H2O.ai, the open source leader in AI, today announced an expanded presence in Australia due to heightened demand from customers for automatic machine learning and data science solutions in the region. As part of its efforts to democratize AI globally, H2O.ai will sponsor and attend the NVIDIA AI Conference in Sydney next week, as well as host a meetup to engage with data science professionals about its award-winning machine learning platforms and provide Australian businesses with the power of scalable AI. H2O.ai's expanded efforts in Australia come at a time of unprecedented demand for its products in the region. Since its launch in late 2017, the company's automatic machine learning platform Driverless AI has been deployed by customers, including Stanley Black and Decker, Armada Health, Deserve, G5 and more. NVIDIA AI Conference is a premier event on artificial intelligence and deep learning, and showcases the latest breakthroughs from universities, startups and major enterprises in a wide range of fields such as smart cities, autonomous machines, virtual reality and more.

Beyond the 1,000 New Intelligence attendees in the hall, exhibitors will have access to 100 highly qualified The Future of Work conference Attendees.

Effect.AI published a new video blog informing the community about some of the latest developments regarding the project. Effect.AI's vision for its'Mechanical Turk', microtask platform is simply inspiring as its leadership is clearly choosing to build Effect.AI in a socially responsible way. Let's recap what the project is about, have a listen to what Polina Boykova has to say and connect some of the dots regarding the project's ambitions. Effect.AI has a three-staged approach with regards to building, what they call, the'Effect Network'. In the first and current stage, Effect.AI is aiming at disintermediating and decentralizing crowdsourced'micro-tasking'.

One of the biggest challenges facing car companies developing driverless vehicles has little do with sophisticated robotics or laser technology. Instead, they must figure out how to engineer something far more amorphous but no less important: human trust, the kind that is communicated when human drivers and pedestrians make eye contact at a crosswalk. Surveys indicate that large portions of the public harbor deep reservations about the safety of self-driving technology, so Jaguar Land Rover enlisted the help of cognitive psychologists to unpack "how vehicle behaviour affects human confidence in new technology," the British automaker said in a news release. Its solution for answering that question: virtual eyes, a large cartoonish pair that bring to mind the plastic googly eyes you probably glued onto projects in elementary school. The eyes have been fitted to autonomous vehicles known as "intelligent pods."

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Speedpay, Inc., a Western Union subsidiary, announced an alliance with Beguided, Inc., a technology company that provides enterprise solutions for increased customer engagement. Through this strategic alliance, Speedpay has fully integrated Avapay, a proprietary avatar-guided payment channel, into its platform to offer customers a customizable and efficient payments experience that utilizes Artificial Intelligence to power self-service platforms. "As a pioneer in the payments industry, Speedpay is dedicated to providing clients with a suite of tools and solutions that simplifies the billing process, providing an efficient, convenient approach to making payments," said Frank Lockridge, senior vice president, Western Union Global Payments and head of Speedpay. "Beguided's virtual agent offering is a unique solution that enhances overall efficiency by freeing up time for live representatives to tackle more complicated customer service issues. By offering this tool, Speedpay provides billers with another way to better serve their customers and improve their business processes."

MADISON, WISCONSIN – Foxconn Technology Group will partner with three major Midwestern companies to create a $100 million fund to help launch technology startups around the world, the companies announced Tuesday. The Taiwanese electronics giant, Advocate Aurora Health, Johnson Controls and Northwestern Mutual will each contribute $25 million to create the Wisconn Valley Venture Fund. The fund will be controlled by a manager based in Milwaukee as well as a committee comprised of representatives from each of the four companies. Officials from the four companies said they expect the fund will produce excellent returns and lead to advances in robotics, artificial intelligence and health care. "We look forward to enabling entrepreneurs and startups to find success for transformative solutions through the fund," Foxconn CEO Terry Gau said in a statement.

WIRE)--CLARA analytics ("CLARA"), a leading artificial intelligence (AI) and data science company that specializes in easy-to-use AI-based solutions for the property & casualty and disability insurance industries, today announced it has appointed distinguished industry veteran Ruth Estrich to its advisory board. Estrich brings 45 years of executive leadership and in-depth knowledge to CLARA. Estrich joins CLARA as the company has nearly doubled in size over the last year to take advantage of the significant market demand for its products. "Ruth is a remarkable leader who joins in our mission of improving claims outcomes and dramatically bringing down loss costs in claims operations through easy-to-use AI. We are honored to have her as a partner in our journey," said Jayant Lakshmikanthan, CEO and founder of CLARA. Estrich retired as chief strategy officer of MedRisk Inc., where she was responsible for new product development and network development and oversaw MedRisk's clinical and research subsidiary, Expert Clinical Benchmarks (ECB).

Aug 21, 2018 (Heraldkeeper via COMTEX) -- New York, August 22, 2018: Artificial intelligence (AI) Robots is arguably the foremost exciting field in artificial intelligence. It's definitely the foremost controversial: everyone agrees that a mechanism will add a production line, however there is not any consensus on whether a robot will ever be intelligent. Factors like the growing adoption of customer-centric marketing methods, increased use of social media for advertising, and increase in demand for virtual assistants are conducive to the expansion of the AI in promoting market. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Robots Market is expected to exceed more than US$ 12 Billion by 2024 at a CAGR of 29% in the given forecast period. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Robots Market is segmented on the lines of its application, offering, robot type and regional.

FREMONT, Calif., Aug 23, 2018 – Event organizers announced the lineup of more than 60 presenters, session tracks, tutorials and panel sessions for Fog World Congress 2018, produced by the OpenFog Consortium in collaboration with IEEE Communications Society. The event takes place in San Francisco, Oct. 1-3. Fog World Congress is the world's largest gathering of fog leaders and edge influencers focused on these ground-breaking technologies. Attendees will include technologists, data scientists, application developers, educators, researchers, analysts, VCs and investors, service providers, government agencies and enterprises representing a multitude of industries. The event is uniquely focused on fog computing use cases, architecture, standards, developments and research.

A new facial recognition technology caught a man trying to enter the US using a passport belonging to someone else, US officials say. Officials with the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Office of Field Operations (OFO) intercepted a 26-year-old man, the agencies referred to as an "imposter", who reportedly attempted to use a French passport belonging to someone else, at Washington's Dulles International Airport. The man was travelling to the US from Brazil. "The officer utilised CBP's new facial comparison biometric technology which confirmed the man was not a match to the passport he presented," the CBP press release read. It added: "A search revealed the man's authentic Republic of Congo identification card concealed in his shoe."