Over the past few years there has been dramatic rise in the use of data, analytics, and most recently, artificial intelligence (AI). With AI rapidly moving into the daily operations of a rising number of uses and enterprises, the disruption to human capital and the labor workforce of tomorrow is inevitable. What's more, this change mostly likely will be amplified by innovation and commoditization that AI brings as it enters every aspect of the modern workplace. Modern industry stands on a precipice between platforms and automation. Uber, Lyft, Gigster, Deliveroo, and the multitudes of other platforms are still heavily dependent on human labor, but all are aggressively investing in artificial intelligence to automate processes and decrease risk in business operations.

Waymo is adding a luxury vehicle to its fleet of self-driving test vehicles, the upcoming I-Pace EV. At an event ahead of the New York Auto Show, the two companies announced that testing of the I-Pace outfitted with Waymo's autonomous technology will be on public roads later this year in Phoenix, Arizona. The two companies expect the electric SUV to be part of the full Waymo fleet in 2020. In the first two years of production, up to 20,000 I-Pace vehicles will join the Alphabet Inc company's driverless service which is expected to launch later this year and will give the public the opportunity to book rides in the driverless cars. The I-Pace will be the sixth vehicle in the Waymo fleet.

Espoo, Finland - Nokia has unveiled the latest version of its Cognitive Analytics for Customer Insight software, providing powerful new capabilities so service provider business, IT and engineering organizations can consistently deliver a superior real-time and personalized customer experience. Nokia Cognitive Analytics for Customer Insight provides a holistic, real-time view of the customer experience to help service providers quickly identify issues and prioritize improvements based on their customer and business impact. It features Nokia's Customer Experience Index (CEI), which correlates information from the network, devices, customer care, billing and other sources with satisfaction surveys like the Net Promoter Score to produce a customer-specific score that tracks service performance and subscriber satisfaction. In this latest release, Nokia CEI now taps advanced machine learning and deep learning algorithms co-developed with Nokia Bell Labs to provide new levels of prediction and automation capabilities to improve the subscriber experience. The algorithms optimize themselves over time, decreasing the time required for the initial tuning of the index from months to days, and delivering a far more accurate view of subscriber satisfaction.

Stainless Code, developer of real-time advanced video and data analysis software that leverages computer vision and artificial intelligence, announced today it has been selected to join the SPROCKIT program for leading media and technology startups. Together, they form the industry's exclusive platform, bringing the most innovative products, services, and revenue models to market." As part of the program, Stainless Code will exhibit their technology along with the other companies in the 2018 class at the NABShow in Las Vegas from April 7-12, 2018 (http://nabshow.com). "After attending NAB for over the last decade, I am excited to finally join the innovative vendors and startups on the show floor as an exhibitor," said Dan Stieglitz, CEO of Stainless Code. "Our latest AI technology demonstrates the potential of AI and computer vision for change in the media and broadcast industries in the coming years.

Healthcare has undergone a transformation over the past several years, shifting from paper-based records systems to electronic records, as well as incorporating digital health monitoring devices and other advanced patient screening systems. These advances have led to an explosion of data, which can best be manipulated and analyzed by artificial intelligence (AI) technology. In healthcare, according to a new report from Tractica, AI is largely being implemented as a tool to more efficiently and accurately review data, and uncover patterns in the data that can be used to improve analyses, uncover inefficiencies, and streamline care, from both a clinical and an operational perspective. The market intelligence firm finds that the overarching driver in these AI implementations is to provide better care for patients, while reducing costs and administrative headaches and bottlenecks. Tractica forecasts that global software revenue from 21 key healthcare AI use cases will grow from $165 million in 2017 to $5.6 billion annually by 2025.

IBM (NYSE:IBM) is in the middle of reinventing itself from a hardware company that sells servers to businesses, to a services company that provides platforms, analytics, and cloud computing to its customers. Sure, it still sells hardware, but IBM is continually looking ahead to a world where service revenue dominates its top line. To that end, IBM recently made an announcement about a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform it's launching, called Cloud Private for Data. The name doesn't necessarily roll off the tongue, but IBM says that this new data science and machine learning platform will make it easier for its customers to make data-driven decisions. "Designed to help companies uncover previously unobtainable insights from their data, the platform is also designed to enable users to build and exploit event-driven applications capable of analyzing the torrents of data from things like IoT sensors, online commerce, mobile devices, and more," the company said in a press release.

Tempo AI, a startup focused on increasing productivity through your calendar, has raised a new $10 million Series A round of funding, the company announced today. Tempo AI's main product is the Tempo Smart Calendar iOS app, which aims to help people organize their calendar of events, appointments, and the like using an artificial-intelligence technology. If you're part of a company full of people with different schedules that get shared with others, you know how crazy your calendar can appear at any give time. Tempo AI's tech wants to sift through all that data -- including how you interact with it -- to anticipate where you need to be and what tasks take priority over others. The startup said it plans to use the new capital to advance its artificial-intelligence technology for the Smart Calendar app and possibly other services as well.

DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that Maria Horton joined the faculty of CloudEXPO's "10-Year Anniversary Event" which will take place on November 11-13, 2018 in New York City. As automation and artificial intelligence (AI) power solution development and delivery, many businesses need to build backend cloud capabilities. Well-poised organizations, marketing smart devices with AI and BlockChain capabilities prepare to refine compliance and regulatory capabilities in 2018. Volumes of health, financial, technical and privacy data, along with tightening compliance requirements by FTC, CUI/DFARS, EU-GDPR and the underlying National Cybersecurity Framework suggest the need for a ground-up re-thinking of security strategies and compliance actions. This session offers actionable advice based on case studies to demonstrate the impact of security and privacy attributes for the cloud-backed IoT and AI ecosystem.

Inefficiency in management of a business is one of the top reason for business failures. Efficient management in the business organization is one of the key reasons for success of the organization. While it is easier for large scale organizations to have multiple teams overlooking various departments, multiple levels of audit committees, the situation is quite different for Small and Medium Scale Organizations. Having a dedicated team for every department, allotting tasks through software, monitoring tasks automatically and keeping the employees motivated and automated incentivising based on performances is just a dream for startups and small-scale organizations. "OBIZCOIN creates Smart Process Automation BOT Based on Artificial Intelligence & Blockchain Technology to automate business operations" OBIZCOIN Bot will help organizations in designing the procedures and policies framework based on which the entire organization will function.

KITCHENER, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Miovision, a global leader in smart city technology, today launched the next generation of traffic technology. Using a type of artificial intelligence (AI) called deep learning, Miovision SmartSense brings AI to the roadside to help cities sense and understand what's happening at the intersection in real time. SmartSense can detect the presence and movement of vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists and use this data to improve congestion and safety. The new Miovision SmartSense technology completes the company's TrafficLink solution, which also includes a 360-degree fisheye camera and an IoT connected hub that allows traffic professionals to remotely access the intersection. Together, these components make up a powerful AI toolkit that uncovers insights about the intersection.