As we enter into a new decade, technology will continue to accelerate. We'll likely see massive developments in space travel, quantum computing, and a significant increase in the proliferation of software into our daily lives. In the modern era though, it seems like everything around us is constantly changing and getting better; so it can be hard to know which trends to watch. Take a closer look at the technology trends that are likely to bring significant innovation growth next year and in the upcoming decade. Automation is a big tech term that can often be unclear as to what exactly it means.

As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning become ubiquitous, we will soon be hard-pressed to find any industry not capitalizing on the benefits they can provide. Telecommunications is one of the fastest-growing industries as well as one that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning in many aspects of their business from enhancing the customer experience to predictive maintenance to improving network reliability. The largest telecoms in the world rely on artificial intelligence and machine learning in a number of ways. Here are the most common applications. Nearly every telecom uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve its customer service primarily by using virtual assistants and chatbots.

About Massimiliano Versace I am the co-founder andam the co-founder and CEO of Neurala Inc., a Boston-based company building Artificial Intelligence emulating brain function in software. Neurala commercializes a new Deep Learning technology called Lifelong-DNN which revolutionizes AI by enabling continuous learning even on small compute devices. Over my academic and industrial career, I have co-founded the Boston University Neuromorphics Lab, authored dozens among academic papers, book chapters, and patents, and lectured at dozens of events and venues, including TEDx, keynote at Mobile World Congress, DARPA, the Pentagon, GTC, InterDrone, Los Alamo National Lab, GE, Air Force Research Labs, HP, iRobot, Samsung, LG, Qualcomm, Huawei, Ericsson, BAE Systems, AI World, Mitsubishi, ABB and Accenture, among many others. My work has been featured in in TIME, IEEE Spectrum, Fortune, CNBC, The Boston Globe, Xconomy, The Chicago Tribune, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Nasdaq, Associated Press and many other media. Career and company awards include: CB Insights 100 Most Promising AI Companies, Draper Venture Network Most Innovative Company, Disruptor Daily 100 Most Disruptive Companies, Edison Award Best New Product in Social Innovation.

What Does Machine Learning Have to do with MOS Scores? Human subjectivity in MOS calculations doesn't hold water when it comes to heterogeneous environments. That's where machine learning comes to play. You get a voice call. You want to know its quality.

The News: Huawei Technologies has officially unleashed its artificial intelligence (AI) chip Ascend 910, which it says has a maximum power consumption of just 310W–lower than its originally planned specs of 350W. The chip is touted to have "more computing power than any other AI processor", delivering 256 teraflops at half-precision floating point (FP16) and 512 teraflops for integer precision calculations. The Chinese tech giant also announced the commercial availability of its MindSpore AI computing framework, which it said was designed to ease the development of AI applications and improve the efficiencies of such tools. Analyst Take: The news of the Huawei Ascend 910 chip, a powerful AI processor, is a clear sign that Huawei is moving forward with its plans to cut any dependency on the U.S. We saw a similar aggressive course of action from the company just a few weeks ago when it announced Harmony OS, and the intent to make it avaialble to replace Google's Android in the company's smart phones. This would reduce its dependence on U.S. based companies and at the very least could give Huawei smart phones a boost in China.

The World Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference kicked off on Thursday in Shanghai, where tech industry leaders like Alibaba founder Jack Ma and Tesla's Elon Musk are mingling with government officials and top scientists to discuss the future of AI. Here are some of the three-day conference's highlights so far: Shanghai plans to sign over 70 deals with leading tech companies and institutions, including a tie-up between the Pudong district government and telecommunications giant Huawei to build a 5G "innovation center." Didi says it could soon put passengers into driverless cars, and that self-driving tech has already cut accidents involving Didi drivers by 15% in the first half of the year. Ma and Musk traded thoughts in a 50-minute conversation -- but couldn't see eye to eye on how much we should fear AI and whether traveling to Mars is a worthy goal. China's Ministry of Science and Technology has added 10 companies including telecommunications giant Huawei and surveillance-technology maker Hikvision to a major national AI development program.

We saw this goofy-looking sheep plushie and decided to test if the software will be able to recognize what animal it is despite the weird proportions. The results were hit and miss. Google Lens left, Bixby Vision middle, HiVision right In its typical style, Google's result looks like the software is bored with your constant questions and just spits out "sheep", which is indeed correct. However, we can't blame the other two apps for suggesting "toy" since the plushie is more a toy than a real sheep, obviously. Still, Bixby Vision had a hard time realizing there's only one object it needs to recognize and suggested similar images that were of pies and other whipped-cream decorated pastries.

Shanghai expects to sign over 70 major artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G deals with leading tech companies and institutions at the three-day World Artifical Intelligence Conference in the city this week, Caixin has learned. These include a tie-up between the Pudong district government and telecommunications giant Huawei to build a 5G "innovation center," as well as a 5 billion yuan ($697.7 million) deal between the district and facial recognition company CloudWalk. The hope is that the conference, which runs from Thursday to Saturday, can turn Shanghai into a national AI hub. IBM is expected to partner with Shanghai's Zhangjiang high-tech zone to set up a research center for the IBM Watson AI project. Shanghai's Communist Party secretary Li Qiang said during the event's opening ceremony that AI is now the city's priority, and that the government will "actively plan" and accelerate the local development of AI projects.

Your customer support team answers "How do I reset my password?" Your website traffic is growing every month, but lead conversions aren't following suit. Your customer service reps have too many messaging apps to monitor. If any of these ring true for you, then it might be time your business considers "hiring" a chatbot. And you wouldn't be alone.

Huawei Technologies has unveiled a new high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chip for servers, bidding to grow its share of the booming cloud services market even as the world's largest network equipment vendor battles a US trade ban. Ascend 910, an AI processor first mentioned by Huawei in Shanghai last year, is the "world's most powerful AI processor" targeted at AI model training, the company said in a press release on Friday. Huawei added that it sees AI as a "general purpose technology" that can be used in almost every sector of the economy. "The Ascend 910 has performed much better than initial expectations," said Eric Xu Zhijun, Huawei's rotating chairman at the media launch in Shenzhen. "Without doubt, it has more computing power than any other AI processor in the world."