The Trump administration's approach to artificial intelligence is not that smart: it's about cooperation, not domination

The Trump administration's approach to artificial intelligence is not that smart: it's about cooperation, not domination

Great spirits have always faced violent opposition from mediocre minds. Fuzzy or Techie?! Why #AI needs more interdisciplinary thinkers @IBMthinkLeaders https://t.co/ZggRLF45zv Becuase who (trolls) has time to read and fact check and their only job is to attack and harass . Unknown faces hounded me and made personal attacks, labelled me as Left wing marxist while everyone knows I am a staunch BJP supporter and believe in Modiji's vision for India. Going to IIT next month and have only one advice for Techies- Read more of Philosophy #books:-) Netizsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Kant, Plato, Hegel -- Ruchi (@rucsb) April 30, 2019 Please add Adhi Shankara, Vivekananda, Kautilya, Panini to that list?

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has an unusual passion project: a neural tech company called Neuralink. Musk cofounded Neuralink in 2016, and the company remained relatively under the radar until 2017 when the Wall Street Journal broke the news that he had established the company to "merge computers with human brains." Developing brain chips is a curious side hustle for a man who is simultaneously running Tesla, his space exploration company SpaceX, and The Boring Company, which Musk hopes will dig underground transit systems for cities. The entrepreneur has frequently been vocal about his worries that AI could one day come to overshadow the human race. He's founded a general-purpose research organization called OpenAI but Neuralink has a much more tangible, futuristic goal of making AI-enabled devices capable of interacting with people's brains.

In Africa, like everywhere else in the world, artificial intelligence (AI) is moving up the agenda as companies, entrepreneurs and governments work out how to keep pace with the Fourth Industrial Revolution. While the continent has a long way to go when it comes to AI adoption, these technologies already play a prominent role in many individual organizations: Nigerian mobile-lending platform Carbon uses machine learning to evaluate credit applications, South African fashion retailers rely on algorithms to predict the next season's top sellers and Kenyan ride-hailing app Little has implemented AI to assess driver performance. For the continent to remain relevant on the global stage, it is not only vital that companies embrace AI, but also that local entrepreneurs have equity in these technologies. That said, building an AI-powered start-up in Africa comes with a unique set of challenges not experienced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, particularly in terms of raising capital, human resources and market receptiveness. Entrepreneur Vian Chinner has first-hand experience of both worlds.

GE Healthcare signed on to a new Australian research collaboration to develop artificial intelligence tools to quickly and automatically diagnose brain aneurysms. GE will be contributing its Revolution CT scanners to the "co-creation" effort. The project is being led by the Australian division of Fujitsu, the Tokyo-based IT services firm, which will focus on developing the AI and digital solutions. Additionally, Sydney's Macquarie University and Macquarie Medical Imaging will provide clinical expertise for the product's development and testing. The group hopes to offer a commercial solution to radiology practices in Australia before going worldwide.

According to an analysis released by OpenAI, the demand for computing power has increased by more than 300,000 times in the six years after 2012. It grows by about factor of 10 each year, far exceeding the pace set by Moore's Law. As a latecomer to artificial intelligence (AI), Huawei boldly proposed to provide the industry with computing power that is accessible, affordable, and easy to use, to meet the exponentially increasing demand for AI computing. Now, one year after the AI strategy was proposed, has Huawei found a way to address the computing power challenges? In the late 17th century, the British mining industry, particularly the coal mine, was developed to a considerable scale.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the backbone of smart cities. As it ushers us into a new era, we are no longer mere spectators. IoT is spreading at a fast pace, evolving and embracing innovation along the way. It is making our dumb-devices, smart and our smart-devices, efficient. Cities are the lifeline of an economy and IoT is making them smarter day by day.

The World Health Organization says that compulsively playing video games now qualifies as a new mental health condition, in a move that some critics warn may risk stigmatizing too many young players. Time in front of screens – TV, video games, smartphones – hurts kids' performance at school, right? Some screen time is worse than others when it comes to kids and academic performance, according to a new analysis published in JAMA Pediatrics, a respected medical journal. Television viewing, followed by video games, were the two activities most tied to poor school performance, researchers showed in a review of 58 studies published over the decades. That kind of screen time affected both children and teens – though overall, teens' performance seemed to suffer the most as screen time increased.

Raw video: Cuyahoga County Jail security footage shows an inmate attempting to catch marijuana and a cell phone that was dropped from a drone. Earlier this year, we learned that Martin Shkreli, a conman and convicted felon, was secretly running an investment company from prison using a contraband cell phone. Shkreli, also known as the "Pharma Bro," achieved infamy in 2015 for jacking up the price of a medicine needed by a small group of very sick patients to enrich himself and his investors. He was convicted of fraud in 2017 and sent to prison. Prison is supposed to keep criminals out of our communities, but as Shkreli's example shows, contraband cell phones allow inmates to continue their crime sprees from behind bars.