Concerns about AI's use remain, however, including security risks and biases it could introduce into hiring and society as a whole as well as bad decisions it might make due to poor underlying data quality. Here's a snapshot of the present and future of AI, told in 11 statistics: That's a 14 percent increase, more than the current economic output of China and India combined, a PwC study projects. Some $6.6 trillion of the boost will come from increased productivity, while $9.1 trillion will arrive as a result of increased economic consumption. PwC concludes that AI is "the biggest commercial opportunity in today's fast-changing economy." The biggest global winners will be China and North America.

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Artificial intelligence is better than humans at playing chess or go, but still has trouble holding a conversation or driving a car. A simple way to think about the discrepancy is through the lens of "common sense" -- there are features of the world, from the fact that tables are solid to the prediction that a tree won't walk across the street, that humans take for granted but that machines have difficulty learning. Melanie Mitchell is a computer scientist and complexity researcher who has written a new book about the prospects of modern AI. We talk about deep learning and other AI strategies, why they currently fall short at equipping computers with a functional "folk physics" understanding of the world, and how we might move forward. Melanie Mitchell received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan.

IBM has announced the winner of an international competition that sought disaster response technologies from across industry and academia. Prometeo, winner of the Call for Code 2019 Global Challenge, is an artificial intelligence system that works to protect firefighters during operations, IBM said Saturday. The arm-strapped, smartphone-sized device measures external factors that affect firefighters, such as smoke concentration, humidity and temperature. The system then links with IBM's Cloud Internet of Things platform and a machine learning model to help command centers monitor firefighter health in real time. Software developers, a nurse and a firefighter compose the Barcelona-based team that produced Prometeo.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming and improving the ways that industries like healthcare, banking, energy, and retail operate. However, there is one industry in particular that offers incredible potential for the application of AI technologies: education. The opportunities -- and challenges -- that the introduction of artificial intelligence could bring to higher education are significant. Today's colleges and universities face a wide range of challenges, including disengaged students, high dropout rates, and the ineffectiveness of a traditional "one-size-fits-all" approach to education. But when big data analytics and artificial intelligence are used correctly, personalized learning experiences can be created, which may in turn help to resolve some of these challenges.

The new funding opportunity will distribute approximately $120 million in 2020 to fund planning grants and up to six research institutes focused on advanced research powered by artificial intelligence. The National Science Foundation has announced a new joint federal program to fund research focused on artificial intelligence at colleges, universities and nonprofit or nonacademic organizations focused on educational or research activities. The National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program expects to award approximately $120 million in 2020 to fund planning grants and up to six research institutes. The planning track will provide project planning support for up to two years and $500,000 for teams to develop communities and capacity for full institute operations. The institute track will support cooperative agreements between $16 million and $20 million for four to five years.

Microsoft UK has reported an "encouraging increase" in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in healthcare. In a survey of the use of AI in UK industry, 46% of healthcare leaders reported their organisation used the technology in some capacity, reflecting an 8% increase compared to 2018. The biggest growth areas reported were research-level AI, which grew 13% in the past 12 months. Robot process automation (RPA) and general automation both increased by 10%, while the use of voice recognition technology increased by 9%. The study, conducted by YouGov, included the input of some 1,000 business leaders and 4,000 employees.

Five Dutch companies Ahold Delhaize, ING, KLM, NS and Philips aim to further boost the AI ecosystem in the Netherlands by accelerating and promoting the development of AI technology and nurturing AI talent in the country. This effort will add educational capacity, foster the development of the AI community in the Netherlands and reiterate the position of the Netherlands as a competitive and relevant global AI hub. The goal of Kickstart AI, is to bridge the AI gap between the Netherlands and other countries, like the UK, the US and China, that have made notable progress in this area. In order to keep the country's position as a pioneer and inventor of technologies, the Dutch government, companies, organizations and universities have ground to cover in terms of structural investments and availability of global AI talent. The five companies "kickstarting" AI are, for the first time, uniting forces in this kind of joint initiative and taking highly needed decisive action.

Five Dutch companies Ahold Delhaize, ING, KLM, NS and Philips aim to further boost the AI ecosystem in the Netherlands by accelerating and promoting the development of AI technology and nurturing AI talent in the country. This effort will add educational capacity, foster the development of the AI community in the Netherlands and reiterate the position of the Netherlands as a competitive and relevant global AI hub. The goal of Kickstart AI, is to bridge the AI gap between the Netherlands and other countries, like the UK, the US and China, that have made notable progress in this area. In order to keep the country's position as a pioneer and inventor of technologies, the Dutch government, companies, organizations and universities have ground to cover in terms of structural investments and availability of global AI talent. The five companies "kickstarting" AI are, for the first time, uniting forces in this kind of joint initiative and taking highly needed decisive action.

Because of this healthcare worker shortage, some US hospitals with patient populations dominated by the older, the sicker, and the inactive are even closing their doors. According to analyses conducted by Mercer and the Association of American Medical Colleges, by 2025 – the year the World Economic Forum predicts machines will do half of human workers' tasks, no less – healthcare will face a shortfall of more than 731,000 total jobs – including roles like doctors, surgeons, nursing assistants, nurse practitioners, lab technicians, and home health aides. Talk of robots replacing human doctors misses the point. When it comes down to it, even the most advanced AI tool is extremely limited, knowing a great deal about a very narrow area of knowledge – kind of like if someone could recite every work of Shakespeare from memory but didn't know Shakespeare's first name. Humans, in contrast, know a little bit about many different things – like if a doctor knew how to chop garlic, how to perform heart surgery, and how to write in iambic pentameter.