Change Healthcare launched a tool Aug. 6 that combines artificial intelligence and behavioral science to help payers identify and enroll Medicare Advantage members who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. Using AI, the Dual Enrollment Advocate solution is 93 percent accurate in flagging individuals who qualify for full or partial dual eligibility. Change Healthcare member engagement teams will use the technology to support the company's health plan customers. "We're applying data science, behavioral science and consumer-experience design to solve one of the trickiest problems for Medicare Advantage plans, which is how to accurately identify people for Medicaid eligibility," said Keith Roberts, vice president of engagement at Change Healthcare. "AI and machine learning can't do it alone. Behavioral science can't do it alone. And health plans and legacy systems can't do it alone. The time has come to bring these healthcare IT and scientific disciplines together to help solve a critical business challenge for our customers."

The U.K. government is planning to fund thousands of postgraduate students that want to study a Masters or a PhD in artificial intelligence as it looks to keep pace with the U.S. and China. AI is poised to become the most significant technology for a generation but there are only so many people that know how to develop the technology, which could have a huge impact on industries such as healthcare, energy, and automotive. Business Secretary Greg Clark and Digital Secretary Jeremy Wright announced on Thursday that the government will commit up to £115 million towards training the next generation of AI talent. In a press release, the government said 1,000 students will receive funding to enable them to complete PhDs at 16 U.K. Research and Innovation AI Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs), located across the country. The full list of centres can be found at the end of this article.

The idea of chatbots has been around since the mid 1960s. ELIZA was the first of its kind, created in the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Since then, though, there has been a proliferation of chatbots. When they first began to become more widespread and available to the general public, in the late 1990s, they mainly served in customer service roles. It is for this reason that chatbot hackathons have grown in popularity.

Next-generation 5G technology is only just making its way to market after a decade of development, but Donald Trump is already demanding the rollout of 6G in the United States. The US President did not elaborate on what 6G might involve, with even his understanding of 5G appearing basic in a series of tweets on Thursday. He described it as "far more powerful, faster and smarter" than current 4G technology, while also revealing his concerns that the US is lagging behind in the deployment of 5G. "I want 5G, and even 6G, technology in the United States as soon as possible... American companies must step up their efforts, or get left behind," Trump tweeted. His comments come just days after the founder of Chinese technology giant Huawei – who are widely regarded as one of the pioneers of 5G – said the US risks falling behind the rest of the world when it comes to 5G rollout.

Graduates are to be given the chance to become qualified experts in Artificial Intelligence through a new set of masters courses and work-based placements. The move aims to drive up skills in the AI sector with courses and placement being funded by Google's Deepmind and British security and defence giant BAE Systems. This research for Doctoral Training will be made available over five years as part of the scheme. Graduates are to be given the chance to become qualified experts in artificial intelligence (AI) through a new set of masters courses and work-based placements. Advances in modern computing technologies have created an explosion of major breakthroughs in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

These are just a few ways the world's top researchers and industry leaders have described the threat that artificial intelligence poses to mankind. Will AI enhance our lives or completely upend them? There's no way around it -- artificial intelligence is changing human civilization, from how we work to how we travel to how we enforce laws. As AI technology advances and seeps deeper into our daily lives, its potential to create dangerous situations is becoming more apparent. A Tesla Model 3 owner in California died while using the car's Autopilot feature. In Arizona, a self-driving Uber vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian (though there was a driver behind the wheel). Register for the live briefing to find out about the top AI trends expected to reshape industries and economies this year. Other instances have been more insidious. For example, when IBM's Watson was tasked with helping physicians diagnose cancer patients, it gave numerous "unsafe and incorrect treatment recommendations." Some of the world's top researchers and industry leaders believe these issues are just the tip of the iceberg. How might that redefine humanity's place in the world?

The security and robustness of deep neural networks(DNNs) architectures is one of the most important areas of research in the deep learning field. The native complexity of neural networks and its lack of interpretability makes them vulnerable to many forms of attacks. Some of the most sophisticated and scariest forms of attacks on DNNs are generated using other neural networks. Adversarial neural networks(ANNs) are often used to generate numerous attack vectors on DNNs by manipulating aspects such as the input dataset of the training policy. Protecting against adversarial attacks is far from being an easy endeavor as the attackers are always mutating and evolving.

Shortly after President Trump issued his vague AI executive order, the US Defense Department outlined a more comprehensive strategy. "The impact of artificial intelligence will extend across the entire department, spanning from operations and training to recruiting and healthcare," DoD CIO Dana Deasy said. Given the concerns about the so-called AI'arms race', that final point will cause a sigh of relief in some people – at least for those who believe it. The DoD will rapidly prototype new innovations, increase research and development, and boost training and recruitment. Rather than AI replacing jobs, the DoD believes it will empower those currently serving: "The women and men in the US armed forces remain our enduring source of strength; we will use AI-enabled information, tools, and systems to empower, not replace, those who serve."

Increased federal funding and ethical inquiry are needed to best develop America's artificial intelligence capabilities, argued three Duke experts in a congressional briefing on Capitol Hill on Feb. 15. Duke Professors Vincent Conitzer, Nita Farahany and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong spoke broadly about the ethical implications of what the advent of A.I. means for medicine, lethal weapons, automobiles and unemployment. Conitzer's presentation offered a definition of A.I., Sinnott-Armstrong explored the ethics of lethal autonomous weapons and Farahany dove into the legal questions A.I. will challenge. Artificially intelligent systems already excel at games of probability and prediction but fail at games of context and interpretation, said Conitzer in his presentation. This program began a three-part Duke in DC series for congressional staff exploring policy implications for human-A.I. collaboration.

After years of promises about a physical wall stretching along the United States-Mexico border, president Donald Trump declared a state of emergency last week in an attempt to secure wall funding in spite of Congressional opposition. But physical barriers alone have always been both ineffective and expensive. And the constant debate around that singular aspect has distracted from a much more pressing issue: how the US can expand its use of technology for screening and enforcement at the border without overstepping already strained privacy rights. Border security technologies, like surveillance drones and biometric identity schemes, received funding in Congress's most recent spending bill as an alternative to Trump's physical wall. But privacy advocates have long argued that a "smart wall," often called a "smart fence," can pose real threats to human rights not just at checkpoints and processing facilities, but for anyone within the 100-mile-wide "border zone" in which US Customs and Border Protection has jurisdiction. "The way that this debate has been weaponized has really shut down a big portion of the conversation that we should be having," says Evan Greer, deputy director of the digital rights group Fight for the Future.