Sorry kids, neither you nor robots can be trusted. The US Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has told Transdev North America to stop hauling children around in its EZ10 Generation II autonomous shuttles in Babcock Ranch -- a community in Southwest Florida. It seems that the NHTSA has some safety concerns. "Using a non-compliant test vehicle to transport children is irresponsible, inappropriate, and in direct violation of the terms of Transdev's approved test project," NHTSA Deputy Administrator Heidi King said in a press release. Earlier this March, NHTSA approved Transdev to test and demonstrate its autonomous shuttles.

Since Klaus Schwab drew attention to the arrival of the 4th Industrial Revolution in January 2016, we are witnessing the significant impact of Artificial Intelligence and its more well known subset, often seen as its synonym of Machine Learning that led Andrew Ng to propound " AI is the new electricity". India created the IITs in the 1960s that helped some Indians to achieve places of eminence in the technical and business world of the 3rd Industrial Age. Today, India is a ' KRANTI' nation poised to play center-stage in the AI age leveraging the opportunity as a ' learning movement' amongst its masses, evidenced by the rapid adoption of the mobile phone. A group of former IIT faculty and students led by Prof. M.M. Pant have started a movement of AI awareness and lifelong learning to spread knowledge about AI as per one's need. Their Mission 2020 is to prepare not only the young but all ages for their future in the 4th Industrial Age.

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The country's premier think tank Niti Aayog and Microsoft India have signed a partnership to deploy artificial intelligence based solutions across various sectors such as agriculture and healthcare. According to the agreement, Microsoft India will support Niti Aayog by combining the cloud, AI, research and its vertical expertise for new initiatives and solutions across several core areas including agriculture and healthcare and the environment. Microsoft will also accelerate the use of AI for the development and adoption of local language computing, in addition to building capacity for AI among the workforce through education, the company said in a statement. Amitabh Kant, CEO - NITI Aayog said that for our country, the power of Artificial Intelligence needs to be brought to bear in sectors like healthcare, education, environment and agriculture, which are important for the inclusive development of India. "Simultaneously, we should utilize the power of AI to build understanding of the different regional languages prevalent in India."

WIRE)--Compulink Healthcare Solutions, the creator of Advantage SMART Practice, an all-in-one EHR and practice management solution powered by artificial intelligence (AI), will demonstrate its rheumatology-specific system, Rheumatology Advantage at this week's American College of Rheumatology's Annual Meeting. Advantage uses AI technology and real-time data from the clinic to completely automate tasks such as billing, along with eliminating steps to improve patient flow. "We expect this release to take our client's efficiency across their entire clinic to a whole new level," said Link Wilson, CEO and founder of Compulink. "Our SMART billing features will reduce the amount of time required to generate and work claims by about 90%. With our SMART workflow engine, we're looking for patient throughput to increase by as much as 15% or more. And with our mobile patient engagement, the ability to engage patients in their own care while growing your patient base is really limitless."

Redtail Technology ("Redtail"), a leading provider of client relationship management (CRM) solutions for financial services firms, today announced the rollout of advanced artificial intelligence capabilities that will enable advisory firms of all sizes to access valuable data and trends about current and prospective clients directly within the CRM. Redtail's machine-learning features will make natural language processing accessible and affordable for the advisory community. Using the concept of "transfer learning," Redtail can utilize smaller amounts of data to begin the learning process. The system then analyzes emails, notes and text messages to predict and estimate client needs, create better outcomes, and discover important connections that enable all parties to make better financial decisions. "Given the volume of data typically required for a machine to start learning, this level of artificial intelligence has only been available at large institutions – until now," said Redtail CEO Brian McLaughlin.

MORRISTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The digital era shift is realigning fundamental elements of business that require major adjustments from insurers in order for them to survive and thrive, according to a new thought leadership report released today by Majesco (NYSE AMERICAN:MJCO), a global provider of core insurance platform software and consulting services for insurance business transformation. A new digital era of insurance focused on innovation and growth requires platform-based business models and solutions to succeed. The report, A New Business Model for a New Era of Insurance: Digital Insurance 2.0 in the Platform and API Economy, highlights the impacts of the shift to a new age of insurance, Digital Insurance 2.0. Underpinning this new era is the shift to the application programming interface ("API") and platform economy, which consists of key technologies such as cloud computing, open APIs, microservices, ecosystems, and data and analytics, which together help insurers create new business models, products and services, connect everything and, most importantly, create new customer experiences. "The digital age shift is now top of mind for every leadership team and board because it is extending an organization's growth and innovation capabilities," remarked Denise Garth, SVP - Strategic Marketing, Industry Relations and Innovation for Majesco.

Integrated with Salesforce, Xactly's Sales Performance Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform applies machine learning algorithms to over 13 years of pay and performance data to analyze and predict the risk of future employee attrition. Leveraging a model of over 50 unique data elements, organizations can proactively address and prevent undesired sales attrition, reducing a significant business cost and safeguarding performance. Customers now have the ability to leverage the power of Salesforce Einstein and Xactly Insights together, allowing sales leaders to become smarter and more predictive. With the ability to predict leading sales indicators using both customer as well as their own reps' pay and performance data, sales leaders can: prioritize opportunities, prevent their top reps from leaving the organization and make real-time decisions to optimize overall sales performance. "Xactly has harnessed the power of big data to provide organizations with a predictive, real-world AI application that they can easily implement and use today to ensure the productivity and health of their sales force," said Christopher W. Cabrera, founder and CEO of Xactly.

Elon Musk has announced that Tesla's new custom AI chip is about six months away from being installed in new production cars. The CEO said that the chip, which was confirmed as being in development last December, will offer "somewhere between [a] 500% & 2000%" increase in its vehicle's autonomous driving performance. Existing Tesla owners who have already paid for full self-driving will be offered this "hardware 3" update for Autopilot free of charge. The announcement comes as v9 of Tesla's onboard software has already reportedly brought big improvements to its neural network with a unified camera network that more seamlessly integrates all eight of the car's cameras. Musk has suggested that this software update delivered an approximate 400 percent increase in its capabilities.

CarePredict, a leading AI-driven digital health company based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Menlo Park, California, has selected Lacuna Health, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kindred Healthcare, LLC for an AI-powered Wellness Platform Collaboration. The partnership enables CarePredict to leverage Lacuna Health's highly trained registered nurse (RN) led clinical staff to offer providers a suite of care management enabled predictive health technology products to engage and support seniors and their caregivers. CarePredict, an AI-driven digital health company, develops proprietary connected remote sensing technologies, wearables, and deep learning platforms that continuously observe, learn, and trigger just-in-time care for seniors. CarePredict employs lightweight sensors and wearables, designed for seniors, to unobtrusively and autonomously collect rich data sets on the senior's activity and behaviors. Machine learning and unique kinematics algorithms are used to quantify activities performed by the senior, such as drinking, eating, sleeping, walking, grooming, etc. CarePredict uses these unique data sets to train its deep learning neural nets to surface insights such as signs and symptoms of self-neglect indicative of depression, unusual toileting patterns indicative of a urinary tract infection (UTI), or increased fall risk due to malnutrition, gait changes, lack of rest, and dehydration.