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Getting aid to impoverished Africans is hard enough, what with blockades of bureaucracy and red tape. But in many African countries, bad data, or a lack of it, makes distributing funds even more troublesome. "Fighting poverty has always been this shining goal of the modern world," Neal Jean, a doctoral student in computer science at Stanford University's School of Engineering, told me. "It's the number one priority for the United Nation's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, but the major challenge is that there's not enough reliable data. It's really hard to help impoverished people when you don't know where they are."

Pasadena, CA - Firefighters have only their wits and five senses to rely on inside a burning building. But research developed in part by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, may change that, introducing artificial intelligence (AI) that could collect data on temperatures, gases and other danger signals and guide a team of first responders safely through the flames. AUDREY, the Assistant for Understanding Data through Reasoning, Extraction, and sYnthesis, has received the Undersecretary's Award for Collaboration from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in recognition of its joint development by JPL and DHS. It's part of the Next Generation First Responder (NGFR) program, a DHS initiative to innovate new ways to keep firefighters, police, paramedics and other first responders safe in the field through increased awareness of their surroundings and communication abilities. But the big picture is even more exciting: AUDREY can track an entire team of firefighters, sending relevant signals to individuals while helping to make recommendations for how they could work together.

The cities of the future will be huge and super-dense -- but will they also be alive? Could the increasingly complex systems needed to manage the next generation of megacities become our first true artificial intelligence? People have speculated before about the idea that the Internet might become self-aware and turn into the first "real" A.I., but could it be more likely to happen to cities, in which humans actually live and work and navigate, generating an even more chaotic system? It's either my worst nightmare or the dawn of a wonderful new future, but scientists are… Read more Read more As cities become more networked and their mixture of urban infrastructure and surveillance infrastructure becomes more complex, eventually we'll have to build cities that can think for themselves. People have speculated about the potential for computer systems to help in urban planning forever, including papers about the use of "fuzzy logic" to automate the decision-making process and A.I. solutions for land use planning, and the an A.I. "spatial decision support system."

Artificial intelligence can find, map poverty, researchers ... Ai Weiwei exhibit extended until Sept. 11 at Warhol AI passenger carrying gold bars worth over Rs 2.5 crore held

Attracting and capturing talent has always been a challenge for startup companies. The statistics, compiled by Statistic Brain Research Institute, are grim. Candidates understand that they are taking a big risk with working for a startup. Brian Hughes, Founder and CEO at Integrity Marketing & Consulting writes for Huffington Post, "machine learning in the hiring process can even the odds of hiring great people." Leveraging technology, recruiters can use the software to screen candidate resumes for certain skills and industry keywords.

Artificial intelligence can find, map poverty, researchers ... Ai Weiwei exhibit extended until Sept. 11 at Warhol AI passenger carrying gold bars worth over Rs 2.5 crore held

Artificial intelligence can find, map poverty, researchers ... AI passenger carrying gold bars worth over Rs 2.5 crore held

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) are both betting that deep learning is going to fuel everything from cloud computing to driverless cars -- and the rivalry is already starting to heat up. Intel said recently that its new Knights Landing Xeon Phi processors are faster and can be scaled better than graphics processing units (GPUs) that NVIDIA makes. The company wrote a blog post in response, saying that it needed to correct a few of Intel's "mistakes," and took a jab at the company, saying, "It's understandable that newcomers to the field may not be aware of all the developments that have been taking place in both hardware and software." Essentially, NVIDIA said that Intel's data was 18 months old, and pointed out that the new data (available to anyone) shows that NVIDIA's Maxwell GPUs are actually 30% faster than Intel's Xeon Phi. The company also highlighted that its new Titan X server with its advanced Pascal architecture is actually about two times faster than Intel's new processors, and its DGX-1 supercomputer is is five times faster.

"Seven hundred years after glasses were invented there are still 2.5 billion people in the world with poor vision and no access to vision correction," says Hong Kong philanthropist James Chen. Chairman of his family's Nigeria-based manufacturing company, Wahum Group, Chen is funding a contest called the Clearly Vision Prize that will award a total of 250,000 to projects that improve eyesight, especially in poor countries. Thirty-six semifinalists were announced this week (the five winners will be awarded September 15). Among the contenders: 3D printed eyeglass frames, drones that deliver medical supplies, and several smartphone-based technologies. Some of the smartphones help nonexperts test vision, and one uses artificial intelligence to "see" for blind people. The Clearly Vision semifinalists represent just a sampling of the smartphone projects fighting vision loss, a growing field that is bringing critical care to remote regions far from hospitals and doctors offices.