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Paris, October 17, 2019 – As new technologies automate more traditional and routine tasks, executives and employees recognise that emotional intelligence (EI) skills – such as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management – will be a key requisite for success in the years to come. While demand for EI skills is set to increase by six times in the next 3-5 years, recruitment and training in this area has mostly failed to adapt. This is set to leave many companies unable to reap the benefits EI offers in terms of employee satisfaction, revenue generation, lower attrition and cost reductions. The "Emotional intelligence – the essential skillset for the age of AI" report from the Capgemini Research Institute provides a global look at how companies view EI and recommends that they combine technology with talent to develop relevant skills among their employees. As more traditional and routine tasks become automated, organisations are placing a premium on EI skills, from self-awareness to relationship management and communication.

Today, there are definite use cases being deployed using Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine learning (ML) with a much wider impact on the society in the areas of healthcare, education, travel, governance to name a few. To evangelise and showcase the immense potential of AI and Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud technology and service provider has been continuously interacting with ecosystem through events, demonstration of use cases and most importantly the progress these technologies have made till now. One of the best ways to create awareness about AI and Machine Learning is to always reach out to the first port of call which is the developer community. The recent event in Bengaluru called the AWS AI & Machine Learning Day brought the ecosystem players together be it the developers, entrepreneurs, startups, technologists and venture capitalists. This ensured that there is a free flow of ideas, suggestions and much needed stimulation for the brain cells.

When speaking of the Department of Defense's artificial intelligence research and development, a panel of academics and the Pentagon's top A.I. officials agreed the effort is underfunded and understaffed. The threat, however, is ever-present and adversaries are devoting significant amounts of money and personnel to develop A.I., Air Force Lt. Gen. John Shanahan, the director of the Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, told USNI News after a panel discussion Tuesday at The Promise and The Risk Of the A.I. Revolution conference, hosted by the U.S. Naval Institute at the U.S. Naval Academy. "At its core, we are in a strategic competition," Shanahan said. "We're in a strategic competition against a peer adversary -- not near-peer -- but peer." Russia and China are devoting vast amounts of resources to develop A.I. capabilities, Shanahan said.

Global customer success veteran to drive deeper product solution and platform adoption across customer base as company continues to scale. Houston: PROS (NYSE: PRO), a provider of AI-powered solutions that optimize selling in the digital economy, today announced that John Allessio, a recognized expert at building successful customer implementation and adoption programs, has joined the company as Chief Customer Officer – a new role that will accelerate investments in professional services, customer success, and customer and partner enablement, while supporting the company's aggressive growth plan. Serving in global leadership roles at Red Hat and IBM, Allessio brings more than 30 years of customer success, support and enable experience to PROS. In this role, Allessio reports directly to Andres Reiner, PROS President and CEO, and is responsible for driving end-to-end customer experience, increasing user adoption of PROS solutions and powering the PROS partner program to accelerate growth across the company. "PROS growth strategy is defined by the ability to deliver exceptional customer value at scale," said Reiner.

But can some of the same tools--specifically those that power computer vision--be used to remove the drudgery and long hours VFX artists face when it comes to rotoscoping? Oscar Estrada, a recent graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology's Motion Picture Science program, was determined to find out. Estrada presented his research Oct. 21, the opening day of the SMPTE 2019 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. In his presentation, "Rotoscope Automation with Deep Learning," Estrada laid out his thesis research looking at whether the use of a convolutional neural network could be used to extract a person or persons from a video clip without human intervention. Convolutional neural networks are particularly well-suited to the task of rotoscoping as opposed to other neural network techniques, especially when large images like 4K are at play, he said.

Artificial intelligence and facial analysis software is being used in job interviews in the UK for the first time - as companies turn to technology to find the best candidates. The software, developed by US company HireVue, analyses language and tone and records the facial expressions of candidates as they answer questions on video, the Telegraph reported. It has already been adopted by 700 companies across the world, including Hilton, Unilever, Urban Outfitters and Vodafone, and is said to have hosted more than 100,000 interviews in the UK to date. HireVue claims to increase a firm's quality of hire by 88 per cent, diversity by 55 per cent, and fill roles in a company 90 per cent faster. It does so by using algorithms to evaluate an applicant's 15-minute video against 25,000 pieces of data gathered from previous'successful' hires.

The second AI HW Summit took place in the heart of Silicon Valley on September 17-18, with nearly fifty speakers presenting to over 500 attendees (almost twice the size of last year's inaugural audience). While I cannot possibly cover all the interesting companies on display in a short blog, there are a few observations I'd like to share. Computer architecture legend John Hennessy, Chairman of Alphabet and former President of Stanford University, set the stage for the event by describing how historical semiconductor trends, including the untimely demise of Moore's Law and Dennard scaling, led to the demand and opportunity for "Domain-Specific Architectures." This "DSA" concept applies not only to novel hardware designs but to the new software architecture of deep neural networks. The challenge is to create and train massive neural networks and then optimize those networks to run efficiently on a DSA, be it a CPU, GPU, TPU, ASIC, FPGA or ACAP, for "inference" processing of new input data.

Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. You've heard of self-driving cars and trucks, flying cars, and probably even self-driving cargo ships, but soon we'll be able to add a new type of vehicle to the self-driving category – spacecraft. And if you're going to spend millions of dollars on a spacecraft, you might as well try to cram in as much as possible. With that in mind, the European Space Agency (ESA) has now detailed the "side mission" it's planning for the asteroid-visiting spacecraft Hera. After the projects main work is accomplished, which is to bump the asteroid off course, the new spacecraft will then test out some new autonomous navigation systems, which should help future spacecraft get around without relying on ground control all the way back on Earth – something that the agency sees as a necessity as we continue to explore the further reaches of space – and one day visit them.

According to the headlines, the Age of Artificial Intelligence is dark and dystopian -- with self-aware, killer robots coming for us all. Such storylines make for blockbuster movies, but they lack a true understanding of AI, how quickly it's developing and what technological barriers exist. The Age of AI is coming, and fast, and there is plenty to be concerned about. Most of the world, including the United States, is unprepared to reap many of the economic and societal benefits offered by AI or mitigate the inevitable risks. Getting there will take decades.