Three years ago when someone mentioned the idea of artificial intelligence most people would assume they were going to start referencing Star Wars, Robocop, Terminator, Space Odyssey and the Jetsons. In 2017 A.I. has taken on an entire new trend as more businesses start to invest in the technology and more references are being made to A.I. with tools and technology we use everyday.

Newswire) VSBLTY Groupe Technologies Corp. (CSE: VSBY) (5VS.F) (VSBGF) ("VSBLTY"), a leading retail software technology company, and Energetika, an international provider of "intelligent lighting" solutions, today formalized a definitive three-year agreement to provide real time crowd analytics and audience measurement for Latin American communities. Energetika is a leading provider of smart lighting solutions for economically efficient applications that incorporate security. Energetika's efficient lighting and Smart Energy solutions for residential, commercial and governmental applications will now incorporate VSBLTY's security technology that includes crowd analytics and facial recognition. The contract, which expires August 30, 2022 and is renewable for successive terms, was announced jointly by Jay Hutton, VSBLTY co-founder and CEO, and Rodrigo Calderon, Energetika co-founder and CEO. In making the announcement, Hutton said, "We are pleased to formalize a long-term contract with Energetika. We will be providing advanced analytics as well as public safety applications including tracking of persons of interest, weapon detection, and vehicle and crowd analytics using the power of machine learning and computer vision. This contract is expected to generate more than $10 million USD in SaaS revenue to VSBLTY in the initial three years."

Cambridge's relentless technology gamechanger, Arm, is exploring the long-term potential of three emergent technologies – AI, 5G and secure IoT – at Arm TechCon 2019 in San Jose next month. Chief executive Simon Segars says all these technologies are converging to enable more meaningful data insights and fuel a shift into "a new era of total compute." At the epicentre of this convergence is the Arm ecosystem whose technologies spanning multiple sectors – including mobile, infrastructure, automotive, and more – will be showcased at Arm TechCon 2019 from October 8-10. It is Arm's 15th annual such event. Segars says Arm and automotive industry leaders will use the California platform to share insights on progress in developing safe, autonomous vehicle platforms.

Linz (Austria) (AFP) - Can artificial intelligence turn out symphonies to match one of the greats of classical music? That was the question posed by one unusual orchestra performance in the Austrian city of Linz on Friday, in which Gustav Mahler's unfinished Symphony No.10 was played -- immediately followed by six minutes of "Mahleresque" music written by software. The project's creator says that the two are clearly distinguishable but not everyone in the audience agreed. "I couldn't really feel the difference... I believe it was really well done," Maria Jose Sanchez Varela, 34, a science and philosophy researcher from Mexico, told AFP.

Chatbots, virtual assistants, augmented analytic systems typically receive user queries such as "Find me an action movie by Steven Spielberg". The system should correctly detect the intent "find_movie" while filling the slots "genre" with value "action" and "directed_by" with value "Steven Spielberg". This is a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) task kown as Intent Classification & Slot Filling. State-of-the-art performance is typically obtained using recurrent neural network (RNN) based approaches, as well as by leveraging an encoder-decoder architecture with sequence-to-sequence models. In this article we demonstrate hands-on strategies for improving the performance even further by adding Attention mechanism.

Using machine learning, the team compared those activity patterns to those measured from preterm babies as young as 24 weeks.

Since the dawn of futuristic TV shows like "The Jetsons" and robot-centric movies such as "The Terminator" and "I, Robot," society has largely become enthralled by advanced technologies. Self-driving cars, robotic engineering, and more commonly, artificial intelligence, have become the most highlighted product that companies pitch to consumers and investors. "AI-powered," "driven by AI," and "employing AI technology" are all taglines attached to products in the tech sector, and increasingly so, over the past five years. In fact, according to a study by PitchBook, the number of venture capital deals in AI and machine learning in 2017 was 12 times the amount in 2008. The value of the 643 investment deals amounted to roughly $6 billion in 2017, compared to just $250 million in 2008.

Here's how to understand artificial intelligence AZ Big Media Since the dawn of futuristic TV shows like "The Jetsons" and robot-centric movies such as "The Terminator" and "I, Robot," society has largely become enthralled …

The topic of artificial intelligence is taking hold gradually. However, for now only journalists talk about it, with high-sounding titles and short articles on the margins of national newspapers. So I decided to read what to date is the main popular text on the topic of artificial intelligence and its implications: Life 3.0. The book is about 450 pages, and dissects the theme starting from the technical/theoretical bases, defining the concept of intelligence and conscience and then going on to talk about the possible future developments of long and very long term. Particularly interesting is the chapter on the possible long-term scenarios, where with excellent science-fiction imagination, 12 different scenarios are presented, ranging from libertarian utopias, to dystopian regimes, human or machine domination, human extinction, or AI non-present . Finally, the author has contributed to founding the Future of Life Institute (FLI), an organisation that aims to investigate and research the safety of AI, with an optimistic and open look to the future.

WHO MADE YOU? – Exploring the Uncanny Valley Artificial intelligence is reaching our mental and physical existence like never before in the history of human kind. The film leads us to the world of cyborgs, sex robots and androids. Eye-opening scenes from Finland, Spain, Sweden, Greece and Japan reveals the on-going processes and developments in global level. The film asks what the development of AI means to us as human beings. What does it mean for humanity, community, and how it will affect our perception of human?