A San Francisco-based construction tech startup that recently received a $14 million stamp of approval from investors is also impressing the construction managers who use its software. OpenSpace, maker of an artificial intelligence-driven technology that captures and analyzes construction site data, received the capital infusion this summer. Investors include co-working giant WeWork as well as two well-known industry stalwarts with experience using the platform: Suffolk Construction and real estate developer Tishman Speyer. The financing marks the company's first raise since it closed on a $3.5 million seed round after its founding in September 2017. The software uses artificial intelligence to create navigable, 360-degree photo representations of a site.

Artificial intelligence offers a lot of advantages for organisations by creating better and more efficient organisations, improving customer services with conversational AI and reducing a wide variety of risks in different industries. Although we are only at the start of the AI revolution, we can already see that artificial intelligence will have a profound effect on our lives, both positively and negatively. The financial impact of AI on the global economy is estimated to reach US$15.7 trillion by 2030, with 40% of jobs expected to be lost due to artificial intelligence, and global venture capital investment in AI is growing to greater than US$27 billion in 2018. Such estimates of AI potential relate to a broad understanding of its nature and applicability. AI will eventually consist of entirely novel and unrecognisable forms of intelligence, and we can see the first signals of this in the rapid developments of AI. In 2017, Google's Deepmind developed AlphaGo Zero, an AI agent that learned the abstract strategy board game Go with a far more expansive range of moves than chess. Within three days, by playing thousands of games against itself, and without the requirement of large volumes of data (which would normally be required in developing AI), the AI agent beat the original AlphaGo, an algorithm that had beaten 18-time world champion Lee Sedol.

Chatbots and other AI-assisted customer service tools are on the rise as an efficient, automated way to improve customer journeys, but few studies have asked U.S. consumers how they actually feel about talking to machines when they need help. A new Arm Treasure Data survey of 1,000 adults recently did just that, asking how people feel about AI assists in fields as diverse as medicine to retailing. The industry-to-industry differences are surprising, providing insights to a trend that is rarely examined, but growing rapidly. The economic case for bots is clear: No matter how big a company is, it's virtually impossible for business owners to stay connected to their clientele 24/7. Whether providing necessary customer support for existing clients or capturing new leads, business owners can spend their entire workday managing these communication channels and still struggle to keep up.

It seems like only yesterday that artificial intelligence (AI) was the stuff of science fiction - a concept, rather than grounded in reality. Marketers in particular have waxed lyrical about the potential of AI for perhaps five years or so, but during that time much of the conversation around AI has been the manifestation of a sort of'shiny new tech syndrome'. To suggest – as many do – that AI is still a buzzword, is to vastly underestimate how it, when paired with the right data and the increase in demand for intelligent virtual assistants, is already radically altering aspects of marketing. At The Drum Arms at Advertising Week New York, last week, The Drum co-founder and editor-in-chief, Gordon Young, took the stage with Microsoft Advertising, the American basketball league NBA and digital agency Digitas, to discuss how this combination of data and AI will define – and in some cases is already defining – the future of marketing. Jorge Urrutia del Pozo, head of fan audience strategy and engagement at the NBA, discussed how he and his team utilize the huge and various amounts of data that the NBA creates.

In his body of work on display now at Pence Pinckney Gallery at Central Oregon Community College, interactive media and video artist Kiel Fletcher exhibits work seated in artificial intelligence and technology. Through varied independent and collaborative pieces, Fletcher seems to invite the viewer, and at times the unwitting participant, to question whether technology is a thing to revere or to be wary of. With pieces such as "Interactive," a collaboration with Ron Sparks, Fletcher reminds visitors that the words people use within earshot of a discrete microphone elicit a response--displaying images and GIFs in an unending stream, underscoring the reality that this routinely happens when people are online. In "Quorra 1 & 2," we witness the frailty of a suicide prevention bot as it fails to track the intricacies of a basic human interaction. In discussing the work, Fletcher states, "With a lot of the work in here, I am trying to poke at the idea of A.I., artificial intelligence, in the sense that it IS artificial and is not actually that smart. These technologies can be really... impressive but they can also fall flat at the same time."

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Artificial intelligence is a branch of engineering that has traditionally ignored brains, but recent advances in biologically inspired deep learning have dramatically changed AI and made it possible to solve problems in vision, speech planning and natural language. If you talk to Alexa or use Google Translate, you have experienced deep learning in action. In this lecture, explore the past, present and future of deep learning with Terrence J. Sejnowski from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Arntzen Grand Challenges Lecture Series: The Deep Learning Revolution Presented by Terrence J. Sejnowski Tuesday, November 5, 2019 Lecture: 5 p.m. Reception: 6 p.m. Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building IV (ISTB4) Marston Exploration Theater, Tempe campus [map] Register to attend! Light hors d'oeuvres and an open bar will be provided.

For more than 70 years, the study of artificial intelligence (AI) and the study of communication have proceeded along separate trajectories. Research regarding AI has focused on how to reproduce aspects of human intelligence, including the ability to communicate, within the machine (Frankish and Ramsey, 2014). In contrast, communication historically has been conceptualized as foremost a human process (e.g. Schramm, 1972), with research within the discipline as a whole focused on how people exchange messages with one another and the implications thereof (see Craig, 1999). Today, this gulf between AI and communication research is narrowing, bridged by AI technologies designed to function as communicators. Recent advances in AI have led to more powerful and consequential AI technologies being integrated across daily life (Campolo et al., 2017). Individuals routinely chat with Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and other digital assistants (Pew Research Center, 2017), with people's interactions with smart devices expected to grow along with the emerging Internet of Things (Rainie and Anderson, 2017). Within industry, media providers such as the Associated Press are using AI-enabled technologies in the production and distribution of news (Marconi et al., 2017). In response, some communication scholars are advocating for the discipline to devote greater attention to understanding increasingly life-like and communicative AI technologies, people's interactions with them, and their implications (e.g. However, communication researchers studying communicative AI face a substantial hurdle: AI and people's interactions with it do not fit neatly into paradigms of communication theory that for more than a century formed around how people communicate with other people (Gunkel, 2012a).

The US Commerce Department added them to a trade blacklist this week, saying the companies had been implicated in human rights violations against Uyghurs and other members of Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang. Twenty government and security bureaus in China's Xinjiang region were also included in the ban. Chinese authorities dismissed the human rights allegations, and threatened retaliation against US companies. "The US accusations against China are groundless and senseless. They only expose the evil motives of the United States to interfere with counterterrorism efforts in Xinjiang and thwart China's development," China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said on Tuesday, telling reporters to "stay tuned" for retaliation.

AI have entered into a partnership to provide TOPdesk users with expanded IT support through cognitive Artificial Intelligence (AI) by using Amelia, IPsoft's industry-leading digital AI colleague, as a digital IT service desk employee. Amelia will automate routine IT service desk functions to deliver efficient and more timely support services to TOPdesk users, freeing up time for support employees to focus on more critical tasks. AI solution is offered as a service and integrated with TOPdesk's service management software, using Amelia's conversational interface -- in natural language -- as an interactive front-end for users. AI will support this partnership by working together with participating customers to seamlessly integrate Amelia's cognitive AI abilities with their existing TOPdesk deployments. "Amelia is rated as the most intelligent virtual agent by Everest Group and through her unique programming and algorithms, Amelia utilizes each of the human brain s eight core cognitive skills to deliver unparalleled capabilities, surpassing mere chatbots in every way. We look forward to being able to offer Amelia capabilities to TOPdesk users," said Ramon van Leeuwen, CCO at TOPdesk.