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Global annual spending on artificial intelligence by retailers will top $7.3 billion by 2022. Paradoxically, only 1% of AI initiatives reach full-scale deployment as seen from our recent research. In this episode, Nisheeth Srivastava, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for Capgemini India discusses how emerging trends in AI are reshaping the retail value chain.

AI research at US agencies includes work on autonomous systems, predictive maintenance, smart cities technology, and more. The US government sees a need for increased emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI) research and development. To address this, the federal government plans to spend almost $1 billion in nondefense artificial intelligence research and development in fiscal 2020, according to a supplemental report to the president's budget request. See also: Real-Time Analytics in Big, "Brutal" Environments Already work is underway across agencies to make use of all forms AI, including projects involving applications of continuous intelligence (CI) based on AI-assisted, real-time analysis of streaming data. NASA: To accommodate longer journeys, NASA is funding a project to build smart habitats that are livable and operate autonomously while vacant.

Jenny Sabin is perched high on a scissor lift, her head poking through an opening of the porous fabric structure that she's struggling to stretch onto the exoskeleton of her installation piece, which is suspended in the airy atrium of building 99 on Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, campus. Momentarily defeated, she pauses and looks up. "It's going to be gorgeous," she says. "It" is a glowing, translucent and ethereal pavilion that Sabin and her Microsoft collaborators describe as both a research tool and a glimpse into a future in which architecture and artificial intelligence merge. "To my knowledge, this installation is the first architectural structure to be driven by artificial intelligence in real time," said Sabin, principal designer at Jenny Sabin Studio in Ithaca, New York, who designed and built the pavilion as part of Microsoft's Artist in Residence program.

Sensitive synthetic skin enables robots to sense their own bodies and surroundings--a crucial capability if they are to be in close contact with people. Inspired by human skin, a team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a system combining artificial skin with control algorithms and used it to create the first autonomous humanoid robot with full-body artificial skin. The artificial skin developed by Prof. Gordon Cheng and his team consists of hexagonal cells about the size of a two-euro coin (i.e. about one inch in diameter). Each is equipped with a microprocessor and sensors to detect contact, acceleration, proximity and temperature. Such artificial skin enables robots to perceive their surroundings in much greater detail and with more sensitivity.

By 2021, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will more than double the rate of innovation at organizations (x2.2 times) and employee productivity (x2.3 times) in India, according to the country's business leaders. The study by Microsoft and IDC Asia/Pacific – 'Future Ready Business: Assessing Asia Pacific's Growth Potential Through AI – surveyed 200 business leaders and 202 workers in India. The findings were released by Rohini Srivathsa, National Technology Officer, Microsoft India and Ranganath Sadasiva, Director, Enterprise, IDC, in the presence of Girish Nayak, Chief – Service, Operations & Technology, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd. The survey – conducted with 1,560 business decision makers in mid and large-sized organizations across 15 economies in the region – highlights that while 77% of business leaders polled agreed that AI is instrumental for their organization's competitiveness, only one-third of organizations in India have embarked on their AI journeys. Those companies that have adopted AI expect it to increase their competitiveness by 2.3 times in 2021.

EHRs are a potential treasure trove of information beyond the needs and circumstances of specific patients, but who has time to pore through them to find it? It turns out, perhaps, another machine. That's the thinking behind a study published recently at npj Digital Medicine that specifically explored using deep machine learning methods to extract information regarding the post-surgical safety performance of implanted medical devices, in this case using hip replacements as a test case. To be sure, any medical device has to meet safety standards set by the FDA, but as Nigam Shah, PhD, associate professor of medicine and biomedical data science at Stanford and the study's lead author, pointed out, "The safety standards required by the FDA are for initial approval of the device's use. What we need is a scalable way -- beyond self-reporting -- to see how safe and effective these devices are in a population after years of use."

Spending on IT across the UAE has been witnessing a steady increase, driven by businesses looking to increase efficiency, improve performance, and reduce costs, by investing in artificial intelligence systems, experts said. "We are definitely seeing a significant increase in AI adoption in the UAE," Ali Hyder, group chief executive officer of Focus Softnet, told Khaleej Times. "AI is changing the way we use technology and conduct business, communicate with our customers/vendors and analyse our data. It has the potential to bring change on a wide scale to organisations, where customer and operational data is primary to the business. AI presents organisations with tremendous opportunities to augment human capabilities across industries and this technology is transforming systems through creativity and agility."

Trust in artificial intelligence technology is rising sharply across healthcare, with many leaders predicting tangible cost savings in under three years. WHY IT MATTERS That's boosting investment in AI systems, according to a new Optum survey of 500 U.S. health industry leaders from hospitals, health plans, life sciences and employers, which also found 22 percent of respondents are in the late stages of AI strategy implementation. The study found revealed a nearly 90 percent increase in the number of respondents who said their organizations have a strategy in place and have implemented AI, with an average investment of just under $40 million over the next five years. Administrative process improvements top the list of investment priorities, led by technologies to help automate business processes like administrative tasks or customer service. Artificial intelligence is also expected to boost job growth and expand employment opportunities, according to survey respondents, although training in AI is seen as a stumbling block – nearly nine in 10 respondents said AI training is not happening fast enough.

"With its inherent capability of automation and machine learning capabilities, AI helps in multi-tasking, helps people with different abilities perform like …