Last week, a video went viral on social media around the world. It shows a robotic arm picking up a bowling ball, spinning its arm around, and hurling the ball down the lane at speed, sending all the bowling pins flying. It soon emerged that the very real-looking video was in fact fake, the work of a motion graphics designer who had hash-tagged it with words such as animation, rendering and CGI to indicate that it was computer-generated, before sharing on social media. Nonetheless, from the reactions it was clear that not everyone picked up the clues; many if not most people thought it was real. The impossibility of distinguishing between fake and real in images and videos is an everyday occurrence now, something we just have to live with.

January 31, 2019Disaster relief, remote-healthcare diagnostics, tracking rhino poachers, upping student achievement--each of these disparate activities could get a big boost from artificial intelligence (AI). A recent discussion paper from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), "Notes from the AI frontier: Applying AI for social good," lays out just how AI can help tackle some of the world's most challenging social problems, analyzing 160 use cases. The good news: about one-third are already being used today. Still, there's much more that can be done, both to implement these solutions and to fully understand the breadth of what they can do for social-good organizations. We gathered questions about this topic from our social-media audience around the globe for Michael Chui, an MGI partner based in McKinsey's San Francisco office and one of the report's authors.

Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google gets lots of attention for its artificial intelligence (AI) pursuits, mainly because the company is so good at applying AI to a variety of businesses. Consider that Google's core advertising business uses AI to determine which ads to serve online users, and the company's AI assistant, Google Assistant, is one of the best voice-search services available. Or that Waymo, formerly Google's self-driving car project, has driven 11 billion autonomous miles on public roads and even has its own commercial autonomous-vehicle ride-hailing service. But aside from Google's impressive AI moves, plenty of other players are applying AI to key parts of their businesses, and should benefit from what is projected to be a $15.7 trillion market by 2030. The tech giant is one of the biggest cloud computing companies in the world right now, but it also has its sights set on AI.

What is the state-of-AI in July 2019? Recent surveys, studies, and forecasts illustrate future expectations and current realities regarding the impact of AI on jobs; the conditions, challenges, and benefits of AI adoption; and bits of data related to data or AI fuel.

According to the report, global AI in agriculture market was valued at around USD 545 million in 2017 and is expected to reach approximately USD 2,075 million by 2024, at a CAGR of slightly above 21% between 2018 and 2024. New York, NY, July 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zion Market Research has published a new report titled "AI in Agriculture Market by Technology (Machine Learning and Computer Vision), by Component (Hardware, Software, and Services), and by Application(Agriculture Robots, Agricultural Drones, Driverless Tractors, Facial Recognition, Crop Health Monitoring, and Automated Irrigation Systems): Global Industry Perspective, Comprehensive Analysis, and Forecast 2017-2024''. According to the report, global AI in agriculture market was valued at around USD 545 million in 2017 and is expected to reach approximately USD 2,075 million by 2024, at a CAGR of slightly above 21% between 2018 and 2024. Availability of numerous equipment and modern day technologies such as intelligent monitoring system, drones, and robots has made agriculture industry a cusp of technological revolution. Browse through 84 Tables & 28 Figures spread over 144 Pages and in-depth TOC on "Global AI in Agriculture Market 2017: By Technology, Size, Share, Trends, Applications, Analysis and Forecast to 2024".

Not yours or your friend's or one you saw in a home makeover show, but one purely from your imagination--perhaps your ideal living room. You should have no trouble doing it: We take this kind of imagination for granted. Rarely do we find ourselves wondering how the mind chooses what objects to put into these novel scenes and which ones to exclude. But it's worth reflecting on, perhaps especially for creative types, because our visual imagination appears to be constrained by regularities in visual memories. Diversifying what you see may mean enriching what you can imagine. In a recent study Irish neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire, of University College London, had people imagine novel scenes and compared this to people imagining single objects against a white background.

Petra Terasaho works as Stora Enso Group Controller since February 2016. The responsibilities are Group Accounting & Reporting, Group Business Controlling, Internal Controls, Financial Shared Service Center, Finance tools, processes & policies. During the past two years Petra has specialized in finance digitalization, robotics, AI solutions, Advanced Data Analytics and how these changes will impact the finance organization. Petra is driving a big finance transformation and digitalization currently. Prior to Stora Enso Petra worked as Group Controller at Outotec.

The spinal cord is the vital link between the brain and body, a superhighway of life-critical information protected by the bony vertebra of the spinal column. The spinal column is the most common site for bone metastasis, when tumors spread from internal organs to the bones. Estimates indicate that at least 30% and as many as 70% of patients with cancer will experience spread of cancer to their spine. Each year, about 10,000 Americans develop primary or metastatic spinal cord tumors. "The spine is a place where people can miss lesions, especially very small metastases, which could be the difference between finding an early, treatable tumor and finding a tumor too late to be treatable," says Dr. Michael Fanariotis, chief radiologist for CT at the Telemark Hospital in Skien, Norway. About 6% of CT exams is dedicated to spine imaging, but many more exams benefit from information observed within the vertebral bodies and the discs between them.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gained geo-strategic importance. Russian President Vladimir Putin asserted that whoever became the leader in the field would rule the world. Countries are jostling to stay ahead of the game. China, UK, France, Germany, Finland, Canada, Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Mexico, Kenya, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), among others, have released national plans to promote the development and use of AI. They are very different, each building on the country's strengths.

AI can be our worst enemy or our best friend, but we do have a choice. Humans have a bias towards fear induced decisions, what do I mean by that? Our brains have evolved over millions of years, but have only been hit with technology in the past hundred years or so. Our brains are still geared to preservation, sexual reproduction and just plain survival. To paraphrase the words of the famous physicist Niels Bohr who was referring to quantum physics'If you are not shocked by the prospect of AI and its effect, on the human race you have not understood it.'