, and Reinforcement Learning are now responsible for many real-world applications. Machine Translation, Speech Recognition, Object Detection, Robot Control, and Drug Discovery - are some of the numerous examples. Both approaches are data hungry - DL requires many examples of each class, and RL needs to play through many episodes to learn a policy. A small child can typically see an image just once, and instantly recognize it in other contexts and environments. We seem to possess an innate model/representation of how the world works, which helps us grasp new concepts and adapt to new situations fast. Humans are excellent one/few shot learners.

You have bought a small product online from your favorite retailer. Your cart value is at £4.99, now you are at the checkout and the delivery fee is an additional £7.99 on top. The scenario above represents a snapshot of one of the largest problems in online retail. With trillions of dollars spent online annually, when you buy something online, a large chunk of the cost of most shopping carts goes towards delivery. It is widely agreed by industry leaders that the global solution is to automate the last-mile delivery process, thus completely removing the human cost of delivery.

By 2029, it has been predicted that AI, IoT, Blockchain and 5G will generate $721bn in revenue per year to 60 of the largest cities in the world. A new report released by data centre giants Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) revealed that through new jobs, businesses, industries, and improved public services, 10 cities including New York City, Los Angeles and Tokyo are predicted to be the world's leading digital capitals by 2029. Other cities on the company's prediction list include, San Francisco, Singapore, London, Chicago, Toronto, Paris, and Hong Kong. "We wanted to build on previous reports and uncover the role cities will play in the future data economy," said Chris Sharp, CTO of Digital Realty. "It's no surprise that cities like New York, Tokyo and London occupy a lofty position in the report.

It's no secret that big tech companies like Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), and Alphabet (GOOG), the parent company of Google, are investing in digital healthcare. The market opportunity is pretty enticing when you consider that the U.S. alone spent $3.65 trillion on healthcare just last year. Google made the latest headline-grabbing move when it announced that it would buy wearables maker Fitbit (FIT) in a deal valued at $2.1 billion. Analysts have noted that the acquisition is part of the company's overall strategy to build an ambient intelligent system where Google is omnipresent. Another motive behind the purchase – pending regulatory approvals – is that Fitbit gives Google access to a treasure trove of healthcare data that it can feed to its London-based AI lab DeepMind or its life sciences subsidiary Verily, which is already collaborating on at least one AI healthcare device for remote patient monitoring.

Speaking at BlockShow Asia 2019, Todalarity CEO Toufi Saliba posed a hypothetical question to the audience: "How many people would take a pill that made you smarter, knowing they can be controlled by a social entity?". "Now imagine at the same time the pill has autonomous decentralized governance so that no one can control or repurpose that pill but the host – yourself." . "It is when we are at a point of centralizing data that you can begin to think about decentralization

Artificial intelligence in recent time has proved that it can do wonders. Today, AI is not only in our phones, cars, or in devices that follow our commands, but it has also become the new Picasso of this tech-driven era. In this article, we are going to take a look at some of the most amazing paintings and artworks created by AI in recent times. Recently, there were reports that two paintings by the French art collective Obvious are going to be up for auction in Sotheby's in New York this month. But the best part of this entire event is the fact that the paintings are made by artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Neural Networks … most of know these words. They're banded about as the'next big things' that promise to revolutionize the way you do business. This might well be true, but there are still many people that aren't aware of exactly what these technologies are, how they're already impacting our lives and how they have the potential to transform the way we do business. We know Siri and Alexa, the personal assistants by Apple (Siri) and Amazon (Alexa) to help us out in an increasing number of ways. Most of us know that these are AI-powered assistants, but few of us know about the thousands of algorithms, neural networks, random forests and gradient boosting that help make these assistants what they are and contribute to their growing sophistication and usefulness. Julia Medvid, Senior Client Partner at ITMAGINATION and Łukasz Dylewski, Head of Data Science, have extensive experience in introducing ITMAGINATION clients to AI and helping them to benefit from this game-changing technology.