The healthcare sector, that contains a diverse array of industries with activities ranging from research to manufacturing to facilities management (pharma, medical equipment, healthcare facilities), generated in 2013 something like 153 exabytes (1 exabyte 1 billion gigabytes). It is estimated that by year 2020 the healthcare sector will generate 2,134 exabytes. To put that into perspective data centres globally will have enough space only for an estimated of 985 exabytes by 2020. Meaning that two and a half times this capacity would be required to house all the healthcare data. Big data have four V's volume, velocity (real time will be crucial for healthcare), variety and veracity (noise, abnormality, and biases). Poor data quality costs the US economy $ 3,1 trillion a year.

In the same way technology is changing the financial services industry, technology is also changing how the industry and supervisory authorities implement and enforce regulations. Today, an increasing number of supervisory authorities are turning to technology to support their work, leveraging so-called supervisory technology (suptech) applications to digitize report and regulatory processes. Suptech refers to the use of innovative technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) by supervisory agencies to support supervision. As with other regtech solutions, suptech is about improving efficiency through the use of automation, streamlining administrative and operational procedures, and digitalizing data and working tools. The main goal here is to reduce the burden on firms and allow for more proactive monitoring, better reporting, oversight and overall compliance on the regulator's side.

In the same way technology is changing the financial services industry, technology is also changing how the industry and supervisory authorities implement and enforce regulations. Today, an increasing number of supervisory authorities are turning to technology to support their work, leveraging so-called supervisory technology (suptech) applications to digitize report and regulatory processes. Suptech refers to the use of innovative technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) by supervisory agencies to support supervision. As with other regtech solutions, suptech is about improving efficiency through the use of automation, streamlining administrative and operational procedures, and digitalizing data and working tools. The main goal here is to reduce the burden on firms and allow for more proactive monitoring, better reporting, oversight and overall compliance on the regulator's side.

By now, most of us are aware of artificial intelligence (AI) being an increasingly present part of our everyday lives. But, many of us would be quite surprised to learn of some of the skills AI already knows how to do. Here are 13 mind-blowing skills artificial intelligence can already do today. Is one of your wishes to save time by only having to pay attention to the salient points of communication? Your wish has come true with artificial intelligence-powered SummarizeBot. Whether it's news articles, weblinks, books, emails, legal documents, audio and image files, and more, automatic text summarization by artificial intelligence and machine learning reads communication and reports back the essential information.

As the world is moving towards a digital age, traditional retailers face existential threats from the likes of Amazon and Walmart. To level the playing field, offline retailers are also turning to artificial intelligence as shoppers take a multichannel approach to making purchases. From helping customers find the items through visual search to personalizing their entertainment experience through chatbots, AI is revolutionizing the retail industry in a number of ways. Major retailers like Starbucks and Lowe's use AI to improve customer experience. Companies are investing hefty amounts on AI to stay on top of the game.

Scientists on Friday said they have developed a simple and inexpensive artificial intelligence (AI) system that can predict when lightning will strike any place within a 30-kilometre radius, up to 30 minutes in advance. Lightning -- one of the most unpredictable phenomena in nature -- regularly kills people and animals and sets fire to homes and forests. It keeps aircraft grounded and damages power lines, wind turbines and solar-panel installations. However, little is known about what triggers lightning, and there is no simple technology for predicting when and where lightning will strike the ground, noted the researchers from Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. The new system, described in the journal Climate and Atmospheric Science, uses a combination of standard meteorological data and artificial intelligence.

Minecraft has sold 176 million copies across all platforms, making it the best-selling video game of all time. I first learned of it in 2013, when its popularity was peaking, just before it was acquired by Microsoft when it bought the indie studio Mojang for $2.5 billion. While surviving against monsters, starvation, other players, and environmental conditions can be part of the game, the main object is to build things. Players extract resources from the environment and combine them to make construction materials, armor, weapons, and more. All the nerdiest boys in my seventh-grade class were obsessed with it; they all wore T-shirts and backpacks with the game's pixelated characters, and I would overhear them making plans to meet up in the game after class.

Backed with innovative solutions, the online casino portals experience an increase in the participation rates across the globe while accelerating business. FREMONT, CA: With many exciting transformations in the gaming industry, online casino portals are one of those concepts that experience rapid growth and popularity in recent years. Technology offers outstanding features and gaming services through digital platforms, allowing the game publishers to attract the attention of professionals and new gamers across the world. The latest gaming concept of online gambling is backed with various technologies, which include 5G, blockchain, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and more. The online casino game developers continuously look for innovative solutions to improve their applications and services and secure payment portals.

Data science has evolved far beyond science. It now represents the heart and soul of many disruptive business applications. Everywhere you look, enterprise data science practices have become industrialized within 24x7 DevOps workflows. Under that trend, automation has come to practically every process in the machine-learning DevOps pipeline that surrounds AI. Modeling is the next and perhaps ultimate milestone in the move toward end-to-end, data-science pipeline automation.

Agricultural fields are no less than a battlefield. Irrespective of terrain, geography and type, crops have to compete against scores of different weeds, species of hungry insects, nematodes and a broad array of diseases. Weeds, or invasive plants, aggressively compete for soil nutrients, light and water, posing a serious threat to agricultural production and biodiversity. Weeds directly and indirectly result in tremendous losses to the farm sector, which convert to billions each year worldwide. To combat these challenges, the farm sector is looking at Artificial Intelligence (AI) based solutions.