With about one billion proton–proton collisions per second at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the LHC experiments need to sift quickly through the wealth of data to choose which collisions to analyse. To cope with an even higher number of collisions per second in the future, scientists are investigating computing methods such as machine-learning techniques. A new collaboration is now looking at how these techniques deployed on chips known as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) could apply to autonomous driving, so that the fast decision-making used for particle collisions could help prevent collisions on the road. FPGAs have been used at CERN for many years and for many applications. Unlike the central processing unit of a laptop, these chips follow simple instructions and process many parallel tasks at once.

Artificial intelligence is having a significant impact on mainstream business and computing after years of being in the hype cycle. Companies such as Amazon and Netflix have saved billions of dollars a year, and AI is expected to boost the global economy by trillions of dollars over the next several years. Concerns about AI's use remain, however, including security risks and biases it could introduce into hiring and society as a whole as well as bad decisions it might make due to poor underlying data quality. Here's a snapshot of the present and future of AI, told in 11 statistics: That's a 14 percent increase, more than the current economic output of China and India combined, a PwC study projects. Some $6.6 trillion of the boost will come from increased productivity, while $9.1 trillion will arrive as a result of increased economic consumption.

There is a serious gender diversity crisis in AI research Only 13.83 per cent of authors are women and, in relative terms, the proportion of AI papers co-authored by at least one woman has not improved since the 1990s. Location and research domain are significant drivers of gender diversity Women in the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark are more likely to publish AI papers while those in Japan and Singapore are less likely to. The UK is 22nd on this list, with 26.62 per cent of AI papers having at least one female co-author. Women working in physics, education, computer ethics and other societal issues, and biology, are more likely to publish work on AI in comparison to those working in computer science or mathematics. There is a significant gender diversity gap in universities, big tech companies and other research institutions Apart from the University of Washington, every other academic institution and organisation in our dataset has less than 25 per cent female AI researchers.

AI-enabled cameras are helping the RTA to analyse the facial expressions of passengers which then allows decision-makers to take actions to rectify the situation. Smart cameras powered by artificial intelligence (AI) technology installed by Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) have screened the facial expressions of 26,476 customers at four service centres (Deira, Awir, Barsha and Um Ramool) during the first half of 2019 year. Cameras revealed that the overall customers' happiness rating ranged from 85.6 per cent to as much as 92.8 per cent. In explanation, Ahmed Mahboub, Executive Director of Customers Happiness at RTA's Corporate Administrative Support Services Sector, said: "The installation of smart cameras to measure customers satisfaction rating is part UAE's AI Strategy, Dubai's Smart City Initiative, and RTA's Strategic Goal Smart Dubai. He cautioned that variations in the happiness index are not attributed to the quality or speed of delivering services. The customer might be experiencing personal circumstances negatively impacting his or her facial expression, he noted. Instead, cameras provide instant and accurate feed about customers happiness rating. Accordingly, decision-makers will be in a better position to take actions to rectify the situation," he explained.

In the 21st century, industries that remain adamant to integrating new technological revolutions are most likely to regress in their course of development. Businesses across the globe have realized how important it is to include contemporary digital technology to drive constant growth and revenue. The last decade has seen incredible innovations and breakthroughs in the landscape of digital solutions. One of such compelling technologies is called Artificial Intelligence (AI). Often misconceived as a replacement for human power, the concept of AI as a technological aid is much larger, wider and pervasive.

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Chinese AI firm Megvii Technology Ltd, backed by Alibaba, has filed for an IPO in Hong Kong, targeting proceeds of at least $500 million. It is a facial recognition company, with the brand platform Face . Founded in 2011 by CEO Yin Qi, Megvii would become the first Chinese AI firm to go public in Hong Kong. This filing comes amid government plans for China to become an international leader in AI. The IPO proceeds will primarily be used for research and development, marketing and sales plus global expansion and strategic investments opportunities. Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan are joint sponsors of the IPO.

India's higher education sector has supplied some of the world's best talent. The CEOs of some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies--Microsoft, Google, Mastercard, and Adobe--are a product of the Indian higher education system. The landscape has also expanded over the past decade--from 436 universities in 2009–10 to 903 in 2017–18 and from 26,000 colleges to over 39,000.1 Student enrolment, at 36.6 million, is the third-largest in the world, next to China and the United States.2 Besides, India is already in the middle of the "demographic dividend" with a surge in its younger and working-age population, which is estimated to become the world's largest by 2030.3 India is expected to account for about 20 percent of the total young talent pool supplied by the non–Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) G-20 countries.4

MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA – The Air Force is touting a new digital plan that it thinks will unfetter it from an industrialized way of thinking, open itself to faster networks, better weapons systems and make the service a more attractive employer. That seems like a lot coming from a plan that is only four pages long (including the title page), but Air Force Secretary Matt Donovan told Federal News Network in an exclusive interview after the Air Force Information Technology & Cyberpower Education and Training Event in Alabama that the strategy is a roadmap to shift the service's culture and how it operates. "We've been very successful so far with the American military and the individual weapons platforms," Donovan said. "The problem is these exquisite capabilities are largely unconnected from each other. We need to get to a point where we have a family of systems and everything is connected for command and control. We are ultimately trying to get to a point where any sensor will provide information to any shooter."

Productive communication with the physician is essential for the patient to see improvements in their condition, however, most doctors have never had their communication skills formally assessed. When the doctor does not describe conditions and treatments to their patient in a comprehensible manner, it can lead to improper medication use, worsening of the condition, and low patient satisfaction. Exploring potential digital solutions to this gap in communication, researchers from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Edinburgh discussed the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in enhancing patient-provider interactions in a BMJ article. "Many clinicians' communications skills aren't formally assessed–either during school or in early practice," said senior author Glyn Elwyn, MD, PhD, MSc, Dartmouth Institute Professor. "At the same time, there is a lot of evidence that clinicians often struggle when communicating with their patients. It's hard to improve on something when you're not being given any feedback and don't know how you're doing."