Last year, after breaking the Guinness World Record for the Key West to Cuba run, we wondered what was next for the #77 Lucas Oil SilverHook ocean racing powerboat? We found the answer in the 50th anniversary of the Trinidad & Tobago Great Race, one of the most grueling races in the world. The 115-mile endurance course starts in Trinidad's Port of Spain, where you head north and then east near the island before popping into the Atlantic Ocean for a 50-mile sprint to the finish in Store Bay, Tobago. Because of the logistical difficulties of racing on foreign shores, we were the first American entry in 29 years. We knew we would face stiff competition from Jumbie, Cat Killer, Mr. Solo and other local rivals that know the course well.

Email is the foundation of most marketing programs -- and for good reason. Plus, as Ann Handley, chief content officer for MarketingProfs, pointed out, email is the only digital channel where people (not algorithms) are in control of when and where your content is exposed and to whom. But B2B marketers must rethink how to stand out in today's crowded inboxes. At the most basic level, rising to the top of the inbox is a matter of establishing trust. The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer survey found global mistrust in business, with the sharpest decline in the U.S., where 42 percent of buyers reported not knowing which brands they could trust.

Combining big data with artificial intelligence has allowed University of Copenhagen researchers to determine whether you wrote your assignment or whether a ghostwriter penned it for you--with nearly 90 percent accuracy. Several studies have shown that cheating on assignments is widespread and becoming increasingly prevalent among high school students. At the University of Copenhagen's Department of Computer Science, efforts to detect cheating on assignments through writing analysis by way of artificial intelligence have been underway for a few years. Now, based on analyses of 130,000 written Danish assignments, scientists can, with nearly 90 percent accuracy, detect whether a student has written an assignment on their own or if a ghostwriter composed it. Danish high schools currently use the Lectio platform to check if a student has handed in plagiarized work with passages copied directly from a previously submitted assignment.

LAS VEGAS, June 4, 2019 – Pegasystems Inc., the software company empowering digital transformation at the world's leading enterprises, today at PegaWorld announced the introduction of Real-Time AI Connectors – a new set of APIs enabling Pega clients to plug in third-party AI engines to their already powerful Pega AI. Building on Pega's open approach, this will allow clients to enhance their Pega customer experience software with other leading AI services such as Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine and Amazon SageMaker. With leading machine learning, decisioning, and natural language processing (NLP), Pega Customer Decision Hub serves as a brand's centralized AI brain to optimize customer touchpoints on each channel along the customer journey. Real-Time AI Connectors will give clients the flexibility to complement Pega AI with even more AI power – including new deep learning and machine vision capabilities and alternative machine learning and NLP services. This will make the Pega Customer Decision Hub even smarter by adding new ways for clients to bring more personalization and relevance to every customer engagement while driving higher customer lifetime value.

Over the last few years, the B2B ecommerce industry has witnessed unprecedented growth. While B2C platforms in India have leveraged technology to a large extent to scale their businesses and improving customer experience, most B2B ecommerce companies tend to undervalue the role technology can play in giving them a sustainable advantage. Let's look at some of the disruptive technologies that will gain momentum in the B2B space in the near future. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is beginning to make an impact on all aspects of the business. AI can be leveraged to mimic human interactions and decision making.

This infographic, FDA approvals for artificial intelligence-based algorithms in medicine, was designed and created by The Medical Futurist to give a clear picture about the state of A.I. in medicine and healthcare with an emphasis on FDA regulations. As I couldn't find a reliable and constantly updated database of every FDA approval for artificial intelligence-based algorithms, I decided to scan through a lot of peer-reviewed papers and FDA documents to create one so you don't have to. The infographic also contains what medical specialties the algorithms are associated with (sometimes more than one), when it was approved and what its function is. If you find any inaccuracies or you think I missed one, please do let me know so we can update the infographic.

The University of South Carolina wants to start working smarter. Later this summer, the school will open an institute dedicated to studying and developing artificial intelligence, which is sometimes abbreviated AI, the school announced Tuesday. The institute aims to use its AI research to help develop "self-improving" and customized programs for social workers, pharmacists, teachers and more, the release said. To do that, "The AI Institute plans to enlist philosophers, ethicists, public policy experts, and lawyers dedicated to exploring the societal impact of AI technology, both the good and the unintended negative outcomes," the release said. "For example, some have expressed concern that autonomous vehicles could soon put tens of thousands of truck drivers out of work."

We talked to some renowned researchers who are devoted to solving the eternal AI issue of fairness, robustness, explainability and data provenance. We wanted to find out the state of current research in AI fairness, and how that research can be translated into guidelines, best practices, frameworks, and actual solutions and tools for developers. The experts in academia and industry we interviewed for this Special Project provided the following answers to five basic questions about AI fairness and ethics. Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used by organizations to make decisions about how people are treated. AIs aren't human, but in this series on AI Fairness, we examine how they can, and should, be made to behave humanely.

During my years at Dell, we would share what we serendipitously found in the way of a good read. I thought I'd continue that practice, sending your way, if you haven't already discovered it, Kai-Fu Lee's book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order. It's a fascinating read – particularly his insight that, "AI will be to the 21st Century what electricity was to the last…and Data – the oil that drives the generator." Just as nineteenth-century entrepreneurs applied the electricity break-through to cooking food, lighting rooms and powering industrial equipment, today's AI entrepreneurs are doing the same with the deep learning of artificial narrow intelligence (ANI). Lee's insights were incisive and inspiring – a clarion call of caution mixed with an articulate voice of hope and encouragement.

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