Around the globe, a majority of Millennial parents say they are very likely to seek out a doctor using AI for cancer diagnoses should their child or a family member need such an evaluation. A majority of Millennial parents in China (94%), India (88%) and Brazil (78%) would be very likely to seek out a doctor using AI for cancer diagnoses for their child or a family member, while 59% of U.K. parents and 53% of U.S. parents are very likely to do so.

The IEEE Generation AI 2019: Third Annual Study of Millennial Parents and Generation Alpha Kids illuminates the trust Millennial parents in the U.S., U.K., India, China and Brazil with Generation Alpha children (nine years-old or younger) have in using AI and emerging technologies for the health and wellness of their children. Born from 2010-2025, Generation Alpha is considered to be the most tech-infused demographic to date. Explore below how the future of health and wellness technologies will transform our modern medical practices and impact the lives of families using them.

Microsoft AI chief Harry Shum is leaving after 23 years at the Redmond, Wash. Shum, the executive vice president in charge of Microsoft's AI and Research Group, will depart in Feb. 1, 2020, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed Wednesday. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott will take over Shum's responsibilities while maintaining his previous work. The change is effective immediately. Shum, who also led Microsoft Research, will continue advising Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and co-founder Bill Gates, but it's unclear what else is on the horizon for Shum.

The basics of 5G start simply: 5G stands for the telecom providers' fifth-generation technology. You already knew that, or perhaps don't need to know that – the semantics aren't what will impact your business. You also already know 5G's overarching promise: It will be faster than previous generations. It's the business impacts that may not yet be as clear-cut. Experts generally concur this is more a matter of when than if.

Around the world, an enormous amount of money is being spent on bandwidth and network equipment as communications service providers (CSPs) strive to deliver optimal Quality of Experience (QoE) across a range of existing and planned services. During 2018, in the US alone, communication service providers' (CSP) broadband CAPEX rose more than $2.2B. Looking forward, McKinsey predicts that 5G will cause network TCO to grow by 60% between 2020 and 2025. Not all these numbers reflect pure bandwidth costs – but, clearly, an enormous amount of money is being spent on bandwidth and network equipment as CSPs work to deliver optimal Quality of Experience (QoE) across a range of existing and planned services. We surveyed CSPs about QoE, and their thoughts and our analysis appear in the Driving QoE Telco Smart Trends Report that was just published.

Any business in its right mind should be painfully aware of how much money they could bleed via skillful Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams, where fraudsters convincingly forge emails, invoices, contracts and letters to socially engineer the people who hold the purse strings. And any human in their right mind should be at least a little freaked out by how easy it now is to churn out convincing deepfake videos – including, say, of you, cast in an adult movie, or of your CEO saying things that… well, they would simply never say. Well, welcome to a hybrid version of those hoodwinks: deepfake audio, which was recently used in what's considered to be the first known case of an AI-generated voice of a CEO to bilk a UK-based energy firm out of €220,000 (USD $243,000). The Wall Street Journal reports that some time in March, the British CEO thought he had gotten a call from the CEO of his business's parent company, which is based in Germany. Whoever placed the call sounded legitimate.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) jobs recruiting is accelerating rapidly with many more open jobs available than there are qualified candidates to fill them. This is particularly true for AI software engineers. This was confirmed during my recent appearance on CBS Radio affiliate WBBM News Radio 780 on Thursday, September 12, 2019. Please click here to listen to my segment in its entirety. The demand for software developers in all categories is literally skyrocketing as companies across many industries aim to become software driven.

When Avi Yagil, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of California San Diego flew home from Europe in 2012, he thought he had caught a cold from his travels. When a "collection of pills" did not improve his symptoms, his wife encouraged him to see a doctor. Further tests revealed something far more life-threatening to Yagil than the common cold. "A chest X-Ray showed my lungs were flooded with fluid, and a subsequent echocardiogram found I had damage to my heart." Yagil was diagnosed with heart failure.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a notice in the Federal Register last month saying it's seeking comments, as spotted by TorrentFreak. "Should authors be recognized for this type of use of their works?" asks the office. Earlier this year, the office similarly asked for public opinion on AI and patents. None of these questions have concrete answers in US law, but people have been debating the potential outcomes for years. The situation might be a little clearer when you're looking at something like an AI-based app where a user has to make a lot of decisions to shape the end result.

They've developed an app that could change the way clinicians diagnose mental illness. Whether you're scrolling Facebook or talking to Siri, you're already interacting with artificial intelligence or AI – smart machines that learn through analyzing data. "AI has the potential to learn a lot of things that humans aren't able to learn," said CU graduate student Chelsea Chandler. Chandler is part of a team using AI to tackle a much heavier subject. "We can collect data about their mental state," said CU Research Professor Peter Foltz.