The recent CIO Summit saw executives across Australia coming together to discuss cutting-edge technology trends and management strategies. The event featured a heavyweight line-up of speakers and moderators, carefully selected to encourage discussion and challenge the status quo. IT Brief spoke to Huawei Australia chief technology officer David Soldani about his key takeaways from the event. That the world is changing fast, profoundly impacting every person, home, and organisation. For example, by 2025, 80% of people will have access to mobile broadband and the mobile traffic per day will rise from 30MB to 4GB per day; 75% of households will enjoy broadband services with 20 billion devices connected, with 12% of those being smart robots.

AI's influence over our world will continue to grow, but it remains a technology in its infancy – however, missteps along the way shouldn't detract from the greater good it promises, says Lenore Kerrigan, country sales director for enterprise information management group, OpenText. In Davos 2018, the great and powerful debated the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI), with UK Prime Minister Theresa May launching the UK's Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. The aim of this advisory body is to work closely with international partners to build a common understanding of how to ensure the safe, ethical and innovative deployment of AI. The move echoes a 2000-year-old debate by Roman poet Juvenal who asked, "Who guards the guardsmen?" The question probed at the very heart of power and its abuse, because if powerful people dictate how the world works, who keeps them in check?

The leader of an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan who was responsible for a spate of recent bombings that left hundreds of civilians dead was killed in an American drone strike, U.S. officials told Fox News on Sunday. The deputy spokesperson for Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani announced the death of ISIS-K leader, Abu Sayeed Orakzai, a U.S. military spokesman said. Next weekend, a new U.S. military commander will be taking over in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Scott Miller, the former head of Joint Special Operations Command which oversees the elite commando units Delta Force, SEAL Team 6 and the 75th Ranger Regiment. The U.S. military has doubled its air strikes in Afghanistan over the past year and increased them fivefold over 2016 levels.

No good space crew can work without a great astrogator. To chart a course through debris and stars fields is not as easy as driving through a city because of space's lack of infrastructure that could be used as a guide. NASA is working on that issue. What is NASA doing to fix this problem? Throughout the history of space travel, the astronauts would operate on a system with Point A to Point B.

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HIROSHIMA--Students here are recreating the lives of people devastated by the atomic bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, by vividly colorizing photos taken before the city was leveled by the nuclear attack. Students from Hiroshima Jogakuin Senior High School combine artificial intelligence technology and interviews with atomic bomb survivors to produce realistic coloring of black-and-white photos provided by hibakusha. Monochrome pictures snapped before and during World War II are automatically colorized with artificial intelligence. The processed photos are shown to hibakusha so colors can be manually adjusted based on their accounts. Converting one black-and-white photo into color takes from one week to several months, and 140 pictures have been colorized since November.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence have been the talk of the town for the past few years--and the hype isn't slowing down anytime soon. I believe 2019 is going to be the year for businesses who have waited to finally jump on board to witness a goldmine of advancements for their industry. What could we potentially see next year? Let's dig deeper into AI and machine learning predictions for the coming months. When dealing with a technology as advanced as machine learning, there simply isn't an industry that would not benefit.

Recently, most of the organizations experienced severe downfall due to an undetected malware, Deeplocker, which secretly evaded even the stringent cyber security mechanisms. Deeplocker leverages the AI model to attack the target host by using indicators such as facial recognition, geolocation and voice recognition. This incidence speaks volumes about the big role AI plays in the cybersecurity domain. In fact, some may even go on to say that AI for cybersecurity is no longer a nice to have tech rather a necessity. Large and small organizations and even startups are hugely investing in building AI systems to analyze the huge data trove and in turn, help their cybersecurity professionals to identify possible threats and take precautions or immediate actions to solve it. If AI can be used in getting the systems protected, it can also harm it.

Americans spend about 104 hours per year in traffic. Americans spend an average of 25.4 minutes commuting to work, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. For those who are counting, that amounts to 104 hours per year spent in traffic, with averages steadily rising every year. In Southern California, commutes are double the national average and considered the most stressful in the nation. The number of cars on highways increases annually, leading to more intense bottlenecks at interchanges, slower speeds on packed roads, and a higher frequency of accidents. Engineers at USC Viterbi are hoping to reverse that trend by adding a new type of artificial intelligence to traffic speed forecasting technology, giving drivers adaptive and predictive information for the fastest commute in every probable way.

The Pentagon's research arm is looking for teams to build an artificial intelligence tool that can automatically generate, test and refine its own scientific hypotheses. By essentially automating steps of the scientific process, the tool would let top decision-makers take discoveries from the lab and rapidly apply them to the real world, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. "Automation of model-based inference procedures could increase the speed and accuracy with which these models can be used to address key questions of national security by orders of magnitude," officials wrote in a request for information published Aug. 17. They said the system could be used to verify the results of scientific studies and monitor "fragile economic, political, social or environmental" events. The Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction, or ASKE, project comes as the first research opportunity under DARPA's newly launched Artificial Intelligence Exploration program, which aims to develop next-generation artificial intelligence applications.