Soon Watson will be in your ear. Hearables company Bragi and IBM are partnering to yield headphones like the Dash with IBM's Watson IoT platform to change the way you interact, communicate and collaborate with your co-workers. So, what you say to your teammates could be translated by Watson, with additional instructions and smart notifications. Also, your superiors could know about your location and safety by the headphones, rather than depending on the cameras all the time. "Hearables will transform the way we work and have a tremendous impact on the business processes of the future," said Nikolaj Hviid, CEO, and founder of Bragi.

I'm going to get it out of the way right at the start. Having watched the trailer, I want to go and see this movie. This trailer tells us absolutely nothing about what the movie's about, but every cut pulls me in more. Until the guy starts talking at the end of the trailer, I've no idea that the movie is "an AI horror thriller". But these are the kind of trailers I grew up with.

Big urban cities in North America will be transformed by 2030 by artificial intelligence technologies, as self-driving cars, package-delivering robots and surveillance drones become commonplace, according to a new report. The report, produced by an international panel of artificial intelligence experts convened by Stanford University, takes an in-depth look at how artificial intelligence is already impacting society and how it will continue to evolve over the next 14 years. It is the first report in a planned series of studies looking at artificial intelligence, or AI, that will continue for at least 100 years. "Until now, most of what is known about AI comes from science fiction books and movies," said Peter Stone, a computer science professor at the University of Texas who chaired the panel that produced the report. "This study provides a realistic foundation to discuss how AI technologies are likely to affect society."

Intel Corp. INTC 0.51 % said it would acquire Movidius, a maker of semiconductors for drones and other autonomous machines, a move that would bolster Intel's artificial intelligence portfolio amid its desire to become a bigger player in the space. Terms of the transaction weren't disclosed. The deal, subject to certain closing conditions, was announced in blog posts Monday. Movidius specializes in computer vision technology that allows machines to understand their surroundings and navigate accordingly. Intel said the acquisition would bring on new algorithms and low-power chips, technology that would accelerate its own initiatives.

Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) is a risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) [1], and both IGT and T2DM are associated with increase in cardio-cerebrovascular related mortality [2, 3]. The Diabetes Epidemiology: Collaborative Analysis of Diagnostic Criteria in Europe (DECODE) [4] study showed a tight correlation between IGT and cardiovascular mortality, and IGT is a known risk factor for early-stage atherosclerosis [5]. In the Actos Now for Prevention of Diabetes (ACT NOW) study, it was shown that pharmacotherapy with pioglitazone in IGT subjects resulted in reduced development of T2DM [6] as well as reduced progression of atherosclerosis [7]. Therefore, identification of IGT subjects who are at risk for rapid atherosclerosis progression, and understanding the important characteristics that affect the identification process, may be beneficial in risk stratification and early intervention. Machine learning (ML) methods have been widely used to learn complex relationships or patterns from data to make accurate predictions [8] and are usually applied in the setting of massive datasets ("big data").

One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction. Ex Machina, a Hollywood blockbuster made on a 15 million budget, tells the story of a programmer who is invited by his employer, the eccentric billionaire Nathan Bateman who built a fictional search engine called Blue Book, to administer the Turing test to an android with artificial intelligence, which essentially determines whether a computer can trick a human into believing she is having a conversation with another human. Everything in our online life is indexed. Every idle tweet, status update, or curious search query feeds the Google database.

Artificial Intelligence, robots and cognitive computing are hot topics right now. It seems they are part of every conversation as our cars, computers, mobile devices and so many other things in our lives are becoming smarter thanks to new technology. However, there is still a lot of fear, uncertainty and mystery around this new technology. Everything from what it means to peoples' jobs, to whether or not people will be able to create normal relationships in a time where man and machine share the world we live in. Practical applications for AI are in the works, and not all of its uses will be far reaching.

Baidu, the Chinese-based internet services conglomerate, has made several major announcements about its upcoming IoT projects. The company's plans center on a revamped artificial intelligence (AI) platform, which the company hopes will enable it to effectively increase its presence in the world of the IoT. Baidu plans to use this revamped AI platform to develop a voice assistant similar to Amazon's Echo, reports Bloomberg. It will be working with speaker manufacturer Harman Industries to develop the device, which it hopes will allow users to order food, summon a ride, or control smart home products via voice commands. The Echo's surprising success has prompted Google, Samsung, and Apple to try and develop competitors, and Baidu, too, is seeking to replicate the success Amazon has seen. The company is partnering with chipmaker Nvidia to develop an AI platform for driverless cars and taxis, according to Fortune.

Any business that sells goods or services online is vulnerable to attack by fraudsters. This can be using stolen credit card details for purchases online, creating false accounts and even voucher code abuse. The cost of this fraud can be calculated in the multi millions, with chargebacks and related costs plaguing online businesses. In the UK it is the most common crime of all, with 2.47M offences in 2015/16 alone. The traditional approach to tackling this problem is to use heuristic rules and business logic to try to'predict' whether a new transaction that the business is seeing is fraudulent or not.

Artificial intelligence--the kind where robots understand a wide number of human concepts--has been a military focus for decades, and scientists in Japan may have just made a college-ready AI. For the first time, a Japanese artificial intelligence program has scored above average on a national standardized college entry exam, performing well enough to have an 80 percent likelihood of getting into 33 national universities, according to the National Institute of Informatics, or NII. The AI program scored 511 points out of 950 on the National Center Test for University Admissions (similar to the SATs), with a particularly strong performance in math and history, and well above the national average of 416. It was a first for the program, which performed less well in 2013 and 2014, according to the Wall Street Journal. NII announced the breakthrough on Saturday.