Alibaba Group announced today that it's launching a new research organization aimed at tackling emerging technologies like machine learning, network security, the internet of things, and quantum computing. It's called the Academy for Discovery, Adventure, Momentum and Outlook (referred to as the DAMO Academy for short), and Alibaba plans to recruit 100 researchers to staff labs around the globe. The company plans to open two labs in China, both in the tech giant's home city of Hangzhou as well as Beijing. In addition, the Chinese ecommerce and technology titan will open labs in San Mateo, California; Seattle, Washington; Moscow, Russia; Tel Aviv, Israel; and Singapore. Over the next three years, the company plans to spend $15 billion on research and development, a significant increase over its current rate of spending.

The overview of how regulatory reforms across key regional markets are affecting the overall development of the global artificial intelligence market is also included in the report. Trends across developed, developing, and less-developed regional markets are presented in a comparative manner, providing the reader an overview of the overall scenario. Get PDF brochure of the report: https://www.qyresearchreports.com/sample/sample.php?rep_id 1325102&type E A detailed analysis of the key vendors, recent developments in technologies, distribution of solution providers and consumers, and other technical data pertaining to the most popular artificial intelligence solutions in the market are also included in the report. The report provides an analysis of the key end use industries utilizing artificial intelligence principles and solutions across a number of application segments. A detailed overview of the market has been presented by segmenting the global market on the basis of criteria such as region, application, and technology.

With its overarching theme of Human Centric Innovation: Digital Co-Creation, the Fujitsu booth (#3107) emphasizes business innovation, digital platforms, enterprise productivity and enterprise applications. Fujitsu SPARC M12 Servers Fujitsu SPARC M12 servers are For more information, please visit: http://www.fujitsu.com/sparc/ About Fujitsu Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company, offering a full range of technology products, solutions, and services. Fujitsu enables clients to meet their business objectives through integrated offerings and solutions, including consulting, systems integration, managed services, outsourcing and cloud services for infrastructure, platforms and applications; data center and field services; and server, storage, software and mobile/tablet technologies. Oracle, Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle PartnerNetwork are trademarks or registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation in the United States and other countries.

The new, interactive talking robot uses Human Centric AI Zinrai, which is the Fujitsu approach to artificial intelligence, to learn and analyze human emotions based on such factors as tone of voice, while using a camera to recognize emotions and faces. The resulting analysis allows it to generate suggestions based on specific interests. The robot will be used for consumer and industrial purposes such as at reception desks, care facilities and other service jobs. It has achieved a natural level of conversation thanks to cloud technology that stores data from conversations. In addition to its use in the robot, the Fujitsu Zinrai AI platform will also be demoed in a more general display at the booth to highlight its business innovation capabilities.

Last week, General Motors Co. announced plans to release a fleet of new electric vehicles by 2023, laying the groundwork for an "all-electric future." On Monday, the automotive giant revealed that it has bought Strobe, a Pasadena startup that produces the laser-based imaging technology known as lidar. Lidar uses a pulsed laser sensor to measure the distance between objects and is a crucial component of autonomous vehicles' navigation systems. But the technology's high price, complexity and limited performance has kept self-driving cars from being deployed on a larger scale, according to Kyle Vogt, chief executive of Cruise Automation, a subsidiary developing self-driving technology that GM bought last year. "To solve these problems we've acquired Strobe, a company that has quietly been building the leading next-generation lidar sensors," Vogt wrote in a blog post announcing the purchase of Strobe.

Waymo announced today that it has created "the world's first public education campaign for fully self-driving cars." It's called the "Let's Talk Self-Driving" campaign and it aims to increase understanding of self-driving technology and convince would-be riders that it's safe. The company has teamed up with a number of organizations in order to highlight the benefits of autonomous vehicles. The Foundation for Senior Living points out that self-driving cars could help seniors maintain more independence by not being inhibited by a lack of transportation -- a message mirrored by the Foundation for Blind Children. With Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Waymo notes that drunk driving causes 10,000 preventable deaths per year, a number that could be reduced with the help of self-driving cars.

The Office of Naval Research has announced plans to partner with the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the Naval Research Laboratory, and several universities to develop a new form of leg prostheses. As well as being more comfortable, these smart artificial limbs will help users avoid the risk of infection. The Monitoring OsseoIntegrated Prosthesis (MOIP) project hinges upon a titanium fixture that is surgically implanted into the recipient's femur. Bone generates around the point where it's inserted, so only the small connection point juts out. An artificial limb can be attached or detached from this connector at will.

Oracle OpenWorld -- Oracle today announced new artificial intelligence-based apps for finance, human resources, supply chain, manufacturing, commerce, customer service, marketing, and sales professionals. The new Oracle Adaptive Intelligent Apps are built into the existing Oracle Cloud Applications to deliver the industry's most powerful AI-based modern business applications. "The new Adaptive Intelligent Apps enable business users from across the organizations to quickly and easily take advantage of the latest advancements in artificial intelligence," said Steve Miranda, executive vice president of applications development, Oracle. "To make this possible we have eliminated the need for more integrations and embedded AI capabilities across Oracle Cloud Applications. The new AI capabilities combine first- and third-party data with advanced machine learning and sophisticated decision science to deliver the industry's most powerful AI-based modern business applications." The new Oracle Adaptive Intelligent Apps deliver immediate impact within Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud, Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud, Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud, and the Oracle Customer Experience Cloud by providing smart and timely insights to end users.

Microsoft announced today that its conversational speech recognition system has reached a 5.1% error rate, its lowest so far. This surpasses the 5.9% error rate reached last year by a group of researchers from Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research and puts its accuracy on par with professional human transcribers who have advantages like the ability to listen to text several times. Both studies transcribed recordings from the Switchboard corpus, a collection of about 2,400 telephone conversations that have been used by researchers to test speech recognition systems since the early 1990s. The new study was performed by a group of researchers at Microsoft AI and Research with the goal of achieving the same level of accuracy as a group of human transcribers who were able to listen to what they were transcribing several times, access its conversational context and work with other transcribers. Overall, researchers from the latest study reduced the error rate by about 12 percent compared to last year's findings by improving the neural net-based acoustic and language models of Microsoft's speech recognition system.

A Seattle-area startup, backed by the venture capital arms of Boeing Co and JetBlue Airways Corp announced plans on Thursday to bring a small hybrid-electric commuter aircraft to market by 2022. The small airliner is the first of several planes planned by Zunum Aero, which said it would seat up to 12 passengers and be powered by two electric motors, dramatically reducing the travel time and cost of trips under 1,000 miles (1,600 km). Zunum's plans and timetable underscore a rush to develop small electric aircraft based on rapidly evolving battery technology and artificial intelligence systems that avoid obstacles on a road or in the sky. The small airliner is the first of several planes planned by Zunum Aero, which said it would seat up to 12 passengers and be powered by two electric motors. Zunum Aero is working to develop'hybrid to electric;' craft that'sip fuel only when they have to.'