Remark Holdings, Inc. (MARK), a global technology company focused on artificial intelligence, and CP ALL Public Company Limited (CPALL.BK) today announced that they are partnering to deploy Remark's KanKan data intelligence and AI technologies in approximately 11,000 7-Eleven stores that CP ALL operates throughout Thailand. Remark and CP ALL will hold a press conference (the details of which appear below) on March 6, 2018, in Bangkok to launch the partnership. The Remark/CP ALL partnership will utilize KanKan's AI-based facial recognition and behavior analysis technologies to provide enhanced customer support, business analysis, employee management and security in CP ALL's 7-Eleven stores in Thailand, which generate more than $14 billion in revenue. KanKan's technologies can monitor product levels on store shelves, suggest products and services to customers, provide real-time operations performance and competitor analysis, check in and check out employees, identify unauthorized personnel, and assess crowd size and crowd flow for safety, among myriad other services. Approximately 10 million people pass through 7-Eleven stores in Thailand each day.

Loom Systems, the leading end-to-end AI-powered log analysis solution, announced the launch of its new 6-part Playbook, which provides organizations with a roadmap to easily introduce AI into existing IT infrastructure. "The biggest problem with new AI technology is failure to adopt and onboard it properly," said Gabby Menachem, CEO of Loom Systems. "With our new Playbook, we are rewriting the paradigm for adoption of AI technologies, creating a mental and organizational shift that allows companies to use and incorporate the technology efficiently and effectively." Loom Systems has been successful in developing a unique way of applying AI to organizational IT, reducing MTTRs by 45%, and decreasing alert fatigue by 90%, allowing the IT team to focus on higher-level IT problems. Loom Systems excels in bridging the gap between IT and business, using an all-inclusive approach comprised of three integrated components: Cutting edge AI technology Sophie, expert AI data analysts, and its new Playbook, which includes Loom's full implementation methodology.

Salesforce announced today that the company is now delivering more than 1 billion AI-driven predictions to its customers every day. Those predictions are powered by the company's Einstein-branded capabilities, which include sales and service forecasting. It's a major milestone for both Salesforce and Einstein, showing the potential of artificial intelligence's interaction with business users and the appetite for intelligent predictions based on business data. Salesforce launched the platform in the fall of 2016 with a great deal of fanfare from CEO Marc Benioff. Since then, the company has been building on its AI offerings.

Industry after industry is under siege as companies embrace digital transformation (DX) to disrupt existing business models and disintermediate their competitor's customer relationships. But what do we mean by "Digital Transformation"? Digital Transformation The coupling of granular, real-time data (e.g., smartphones, connected devices, smart appliances, wearables, mobile commerce, video surveillance) with modern technologies (e.g., cloud native apps, Big Data architectures, hyper-converged technologies, artificial intelligence, blockchain) to enhance products, processes, and business-decision making with customer, product and operational insights. The digital transformation starts by understanding the organization's business initiatives, and then prioritizing which initiatives are top candidates for enhancement through digital transformation. "Begin with an end in mind" to quote Stephen Covey.

Mice brains and machine learning may lead to a new way to treat depression, according to a new paper published in the journal Cell and co-authored by Infinia ML Chief Scientist Larry Carin, Ph.D. The paper describes how scientists measured electrical signals in the brains of both observably resilient, active mice and observably depressed, inactive mice. The complexity and scale of the available data, gathered from 18 regions of the brain, then required advanced machine learning for analysis. In effect, scientists trained a learning algorithm to map each brain's connections. They found a pattern in the resilient mice that differed from the depressed. "We wanted to understand the traffic flow of a healthy brain," said Carin, the project's machine learning lead.

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Facebook Messenger is getting an enterprise-friendly update that will make it easier for companies to use chatbots in customer service, the company announced Tuesday. New features include increased customization for customer chat and a quick reply option for customers to easily share information with a company, according to a press release. The update could help Messenger's customer chat feature become more valuable as a retail tool as chatbots increase in popularity. Facebook launched its customer chat feature, which extends Messenger from a company Facebook page to a business' website and back while maintaining the conversation history, in November. The feature is aimed at streamlining the process of tracking customers across platforms.

See the GTC session schedule. Major sponsors include Facebook, IBM, Cisco, Dell EMC, Google Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Inspur, Lenovo and Supermicro. Show attendees can vote for the world's top AI startups at NVIDIA's Inception Awards Finale on Tuesday, March 27, from 4:30-5:30 pm Pacific time. NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute certified instructors will deliver more than 100 hours of training to thousands of data scientists, using the latest AI frameworks and software development kits. Two Global Impact Award winners will receive $200,000 in prizes for their pioneering work addressing important social and humanitarian problems using GPU computing.

Woebot, the startup behind an automated psychotherapy bot of the same name, announced today that it has closed an $8 million round of series A funding. The company's bot is designed to help people cope with mental illnesses like depression through the application of cognitive behavioral therapy exercises. The bot is currently available on Facebook Messenger and a recently launched iOS app. This funding shows the potential for artificial intelligence techniques in natural language processing and other arenas to help humans. Woebot doesn't plan to replace human therapists, but it does provide users with a conversational partner who doesn't get tired, go on vacation, or sleep.

Flying taxis could be close to taking flight within the next ten years. That's according to Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenberg, who said the aerospace giant has been testing prototypes of sophisticated flying taxis that could one day be capable of ferrying humans to and from places, not unlike an Uber. 'I think it will happen faster than any of us understand,' Muilenberg told Bloomberg. 'Real prototype vehicles are being built right now, so the technology is very doable,' he added. Pictured is the LightningStrike, a flying taxi created by Aurora Flight Sciences, that can ferry passengers between locations called'urban vertiports,' similar to high-tech helipads Muilenberg has been designing what would be the'rules of the road for three-dimensional highways' that carry autonomous flying taxis, Bloomberg noted.