I am not an engineer. But I am someone who has spent years looking at companies and industries to see which are poised for growth and which are on the decline. And one thing I see every day is that most companies and industries are about to be transformed, if they haven't been already, by artificial intelligence. AI will reshape the world in ways we can't imagine, much as the printing press and the Internet did at their inceptions. That means the United States must remain the lead player in AI if we are to guarantee our future in a competitive global economy.

OnePlus has opened its R&D facility in Hyderabad, the premium smartphone company's first such facility in the country. According to the company, the R&D centre will serve as one of the main sites for the company's innovation for global markets. In a statement, it said that it will drive development of artificial intelligence and machine learning across its products, along with development of 5G technology. The company announced its plans to invest Rs 1,000 crore into its R&D facility in Hyderabad over the next three years. The OnePlus R&D centre will house three labs - camera lab, communications and networking lab, and automation lab, which will focus on camera development, 5G testing, software with focus on AI and performance testing.

Surely and steadily, Saudi Arabia has been taking powerful technological strides. A couple of years down the line, young men and women have been focussing on a variety of modern day topics such as artificial intelligence, deep education (blockchain) and the Internet maze. The focus on such non mundane things, according to Al-Arabiya.net, has become crucial and a touchable reality and it, of course, is a source of pride, self respect and dignity. The talk about Hackathons or the exhibitions and creativity workshops is no longer weird or strange; it is now a next window phenomenon. Families and educational institutions are increasingly encouraging the youth to focus on technical fields.

Health community think tanks this year discussed how to address the challenges of deploying artificial intelligence. The discussion found that systematic and structured data collection and changes in the financing of the whole process were a prerequisite for moving forward with artificial intelligence. According to Piret Hirv, head of the Connected Health Cluster, collaboration between stakeholders is a prerequisite for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. "It's quite clear that artificial intelligence will be used more and more in future medicine, but it's not going to replace a doctor anytime soon. Rather, artificial intelligence in the future will provide us with quick and convenient answers based on our own health data. Today, many people turn to Google to find answers and make decisions about their health based on what they read, which is probably no longer needed. Certainly, the health technology cluster will also contribute to the real benefit of AI for patients and doctors in the future, "explained Hirv.

Cyber criminals have used artificial intelligence (AI) and voice technology to impersonate a UK business owner, resulting in the fraudulent transfer of $243,000 (£201,000). In March this year, what is believed to be an unknown hacker group is said to have exploited AI-powered software to mimic the prominent business leader's voice to fool his subordinate, the CEO of a UK-based energy subsidiary, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The hackers were then able to convince the CEO to carry out transactions in the guise of urgent funds destined for its German parent company. It's believed that the fraudsters phoned the UK-based CEO to demand a transfer to a Hungarian supplier. They contacted him again, still impersonating the parent company's chief executive, to reassure him the transfer would be reimbursed.

There are more than 1.9 billion users logged in to YouTube every single month who watch over a billion hours of video every day. With this number of users, activity, and content, it makes sense for YouTube to take advantage of the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to help operations. Here are a few ways YouTube, owned by Google, uses artificial intelligence today. In the first quarter of this year, 8.3 million videos were removed from YouTube, and 76% were automatically identified and flagged by artificial intelligence classifiers. More than 70% of these were identified before there were any views by users.

The Edge IoT Smart Pallet Experience, says the company, will allow booth visitors to "get hands-on with machine vision, AI, and robotics at the edge." Attendees will be able to stack pallets and race the clock for a chance to win a $100 Visa gift card and meet "Rover the Robot" who will be giving booth visitors free t-shirts. "Our Edge IoT solutions can help make conveyors smart, find missing inventory, automate bin picking, determine fill levels, connect robots and more - all in real-time," says Daniel Collins, ADLINK IoT Director for North America. One of our customers decreased the time it takes to build a pallet by 41%, increasing total daily throughput by 200% without disrupting the way employees are used to working." The immersive experience will demonstrate machine vision, AI, and robotics technology for warehouse distribution and manufacturing with ADLINK partners Amazon Web Services (AWS), Intel's IoT group, and robot maker Rover Robotics.

China's massive investment in AI is changing the entire world at an accelerating rate. Just like climate change is accelerating, so is AI. Recently Elon Musk at a fireside debate with the original founder of Alibaba, and it was amusing. Elon Musk said some of his usual quotes. His warnings about AI are to me salient though, even if sensationalistic.

A team of Italian mathematicians, including a neuroscientist from the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (CCU), in Lisbon, Portugal, has shown that artificial vision machines can learn to recognize complex images more quickly by using a mathematical theory that was developed 25 years ago by one of this new study's co-authors. Their results have been published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence. In recent decades, machine vision performance has vastly improved. Artificial systems can now learn to recognize virtually any human face or to identify any individual fish moving in a tank. Such machines are, in fact, electronic models of networks of biological neurons, and their aim is to simulate the functioning of the brain, which excels at these visual tasks without any conscious effort on our part.