New developments in artificial intelligence and robotics put 42 per cent of Canadian workers at high risk of seeing their jobs disappear or significantly changed in the next two decades, a new report concludes. While advancing computerization has already made some jobs obsolete, the rapid development of artificial intelligence is poised to become a new "inflection point" for more dramatic job change over the next 10 to 20 years, said Sean Mullin, executive director of the Brookfield Institute for Innovation Entrepreneurship at Ryerson University. Mr. Mullin said computers are expected to take on jobs that previously required higher "cognitive skills" as new technology allows machines to learn on their own and apply their knowledge. "If that even partially comes true, we're going to see a much more fundamental restructuring of the labour force and potentially a much higher percentage of jobs at risk than I think we've seen in the past," Mr. Mullin said. The new Brookfield Institute research report examined all major job categories in Canada and applied a methodology developed in 2013 at Oxford University in Britain.

LOS ANGELES -- Video games are great because they let you become any person you want: a pro basketball player, a space marine, a sorcerer or a plumber with a strong love for mushrooms. Virtual reality takes it a step further. Here are three things I've done in VR since E3 kicked off: Details: Yep, you too can become the caped crusader (minus the gravelly voice). The creators of the Batman Arkham series developed a VR game focused on the Dark Knight's detective skills. The demo starts as Bruce Wayne, using PlayStation Move controllers to tap the keys to a piano and begin your descent into the Batcave.

LOS ANGELES -- When it comes to healing yourself, cutting the grass isn't enough. If you've ever played The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo's classic adventure series that first launched in 1986, then you know slashing at grass with hero Link's sword is a big deal. If it doesn't uncover a rupee -- Zelda's signature currency -- it turns up a heart filling your health meter. In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, players will have to work a little harder to stay alive. For starters, health is restored by eating food, some of which might require hunting animals and crafting recipes to later cook up.

MENLO PARK, CA--(Marketwired - June 15, 2016) - Trends Equity today announced that it has teamed up with deepsense.io, The workshop is focused on helping attendees understand the scope, breadth and depth of machine learning solutions available in today's marketplace. According to Eliot Weinman, CEO, Trends Equity and AI World conference chair, "Machine learning and deep learning are together one of the fastest growing software markets today, expected to reach 40B by 2024 (source: Tractica). AI World, which is committed to helping businesses understand how to harness AI and machine learning, has specifically developed this workshop with deepsense.io "We are very pleased to be working with AI World, and becoming the Strategic Machine Learning Workshop Partner for the conference.

In Mountain View, California, a legion of competitors is vying for first place in the race to develop a self-sufficient form of artificial intelligence (AI). While self-driving cars are fast defining the future of transportation, and AI gaming systems are becoming a reality, the idea of a truly autonomous AI is often tied to the promise of computers capable of tackling the complexities of language. Growth had previously been stunted due to the primitive processing powers of these machines. However, recent advancements at Google headquarters in Silicon Valley have helped researchers take a step towards a linguistically adept AI. Google Brain, a research project exploring deep learning (a branch of machine learning), presented a paper earlier this month at the International Conference on Learning Representations, detailing the methods employed to teach its AI how to better communicate with language.

Creation of natural human sources to communicate with the computer is currently one of the greatest challenges of modern science. The speech input facility is the most user-friendly way, adopted by development of speech recognition based on sophisticated technologies. Scientists began the selection of informative signs, describing the voice signal, afterwards the task of classification of speech signals as a set of informative signs. The development of methods of signal processing in the absence of sufficient models lead to questions about the processes of generation signals using artificial neural networks, As a result; when building a signal processing system, the structure of the network should be selected; according to parameters of the signals and training network using an algorithm to maximize the use of the information contained in the data of the experiment. This article proposes the Application of wavelet transform for reduction of the value of artificial neural networks for speech recognition tasks this method a present Study a new modification of neural networks a neural network with inverse Wavelet Decomposition of the signal.

MENLO PARK, CA--(Marketwired - June 15, 2016) - Trends Equity today announced that it has teamed up with deepsense.io, The workshop is focused on helping attendees understand the scope, breadth and depth of machine learning solutions available in today's marketplace. According to Eliot Weinman, CEO, Trends Equity and AI World conference chair, "Machine learning and deep learning are together one of the fastest growing software markets today, expected to reach 40B by 2024 (source: Tractica). AI World, which is committed to helping businesses understand how to harness AI and machine learning, has specifically developed this workshop with deepsense.io "We are very pleased to be working with AI World, and becoming the Strategic Machine Learning Workshop Partner for the conference.

On June 25 IBM ISTC Startup Challenge competition DemoDay will be held which was launched in April this year and lasted 10-weeks. SeedStar competition will be held in the same place (American University of Armenia, Manoogian Hall), which is implemented jointly with Microsoft Innovation Center and Enterprise Incubator Foundation. More than 40 applications were received for IBM ISTC Startup Challenge and only 10 passed to the competition stage, 6 of which reached the final round. Various workshops were conducted for the teams during these 10 weeks, ranging from concept design and development, through access to the market. The teams used the services provided by the IBM Watson artificial intelligence in their work, which allows them to make "smart" solutions without much effort.

You'll read these next three paragraphs in my voice. Better get busy reading, or get busy dying. On June 14, America escaped from the primary season. All the wardens found was a "Make America Great Again" hat, a hollowed-out copy of "Hard Choices" and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the nub. I remember thinking the nominees would be decided by mid-March.

Arria NLG PLC (LON:NLG), the language generation technology specialist, has confirmed it plans to raise further cash, probably via a listing on the New Zealand and Australian Stock Exchanges. In the half-yearly results statement it said it would also raise capital in the short-term "as needed". Last week it brought in 262,000 via the issue of loan notes and warrants. "The directors are confident of securing sufficient, additional funding within the next financial year, for its near term requirements," Arria said in the notes to its accounts. The results, meanwhile, showed the company had around 2.1mln in cash as at the end of March.