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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (October 20) advised against the demonisation of AI and similar technology, while saying that artificial intelligence has the potential to transform people's lives. He also assured listeners that AI will not replace all human jobs in the future. Speaking at the book launch of'Bridgital Nation,' written by Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran and Roopa Purushothaman, chief economist and head of policy advocacy at the Tata Group, PM Modi was optimistic that the growing applications of artificial intelligence (AI) will not take away jobs from humans. Modi added that technology can act as a bridge between citizens and the government to meet the demand and delivery of governance services. "AI is a talent and force multiplier. The need is to build a bridge between AI and human intentions," – PM Narendra Modi.

Nvidia has revealed its new EGX edge supercomputing platform, a new push from the chipmaker to put GPUs at the forefront of artificial intelligence, IoT and 5G network infrastructure for edge environments such as factory floors, manufacturing inspection lines and city streets. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said the new EGX platform, announced at Mobile World Congress in Los Angeles on Monday, has already been adopted by Walmart, BMW, Procter & Gamble, Samsung Electronics, NTT East as well as the cities of San Francisco and Las Vegas. In addition, the company announced a new EGX integration with Microsoft Azure for edge-to-cloud AI capabilities. The new high-performance, cloud-native EGX platform, which combines Nvidia's CUDA-X software libraries and Nvidia's certified GPU servers and devices, is targeting demanding compute workloads that need to be processed close to where the data is collected. "We've entered a new era, where billions of always-on IoT sensors will be connected by 5G and processed by AI," Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO and founder, said in a statement.

Nvidia Corp. took to the stage at the Mobile World Congress in Los Angeles late Monday to announce availability of its new EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform that's all about harnessing so-called "edge data" for artificial intelligence purposes. Nvidia founder and Chief Executive Jensen Huang said EGX would enable companies to harness rapidly streaming data from factory floors or city streets to deliver "next-generation AI, Internet of Things and 5G-based services" at scale and with lower latency. "We've entered a new era, where billions of always-on IoT sensors will be connected by 5G and processed by AI," Huang said in a statement. "Its foundation requires a new class of highly secure, networked computers operated with ease from far away. We've created the Nvidia EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform for this world, where computing moves beyond personal and beyond the cloud to operate at planetary scale."

Called LOGAN, the deep neural network, i.e., a machine of sorts, can learn to transform the shapes of two different objects, for example, a chair and a table, in a natural way, without seeing any paired transforms between the shapes. All the machine had seen was a bunch of tables and a bunch of chairs, and it could automatically translate shapes between the two unpaired domains. LOGAN can also automatically perform both content and style transfers between two different types of shapes without any changes to its network architecture. The team of researchers behind LOGAN, from Simon Fraser University, Shenzhen University, and Tel Aviv University, are set to present their work at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia held Nov. 17 to 20 in Brisbane, Australia. SIGGRAPH Asia, now in its 12th year, attracts the most respected technical and creative people from around the world in computer graphics, animation, interactivity, gaming, and emerging technologies. "Shape transform is one of the most fundamental and frequently encountered problems in computer graphics and geometric modeling," says senior coauthor of the work, Hao (Richard) Zhang, professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University.

Insurance giant Humana and Microsoft announced a seven-year strategic partnership to use cloud and artificial intelligence technologies to build predictive solutions and intelligent automation to support Humana members and their care teams. Humana plans to use Microsoft's technology muscle, specifically its Azure cloud, Azure AI and Microsoft 365 collaboration technologies, as well as interoperability standards like Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) to provide care teams with real-time access to information through a cloud platform, the companies said. Providers can use these technology tools to have a more holistic view of their patients to enable better preventive care, keep up with patients' medication schedules and refills and identify social barriers to health such as food insecurity, loneliness and social isolation, Humana said. Humana's goal is to leverage technology to improve members' health outcomes and make their healthcare experiences simpler to navigate. The partnership will address two core innovation areas for Humana.

VIDIA and Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced they are expanding their alliance to deliver high-performance, software-defined 5G wireless infrastructure, running on Red Hat OpenShift, to the telecoms industry. The next generation of mobile networks won't be defined by inflexible, proprietary solutions -- it will be founded in open cloud-native technologies. The collaboration, unveiled by NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang during his keynote at MWC Los Angeles, can help telcos transition to 5G networks capable of running a range of software-defined edge workloads. Work will initially focus on 5G radio access networks (RAN), aimed at making AI-enabled applications more accessible at the telco edge. Red Hat and NVIDIA are building on their announcement earlier this year that they are accelerating adoption of Kubernetes in enterprise data centers.

The capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced the launch of the world's first university dedicated to Artificial Intelligence, in a bid to stay ahead of the disruptive technologies and diversify its economy from the reliance on oil. Named after the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and de facto leader of the UAE who has long championed science and technology development in UAE, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) will offer academic post-graduate (MSc and PhD) courses in three key fields of AI – computer vision, machine learning and natural language processing – with access to some of the world's most advanced AI systems to unleash its full potentials. All graduate-level students admitted to the school will be eligible for a full scholarship along with several benefits such as a monthly allowance, accommodation arrangements and health insurance. The first class of graduate students is scheduled to start coursework at MBZUAI campus in Masdar City, a new urban area in Abu Dhabi, in September 2020. "MBZUAI aligns with the vision of the UAE leadership that is based on sustainable development, progress and the overall well-being of humanity and underpinned by capacity-building and active participation in finding practical solutions based on innovation and state-of-the-art technology," said Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State, who also served as Chair of the university's Board of Trustees, at the press conference in Abu Dhabi.

This submission is in response to the search for ideas from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. It addresses item 3b -- the infrastructure needed to sustain leadership in artificial intelligence, and item 3d -- how data should be collected, stored, protected, and shared. If you are an analyst -- it does not matter what kind -- then like me, you eventually become begrudgingly resigned to spending most of your time preparing for, rather than actually conducting analysis. I sometimes share a dark joke with my fellow analysts. When asked how long it will take to provide an answer to a question, my response is, "About two days. But I'll see you in a month because it will take me 28 days to find, beg for access to, and clean the data I need to answer your question."

Facebook will have some extra help in its quest to fight deepfakes. Amazon Web Services is joining the Deepfake Detection Challenge as both a technical partner and as a member of the committee overseeing the challenge. It'll offer machine learning experts for "technical support and guidance," and will offer $1 million in AWS credits to teams that need cloud services to complete their detection work. The Challenge will also add two professors, the Technical University of Munich's Laura Leal-Taixé and the University of Naples Federico II's Luisa Verdoliva, as academic advisors. At the same time, Facebook is giving researchers some of the samples they need to help spot deepfakes. It's releasing the first 5,000 example videos out of the 100,000-plus created explicitly for the Challenge.