Artificial intelligence was once a topic debated among academics - but now, it's changing the way businesses work, and the way consumers interact with the world. IBM Research just issued a recap of the top papers it published in 2018, many of which contributed to what are being identified as this year's top 10 achievements in AI.

Thrive Senior Living is once again challenging norms and industry standards, today announcing plans to integrate conversational artificial intelligence across all of its communities in 2019. The industry disrupter has tapped Aiva Health, a Silicon Valley-based startup, to launch an integrated technology platform designed to transform the way residents interact and build relationships beyond the four walls of their rooms. The comprehensive and personalized system is the first of its kind in the industry to be fully integrated into the work flows of a community. Aiva uses Google Home, Amazon Echo and smart speakers to not only engage and empower Thrive residents, but also to connect them more closely to their caregivers. The voice OS is built on a suite of enterprise applications – a mobile app for caregivers to manage help requests, a dashboard for performance reporting and a backend for controlling the voice assistants' settings and interactions with other IoT smart devices such as TVs, lights and thermostats.

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Market by Offering (Hardware, Software, Services), Technology (Machine Learning, NLP, Context-Aware Computing, Computer Vision), End-Use Application, End-User, and Geography - Global Forecast to 2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The AI in healthcare market is expected to grow from USD 2.1 billion in 2018 to USD 36.1 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 50.2% during the forecast period. Increasingly large and complex data set available in the form of big data and growing need to reduce the increasing healthcare cost drive the growth of this market. Improving computing power and declining cost of hardware are other key factors driving this market. However, reluctance among medical practitioners to adopt AI-based technologies and the lack of skilled workforce and ambiguous regulatory guidelines for medical software are among the major factors restraining the growth of the AI in healthcare market.

In a press release, posted by Elad Hazan and Yoram Singer research Scientists at Google AI, the technology giant has announced that it is entered a joint venture with the historic and prestigious Princeton University, with the aim to dive deeper into the promising scientific field of artificial intelligence.

PISCATAWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) today announced the launch of the Ethics Certification Program for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (ECPAIS). ECPAIS establishes one of the world's first programs dedicated to the creation of an A/IS certification process and marking methodology supported by a global standards development organization. ECPAIS intends to offer a process and define a series of marks by which organizations can seek certified A/IS products, systems and services. The program is highlighting the importance of public-private collaboration in advancing responsible use of A/IS, and launching with founding member organizations including Saidot.ai, Participation is open to all interested entities.

The world is ending and it's all because of artificial intelligence (AI). At least, if we're to believe the endless stream of stories from futurists predicting the collapse of the global economy because AI stole our media relations strategy jobs. These fears are not unfounded. Rapid leaps in AI are putting entire professions and industries on the chopping block. Travel agents are all but extinct thanks to flight-tracking algorithms; IBM's Watson is gunning to displace accountants.

If you live in the Phoenix metropolitan area, you may have already encountered autonomous vehicles delivering passengers from one location to another. Now, Scottsdale, Ariz., residents can have their groceries delivered via robotically driven vehicles, as well. This week Kroger -- the nation's largest grocery chain -- announced a new partnership with Nuro, a Silicon Valley start-up that produces a self-driving, unmanned vehicle known as the R1 that operates on major roadways alongside cars. As of Tuesday, customers have been able to have their groceries delivered to their homes by the autonomous vehicle with a design inspired by a Formula One racing helmet. "Kroger customers are looking for new, convenient ways to feed their families and purchase the products they need quickly through services like pickup and delivery," Yael Cosset, chief digital officer for Kroger, said in a news release.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seventy eight percent of UK office workers are confident their jobs will survive automation, according to new independent research* undertaken for leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company UiPath. The research, exploring the attitudes of 1,000 office employees toward automation, revealed that nearly half (49 percent) do not see how their administrative duties can be undertaken by a software robot. "RPA is one of the most far-reaching revolutions in the UK workplace," said Kulpreet Singh, managing director EMEA, UiPath. "Office employees may be in for a pleasant surprise as the burden of boring and routine tasks moves to being performed by software robots instead. They will need to adjust to having a greater amount of time for more valuable work."

Panoply, the smart cloud data warehouse built for business intelligence, is excited to announce its status as a finalist in Microsoft and Calcalist's Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Startup Competition. In a stiff competition, Microsoft will host representatives from Panoply and the other finalists at its Seattle headquarters. The first and second place winners will be invited by Calcalist to participate in the newspaper's Berlin conference in 2019, where the companies will meet with potential partners and investors. Panoply's CEO and co-Founder Yaniv Leven said, "We're proud to be announced as a finalist in the Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Startup competition. So far, we've been amazed at the quality of the companies participating and we're psyched to be pitching at the finals. We're a team of engineers and fighters, we set lofty goals and conquer massive challenges to prove how bad our innovative desire is."

In 1909, the American mechanical engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor helped to usher in the era of manufacturing automation when he published "The Principles of Scientific Management." Also known as Taylorism, scientific management aimed to improve economic and labor efficiency by analyzing and streamlining workflows. Training workers to perform tasks by specialization was instrumental in manufacturing's move from custom craftsmanship to mass production. Taylor's scientific management principles evolved into lean management, in which multi-skilling and problem solving among workers became critical to goals of continuous optimization and eliminating waste. And Taylorism is seen in the rise of knowledge work, a term first coined in 1959 by the influential management guru Peter Drucker in his book, "The Landmarks of Tomorrow."