Progress in artificial intelligence research has been remarkable in recent years, with global superpowers like China and the US successfully demonstrating in various ways the powerful extent of the technology.

In little over a decade, AI has moved out of the laboratories and into the consumer's hands. AI has already begun to make big waves in military and strategic affairs too. Almost all defence experts agree that the application of AI in the armed forces could impact every sphere and degree of warfare. This draft report focuses on the key opportunities, challenges and uncertainties AI presents for defence and security. It takes some deep dives into: • AI's impact on information and decision support and robotic autonomous systems; • crucial technical and non-technical challenges – including the debate about lethal autonomous weapons systems, and; • some potential strategic implications.

MANAMA: Hilal Computers, the Bahrain-based IT system integrator, is setting regional standards with its custom-built cyber security platforms. The company unveiled its Security Operation Centre (SOC) enabled with artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions .

In the last decade, artificial intelligence ("AI") applications have exploded across various research sectors, including computer vision, communications and medicine. Now, the rapidly developing technology is making its mark in weather prediction. The fields of atmospheric science and satellite meteorology are ideally suited for the task, offering a rich training ground capable of feeding an AI system's endless appetite for data. Anthony Wimmers is a scientist with the University of Wisconsin–Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) who has been working with AI systems for the last three years. His latest research investigates how an AI model can help improve short-term forecasting (or "nowcasting") of hurricanes.

The recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI highlighted the role of AI in cybersecurity defense and in scoring standardized tests, the relationships between data migrating to the cloud and data modernization, lax security standards for IoT devices, and that the U.S. still leads the global race for AI domination but that China is making more rapid progress. Written essays on standardized tests in 18 states in the U.S. are currently graded by natural language processing (NLP) software ("automated essay scoring engines") with only a small percentage of students' essays--it varies between 5% to 20%--randomly selected for a human grader to double check the machine's work [VICE] Based on a 100-point scale, the U.S. leads the global AI race with 44.2 points, followed by China with 32.3 points and the European Union with 23.5 points; The U.S. came out on top in talent, research, development, and hardware, while China led in adoption and data. Airbus Americas has been using AI from AppZen to review expense reports and determine if they are in compliance with company policies; in the first partial year of the technology's implementation Airbus paid off its initial investment of $50,000 and pocketed about $50,000 more; the division expects to save $100,000 this year and at least $200,000 in 2020 in the Americas; worldwide implementation is expected to result in several millions of dollars in savings [The Wall Street Journal]

Learning has been administered by conventional pedagogy for long. However, continuous technological intervention is gradually changing the paradigm of learning and development. The rapid integration of technology in the educational technology (EdTech) sector has made it a promising field to explore. According to a report from KPMG and Google highlights, the Edtech market is expected to cater to 9.6 million users and have a market share of 1.96 billion dollars by 2021. The emerging technologies are influencing the education sector vastly.

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Investors are pouring funds into Robotic Process Automation businesses, sending their valuations sky high. New York-based UiPath's valuation has risen from $70m two years ago to a staggering $6.4bn this spring. Silicon-valley based Automation Anywhere raised $550m from investors last year and is valued at $2.3bn. Meanwhile, the UK's Blue Prism has a market capitalisation of $1.5bn. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software carries out mundane office tasks such as processing invoices and answering email enquiries.

On 1st October 2019, the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare opens its doors to their first cohort. The United Kingdom Research and Innovation Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare (AI4Health) will open its doors to the first cohort of PhD students in October. Director Dr Aldo Faisal and the whole AI4Health Team are looking forward to getting started and turning vision into practice. Imperial College London understand the term "AI" as meaning the development of intelligent systems that embody a practical […]