Are you intimidated when you hear the word AI (artificial intelligence)? On today's episode, Jon talks with Stuart Sherman about why you should not be intimidated by AI. Stuart is the founder and CEO of IMC, the leader in artificial intelligence. Listen in and discover what you need to know about AI, what it can do for us right now and how we can actually use it to make our lives easier. "If there's a process that you're doing repeatedly, you should be looking to see if there's a piece of software that will do it for you." Jon Voigt: Welcome to Agile Living: The Entrepreneur's Journey, the show dedicated to discovering how entrepreneurs and digital leaders are doing more with less. I'm Jon Voigt, your host and CEO of Agility, and we're on a journey across the country to learn from top digital entrepreneurs on how to live a more agile, adaptable, and fulfilling life. Thank you for joining me today, and let's dive in.

China's push to become a world tech power, which has paid off with advances in telecommunications, batteries and robots, is yielding further results -- it's taken a leadership position in A.I. powered education investments. The country is among the most-active regions for artificial intelligence-powered edtech investments, with K-12 classes, foreign language study and high-quality education getting the most attention, according to a Deloitte report released this week. Almost 20% of all education deals in the country last year involved AI compared with 4% in 2016, Deloitte said. "Although China is a late-comer in AI-based education, its unique advantages in application and implementation make it one of the most popular regions for investment in AI-based education globally," the report said. The report singled out what it sees as the next big opportunity in edtech: so-called soft skill-focused "quality education," similar to the west's STEAM model, which adds art to the original emphasis on science, technology, engineering and math.

The world's largest drone manufacturer has announced plans for a new smartphone app that lets users identify mysterious drones flying around their neighborhood. Developed by DJI, the Shenzhen based drone giant, the unnamed app is targeted for a release in early 2020 pending approval by government regulators. The app will have a range of around .6 miles using WiFi Aware, a new communication protocol that allows WiFi-enabled devices to communicate with one another. DJI announced the new app at the United Nations-sponsored Drone Enable conference in Montreal this week. 'We've created a remote identification solution that works with what people already have,' DJI's Brendan Schulman told Reuters.

Last year, at Insight 2018 in Dallas TX, Deltek committed to investing in emerging technologies to improve the user experience at every stage of the project lifecycle. We continue to develop these efforts to help streamline work, save time and addresses challenges within your project-based business. We've been busy delivering on our promise and we're excited to share with some of the latest technologies that will add additional purposeful innovation into Deltek's solutions for project-based businesses. No one likes to create an expense report – ever – but it's a must-have in a world where they are required for billing and auditing purposes. Our responsibility to the market is to make this process as quick and easy without giving up the necessary controls to meet your business requirements.

Advances in new digital technologies, the emergence of new competitors, new sourcing models, and changing customer expectations are dramatically changing the type of IT skills enterprises across industry verticals require. And, with new service delivery paradigms such as automation, agile, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) becoming mainstream, the underlying service delivery models to support the new talent demand profile are also undergoing significant changes. We expect technology themes such as data management and analytics, omnichannel customer experience, and cloud adoption to dominate near-term demand, and cybersecurity, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based application design, and agile delivery methodologies to become mainstream. So, what does this mean from a talent perspective? Below are four takeaways from Everest Group's recent research, much of which is detailed in a newly-released viewpoint titled Closing the Gap – The Future of IT Skills in the United States.

Is there anything today that can't possibly be done by Artificial Intelligence? From self-driving cars, 3D printing, sex robots that can breathe, and many other AI innovations, AI can do just about everything. To that end, researchers from Pennsylvania healthcare provider, Geisinger have trained an AI to predict which patients are at risk of dying within a course of a year, reports New Scientist. SEE ALSO: Chrome's New Feature Uses AI To Describe Images For Blind And Low-Vision Users Artificial Intelligence can reportedly determine when a person will die based on their heart test results, even if these results look normal to doctors. Dr. Brandon Fornwalt at the healthcare provider, Geisinger, trained the AI with examining 1.77 million electrocardiogram (ECG) results from almost 400,000 people to predict patterns that signal towards future cardiac issues.

Technique key to scale up manufacturing of therapies from induced pluripotent stem cells. Researchers used artificial intelligence (AI) to evaluate stem cell-derived "patches" of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) tissue for implanting into the eyes of patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness. The proof-of-principle study helps pave the way for AI-based quality control of therapeutic cells and tissues. The method was developed by researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and is described in a report appearing online today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. NEI is part of the National Institutes of Health.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a cornerstone of the digital revolution. While we've heard of AI for many years, today we sit at a unique crossroads where the volume of data, accessibility of computational power and evolution of algorithms such as deep learning have come together to empower the digital revolution in ways that have never been seen before. To explore AI and where it can take us, the University of Louisville (UofL) College of Business has founded the AI Innovation Consortium (AIIC) with participation from several industry leaders such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), General Electric Appliances (GEA), Amgen, V-Soft Consulting and other Fortune 1000 companies. The AIIC is a Louisville-based think tank of IT and advanced technology thought leaders focusing on how AI can propel organizations and our community forward. Specifically, the AIIC will build standards and best practices that help drive AI adoption, evolve privacy, data governance and bias, guiding principles and effectively align AI evolution.

A famous television series kicked off with its first episode titled "Winter is Coming." This phrase ended up carrying more weight than just the arrival of a season in the fictional series. In real life, some might say another monumental event is nearly upon us: Black Friday. References to Black Friday began as early as the 1950's in the United States. It wasn't until the 1980's that it came to refer to the retail shopping period following the Thanksgiving holiday, with one explanation suggesting the color indicated this being the time at which retail companies moved from operating at a loss (or "in the red") to profitability ("in the black").

In Southeast Asia, e-commerce is big business, with Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand generating US$14.8 billion in online sales throughout 2016. According to a 2019 study from Facebook and Bain & Company, ASEAN's digital consumers' spending will triple by 2025. Within the e-commerce sector, online retailers are already embracing artificial intelligence (AI) applications such as chatbots, to deliver a more personal experience for shoppers online. According to a 2018 article by Rene Millman titled'Adoption of AI booming in Southeast Asia,' the adoption rate of AI in the region grew to 14 percent in 2018. The article, citing an IDC report'Asia Pacific Enterprise Cognitive/AI Survey,' revealed that 37 percent of companies would put AI adoption plans in place in the next five years.