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In present Digital age, Artificial intelligence has many prospects for developing countries. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks associated with intellect and reasoning. According to report by Mc Kinsey 2018 Global institute, artificial intelligence has the potential to add to global output by about 16 percent or around $13 trillion by 2030. It has potential to contribute to an annual average productivity growth of about 1.2 percent by 2030. Artificial intelligence (AI) has potential to contribute towards productivity enhancement in various sectors through job and capacity creation.

Technological development is only speeding up. Virtual reality and high-tech solutions are changing reality in its numerous aspects. Today, we have smart homes with internet-connected kettles and robotic vacuum cleaners, job interviews are conducted by AI, and countless gadgets are meant to make our lives more comfortable and cozy. Very soon, humans may even be able to communicate without words, converting thoughts into electric signals. And healthcare, of course, is not excluded from this rapid pace of advances, with psychiatric disorders now diagnosed by man-made machines.

Computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing will feature on the new design of the Bank of England's £50 note. He is celebrated for his code-cracking work that proved vital to the Allies in World War Two. The £50 note will be the last of the Bank of England collection to switch from paper to polymer when it enters circulation by the end of 2021. The note was once described as the "currency of corrupt elites" and is the least used in daily transactions. However, there are still 344 million £50 notes in circulation, with a combined value of £17.2bn, according to the Bank of England's banknote circulation figures.

Jamie Hoobanoff is founder and chief executive officer of The Leadership Agency, a Toronto-based recruitment firm. With North America experiencing record-low levels of unemployment, companies are being forced to compete more than ever for the talent they need. These tight labour market conditions are especially acute for leadership and specialized hard-to-fill positions. When it comes to finding this talent, recruiters must embrace the technological solutions available to them. Although 25 per cent of Canadian jobs will be disrupted by technology over the next decade, new technology is emerging to make sourcing and screening candidates easier. Artificial intelligence (AI) screening software has greatly helped in filtering resumes according to the job descriptions.

Bankers are rushing to take Oxford University's courses on fintech, blockchain strategy, algorithmic trading, and artificial intelligence before robots take their jobs. More than 9,000 people from upwards of 135 countries have taken the online open courses, which focus on digital transformation in business, at the university's Saïd Business School, a spokesperson told Markets Insider. The fintech course, the first of five to be launched, has run 12 times and attracted nearly 4,300 students in less than two years. The average age of participants across the courses is 39, and two-thirds of them came from the financial services sector, suggesting experienced professionals are returning to school to understand how their industry is being disrupted and learn the skills needed to weather the changes. Bankers' fears of being replaced by robots are well founded.

Gaussian processes are expressive, non-parametric statistical models that are well-suited to learn nonlinear dynamical systems. However, large-scale inference in these state space models is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose CBF-SSM a scalable model that employs a structured variational approximation to maintain temporal correlations. In contrast to prior work, our approach applies to the important class of unstable systems, where state uncertainty grows unbounded over time. For these systems, our method contains a probabilistic, model-based backward pass that infers latent states during training. We demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in our experiments. Moreover, we show that CBF-SSM can be combined with physical models in the form of ordinary differential equations to learn a reliable model of a physical flying robotic vehicle.

A tacit assumption in linear regression is that (response, predictor)-pairs correspond to identical observational units. A series of recent works have studied scenarios in which this assumption is violated under terms such as ``Unlabeled Sensing and ``Regression with Unknown Permutation''. In this paper, we study the setup of multiple response variables and a notion of mismatches that generalizes permutations in order to allow for missing matches as well as for one-to-many matches. A two-stage method is proposed under the assumption that most pairs are correctly matched. In the first stage, the regression parameter is estimated by handling mismatches as contaminations, and subsequently the generalized permutation is estimated by a basic variant of matching. The approach is both computationally convenient and equipped with favorable statistical guarantees. Specifically, it is shown that the conditions for permutation recovery become considerably less stringent as the number of responses $m$ per observation increase. Particularly, for $m = \Omega(\log n)$, the required signal-to-noise ratio does no longer depend on the sample size $n$. Numerical results on synthetic and real data are presented to support the main findings of our analysis.

This note provides a novel, simple analysis of the method of conjugate gradients for the minimization of convex quadratic functions. In contrast with standard arguments, our proof is entirely self-contained and does not rely on the existence of Chebyshev polynomials. Another advantage of our development is that it clarifies the relation between the method of conjugate gradients and general accelerated methods for smooth minimization by unifying their analyses within the framework of the Approximate Duality Gap Technique that was introduced by the authors.

In recent years, the use of data-driven modelling and integration of behavioural and psychological factors in discrete choice and travel behaviour analysis have become active areas of research [2, 3, 4]. In the context of data-driven models, behavioural variations describe the correlation between observed choice attributes and unobserved socioeconomic factors using a flexible and tractable model specification. These variations include: decision-protocols, choice sets, unobserved taste variations and unobserved attributes [5]. Under these considerations, recent studies on travel behaviour analysis have so far primarily focused on representing heterogeneity in the error correction function and incorporating it into utility based multinomial logit (MNL) models [3]. Models such as mixed multinomial logit (MMNL) or latent class (LC) model offers flexibility in representing heterogeneity and substitution patterns. In addition, recent conceptual frameworks such as the integrated choice and latent variable (ICLV) use individuals' psychometric indicators to represent unobserved behavioural and perception heterogeneity [6]. It is also possible to apply a generative machine learning to identify informative latent constructs in travel decision making without subjective behaviour indicators [7, 8]. However, the true underlying behavioural patterns are often unknown and usually approximated by some predetermined exogenous indicator variables that would often lead to model misspecification due to lack of complete information, or error in data collection [9]. Furthermore, accurate specification of the underlying distribution assumes individuals have access to all available information regarding the travel activity (e.g.