One of the great concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) is that it will replace people altogether. Ironically, however, it is increasingly apparent that interacting with people is one of the key tasks of AI. "Cognitive assistants"--systems that employ cognitive technology to interact with people and make our lives easier--are among the fastest-growing areas of this genre. They are likely to transform many aspects of business in the near future. Thus far, of course, the primary examples of this technology have served consumers rather than businesses. Cognitive assistants already set your sleep alarm, turn down your thermostat at night, and tell you what movies are playing at the mall.

In an effort to deepen and advance its knowledge in artificial intelligence, Denso has entered into a technical advisory contract with one of the world's foremost researchers in computer vision, Carnegie Mellon University Professor Dr Takeo Kanade. Through this contract, Denso is looking to advance its artificial intelligence technology and expand its engineering expertise in the areas of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous drive, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Dr Kanade, a UA and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Robotics and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, will provide technical guidance to Denso engineers on image recognition and machine learning, and will also speak at lectures and seminars organized by Denso for a variety of purposes, such as recruiting, relationship building, and so on. These activities will be held mostly in Japan. Dr Kanade and Denso have worked together from 2002-2009 on a joint research of image recognition technology.

Evolution of the Internet over several past decades into a global interconnected web has changed entirely the technology landscape, social circumstances and market conditions. The overall effect is acceleration, amplification and automation. New companies emerged, growing so big and fast that they now dominate certain global markets. All this would be difficult to imagine without a global infrastructure fabric containing millions of servers in strategically placed data centers and serving billions of customers daily. Established corporations have been late in transforming their IT infrastructure in a similar fashion, which is the simplest explanation as to why cloud computing is making major inroads into markets today.

It's not a breaking news that robots are slowing overtaking most of the human jobs. But, it surely is a news that a robot is now soon going to start greeting you at the HDFC Bank. Following the footsteps of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, HDFC is now going to use a robot to enhance user experience as well as to ease a lot of their work. The name of the robot is finalized by the bank but isn't announced yet. Also, the bank is planning to introduce these robots in their Mumbai branches first for testing.

A new speech recognition system can transcribe English or Mandarin about three times faster than humans can type on a smartphone, according to a recent study. SEE ALSO: Mark Zuckerberg's First Stop in China: Baidu Headquarters The study, a collaboration between Stanford University, Baidu and the University of Washington, also found that the system produced 20.4 percent fewer errors than people typing in English and 63.8 percent fewer than people working in Mandarin. "We're putting speech recognition up against people who are really good at this task," study co-author James Landay told Stanford News. The system produced 20.4 percent fewer errors than people typing in English and 63.8 percent fewer than people working in Mandarin.

"Sorry if I am not getting to the end of all these explanations. My mind is over-active and I start working on all different parallels," says Paul Teich about half way through our chat. He isn't wrong; I am furiously taking notes but half of them seem to stop in the middle and lead on to something seemingly unconnected. I get to the end of our hour-long conversation and look at this mess I have scrawled on my papers--and it suddenly just makes sense. The way Paul thinks and talks is a wonderful indication of what he does.

The following is a Guest Post written by Zeev Fisher, CEO of Pekama, the legal project management company. From Microsoft to Google, from Facebook to smaller players like Telegram, there are many companies making bots that will talk to you and provide useful information, or guide you through a process. When I talk to lawyers about bots, I can see right away how the sceptical expressions that I normally encounter when talking about technology transform into true horror. 'A robot that will write to our clients? That won't happen,' they say.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays an increasingly important role in modern IT applications. The Internet of Things (IoT) has to deal with a large variety of multimodal sensor data that needs to be represented in ways that facilitate reasoning techniques to search for and analyze the right data or services content taking also into account contextual information. This workshop looks at the upcoming challenges for AI from three different perspectives with a common theme. A special track "Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things" aims at providing the ground for disseminating new and interesting ideas on how AI can make valuable contribution for solving problems that the Internet of Things ecosystem faces. The track "Modelling and Reasoning in Context" aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities to study, understand, and explore modelling and reasoning issues and approaches for contextualised systems.

New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) While artificial intelligence is making waves globally, Cognitive Business Intelligence (BI) is the next stage of machine learning to design and analyse unstructured data, video, images and human language, say experts. According to them, we are generating data but is this data being analysed to create insights which could help in running businesses more effectively is the real concern for businesses. "This potential can be leveraged using Business Intelligence. Using BI, we can understand what really the data means," said Nikhilesh Tiwari, Co-Founder, Helical Insight, the world's first open source Business Intelligence (BI) framework. At the moment, less than 0.5 per cent of all data is ever analysed and used globally.

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