Artificial Intelligence is still a nascent technology; much of the groundbreaking work moving the industry forward is done inside AI research labs. It's often from those labs that open source projects are started. Institutes like Open AI, NASA's JPL, Google Deepmind, MIT CSAIL, BAIR, The Turing Institute, and Max Planck -- to name just a handful -- are presenting at ODSC in 2019, helping us bring our community to the leading edge of AI. To learn more about the labs' role at ODSC, visit ODSC West. Since our next conference is in San Francisco, we're looking west at a few exciting research labs in the area that are participating in ODSC this year.

Ask Google or Siri: "What is Taiwan?" "A state", they will answer, "in East Asia". But earlier in September, it would have been a "province in the People's Republic of China". And Wikipedia had suddenly changed. The edit was reversed, but soon made again. It became an editorial tug of war that - as far as the encyclopedia was concerned - caused the state of Taiwan to constantly blink in and out of existence over the course of a single day.

While Americans celebrated a long Labor Day weekend, millions of people in China enrolled in a giant experiment in the future of fake video. An app called Zao that can swap a person's face into movie and TV clips, including from Game of Thrones, went viral on Apple's Chinese app store. The app is popular because making and sharing such clips is fun, but some Western observers' thoughts turned to something more sinister. Zao's viral moment was quickly connected with the idea that US politicians are vulnerable to deepfakes, video or audio fabricated using artificial intelligence to show a person doing or saying something they did not do or say. That threat has been promoted by US lawmakers themselves, including at a recent House Intelligence Committee hearing on deepfakes.

What if there was no such thing as "real"? What if food could be made from thin air? What if electronics could last forever? These are some of the questions being tackled by Europe's top tech innovators identified by our team here at Sifted, in association with the co-working space Second Home and their Breakthrough event this month. This is not your ordinary innovator list. You may not have heard of these startups.

And now companies are using AI software that will mine your moves on social media to better target you with ads. AI is a computer program or machine that can think, learn, plan and problem solve. Phil Menard, assistant professor of cybersecurity at the University of Texas at San Antonio, said companies are interested in collecting information about their consumers to make better decisions about how to market to them. "So the part where AI comes in is that there's so much more computing power data in storage and ability to compute the large amounts of data that people can make decisions based on algorithms rather than just looking at data," Menard said. Menard said there are positives and negatives to this technology.

Artificial intelligence, combined with Automation, has an incredible ability to simplify and perform tasks like ordering, searching and reporting. But deployed in the wrong way, it has the potential to damage the customer experience. In this article: David Pattman, Innovation Director, Webhelp, looks at future of AI and the untapped potential for it augment human performance. Across the Globe, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a seamless part of every significant system. Digital world leader Estonia is bringing AI systems into their courts, whilst in the US, organisations like the Air Force, Social Security and the Environmental Protection Agency are already using AI and machine learning algorithms to improve performance.

New Delhi, October 4,2019:Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services and solutions, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) with Startup Bangladesh to foster the growth of digital startup ecosystem in Bangladesh, by providing guidance and mentoring to the budding entrepreneurs.The MoU was signed in presence of H.E. Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh and Shri Piyush Goyal - Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Government of India. As part of the comprehensive growth framework outlined within the MoU, Tech Mahindra will be assisting new-age technology startups in the country, focusing on future technologies like Artificial Intelligence, 5G, Big Data, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine Learning, to leverage digital growth opportunities across its global network. Startup Bangladeshis a concrete initiative by the Government of Bangladesh to create new opportunities, develop technical skills and help realize the vision of Digital Bangladesh. As part of the MoU, Tech Mahindra will extend collaboration opportunities to the innovators of Startup Bangladesh to engage with its research and development arm Makers Lab, which has global footprint including India, US, Europe and Australia. This collaboration will take up initiatives like Ideathons and Hackathons across educational institutions in Bangladesh.

Gordon's wine bar is reached through a discreet side-door, a few paces from the slipstream of London theatregoers and suited professionals powering towards their evening train. A steep staircase plunges visitors into a dimly lit cavern, lined with dusty champagne bottles and faded newspaper clippings, which appears to have had only minor refurbishment since it opened in 1890. "If Miss Havisham was in the licensing trade," an Evening Standard review once suggested, "this could have been the result." The bar's Dickensian gloom is a selling point for people embarking on affairs, and actors or politicians wanting a quiet drink – but also for pickpockets. When Simon Gordon took over the family business in the early 2000s, he would spend hours scrutinising the faces of the people who haunted his CCTV footage. "There was one guy who I almost felt I knew," he says. "He used to come down here the whole time and steal." The man vanished for a six-month stretch, but then reappeared, chubbier, apparently after a stint in jail.

This podcast interview focuses on what's real and not real in the world of AI, and my guest is Daniel Faggella, founder and CEO of Emerj AI Research Called upon by organizations like the World Bank, the United Nations, INTERPOL, and global pharmaceutical and banking companies, Emerj CEO Daniel Faggella helps business and government leaders navigate the competitive landscape of AI capabilities, and build strategies that win. His company, Emerj, helps governments and enterprises reduce risk and maximize the bottom-line impact of artificial intelligence capabilities. They map the capability-space of AI across major sectors (banking, pharma, retail, etcetera), helping leaders see what's possible, what's working i.e., where's real ROI and traction, and what to do about it. Being an active reader of his weekly update on the world of AI and got inspired by Daniels down to earth and challenger view on the topic. This is why I invited him to my podcast.

Over the course of the next five days, we will be bringing you a wide range of content dedicated to the technology that has surely more potential than any other to transform government and public services. Today we will be making an introduction to artificial intelligence, looking at the journey the public sector has so far taken with the technology, and where it has led. Tomorrow we will profile some existing use cases, then later in the week we will move on to looking at the ethical, legal, and technical challenges, the respective roles of the various stakeholders and, finally, we will examine what the future may hold. AI Week – which is being run by PublicTechnology in association with UiPath – will bring our readers an array of features, interviews, analysis and case studies. From Wednesday, you will also be able to view an exclusive webinar discussion in which an expert panel of public- and private-sector representatives will debate all the major issues.