Throughout 2017, I have been running polls on the public's appetite for risk regarding the pursuit of superintelligence. I've been running these on Surveymonkey, paying for audiences so as to minimize distortions in the data. I've spent nearly $10,000 on this project. I did this in about the most scientific way I could. It is not a "passed around" survey, but rather paid polling across the entire American spectrum.

Mo Gawdat is the chief business officer at Google X – the "moonshot factory" responsible for some of the company's more audacious projects, such as self-driving cars and a balloon-powered global internet. Before he joined Google, while working as stock trader and tech executive in Dubai and in response to a period of depression, he used his engineer's mindset to create an "equation for happiness". The equation says that happiness is greater than, or equal to, your perception of the events in your life minus your expectation of how life should be. When his 21-year-old son Ali died during a routine operation, Gawdat turned to the equation, which they had worked on together, in an attempt to come to terms with his tragic loss. Gawdat's book, Solve for Happy, explains the theories underpinning the equation and how it helped him sustain his life after Ali's death.

The world of startups is constantly moving and evolving. With the exponential growth of deep learning research and technologies in recent years, innovative new companies are often funded, acquired and transformed from startups to industry leaders extremely quickly. MedicSen is a startup focused on developing non-invasive treatments for diabetes, utilising connected devices, machine learning algorithms and a cloud platform to revolutionise diabetic patient's lives. By applying artificial intelligence and sensor tech, the algorithm can predict future glucose levels and risky events and, according to that, give the patient medical advice and instructions for the amount of insulin they need and at what time. Since we first met the MedicSen team at the 2016 Deep Learning in Healthcare Summit in London, their team has grown and their mission has evolved.

Igor Kononenko studied computer science at the University of Ljubliana, Slovenia, receiving his BSc in 1982, MSc in 1985 and PhD in 1990. He is now professor at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science there, teaching courses in Programming Languages, Algorithms and Data Structures; Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures; Knowledge Engineering, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. He is the head of the Laboratory for Cognitive Modelling and a member of the Artificial Intelligence Department at the same faculty. His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks and cognitive modelling. He is the (co) author of 170 scientific papers in these fields and 10 textbooks.

Good day, everyone, and welcome to today's Nidec's Conference Call hosted by Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities. Today's call is being recorded. At this time, I would like to pass this conference to Mr. Abe at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities for opening remarks. Mr. Abe, please go ahead, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for joining this conference call. This is Abe, General Manager, Institutional Sales Department of Mitsubishi UFJ Securities. Before the meeting starts, please make sure all materials have been distributed. If not, please download the files on Nidec's Homepage right now. Now, may I introduce Mr. Akira Sato, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, who will be speaking to you shortly. First, Mr. Sato will make a presentation. After his presentation, we will move to a Q&A session. Mr. Sato will now discuss Nidec's fourth quarter fiscal year 2016 results, future outlook and management strategy. Mr. Sato, please go ahead. Thank you very much, Mr. Abe. My name is Akira Sato, Chief Financial Officer of Nidec, and I will be your main speaker for today.

We have discussed Tensorflow before on this blog when we talked about some common libraries used by data science professionals. It doesn't hurt to talk about it again though! The fact is, if you are in the world of machine learning, you have probably heard, tried, or implemented some form of deep learning algorithm. Are they necessary, not all the time. Are they cool when done right, yes.

The purpose of language is to reveal the contents of our minds, says Julie Sedivy. We are social animals and language is what springs us from our isolated selves and unites us with others. Sedivy has taught linguistics and psychology at Brown University and the University of Calgary. She specializes in psycholinguistics, the psychology of language, notably the psychological pressures that give birth to language and comprehension. More recently Sedivy has been writing about language in her own life. She was born in Czechoslovakia, spent time as a kid in Austria and Italy, and came of age in Canada. She speaks Czech, French, and English, and gets by in Spanish, Italian, and German.

As we have explained on multiple occasions, AI has and will have an impact on many industries. Of course, with this development, the question that all the people working in those industries is the same: "what will happen to my job?" Have you ever ask yourself this question: How will AI affect the demand for human Labor. Do you think AI will decrease human labor? So if foreseeable technologies materialize, then then the need for human labor could decrease. Technology always puts existing jobs under strain.

At this time, all participants have been placed in a listen-only mode. And the floor will be open for your questions following the presentation. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. And now I would like to turn the conference over to Mellanox. Leading the call today will be Eyal Waldman, President and CEO of Mellanox Technologies; and Jacob Shulman, Chief Financial Officer. By now, you've seen our press release and associated financial information that we furnished to the SEC on Form 8-K this afternoon. If not, you may access them on our website at ir.mellanox.com. As a reminder, today's discussion includes predictions, expectations, estimates and other information, all of which we consider to be forward-looking statements. Throughout today's discussion, we present important factors relating to our business that may potentially affect these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are also subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from statements made today. As a result, we caution you against placing undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. And we encourage you to review our most recent SEC reports, including our 10-K and 10-Q, for a complete discussion of these factors and other risks that may affect our future results or the market price of our ordinary shares.

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