ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gartner, Inc. has announced the winners of the 2018 Gartner Eye on Innovation Award for financial services in the Americas. The award recognizes innovative use of digital technology-enabled capabilities, products or services to highlight "best-in-class" financial industry initiatives launched within the past 12 months and to offer insight about developments in digital innovation. The finalists presented their case studies during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, which is taking place here through Thursday, and BMO Bank of Montreal was selected as the regional 2018 Gartner Eye on Innovation Award Americas winner by the attendees at the event. Allstate and Liberty Mutual Insurance were also named as award recipients. BMO Bank of Montreal -- BMO Bank of Montreal created an entirely new way to pay bills by applying machine learning capabilities to recognize the biller, payee, account number, amount and due date across a range of corporations and statement formats.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world around us. From automated factories that build everything without human intervention, to computer systems capable of beating world masters at some of the most complex games, AI is powering our society into the future – but what happens when this artificial intelligence becomes greater than ours? Should we fear automated weapon turning on us, or Hollywood-style "skull-stomping robots"? We spoke to Max Tegmark, an MIT professor and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, about his book, Life 3.0, in which he answers some of the key questions we need to solve to make the future of artificial intelligence one that benefits all of humankind. Can you describe your book in a nutshell?

But unsure where to focus his research, he had a conversation with a professor the same day the professor's mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer and it took his interest down an unexpected path. "Most of the AI back when I started was based around mobile robots and making vehicles move around autonomously in factories. That frankly wasn't very interesting to me," he told news.com.au. As part of his PhD he began to pioneer a way to use computer software to detect and measure breast density in screening images. At the time, breast cancer screening was far from perfect and he thought artificial intelligence could revolutionise it.

We sat down with Steven Astorino, IBM VP of Development, Hybrid Cloud, z Analytics, and Canada Lab Director, to chat about his work in machine learning and his upcoming talk at Reactive Summit in Montreal. So, first of all, could you talk about your background? What initially drew you to machine learning and data science? One aspect of my job really revolves around data science and machine learning. I manage IBM products like Data Science Experience, Watson Studio, SPSS Decision Optimization, Watson Explorer--that's all on the ML/data science part of the house AI.

Escher print of websites: Its sole purpose is to charge users 99 cents to unlock a list of people who also paid the site 99 cents to look at the list of users who paid 99 cents. The conceit is diabolical: The only way to see who was stupid enough to fall for it is to pay the money and become a sucker yourself. Launched Friday morning by Thinko, a Brooklyn-based computer entertainment studio that specializes in creating cartoons, video games, and other weird internet things, the site defies explanation. Heather Schwedel: How did you come up with the idea for WhoPaid99Cents.com? Pasquale D'Silva: The same way that any one of our other ideas have just kind of happened.

According to a research done by Google, the more Artificial Intelligence gets advanced, the more aggressive it becomes... Those who come from the AI field, what do you think about the core reason for such behavior? Why would advanced AI use more intrusive techniques instead of cooperating with others?

This is a rush transcript from "The Five," October 11, 2018. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. It's 5 o'clock in New York City, and this is "The Five." It's the event everybody is talking about, Kanye West's America first sit down with President Trump at the White House. KANYE WEST, ARTIST: You know they try to scare me to not wear this hat, my old friends. But this hat it gives me power, in a way. WATTERS: We're going to have more of Kanye in the West Wing ahead. But first, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, and Eric Holder are under fire for their recent comments attacking Republicans. HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about. ERIC HOLDER, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: Michelle would say, you know, when they go low, we go high. When they go low, we kick them. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Better be careful what he's wishing for, that I can tell you. He better be careful what he's wishing for. UNINDENTIFIED MALE: What do you mean? TRUMP: That's a disgusting statement for him to make. For him to make a statement like that is a very dangerous statement. You know, they talk about us. WATTERS: And Congressman Steve Scalise, who was shot by a deranged left-wing gunman, is calling out the left's mob mentality. Writing, quote, if they want change, they need to convince people with their ideas and actually win elections rather than call for violent resistance, harassment, and mob rule. Meanwhile, Holder is predictably backtracking. Tweeting, quote, OK, stop the fake outrage. In fact, when I was A.G., violent crime in the U.S. was historically low. I'm saying Republicans are undermining our democracy and Democrats need to be tough, proud, and stand up for the values we believe in.

In recognition of the fact that their obituary pages had been dominated by white men, in 2018 the New York Times published an obituary of the Countess Ada Lovelace. Alongside Grace Hopper and Katherine Johnson, Lovelace has become an icon for women in technology. So much so that the second Tuesday in October is recognised internationally as Ada Lovelace Day. Lovelace was from a wealthy background; her father was the poet Lord Byron and her mother, Anne Isabella Milbanke, the "princess of parallelograms", was a keen mathematician and social reformer. Social scientists of today would describe Lovelace as having high "science capital" – her well-connected parents meant her mentors and advisers were members of the British scientific elite, including the polymaths Mary Somerville and Charles Babbage.

Thank you so much for doing this with us! Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path? It's been a rather circuitous route to get to where I am today, but in some ways moving to Asia in 2012 was a sort of homecoming for me because I had spent much of my youth in Singapore. I was asked to head up a small operation in Macau because my former company had closed a limited training deal with the Venetian Macao. I arrived here, oversaw that project and then teamed up with SAS, our main software partner at the time, and helped close deals with other casinos in Macau, a cruise line in Hong Kong, the Resorts World group in the US, as well as a sports book in Australia. After about 18 months, I had overseen work in Macau, the Philippines, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the US.

R&D Magazine: Can you explain a little about your background? Clark: I come from a diverse background. I have a PhD in chemistry, then I worked for a drug discovery software company for some time and then in the information industry. Then I worked in pharma for 15 years, doing big data, analytics, informatics. I was the head of an analytics and computation group.