Welltok, a consumer health activation company, is proudly announcing it won an Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award for its AI-powered chatbot. The awards honor achievements in artificial intelligence (AI) and recognize organizations, products and people who bring AI to life and apply it to solve real problems. Welltok's winning AI solution, Concierge, is a chatbot that helps consumers navigate complicated benefits and health plan information in a conversational, simplified way. Concierge delivers thousands of conversational responses about benefits and healthcare costs for Welltok's clients and consumers. This reduces call volume to health plans, providers and employer benefit managers, and delivers an on-demand personalized experience.

The Business Intelligence Group announced that Aarki was named a winner in its Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards program. Aarki is a leading AI-enabled mobile marketing platform that helps companies grow and re-engage their mobile users, using machine learning (MI), big data, and engaging creative. Aarki is recognized for its advancement in prediction capabilities in mobile advertising. With their Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI) model, Aarki is able to effectively model Aarki-specific user conversion funnels while pre-training on non-attributed omnichannel event data. This allows for better calculation of the users' purchase probability and thus improving the return on investment (ROI) prediction and the install probability to decrease the cost per install (CPI).

As media reports about shortages of ventilators and hospital beds show, the COVID-19 pandemic will most probably lead to rationing of care. In this opinion piece, Gregory P. Shea, Krzysztof "Kris" Laudanski and Cassie A. Solomon explore the likely impact of care rationing in the absence of the best possible information on decision quality, patients and care providers. They also consider the potential benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) in guiding decisions about how care can be rationed. Shea and Solomon are co-authors of Leading Successful Change, published by Wharton School Press. Laudanski is a professor of anesthesiology and critical care at the University of Pennsylvania. Now how many steps behind are we?

Avi Ben Ezra is the CTO of SnatchBot, one of the most popular platforms for creating chatbots. Based on his experience and over 40 million interactions carried out by SnatchBot bots, he believes all good websites need a chatbot. I believe that conversational user interfaces are the future of websites and I'm happy to see them quickly taking over the web. They provide excellent convenience and guidance for website visitors, who no longer need to dial call centers, submit support tickets or sift through knowledge bases in order to get the answers to their questions. With conversational interfaces, they can now quickly get in touch with a brand and find precisely what they need.

Our programmatic advertising platform, Aarki Encore, uses proprietary machine learning algorithms to target users valuable to the advertiser. Tied with its proprietary creative suite, Aarki Studio, its creative team is able to produce highly personalized HTML5 ads that dynamically optimize messaging to an individual user at ad serving time. Both Aarki Encore and Aarki Studio are integrated with AI-powered media optimization to ensure advertising is not only personalized but also optimized for efficiency at scale.

CAMPBELL, Calif., March 26, 2020 – WekaIO (Weka) announced that The Business Intelligence Group has named Weka a winner in its Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards program. The Weka File System (WekaFS), Weka's flagship product that is uniquely built to solve big problems, delivers the industry's best performance at any scale. WekaFS has a clean sheet design that handles the demands of new emerging and converging workloads, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine/deep learning (ML/DL), high-performance data analytics (HPDA), and high-performance computing (HPC). The file system can deliver 80 GB/sec of bandwidth to a single GPU server, scale to Exabytes in a single namespace, and support an entire pipeline for edge-to-core-to-cloud workflows. The system also delivers operational agility with versioning, explainability, and reproducibility along with governance and compliance with in-line encryption and data protection.

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Business Intelligence Group today announced that Kneron was named a winner in its Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards program. Kneron is a leading on-device edge artificial intelligence (AI) company based in San Diego, California. Kneron provides complete end-to-end integrated hardware and software solutions that enable on-device edge AI inferencing in mobile devices, personal computers, and IoT use cases including smart home devices, surveillance, payments, and smart cars. Their solutions augment cloud-based AI to accelerate AI inferencing on any device. As the entire on-device edge AI industry is still emerging, Kneron's early investment and commercialization of its technology have positioned it in a leadership position to enable AI adoption in mass-market devices.

Noah is an AI systems architect. Prior to founding Quorum, Noah spent 12 years in academic research, first at the University of Southern California and most recently at Northwestern as the Assistant Chair of Neurobiology. His work focused on information processing in the brain and he has translated his research into products in augmented reality, brain-computer interfaces, computer vision, and embedded robotics control systems. Your interest in AI and robotics started as a little boy. How were you first introduced to these technologies?

Noah is an AI systems architect. Prior to founding Quorum, Noah spent 12 years in academic research, first at the University of Southern California and most recently at Northwestern as the Assistant Chair of Neurobiology. His work focused on information processing in the brain and he has translated his research into products in augmented reality, brain-computer interfaces, computer vision, and embedded robotics control systems. Your interest in AI and robotics started as a little boy. How were you first introduced to these technologies?

"If you look at the key names in the global debate on AI ethics, it is in fact dominated by women who have many different types of backgrounds, not only tech backgrounds." Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the game-changer in the industry, turbocharging new use cases in transportation, law enforcement, e-commerce, retail, healthcare, and entertainment. However, the quick pace of transformation and adoption is not accompanied by concrete industry standards on AI ethics and fairness in Machine Learning algorithms. While ethics in AI have been a dominant narrative for sometime, Big Tech is still seeking ways to design a code of conduct when building ML algorithms. Some tech giants like Microsoft have laid down guidelines to responsible AI and has operationalized responsible AI at scale, others are yet to follow suit.