Tesla is acquiring the computer-vision startup DeepScale, CNBC's Lora Kolodny reported. Forrest Iandola, DeepScale's CEO, said on LinkedIn that he joined Tesla's Autopilot team this week. According to Iandola's profile, his job title is "senior staff machine learning scientist." Tesla and DeepScale did not immediately respond to Business Insider's requests for comment. Read more: Former Tesla employees reveal what it's like to work with Elon Musk Tesla's attempt to develop autonomous-driving technology relies heavily on cameras, because the electric-car maker is not using the lidar sensors most of its rivals include in their autonomous-driving hardware suites.

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"Now comes the era of virtual friends, the thinking chatbots, a companion to the lonely, aged, someone seeking advice, for the people suffering from psychological disorders, and a counsellor. A machine that can think, and is conscious enough to accompany you as wish someone to be there." These virtual friends are a result of recent advances in the field of conversational AI. One of the best examples is Mitsuku. Mitsuku is an excellent piece of technology developed by Steve Worswick.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic among IT and business leaders as it promises to be the biggest driver of change in human history. The way we work, live, learn and play will never be the same once AI is infused into all of our devices, cars, appliances and everything else we interact with. CIOs are well aware of this and are looking to use AI as part of their digital transformation strategy. One of the challenges is that people often overestimate what an AI can do and they expect perfection. If there are any mistakes at all, it's back to the drawing board to refine the algorithms or spend more time in the learning phase.

Manpower France anticipates and drives change in the world of work by breaking new ground with Aimie, Sidetrade's cutting edge Artificial Intelligence system. To optimize Credit Management, Manpower equipped their Finance team with Sidetrade's ground breaking technology, now available to all of Sidetrade's customers. With an annual income of €4 bn per year, Manpower France collects 1.3 million receivables from 80,000 companies. To handle this volume, and increasingly complex payment procedures, Manpower's Finance department started using Sidetrade technology in 2013. Sidetrade accelerates automation of the order-to-cash process, and models collection strategies for different segments of clientele.

We find ourselves at a critical point in the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. While we can take it for granted that the rate of technological innovation will continue to accelerate, what is less clear is how quickly we can adapt healthcare to make use of these advances. This is partly a very human problem. For example, many of the healthcare professionals (HCPs) I speak with welcome the potential benefits cloud computing can bring such as better data storage, processing power and increasingly sophisticated algorithms that can help diagnose diseases. However, they also hold genuine concerns that the regulatory environment particularly information governance will continue to lag behind AI development.

Security has risen to the top of the priority list for many managers in institutional and commercial facilities. Nowhere is the issue more important that in K-12 schools, given the growing threat that mass shooters present to students, staff and faculty. School district officials have revisited every conceivable angle of the issue as it relates to facilities, from building design to access control. Now some managers are taking a closer look at emerging technology to give them an edge. Artificial intelligence (AI) is helping to change security cameras in school districts from passive to active observers, according to VOA News. They can identify people, suspicious behavior and guns and gather large amounts of information.

The UAE is an early adopter of advanced technology, and artificial intelligence is no exception. Along with Genomic Medicine and Biometrics, the UAE is pioneering AI use within and alongside other advanced technologies, stemming from the government's work in activating their strategy for Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). We are seeing exciting developments in augmented learning, personalised medicine, economic security (such as blockchain technology), smart cities, government e-services, 3D printing, and even space exploration. It's no secret that Dubai is earmarked to be a leading smart city, with investment into numerous technologies to set it on that course, and a stated aim by the UAE Government to make it a leading global hub and an open lab for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The speed at which it is being implemented is almost unparalleled, and the opportunities that sit alongside that are vast.

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND – Employee activism and outside pressure have pushed big tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google to make promises to slash their carbon emissions. When Microsoft held an all-staff meeting in September, an employee asked CEO Satya Nadella if it was ethical for the company to be selling its cloud computing services to fossil fuel companies, according to two other Microsoft employees who described the exchange on condition they not be named. Such partnerships, the worker told Nadella, were accelerating the oil companies' greenhouse gas emissions. Microsoft and other tech giants have been competing with one another to strike lucrative partnerships with ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP and other energy firms, in many cases supplying them not just with remote data storage but also artificial intelligence tools for pinpointing better drilling spots or speeding up refinery production. The oil and gas industry is spending roughly $20 billion each year on cloud services, which accounts for about 10 percent of the total cloud market, according to Vivek Chidambaram, a managing director of Accenture's energy consultancy.

One Georgia school district plans to spend $16.5 million to install artificial intelligence-powered surveillance cameras in its roughly 100 buildings in coming years. Businesses across almost every industry deploy artificial intelligence to make jobs simpler for staff and tasks easier for consumers. Computer software teaches customer service agents how to be more compassionate, schools use machine learning to scan for weapons and mass shooters on campus, and doctors use AI to map the root cause of diseases. Sectors such as cybersecurity, online entertainment and retail use the tech in combination with wide swaths of customer data in revolutionary ways to streamline services. Though these applications may seem harmless, perhaps even helpful, the AI is only as good as the information fed into it, which can have serious implications.