What are some of the most recent developments in AI? With so many emerging applications for artificial intelligence making a splash across a wide range of industries, it can be difficult to keep up. This post will touch on some cool advances made in 2019 and look at what's on the horizon. Robotics is a prime area of development for the AI community so it's no surprise that there are plenty of start-ups conducting research with the intention of taking the field further. Seattle company Olis Robotics caught the attention of GeekWire earlier this year with a solution designed to take robotics not just to the next level, but somewhere else entirely.

Intelligence: We all think we know it when we see it. But do we really understand that elusive quality? It's clear that our ideas about intelligence have evolved over time as the skills deemed necessary for survival and success have changed. Just think about the way kids roll their eyes when their parents have a hard time understanding technology. Those young folks instinctively grasp what to us seems foreign and hopelessly confounding.

Predictions for 2019 and beyond all point in the same direction – putting the client at the heart of all activities is likely to further stimulate the erosion of organizational silos around the front, middle, and back office. In turn, this will lead to the emergence of new, borderless, client-centric organizations that optimize the way value creation is executed. It, therefore, won't come as any surprise that embracing intelligent automation (IA) powered by the automation "golden triangle" of robotic process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), and smart analytics – combined and aligned with a deep understanding of processes – is paramount for any organization wishing to reach the goal of a single, aligned office. Welcome to our Intelligent Automation Special Edition.

Reliance Jio unveiled its first patent-filed innovation- an artificial intelligence (AI)-based video call assistant at the India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2019 on Monday. The feature can be accessed via a simple 4G phone call, without the need for installing any other application on the device. The company claims that the Jio video call assistant has the potential to revolutionise customer support and customer communication use cases. With this AI-based technology, telecom customers problems like endless call-hold music or seemingly never-ending Interactive voice response (IVR) wait-times may become things of the past. President of Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, Mathew Oommen said, "Jio is committed to bringing innovative and relevant digital solutions to enable and empower businesses to conduct their operations more efficiently and video call assistant is one such example of bringing a truly innovative and engaging product for millions of businesses in India."

Artificial intelligence has become one of the central pillars of eCommerce businesses. Starting from predicting the right products to outsourcing customer support by having a free-flowing chat with an AI-driven chatbot – AI's omnipresent existence is not to be ignored. But rather than stopping at that, AI has also crept into the operational half of the businesses where it deals with the challenges related to the logistics. Here are 5 ways that an AI-powered tool can improve the deliverability of your eComm business. Warehouse automation – Warehousing is often an underrated yet one of the most crucial components of a successful e-retail business.

MIT researchers have developed a model that recovers valuable data lost from images and video that have been "collapsed" into lower dimensions. The model could be used to recreate video from motion-blurred images, or from new types of cameras that capture a person's movement around corners but only as vague one-dimensional lines. While more testing is needed, the researchers think this approach could someday could be used to convert 2D medical images into more informative -- but more expensive -- 3D body scans, which could benefit medical imaging in poorer nations. "In all these cases, the visual data has one dimension -- in time or space -- that's completely lost," says Guha Balakrishnan, a postdoc in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and first author on a paper describing the model, which is being presented at next week's International Conference on Computer Vision. "If we recover that lost dimension, it can have a lot of important applications." Captured visual data often collapses data of multiple dimensions of time and space into one or two dimensions, called "projections."

Today's commercial aircraft are typically manufactured in sections, often in different locations -- wings at one factory, fuselage sections at another, tail components somewhere else -- and then flown to a central plant in huge cargo planes for final assembly. But what if the final assembly was the only assembly, with the whole plane built out of a large array of tiny identical pieces, all put together by an army of tiny robots? That's the vision that graduate student Benjamin Jenett, working with Professor Neil Gershenfeld in MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), has been pursuing as his doctoral thesis work. It's now reached the point that prototype versions of such robots can assemble small structures and even work together as a team to build up a larger assemblies. The new work appears in the October issue of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, in a paper by Jenett, Gershenfeld, fellow graduate student Amira Abdel-Rahman, and CBA alumnus Kenneth Cheung SM '07, PhD '12, who is now at NASA's Ames Research Center, where he leads the ARMADAS project to design a lunar base that could be built with robotic assembly.

Fox News Flash top headlines for Oct. 15 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com Businessman and 2020 hopeful Andrew Yang had a blunt assessment of the way Microsoft's commercial search engine has performed. During Tuesday's Democratic debate, Yang knocked the company while discussing Sen. Elizabeth Warren's plan to break up big tech firms like Facebook. Warren, D-Mass., has pushed for more competition in the industry but Yang indicated that wasn't always necessary.

Today's announcement was made from the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference taking place this week in Chicago, IL. To learn more about SnapLogic for higher education, stop by SnapLogic Booth #1114 on the conference showfloor. Today's progressive universities and colleges are embracing the cloud, unifying their applications and systems, and putting data at the center of their strategies to enrich the experience of their diverse constituents: Student Engagement: The majority of incoming students are digital natives who expect consistent, real-time access to information on housing, parking, class schedule, grades, financial aid, and more, ideally delivered via a one-stop-shop online portal. Data-driven Faculty: Faculty are leveraging digital tools to tailor, personalize, and optimize learning for students, both in the classroom and via online courses. At the individual student level, many professors are leveraging data to identify students who may be struggling and require additional attention.

Kolkata: Global consultancy giant PwC is setting up a'Centre of Excellence' (CoE) in artificial intelligence (AI) in the city, which will generate around 1,200 jobs. Besides, it would also build an IoT (Internet of Things) lab in the city which, too, would be first of its kind in the country. To man these state-of-the-art facilities, the consultancy major is looking reverse migration of workforce from Hyderabad, Pune and Bengaluru to the city. Arnab Basu, managing partner (east), PwC India, told TOI that it would invest Rs 100 crore for setting up these facilities in the state. The consultancy major had earlier set up another CoE or analytics in the city.