Megvii Technology, a Chinese company, founded in 2011 and widely known for its Face system, is one of the world leaders in facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology. While they might be best known for Face, Megvii uses artificial intelligence and machine vision in a variety of amazing ways. Megvii was the concept conceived by friends and Tsinghua University graduates Yin Qui, Yang Mu, and Tang Wenbin. After tremendous success in China (especially since they were able to train algorithms from China's vast pool of data) with clients such as Ant Financial, Vivo (smartphones), Didi Chuxing (ride-sharing) and investments from Bank of China, the State-Owned Venture Capital Fund, China-Russian Investment Fund and other private investors including Ant Financial (Alibaba's payment affiliate), Megvii is ready to go global. They have projects slated in the coming year for Japan, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the United States and have secured a distributor in Thailand.

Genesys, a known name in contact center solutions, is betting big on AI to redefine customer experience. Express Computer, spoke with Keith Budge, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan, Genesys, and Raja Lakshmipathy, Managing Director, Genesys India, who share their perspective on the huge potential of the Indian market, and how emerging technologies can be used to drastically improve customer experience. How do you see the potential of the Indian market? Keith Budge: India has great potential – both from a R&D perspective and a market perspective. Today, more than ever, it has become more important for customers to differentiate using customer experiences.

Valossa has agreed a distribution partnership with Images & Technologie for the Canadian market, which aims to provide local media corporations access to cutting edge AI solutions. Until now, Valossa has not had a distributor in that market so the team is very much looking forward to connecting with new customers. "We are very happy to partner with Images and Technologie. They have strong expertise and connections. The collaboration will benefit Canadian customers significantly." says Sami Niska, Chief Sales Officer, Valossa.

In the 19th century, doctors might have prescribed mercury for mood swings and arsenic for asthma. It might not have occurred to them to wash their hands before your surgery. They weren't trying to kill you, of course--they just didn't know any better. These early doctors had valuable data scribbled in their notebooks, but each held only one piece in a grand jigsaw puzzle. Without modern tools for sharing and analyzing information--as well as a science for making sense of that data--there wasn't much to stop superstition from influencing what could be seen through a keyhole of observable facts.

Until a few years ago, clothing served only to protect people and at the same time still had fashionable aspects. But meanwhile, our second skin can do more and more. The measurement of body data such as pulse value or calorie consumption by means of integrated sensors is almost an old hat. Now, however, the clothing will also take on teaching functions through artificial intelligence: On the one hand as a trainer for humans, on the other hand as a programmer for robots. The latest development comes from Turing Sense.

Amazon has a health-oriented wearable in the works that has the potential to use voice recognition technology to sense emotional states, according to a report from Bloomberg. The product (codenamed Dylan) is being developed by Amazon's hardware development team Lab126 and its Alexa division. Designed to be worn on the wrist, the device seemingly has a form factor similar to a smartwatch. According to documents and sources cited by Bloomberg, Amazon is currently beta-testing the technology which has built in speakers to pick up vocal inflections and commands. While these capabilities seems more like science fiction, the technology is grounded in research about vocal biomarkers that can pick up issues like depression or anxiety or function as a diagnostic aid. Startups like San Francisco-based Ellipsis Health and Boston-based Sonde Health are operating in a similar space.

According to OECD's Director of the Science, Technology and Innovation Directorate Andrew Wyckoff, the released document, titled "Recommendations of the Council on Artificial Intelligence," will hopefully establish a regulatory environment to promote AI technology in an ethical manner. "AI is what we would call a'general purpose technology.' It's going to change the way we do things in nearly every single sector of the economy -- that's part of the reason we give so much importance to its development," he told reporters Wednesday, according to Defense One. "Some have termed it as'the invention of a method of inventions,' and in fact we can see it already affecting the process of scientific discovery and science itself." The principles outlined in the document have been signed by the OECD's 36 member countries, as well as by the US, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Romania.

ROCHESTER, Minn.-Mayo Clinic is one of the world leaders in healthcare. Now, the institution is looking for the next best way to provide efficient care to patients. Mayo held an artificial intelligence symposium, looking to bring together groups of developers from around the world. They're working on projects using technology to help patients. Just one of the ingenious ideas includes computing systems that can interpret medical information and offer preliminary recommendations for patients.

The world's strongest men must be shaking in their very large boots, because robots are here to steal their jobs. The HyQReal robot is a "hydraulically powered quadruped" developed by a team in Italy at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). It is power-autonomous and wirelessly communicates with its overlords. And, oh yeah, it walks, and is pretty dang strong. SEE ALSO: This 90-pound'blind' robot dog definitely won't kill everything you hold dear The robot's IIT makers tested its strength recently by tasking the lil' guy with pulling a 3 ton passenger airplane.

Unmanned drones, powered by artificial intelligence, may soon accompany US Air Force Pilots on missions as autonomous wingmen. Both Boeing's F-15 and Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter jets are being considered for the'Skyborg' drone support program. The scheme would cut down on the amount of people in the jets and could both reduce the risk to pilots and be more economical. Drones can be manufactured for a fortieth of the cost of a new fighter jet and may be guided by the sole pilot inside the nearby fighter plane. To safely manage any such drones, however, AI will need to be sufficiently developed to make it immune to attacks that could exploit its operating features.