China is betting big on the potential of artificial intelligence to revolutionize education. A newly published MIT Technology Review story details how the nation is embracing AI as both a replacement and a supplement to human teachers -- and the outcome of the country's AI experiment could affect the future of education on a global scale. From algorithms that curate tutoring lessons to surveillance systems that monitor classroom progress, tens of millions of Chinese students currently rely on some sort of AI to help them learn, MIT Tech reports, with three elements factoring into AI-powered education's ability to thrive in China. For one, the nation has made it a point to incentivize such efforts through tax breaks. Then there's the fact that education is already something of a competitive sport in China, with students -- and their parents -- willing to try anything that might increase their test scores even slightly. Finally, the people developing these AIs have a wealth of data available for training purposes as China places less of an emphasis on individual data privacy than many other developed countries.

We all have to read this - just to see how many different ways there are to solve the same problem. It's the world's biggest experiment on #AIineducation, and no one can predict the outcome. Silicon Valley is also keenly interested. In a report in March, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation identified AI as an educational tool worthy of investment. China is undergoing the largest-scale experiment on artificial intelligence in education. Here's what's happening and how it could shape the rest of the world.

It's not just state and federal regulators' safety concerns that are preventing automotive manufacturers from producing self-driving cars for the masses. First they have to figure out how to make them more energy efficient. Opening the cargo area of a typical self-driving test vehicle usually reveals a trunk full of computers and wires needed to process petabytes of sensor data in real-time. That doesn't leave a lot of room for luggage, groceries, or anything else you usually transport in a car, not to mention the huge amounts of energy these systems suck from the batteries as they process all this information. That's why BMW I Ventures and Toyota AI Ventures has invested in Recogni, a San Jose, Calif.-based startup that is developing an artificial intelligence platform optimized for autonomous vehicles that can process information quickly while consuming very little energy.

It's a fact that all businesses today are trying to become technology companies--and digitally enabling the workforce is a challenge we all face. Businesses of all kinds are responding to new demands in a variety of ways, all with an eye to keeping pace with customers' demands for better products and services with a greater digital experience. The pressure is on for us leaders of companies to infuse technology throughout our business to get smarter, faster and more efficient. I'm a former English major who now lives in the heart of Silicon Valley, and I often worry that amid all this bright digital change, business leaders risk forgetting about the importance of soft skills or emotional intelligence--communication, relationship building, writing, persuasion and the art of storytelling. Digital skills are powerful, but without the human-to-human connective tissue that makes business and society function, we will actually lose out on many of the benefits of technology. Here is why we can't lose sight of cultivating communications skills in the digital world: Digital skills alone won't grow your business.

HR technology buyers say the idea of artificial intelligence has evolved from cutting-edge to "table stakes." And few HR leaders, industry analysts or product developers would downplay the impact that AI, machine learning and similar technologies have had on workforce planning, performance management and talent acquisition. Against that backdrop, it's no surprise that many vendors have developed products that use AI to mitigate recruiting and workplace bias. Their tools compile and analyze data so that, in theory, employers will make decisions that mitigate unconscious bias. But do identifying trends and modeling future actions by themselves constitute solutions?

The White House Office of Management and Budget is promoting robotic process automation (RPA) as a technology that can help agencies minimize the time employees spend doing low-value, repetitive work. In a memorandum on "shifting from low-value to high-value work" released Monday, Director Mick Mulvaney delivers three directives to executive agencies. "Each year, Federal employees devote tens of thousands of hours to low-value compliance activities from rules and requirements that have built up over decades," the memo reads. In fact, shifting from low-value to high-value work is Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) goal number six. Per the recent memorandum, to operationalize this goal, agencies must designate a point of contact to coordinate "burden-reduction initiatives" and provide semi-annual updates on progress.

Today, thousands of organizations around the world use Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a key to growing their companies or as a complement to this strategy. On all continents, a boom in new projects based on Artificial Intelligence are transforming business models. This movement is driven primarily by the ecosystems of startups and entrepreneurship. As a result of this movement, everis and Endeavor launched a pioneering study that traces an overview of AI in Latin American entrepreneurship. The study gathered information from more than 240 companies on 70 AI projects developed in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.

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IDx, a Coralville-based med technology firm, is giving the world a glimpse into what eye health care might look like in the future. IDx-DR, an autonomous artificial intelligence diagnostic system developed by Dr. Michael Abramoff to detect diabetic retinopathy, gained approval in 2018 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The technology is to be used in health care settings patients already visit, such as their primary care physician's office, to catch the disease before it causes permanent damage. "The early detection of this disease is important. We're reducing the burden on patients by making it easier to access testing," said Ben Clark, president and chief operating officer of IDx. "Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of preventable blindness in the United States," he said.

There are many headline studies about artificial intelligence making strides in medicine, but the reality can be somewhat more prosaic. What gets used in hospitals and clinicians' offices may be much simpler, and a lot less like AI than you would think. In the latest issue of Nature magazine, DeepMind researchers published the results of a deep learning project that can predict kidney failure of patients in the hospital up to 48 hours before the onset of symptoms, with far greater accuracy than existing computer programs for such predictive uses. Also this week, the DeepMind team published the results of a third-party survey of the use of a computer program called "Streams," which uses no artificial intelligence but which can be useful to physicians for things such as being alerted to warning signs about a patient. The first project, the deep learning one, has some ways to go to be put into practice, while the Streams software is already in use by doctors and hospital staff.