A report from the recent conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection suggested that the European Commission is "considering the possibility of legislating for Artificial Intelligence." Karolina Mojzesowicz, Deputy Head, Data Protection Unit at the European Commission, said that the Commission is "assessing whether national and EU frameworks are fit for purpose for the new challenges." The Commission is exploring, for instance, whether to specify "how big a margin of error is acceptable in automated decisions and machine learning." The vehicle for this regulatory effort seems to be the draft Ethics Guidelines developed by a high-level expert group. The comment period on this draft closed on February 1, and a final report is due in March.

All the countries across the globe are racing towards becoming World Digital Superpower with the emergence of disruptive technology. This race is paving way for the cold technological war among powerful nations who want to take over the globe digitally using artificial intelligence to flourish their capabilities to make the profit and accumulate money putting other countries' economy, military and information fields on the stake. The new axis of competition and rivalry is drawn between these nations by Fifth Generation Technology (G5) which provides the strength to countries to hope for ruling the world. The figure for investment in AI varies from nation to nation. Since 2010, the figure has increased internationally by about 60 percent.

Federal agencies would have to get serious about adopting artificial intelligence under a bill introduced Wednesday. The Artificial Intelligence in Government Act, sponsored by Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, Cory Gardner, R-Colo., Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, would provide resources for feds to start exploring how AI could play into their agencies. The bill would require the General Services Administration to bring more AI experts on board and conduct original research on federal AI policy. It would also establish a board of experts who would advise agencies on AI implementation and help them overcome obstacles to adoption. "The United States won't have the global competitive edge in AI if our own government isn't making the most of these technologies," Schatz said in a statement.

China's military is working to adopt artificial intelligence and autonomous technology as quickly as it can. That's because Chinese President Xi Jinping believes that AI and other cutting-edge technologies, especially when applied to military systems, are the key to keeping up and leveling the playing field between China and countries like the U.S. that had a head start on its industrial development, according to a new report published Wednesday by a think tank called the Center for a New American Security. The push for advanced Chinese AI is focused on more than military might -- the new report highlights how China is taking steps to move away from importing foreign technology. In October, Xi was quoted as saying that China should strive to "achieve world-leading levels" in artificial intelligence tech while also eliminating its "external dependence for key technologies and advanced equipment," according to the report.

It's mind-blowing how much world-shaping work that gets done in hotel ballrooms. Machine learning experts regularly gather at conferences around the world to discuss noteworthy work and how to move the industry forward. Few are fortunate enough to attend in person, but you can sometimes find video online. The most recent example: The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) met in Hawaii last week, and among topics discussed was the roadmap for AI research in the United States for the next 20 years. The process to create a plan for the next two decades started in November with private workshops attended by academics and people from industry.

YEREVAN, Armenia – Armenia has sent a team of experts to Syria on a Russia-backed mission to help clear mines and provide medical assistance. Armenian Defense Ministry spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan said Saturday the team of 83 includes de-mining experts, medical personnel and security officers. He said it will defuse mines and provide medical help to residents of Aleppo, in northern Syria. Before the war, Aleppo was home to 110,000 ethnic Armenians, one of the world's largest Armenian diasporas. About 22,000 have since moved to Armenia.

I have read multiple blogs and news articles with apocalyptic views on how Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing or Robots are going to cause the extinction of humans, or how Blockchain was going to make banking obsolete. What if convergence was the greater threat? Quantum Computing: This new computing model does away with current processing that is more serial and moves towards a completely parallel paradigm. From this standpoint, we would take a labyrinth (today's computers would try one road) and on failure try the next until the centre is reached. The new computing model would take all variables and all pathways at once, and would resolve the labyrinth in a manner of seconds.

China may lag behind the US military on metrics like the number of aircraft carriers it has, but it may be able to seize a "leapfrog opportunity" and invest in newer, cheaper weapons that could make carriers obsolete. Similar to how some countries never developed extensive landline infrastructure and instead skipped directly to building mobile phone networks, China is capitalizing on the opportunity to develop AI-based technology, including autonomous submarines that could confront hulking US carriers. At the same time, the United States could end up spending "too much to maintain and upgrade mature systems,'" according to one Chinese scholar quoted in the report by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). The United States, China, and Russia have all stressed the importance of AI-based military technologies and are making notable investments. China is investing tens of billions of dollars in AI development, according to the CNAS report, with the government viewing it as a key strategy to "protect national security."

The Singapore government has released an artificial intelligence (AI) governance framework to help businesses tackle the ethical and governance challenges arising from the growing use of AI across industries. Want to know what will dominate the world of IT in 2019? You forgot to provide an Email Address. This email address doesn't appear to be valid. This email address is already registered.

How did I get to be all of those things? I wish I could say "I did well in school" or "I always loved computers." But the reality is, in middle/high school, I was bored stiff. At 16, I dropped out of school to begin an illustrious career in office cleaning. The odds were stacked against me entering the computing industry for many reasons. Being female, thanks to a decades-long initiative by the British government to keep women out of computing.