Businesses are witnessing a tipping point that can dramatically change the trajectory of their growth. Shifting attention from Big Data collection to real-time data consumption is setting the stage for a level of intelligence that requires a new way of thinking about processes and the applications that enable them. Fortunately, technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain are helping companies find a path forward. For many organizations, pulling together large volumes of data – which comprise diverse formats and originate from numerous sources – is creating a wave of pressure-tested innovations, data security and privacy, and a seismic shift in business value. And this outcome is changing not only the definition of industry leadership but also people's lives for the better.

Cerebri AI, today announced that it has been selected by Gartner, Inc. as a '2019 Cool Vendor for Artificial Intelligence for Customer Analytics', a new category created by Gartner this year that recognizes the explosive impact AI can have in understanding customers at scale. Cerebri AI, an enterprise software start-up that uses patented AI to measure a customer's commitment to a brand, that for first time can be used directly to drive financial results via a recommended series of action(s) tailored to each customer. Examining solutions from five'Cool Vendors' that extend the AI for customer analytics technology landscape, Gartner's report states that "Cerebri AI could become the most useful tool… of a CX professional and marketer". Gartner went on to say: "The Cerebri Values system calculates monetary values for each event in every customer's journey, then predicts the most opportune moments and the corresponding "best action" for maximizing brand engagement and business results. "The Cerebri Values system uses a range of AI techniques, including machine learning and reinforcement learning, to analyze each touchpoint across a shopper's journey.

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is everywhere and it's here to stay. Along with these consumer applications, companies across sectors are increasingly harnessing AI's power for productivity growth and innovation. There are many who believe that AI has the potential to become more significant than even the internet. Availability of enormous amount of data combined with huge leap in computational power and huge improvements in engineering skills should help AI, backed with deep learning, to make huge impact across various facets of human life. Amid all the hype, genuine and inflated, around the world of AI, it is pertinent to ask an important question.

You'll walk away with more knowledge and new connections gained over a good meal! Artificial Intelligence (AI) is applied to many areas of human life – across major verticals such as education, health care, and government– influencing significant decisions that will impact us. At its best, AI can be used to augment human judgment and reduce both conscious and unconscious biases. However, training data, algorithms, and other design choices that shape AI systems may reflect and amplify existing cultural prejudices and inequalities. Sarah Myers West is a postdoctoral researcher at the AI Now Institute and an affiliate researcher at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society.

The worst part of working in any restaurant could soon be eliminated after a robot capable of washing the pots has been invented by a US-based start-up. Although there are more than half a million people employed as dishwashers in the US alone, the job is poorly paid, gruelling work and has a high-turnover rate. But now Dishcraft, based in Silicon Valley, is hoping to tackle these issues with their automated dishwasher, reports CNBC. The system currently works by using bowls and plates that have metal pieces attached to them, but the founders, Linda Pouliot and Paul Birkmeyer, hope to move on to other items in the future. Dishcraft's robot currently only works with plates and bowls the company develop themselves as it has metal pieces attached to the bottom and are much stronger than other dishware.

DJ Marshmello will be among the many musicians who have ties with video games scheduled to appear at the Metarama Gaming Music Festival in Las Vegas Oct. 19-20. Remember when DJ Marshmello played to a "Fortnite" audience of 10 million-plus? A new festival wants to recreate the scene on a smaller scale but in the real world. The masked electronic music maestro is among performers headlining a new festival, billed as the first of its kind to truly mash up music, video games and esports culture. The Metarama Gaming Music Festival, to take place Oct. 19-20 at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds, will feature musical artists such as Snoop Dogg, rappers Lil Yachty and Logic, pro gamers including Ninja and NickMercs, superstar DJ Alan Walker, and top game streamers such as DrLupo, Jacksepticeye, Pokimane and Sodapoppin.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced new edge solutions, research labs and programs to simplify and accelerate Intelligent Edge adoption, enabling customers to create unique digital experiences and leverage analytics and machine learning to adapt to changes in real-time. These offerings and programs include enhancements to Aruba Central, its cloud-based platform that unifies network management, AI-powered analytics, user-centric service assurance and security for wired, wireless and WAN at the edge. Integrations and new turnkey edge-to-cloud solutions, delivered with ABB, Microsoft and PTC, enabling real-time intelligence and control in industrial environments, and Intelligent Edge and IoT Center of Excellence (CoE) and Labs, part of Hewlett Packard Labs, to develop and commercialize new capabilities and technologies that accelerate customers' and partners' Intelligent Edge journey. Research suggests that over the next decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) and related data growth has an economic potential of up to $11 trillion per year. To capture this potential, organizations need to implement an Intelligent Edge, an architecture that is fully connected, secured, distributed and autonomous.

Despite the widespread use of convolutional neural networks (CNN), the convolution operations used in standard CNNs have some limitations. To overcome these limitations, Researchers from NVIDIA and University of Massachusetts Amherst, developed a new type of convolutional operations that can dynamically adapt to input images to generate filters specific to the content. The researchers will present their work at the annual Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference in Long Beach, California this week. "Convolutions are the fundamental building blocks of CNNs," the researchers wrote in the research paper, "the fact that their weights are spatially shared is one of the main reasons for their widespread use, but it is also a major limitation, as it makes convolutions content-agnostic". To help improve the efficiency of CNNs, the team proposed a generalization of convolutional operation, Pixel-Adaptive Convolution (PAC), to mitigate the limitation.

Traditionally, supercomputer performance is measured using the High-Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark, which is the basis for the Top500 list that biannually ranks world's fastest supercomputers. The Linpack benchmark tests a supercomputer's ability to conduct high-performance tasks (like simulations) that use double-precision math. On June's Top500 list, announced Monday, Summit's 148 Linpack petaflops land it first place by a comfortable margin. Using that same machine configuration, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Nvidia have tested Summit on HPL-AI and gotten a result of 445 petaflops. While the HPL benchmark tests supercomputers' performance in double-precision math, AI is a rapidly growing use case for supercomputers -- and most AI models use mixed-precision math.

It shouldn't really be a surprise that artificial intelligence (AI) gets a special mention in the long-term plan for the NHS, published in March. AI is seen as important for the future of the NHS because it can make healthcare more effective and efficient, leaving staff free to focus on, as the plan puts it, the'complexity of human interactions that technology will never master'. With a growing population, limited resources yet more and more treatments available, the use of intelligent technology will be key to ensuring our healthcare services can keep pace. At Grow MedTech, we see AI as one of the most important digital technologies that will combine with traditional medtech to create the products and technologies of the future. And Yorkshire is a hotbed for the technology, with all of our partner universities offering expertise in the field.