AI Incorporated, Canada's pioneering robotics and artificial intelligence research company, is working on a design for an autonomous refuse receptacle robot. A new application for mobile robotics, the new AI enhanced robotic system allows for a continuous cycle of mobile robotic devices to work in order to provide the end user with unending service. With this new application in mobile robotics, the company plans to use its Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technology combined with deep learning and to pioneer in a new generation of robots. The autonomous refuse receptacle robot is an application for the company's Versatile Self Localizing Autonomous Platforms (VSLAP). This new robot proprietary software called the Quantum Slam Operating System helps companies mobilize any given machine.

Over the course of the last few years, Artificial intelligence (AI) has become recognised as one of the keys to solving some of the world's most complex issues - unlocking a level of growth and innovation that has never been seen before. Governments across the globe are now shifting gear, actively designing investment approaches, invectives and discussing regulatory frameworks to help their nations maintain a top spot in this emerging industry. U.S. policy makers and industry are grappling with the challenge of regulating without stifling innovating and the AI opportunity was central focus earlier this year at Davos, as the UK Prime Minister outlined her commitment "to ensure it works for everyone – be that in people's jobs or their daily lives". For all the good that is being touted about AI, there are also some unsavoury reports on the effect AI could have on the current demographic of the workforce, far more imminent than the Hollywood narrative of'robots taking over the world' – if true this could rock women's hard fought and rightful place on the career ladder. This is demonstrated in recent research from PwC, which indicates that women's jobs could be affected by automation over the next decade – with potentially 23% of women's jobs at risk, around 7% more than men. At a crucial time when the world is discussing and designing the way that AI will change the way we work, the higher risk of displacement felt by certain members of society must be made more visible and addressed alongside the serious skills shortage we are seeing in the tech sector amongst women.

Business Finland has granted 678,000 euros to a team lead by Aalto University's Jussi Rintanen for the commercialisation of a new information system technology based on artificial intelligence. Rintanen wants not only to automate the development of large information systems but also to integrate all parts of software development into a single functioning whole. Information systems projects in health care and in public sector administration, for instance, are highly labour intensive. The whole information system market in Finland is worth about two billion euros annually, and worldwide the figure is about 200 billion. Information systems projects with overruns in time and costs, or projects that cannot be completed at all, suffer from the same basic problem: a massive amount of routine programming work whose management is extremely difficult.

Unanimous AI is known for accepting high-profile challenges from journalists, testing the power of its Swarm AI technology across a range of venues. After correctly predicting the World Series and Kentucky Derby -- and perfectly forecasting Trump's 100-day approval rating before he even took office -- Unanimous AI took aim at the 90th Academy Awards, publishing its prediction here at Inverse last week. Its Swarm AI technology was nearly perfect, achieving 94 percent accuracy across the 16 major award categories, with only one award not coming out as predicted. The technology was 100% percent accurate in forecasting winners in the six major categories, including Best Picture. In that category, Swarm AI disagreed with most industry experts – and the Vegas odds – all of which deemed Golden Globe winner Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri the favorite over Swarm AI's predicted winner, The Shape of Water.

Artificial intelligence might conjure images of a robotic Haley Joel Osment in Spielberg's film AI, or it may make you think of Data from Star Trek. Yet the impact of artificial intelligence in everyday life is more understated and far-reaching than science fiction might suggest. Artificial intelligence has the potential to offer $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030. You already encounter it every day. Think of all those times Amazon recommended a book to you or Netflix suggested a film or TV show.

Several people who own Amazon's Echo speakers have reported a strange bug: the Alexa voice assistant has been laughing for no reason. Some users on Twitter and Reddit say the outbursts have been entirely spontaneous. Others have said that Alexa has laughed after being asked to turn on the lights -- and may have misheard the command. "Having an office conversation about pretty confidential stuff and Alexa just laughed," Twitter user @DavidSven wrote recently. "Anybody else ever have that? It didn't chime as if we had accidentally triggered her to wake. Said another Twitter user, @taylorkatelynne: "[So] my mom & I are just sitting in the living room, neither of us said a word & our Alexa lit up and laughed for no reason.

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The technology will support the "industry standard" ONNX format for machine learning models, so AI veterans won't necessarily have to reinvent the wheel to incorporate their work. Microsoft hasn't said when that Windows 10 update will arrive beyond this year, although programmers will get an early peek at it in the Visual Studio Preview 15.7 release. You should hear more about the feature both at its Windows Developer day on March 7th as well as at the Build conference in May. This isn't an unheralded event when Google is already including an AI platform (TensorFlow Lite) as part of Android Oreo, but it's relatively new in the PC world and could have a transformative effect. Microsoft is hoping that you'll see "more intelligence" across Windows devices, even if it's for simple tasks like auto-generated music playlists -- it won't have to be limited to developers with deep enough pockets to tackle AI on their own.

Health Catalyst introduced Touchstone at HIMSS18 and, in so doing, described it as a performance discovery, prioritization, benchmarking and recommendation tool. "Touchstone is built from the ground up on the latest AI and software from Silicon Valley," said Dale Sanders, President of Technology, Health Catalyst. "Touchstone's recommendation engine, which borrows from Amazon and Netflix, gives you not just comparative benchmarks but recommendations to improve your performance against benchmarks." The technology includes risk models based on artificial intelligence and anomaly detection algorithms that hospitals can use to pinpoint underperforming areas. Touchstone performs risk-adjusted benchmarking by culling data in claims, cost-accounting systems, EHRs, external benchmarks and operations to risk-adjust benchmarking, to "guide users to the data and analyses of greatest relevance to their work and to the organization's goals," the company said.

Manjoo stopped looking at news online for two months, and instead reverted back to getting real paper newspaper subscriptions. I won't give away the whole story, but one of his verdicts was that he felt as though reading an actual newspaper, he felt he was was getting some actual real news. Of course, if bots are your thing, you may want to know about the $13.5 million Series A round that Voicera just raised. Voicera's elevator pitch is that it wants to make it simpler to record meetings and pull out action items automatically using AI. It will do so by recording and creating a transcript of the meeting.