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AI that can generate new flavor combinations from scratch is nothing novel, but what about models that can taste those flavors like a human? In a recently published paper ("A portable potentiometric electronic tongue leveraging smartphone and cloud platforms") and an accompanying blog post, researchers at IBM's Zurich-based R&D division detailed Hypertaste, an artificial tongue designed to fingerprint beverages and other liquids "less fit for ingestion." Such a system could be used to guarantee supply chain safety for food and drinks, proposed IBM research staff member Patrick Ruch, who noted that there's currently little to verify that packages contain what's on the label apart from conducting costly experiments. Suppliers acting in bad faith could insert lower-quality products into the supply chain, while counterfeiters could fake a real product by adding the few chemical compounds which are most likely to be tested for in a lab. "There are many substances out there that we would like to'taste' without actually putting them in our mouth. Consider a government agency interested in an on-the-fly water quality check of a lake or river at a remote location, a manufacturer wanting to verify the origin of raw materials, or a food producer trying to identify counterfeit wines or whiskeys," wrote Ruch.

On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declared that Google's work in China is not a security concern. As he told CNBC, "I don't see any area -- again the president and I did diligence on this issue -- and we're not aware of any areas where Google is working with the Chinese government in any way that raises concerns." Google's most disturbing Chinese initiatives involve the co-development of technology. Cooperation of this sort is so injurious to the United States that it should be criminalized, by emergency presidential order. Google, the Alphabet Inc. unit, also believes its projects in China are benign.

Next, we examined how segmentation performance varies as a function of underlying disease pathology. The CNN had significantly higher mean Dice scores than at least 1 of the other methods in 16/19 diagnoses and significantly higher than those in both other methods in 5/19 diagnoses (paired 2-tailed t tests, P .05;

Cristina Might drew close to her son. He was listless and groggy after weeks of battling a puzzling illness that had filled his lungs with fluid and, hours earlier, stopped his breathing entirely. A code team had rushed to Buddy's bedside and jolted him back to life, but now the 11-year-old with the broad smile was gray, his eyes unable to focus. His mom leaned nearer still. It was time to say goodbye. But Cristina's words to her son, a brown-eyed boy who loved dolphins and his aquarium, offered no hint of her desperation: "I was telling him it was all going to be OK, that his fishies couldn't wait to see him again and that he had to hurry up and come home." Somehow, Buddy made it through that night this past May, allowing doctors at Children's Hospital of Alabama to insert a tube to drain his lungs. His illness had caused a frightening cascade of symptoms: a yellowish substance in his bones and a bulging abdomen, on top of the deluge of fluid.

Artificial intelligence is going to have a big impact on adjusters, actuaries and insurance agents, but it won't necessarily kill their jobs, an AI expert suggests. But lower-skilled jobs may be in jeopardy. "Jobs at call centres are going to disappear slowly with chatbots," predicts Eli Fathi, co-founder and CEO of Ottawa-based MindBridge Analytics Inc., which makes financial analysis products that use AI. Fathi is a recently-announced finalist in EY Canada's Entrepreneur Of The Year award program. Ernst & Young released the list of its Ontario finalists July 10; it plans to announce the winners at a gala this October.

SciTech Europa delves into the world of AI, defining what it means, giving examples of the real-life applications, and discussing the ethical questions it prompts. The computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term Artificial Intelligence in 1956, and defines the field of artificial intelligence as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines." As well as the term for the scientific discipline, artificial intelligence refers to the intelligence of a machine, program, or system, in contrast to that of human intelligence. Alessandro Annoni, the head of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, spoke at the Science Meets Parliaments conference at the European Parliament, Brussels in February 2019. He said: "Artificial intelligence should not be considered a simple technology…it is a collection of technologies. It is a new paradigm that is aiming to give more power to the machine. It's a technology that will replace humans in some cases."

CIO East Africa is back with its annual series of East Africa's IoT & AI Summit scheduled for 22nd –23rd August, 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya. This summit lined to explore and review the various applications of Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) is further purposed to highlight the true potential of technology across multiple sectors and industries acting as a catalyst between policy makers, government, market movers, and thought leadership. While launching the Advisory Board for the 3rd IoT & AI Summit, Laura Chite, CEO, CIO East Africa said: "Our highly researched summit agenda is determined to deliver insightful and the latest information from inspiring speakers from across Africa." According to Chite delegates at the two-day summit will be equipped with knowledge of latest developments that shall enable them to network with the industry key personnel. Among the volunteer IoT & AI Summit 2019 Advisory Board members dedicated to crystalize the visionary conference agenda are Ahmed Maawy, Developer BRCK, Lorraine Maina – Enterpreneur.

Russian researchers from the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) and radiologists from St. Petersburg Clinical Research for Specialized Types of Medical Care developed AI software that can distinguish and subsequently mark lung cancers on a CT scan within 20 seconds. The AI software, dubbed Doctor AI-zimov, can detect lung nodules as small as 2 millimeters on CT scans, according to a prepared statement issued by SPbPU. "Initially, we set up an algorithm to search for nodules starting from 6 millimeters, because radiologists themselves start the treatment of tumors of this size. But the system is so smart that it was able to find nodules of even smaller size," said lead researcher Lev Utkin, PhD, of the SPbPU Research Laboratory of Neural Network Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in St. Petersburg, Russia. Utkin and colleagues trained the software on 1,000 CT scans sourced from the Lung Image Database Consortium.