The Times of India spoke to Kathy Bloomgarden, Global CEO of Ruder Finn, on the role of emerging technologies, its impact and challenges for global industries and businesses. Q: What brings you to India? A: India has fantastic potential and I think more and more people are beginning to realize this. Even though you see some slow down and people are concerned about it, it's still amongst the fastest growing economies in the world. With the focus being on digitisation means you will be increasing your ability to be productive, to go into new areas, to bring new innovations globally.

A famed Russian technical university is helping to lead the government's push for public-private efforts to develop AI technologies and applications -- including a joint project with China's Huawei -- and to stop top talent from flowing to the West. In December 2017, three months after Vladimir Putin predicted that artificial intelligence could produce "global domination," the Russian government picked the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technologies to host a new Center for Artificial Intelligence. Today, this center aims to foster partnerships among the nation's leading state-run and private companies and universities. This year's events of note include: The Amazon prize, in particular, shows an international recognition of Russian talent, as well as an acknowledgement by one of the world's leading AI players that it needs international input to develop products to be marketed globally. Be the first to receive updates.

In 2018, artificial intelligence took on new tasks, with these smarty-pants algorithms acing everything from disease diagnosis to crater counting. In April, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permitted marketing of the first artificial intelligence that diagnoses health problems at primary care clinics without specialist supervision (SN: 3/31/18, p. 15). The program, which inspects eye images for signs of diabetes-related vision loss, could be a boon for people in remote or low-resource areas where ophthalmologists are scarce. Other eye-inspecting AI programs are learning to recognize everything from age-related vision loss to heart problems. One artificial intelligence is a celestial cartographer after Galileo's own heart.

LONDON – Scientists at Britain's national synchrotron facility have harnessed powerful light beams to virtually unwrap and decipher fragile scrolls dating back some 2,000 years in a process they hope will provide new insights into the ancient world. The two complete scrolls and four fragments -- from the so-called Herculaneum library, the only one surviving from antiquity -- were buried and carbonized by the deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 and are too fragile to be opened. The items were examined at the Diamond Light Source facility in Oxfordshire, home to Britain's synchrotron, a particle accelerator in which beams travel around a closed-loop path to produce light many times brighter than the sun. "The idea is essentially like a CT scanner where you would take an image of a person, a three-dimensional image of a person and you can slice through it to see the different organs," said Laurent Chapon, physical science director of Diamond Light Source. "We … shine very intense light through (the scroll) and then detect on the other side a number of two-dimensional images. From that we reconstruct a three-dimensional volume of the object … to actually read the text in a nondestructive manner," Chapon said.

AI and machine learning are changing global consumption habits, and companies are playing catch-up. Good salespersonship is a species of street smarts. It's about quickly sizing up your customers and pitching your wares in terms that reverberate with their unspoken needs and desires. As AI and machine learning increasingly intersect with e-commerce, these priceless human skills are finding algorithmic analogues – not just at point of sale, but throughout the customer journey. The results will be familiar to online shoppers everywhere.

The most promising 150 private digital health startups working to transform the healthcare industry with new models of primary care to emerging tech solutions for providers. CB Insights' first ever annual cohort of Digital Health 150 startups is a list of 150 of the most promising private companies creating innovative products and services in the $5T healthcare industry, according to CB Insights' Industry Analyst Consensus. Our research team selected the 150 startups from a pool of 5K companies based on several factors, including patent activity, investor profile, news sentiment analysis, proprietary Mosaic scores, market potential, partnerships, competitive landscape, team strength, and tech novelty. For the purposes of this report, digital health is defined as companies in the healthcare space that use technology/software as a key differentiator from their competition. This includes everything from disease diagnostics to tech-driven health insurance platforms to AI tools for drug discovery, and more.

"The JAIC is working to bring critical AI detection technology to the first responders who bravely battle wildfires. Increased use of AI will reduce response timelines, increase situational awareness, and save more American lives." Last year's California wildfire season was the deadliest and most destructive in United States history. More than 8,500 fires burned across nearly 1.9 million acres in the state of California and resulted in more than $16.5 billion in damage. Cumulatively, the wildfires were the costliest natural disaster of 2018, as well as one of the deadliest.

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) has changed the way we observe deep learning field. Up until that point, generative algorithms were a one-side ally, and the engineers were focused more on regression and classification tasks. Different approaches and applications were used for generating data. However, Ian Goodfellow presented GAN back in 2014 and shook up the entire field. Little did he knew the idea that he got while drinking with his friends would make him famous (well, science famous, not Rihanna famous).

The need to use wavefunction or density functional theory (DFT) calculations to determine electron densities has been bypassed by a machine learning model. It will allow chemists to quickly determine properties that depend on the electron density of large systems such as van der Waals forces, halogen bonding and C-H–π interactions. These non-covalent interactions can hold insight into the binding of host–guest systems or favoured enantiomers within reaction pathways where intermediates and transition states may be stabilised by subtle attractions. The electron density distribution is one of the most powerful tools at the disposal of a computational chemist. From the electron density, properties such as charges, dipoles and electrostatic interaction energies can be determined.

Warangal: The students of SR Engineering College (SREC) have put up a fine performance at the National level Artificial Intelligence Hackathon organised by the TATA Motors at Symbiosis Institute of Technology (SIT) in Pune. The two-member team of Krishna Teja Jillelamudi and Rahul Bayya, both studying third year CSE- led by mentor Dr D Kothandaraman (Team CAIDL) won the second runner-up prize. The team worked for 72 uninterrupted hours on their solution, which is based on Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing (Technologies of AI). The team was awarded with a cash prize of Rs 50,000, besides gaining attention from industry & academia circles. The round 02 is a 72-hour AI Hackathon which started at 10 am on September 27 and concluded at 10 am on September 30.