RS21, an industry leader in developing interactive, big data analytics and visualization products and an Inc. 500 fastest-growing company, welcomes Michelle Archuleta, Ph.D. as its Director of Data Science. Dr. Archuleta is an entrepreneur, inventor and practitioner of artificial intelligence (AI) with 15 years of experience. She has 6 pending patents and has published in top reviewed scientific journals with a focus in the fields of systems biology, computational biology and utilizing applied mathematics and machine learning. "I'm excited to use AI for good and tackle high impact projects at RS21," said Dr. Archuleta. "I am looking forward to collaborating with the data science team, UX/UI design experts and developers to identify those'aha' moments that lead to new knowledge, a better path forward, and ultimately, make a difference in people's lives."

KODA, the artificial intelligence (AI) robotic dog company dedicated to helping people live better lives with robotic companions, announced today the pre-launch of its first model, the KODA.Unlike other robot dogs on the market, KODA is designed to be functional from pragmatic and emotional perspectives. KODA is a social robot. This is in part why KODA gave it a head. When a KODA cocks its ear to its owner's voice and runs over to be close, the consumer will know it's because KODA heard and understood them. KODA's blockchain-enabled decentralized AI infrastructure allows the robot dog to serve a multitude of purposes.

OTTAWA, Oct. 14, 2020 /CNW/ - Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, will be joined by Mr. Jean-François Gagné, Founder and CEO of Element AI. Their conversation will take place live on Thursday, October 15, 2020, at 1:30 p.m. EDT (French) and 2:30 p.m. EDT (English). Their conversation, entitled "Artificial Intelligence (AI): What it is and isn't" will focus on the roles that AI is expected to play in the near future in Canada and around the world. Mr. Gagné will also answer questions from Canadians from across the country. In addition to being the founder of Element AI, Mr. Gagné is an outspoken advocate of AI for Good and is actively involved in guiding AI's impact on business, people and society.

General Trading Company announced that about 98% of the profits made were due to its unique artificial intelligence technology. "An important advantage of General Trading Company compared to other capital management companies active in the financial markets is the complete use of algorithmic trading and artificial intelligence," says Alex Amartiefio, CEO and one of the co-founders of General Trading Company in London. General Trading is not alone and many other companies in various markets are trying to use artificial intelligence and trading algorithms; but the stunning results of this company has attracted a lot of attention. General Trading Company was registered in January 2019 and has raised its capital to 1 billion pounds in nine months. Amartiefio believes that the company's success is not just an accident rather the result of years of experience among the company's founders and managers.

In a new perspective piece "Transparency and reproducibility in artificial intelligence" published this week in the journal Nature, an international group of scientists including CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) Associate Professor Levi Waldron raised concerns about the lack of transparency in publication of artificial intelligence algorithms for health applications. The authors raise concerns about a recent publication in which a group including Google Health reported using artificial intelligence to diagnose breast cancer from mammogram images more accurately than expert human radiologists. The authors contend that restrictive data access procedures, lack of published computer code, and unreported model parameters make it impractically difficult for any other researchers to confirm or extend this work. The piece also highlights tensions over what are appropriate measures to protect patient privacy while allowing the broader research community to contribute methodology and to correct potential errors that could set back progress to the detriment of other patients. "This back-and-forth is one high-profile example of the current state of struggles over who controls data that has played out for decades in the biomedical sciences and other fields," says Professor Waldron.

NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2020--According to Deloitte's "2020 State of AI in the Enterprise, 3rd Edition" study, 83% of respondents believe that artificial intelligence (AI) will be very or critically important to their business success in the next two years, but only 47% feel they have a high level of skill in selecting AI technologies and suppliers. As AI becomes more widely available and crucial to market leadership, organizations need to swiftly apply AI within their businesses. To help solve for rapid AI integration, Deloitte today announced its CortexAI platform. An award-winning solution already in market and proven in client engagements by Deloitte audit and tax clients, CortexAI is now being expanded to Deloitte consulting and risk and financial advisory clients. CortexAI brings together Deloitte's unique expertise with the power of an AI platform to rapidly develop and deploy scalable, applied AI solutions that drive impact and enable companies to garner fast results and return on investment.

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Last week, Waymo, the self-driving vehicle developer owned by Alphabet, expanded a first-of-its-kind service offering rides to paying passengers around Phoenix--with no one behind the wheel. Videos shared by Waymo and others show its minivans navigating wide, sunny streets with ease. Now rival Cruise, a General Motors subsidiary, has taken a step towards running its own self-driving taxi service--on the hilly, winding, pedestrian-swarmed streets of San Francisco. On Thursday, Cruise said the California Department of Motor Vehicles had granted it a permit to test up to five of its modified Chevy Bolts without anyone behind the wheel. In a blog post, Cruise CEO Dan Ammann said truly driverless cars would operate in the city before the end of the year.

Over a billion people every day use Google Search, the company said. Despite having worked on the software for more than 20 years, every day there are 15 percent of queries that Google has never seen before. To keep up with the constantly changing queries, sources of information and ways to present results, Google needs to tap the power of AI. Today, the company announced a set of updates that can make Search easier to use, and the most notable of these is a new "Hum to Search" feature that's avalable today. It's like Shazam or Soundhound for song identification, except you don't need to have the music playing.

ARMONK, NY and SANTA CLARA, CA, October 15, 2020 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) and ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) today announced an expansion to their strategic partnership designed to help companies reduce operational risk and lower costs by applying AI to automate IT operations. Available later this year, a new joint solution will combine IBM's AI‑powered hybrid cloud software and professional services to ServiceNow's intelligent workflow capabilities and market‑leading IT service and operations management products. The solution is engineered to help clients realize deeper, AI‑driven insights from their data, create a baseline of a typical IT environment, and take succinct recommended actions on outlying behavior to help prevent and fix IT issues at scale. Together, IBM and ServiceNow can help companies free up valuable time and IT resources from maintenance activities, to focus on driving the transformation projects necessary to support the digital demands of their businesses. "AI is one of the biggest forces driving change in the IT industry to the extent that every company is swiftly becoming an AI company," said Arvind Krishna, Chief Executive Officer, IBM.