Consistent in their quest to spearhead innovative, groundbreaking events, Eventus International is hosting the first ever AI In Gaming 2020 summit in Dubai on 26 and 27 February at Crowne Plaza Dubai. Joining a lineup of top international industry experts, is Andrew Pearson, founder and MD of Intelligencia Limited, who will be speaking at AI In Gaming 2020. Andrew Pearson was born in Pakistan, grew up in Singapore and was educated in England and America. With a degree in psychology from UCLA, Pearson has had a varied career in IT, marketing, mobile technology, social media and entertainment.In 2011, Pearson relocated to Hong Kong to open Qualex Asia Limited, bringing its parent company's experience into the ASEAN region. Pearson is the Managing Director of Intelligencia Limited, a leading implementer of BI, CI, data warehousing, data modeling, predictive analytics, data visualisation, digital marketing, mobile, social media and cloud solutions for the gaming, finance, telco, hospitality and retail industries.

According to an unofficial consensus, the birth of artificial intelligence as an independent research project can be dated to the summer of 1956, when John McCarthy at Dartmouth College, where he belonged to the Mathematical Department, was able to persuade the Rockefeller Foundation to finance an investigation " The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it". In addition to McCarthy (who was a professor at Stanford University until 2000 and is responsible for the coining of the term "artificial intelligence"), several other participants took part in the historical workshop at Dartmouth: Marvin Minsky (former professor at Stanford University), Claude Shannon (inventor of information theory); Herbert Simon (Nobel Prize winner in economics); Arthur Samuel (developer of the first chess computer program at world champion level); furthermore half a dozen experts from science and industry, who dreamed that it might be possible to produce a machine for coping with human tasks, which, according to the previous opinion, require intelligence. The Manifesto of Dartmouth (written at the dawn of the AI age) is both irritating and blurred. It is not clear whether the conference participants believed that one-day machines would actually think or just behave as if they could imagine. Both possible interpretations allow the word "simulate."

The second option, then, is to permit only limited forms of self-improvement that have been deemed sufficiently safe, such as software updates or processor and memory upgrades. Yet, Kumar explains that vetting these forms of self-improvement as safe and unsafe is still exceedingly complicated. In fact, he says that preventing the construction of one specific kind of modification is so complex that it will "require such a deep understanding of what self-improvement involves that it will likely be enough to solve the full safe self-improvement problem."

In late September, Beijing unveiled to the world Daxing, a glimmering $11 billion airport showcasing technologies such as robots and facial recognition scanners that many other airports worldwide are either adopting or are now considering. Daxing fits the description of what experts hail as a "smart airport." Just as a smart home is where internet-connected devices control functions like security and thermostats, smart airports use cloud-based technologies to simplify and improve services. Of course, many of the nearly 4,000 scheduled service airports across the world are still embarrassingly antiquated. The good news for aviation is that more facilities are investing, finally, to better serve airlines, suppliers, and travelers. This year, airports worldwide will spend $11.8 billion -- 68 percent more than the level three years ago -- on information technology, according to an estimate published this month by SITA (Société Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques, an airline-owned tech provider). A few trends are driving the rise of smart airports. Flight volumes are increasing, so airports need better ways to process flyers. Airports need better ways to make money, too, by encouraging passengers to spend more in their shops and restaurants. Data is growing in importance. Everything happening at an airport, from where passengers are flowing to which items are selling in stores, generates data. Airports can analyze this data to spot opportunities for eking out fatter profits. They can sell the data to third-parties as well.

The following keynote speakers have been confirmed for IEEE GLOBECOM 2019. Abstract: We are well into the "Internet of Things" era for the Internet. Billions of devices are expected and it is not uncommon to find a dozen or even a score of Internet-enabled devices in residences and offices around the world. These systems run on software - some of which has not been well tested for safety and security. We need to introduce and promote an ethic of software safety and extended maintenance to protect the users of these devices.

Tony Brooker, who has died aged 94, was a pioneer of computer programming and education. He designed and implemented the world's first high-level programming language, at Manchester University, and was later founding professor of computer science at Essex University. In 1947, when Brooker took up his first academic post, as assistant lecturer in engineering mathematics at Imperial College, University of London, computers were in the air. He joined Professor KD Tocher and another student, Sidney Michaelson, in building the Icce (Imperial College Computing Engine, pronounced "icky"). In 1949 Brooker became a research assistant at the Cambridge University mathematical laboratory and took charge of its differential analyser, a prewar analogue computer.

Singapore will adopt a human-centric approach to AI, and focus on the use of the technology to deliver impactful social and economic benefits for its citizens. The government has initially identified five key sectors: Transport and Logistics, Smart Cities and Estates, Healthcare, Education, Safety, and Border Security (about 300,000 people cross the border with Malaysia daily). The city-state of Singapore was the recipient of the Smart City award in 2018. The vast array of solutions developed by the government from dynamic public bus routing algorithms to real-time parent-teacher portals, or even predictive analytics for water pipe leaks, have proved that Singapore systematically pursues the application of innovative digital technologies to improve people's lives. "We believe that AI is a transformative technology. The fact that computers and systems can now see, hear, understand, and speak, is transformational. It will transform our economy and societies, and disrupt our politics. It will alter the nature of jobs, and the skills our people will need." said Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, who is also Minister-in-charge of the Smart Nation Programme Office, during the Smart City Expo World Congress opening ceremony.

There's a lot of convention behind the term "artificial intelligence," and potentially that is the problem. Conventional models for AI, which are based on how the human brain might work, are not effective as we still don't have a definitive understanding of how the brain works, says Eberhard Schoeneburg, founder of Alternative AI. He believes a new way of thinking must be adapted for AI. "Even if you have a very simplified model of the brain, it wouldn't solve all these issues or all these problems. The key aspect of Alternative AI is to come up with explaining intelligence without referring to brains," says Schoeneburg. But quantum processes in nature can be studied for insights to create AI with actual intelligence, known as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). That may soon become a reality. As Google claims "quantum supremacy" in the developing field of quantum computing, some experts suggest the breakthrough could be a boon to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and vice-versa. In a recent interview with MIT Technology Review, Google CEO Sundar Pichai gave credence to AI as it "can accelerate quantum computing and quantum computing can accelerate AI." See related article: How blockchain can save A.I. Deep learning methods used in AI currently have narrow use cases which rely on static pattern recognition, while a quantum-based system may be more suited for real life applications, says Schoeneburg. Nonetheless, other analysts are less bullish on the prospect of quantum computing applications in the short term. Schoeneburg explains how artificial intelligence should adapt to quantum technology and more. This Forkast.News exclusive brings together two leading voices in artificial intelligence today: Susan Oh, founder of Muckr AI and who also serves as cochair of AI, Blockchain for Impact for the United Nations General Assembly, sits down with the "Godfather of Alternative AI" Eberhard Schoeneburg and calls out "deep learning" as being too specific to be "intelligent." To understand the future of AI, one must understand the roots of its past. Susan Oh: I have the great honor of sitting down with Eberhard Schoeneburg, who is the godfather of Alternative AI. He's also the man that gave us [one of the first] chatbots, though he says that he thinks it's a gimmick and bullsh*t now. So Eberhard, thank you so much for sitting down with me. I think we both agree that AI has failed to live up to the hype and the promise. I don't think what people realize is that this is the fifth wave of AI, that people have been working on intelligent computing systems since the 1950s.

Each month, Future Tense Fiction--a series of short stories from Future Tense and ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives--publishes a story on a theme. Stop me if you've heard this one before." David had heard this one before, but he needed a job. He folded his hands in his lap and summoned the patience he'd learned sitting through Talmudic debates. He waved for Aiden Shure, Town of Our Own's CEO, to continue. "It's a dive bar, lots of rough language from the other patrons, but the bartender says, 'Father, what can I get you?' The priest says: 'Well, I have to lead Mass in the morning, but a wee nip can't hurt. Gimme three fingers of Irish whiskey and cut it with holy water.' So the bartender runs over to the church next door, borrows a bit of holy water, and makes the drink. The priest is satisfied, so the bartender moves on: 'Rabbi, what can I get you?' The rabbi says, 'Well it is the Sabbath day, but if it's not too much work I wouldn't say no to a glass of kosher wine from the vineyards of the Holy Land.' So the bartender finds a bottle of sweet Israeli red, and the rabbi thanks him." Aiden told the joke like he'd practiced it a lot while stuck in traffic. David braced for the punchline he knew was coming. "So the bartender turns to the robot, which has been quietly listening to the other patrons.

Getting its world premiere at documentary festival IDFA in Amsterdam, Tonje Hessen Schei's gripping AI doc "iHuman" drew an audience of more than 700 to a 10 a.m. Many had their curiosity piqued by the film's timely subject matter--the erosion of privacy in the age of new media, and the terrifying leaps being made in the field of machine intelligence--but it's fair to say that quite a few were drawn by the promise of a Skype Q&A with National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, who made headlines in 2013 by leaking confidential U.S. intelligence to the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper. Snowden doesn't feature in the film, but it couldn't exist without him: "iHuman" is an almost exhausting journey through all the issues that Snowden was trying to warn us about, starting with our civil liberties. Speaking after the film--which he "very much enjoyed"--Snowden admitted that the subject was still raw for him, and that the writing of his autobiography (this year's "Permanent Record"), had not been easy. "It was actually quite a struggle," he revealed.