IRVINE, Calif. and Singapore – Nov. 5, 2019 – Ephesoft, Inc., an industry leader in enterprise content capture and data discovery solutions, today announced its collaboration with Tokio Marine Asia, the regional headquarters of the global insurance group that offers an extensive selection of General and Life insurance products and solutions worldwide. Ephesoft and Tokio Marine Asia, along with Tokio Marine Life Insurance (Thailand), will work together to solve language, data and document challenges that are prevalent throughout Thailand. The collaboration marks the insurance company's focus on expanding its footprint of automation in the fast-burgeoning Thai economy. Improving its approach by automating various manual heavy documentation processes across the insurance space will benefit both their customers and employees. "Ephesoft has a strong commitment to meeting our customers where they are and addressing their unique challenges, regardless of geographic location," said Ike Kavas, founder and CEO at Ephesoft.

The National Crime Records Bureau in India (NCRB) has conceptualized the Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) for India and is seeking applications for its adoption. This is an effort in the direction of modernizing the police force, information gathering, criminal identification, verification and its dissemination among various police organizations and units across the country. The Government has invited companies to bid for the project, which will be used to identify people such as criminals, missing children/persons, unidentified dead bodies and unknown traced children/persons by matching their images against a database of images. This would greatly facilitate the investigation of crime and detection of criminals and provide information for easier and faster analysis. The AFRS solution will be implemented by the solution provider selected through a bid process.

Yet the most impressive demo was much subtler: Abhay Parasnis, Adobe's CTO, was showing a portrait photo he'd taken on a recent trip to India. Each time he selected a new lighting effect, it would cast a different pattern of shadows, highlights, and colors across the subject's face, as if someone was rearranging the room's lighting around him. The Adobe Photoshop Camera app, which is launching though an invite-based preview program today, is the culmination of Adobe's efforts to bring its Sensei AI services to a consumer product, and it's part of a broader attempt to expand the company's software beyond the realm of creative professionals. "For the engineer in me, this is super, super cool," Parasnis says. "Consumers can now express themselves in ways that were just impossible before."

Kicking off the Washington edition of our GPU Technology Conference, Buck, NVIDIA's VP for accelerated computing, detailed a new generation of technologies that will help companies put modern AI to work. Buck also announced that the United States Postal Service -- the world's largest delivery service, with 146 billion pieces of mail processed and delivered annually -- is adopting end-to-end AI technology from NVIDIA. "The challenge is how do we take AI from innovation to actually applying AI," Buck told an audience of more than 3,500 developers, CIOs and federal employees at the three-day GTC DC. "Our challenge, NVIDIA's challenge, and my challenge is'How can I bring AI to industries and activate it.'" Over the course of his hour-long talk, Buck explained how modern AI is trained and deployed, and described how NVIDIA is adapting AI for the automotive, healthcare, robotics, and 5G industries, among others. The U.S. Postal Service offers a glimpse at what's possible. Buck said the U.S. Postal Service will roll out a deep learning solution based on NVIDIA EGX to 200 processing facilities that should be operational in 2020.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and HSINCHU, Taiwan, Nov. 5, 2019 – GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) and SiFive, Inc. announced today at GLOBALFOUNDRIES Technology Conference (GTC) in Taiwan that they are working to extend high DRAM performance levels with High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2E) on GF's recently announced 12LP FinFET solution, with 2.5D packaging design services to enable fast time-to-market for Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. In order to achieve the capacity and bandwidth for data-intensive AI training applications, system designers are challenged with squeezing more bandwidth into a smaller area while maintaining a reasonable power profile. SiFive's customizable high bandwidth memory interface on GF's 12LP platform and 12LP solution will enable easy integration of high bandwidth memory into a single System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions to deliver fast, power-efficient data processing for AI applications in the computing and wired infrastructure markets. As a part of the collaboration, designers will also have access to SiFive's RISC-V IP portfolio and DesignShare IP ecosystem, which will leverage GF's 12LP Design Technology Co-Optimization (DTCO), enabling them to significantly increase silicon specialization, improve design efficiency and deliver differentiated SoC solutions quickly and cost-effectively. "Extending SiFive's reference IP platform, with HBM2E, on GF's best-in-class performance 12LP solution delivers new levels of performance and integration for next generation SoCs and accelerators," said Mohit Gupta, vice president and general manager, IP Business Unit at SiFive.

Chinese internet company ByteDance is set to release a 24-hour artificial intelligence (AI) teacher for K-12 students in China by 2020. In 2018, ByteDance challenged the Tencent-backed VIPKid when they launched Gogokid, an online English teaching platform. Then, in May 2019, the company officially released an online education portal offering mathematics and language courses for K-12, taught by graduates of Peking and Tsinghua universities, the top two universities in China. Since July this year, ByteDance has focused on testing a new English learning application, Tangyuan English, which features a mode using a combination'AI real person' teaching workout. This marks the third English language learning product by ByteDance, following Open Language and Dubaibeidanci.

In the 200th episode of The Life Scientific, Jim Al-Khalili finds out why Demis Hassabis wants to create artificial intelligence and use it to help humanity. Thinking about how to win at chess when he was a boy got Demis thinking about the process of thinking itself. Being able to program his first computer (a Sinclair Spectrum) felt miraculous. In computer chess, his two passions were combined. And a lifelong ambition to create artificial intelligence was born.

In the last few years facial recognition has been gradually introduced across a range of different technologies. Some of these are relatively modest and useful; thanks to facial recognition software you can open you smartphone just by looking at it, and log into your PC without a password. You can even use your face to get cash out of an ATM, and increasingly it's becoming a standard part of your journey through the airport now. And facial recognition is still getting smarter. Increasingly it's not just faces that can be recognised, but emotional states too, if only with limited success right now.

Self-driving vehicles are getting a lot of attention as companies pour billions of dollars into developing the vehicles of the future. While cars that drive themselves are still a few years away, Hyundai Motor Group isn't waiting. Calling it a first for the industry, Hyundai announced 22 October machine learning-based smart cruise control, a technology that learns the driver's patterns and incorporates that into the cruise control. To make this possible, Hyundai is embedding artificial intelligence into the Advanced Driver Assistance System feature of its vehicles. The technology is planned to be included in future vehicles of the South Korean car manufacturer.

Perpetual: invites you to our Annual Speaker Series event. The event will feature a keynote by Chris Butt, CEO of Cognisess and our Talent Development Team, Duke Maines and Lauren Rath. A panel discussion will follow. Cognisess is the most advanced workforce planning and assessment platform in the enterprise market using AI, Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics to help businesses optimize their most valuable asset: their people. It processes and analyses Hiring & Workforce Data to better understand and predict the performance and potential of people throughout the life-cycle of their employment.