Google plans to use more than one million anonymized eye scans to teach computers how to diagnose ocular disease. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company has signed a deal with a British eye hospital to use artificial intelligence to learn from the medical records of 1.6 million patients in London hospitals. The goal is to teach a computer program to recognize the signs of two common types of eye disease, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. That's something humans are surprisingly imperfect at. Physicians diagnose these ailments by analyzing medical charts and interviewing patients, yet still get it wrong 10 to 20% of the time.

The artificial intelligence software is learning how to recognize early signs of two eye diseases.Video provided by Newsy Newslook A scan of a human eye. SAN FRANCISCO -- Google plans to use more than one million anonymized eye scans to teach computers how to diagnose ocular disease. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company has signed a deal with a British eye hospital to use artificial intelligence to learn from the medical records of 1.6 million patients in London hospitals. The goal is to teach a computer program to recognize the signs of two common types of eye disease, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. That's something humans are surprisingly imperfect at.

Recently I heard two quote about the future that really put things into perspective. This week, Startup Festival was taking place in Montreal. I had the pleasure of interviewing Tobi Lutke (Founder and CEO of the 3 billion company, Shopify), and I was also able to spend a lot of time listening to those who are inventing the future, thinking about the future and investing in those who are building the future. It's been a fascinating three day experience. One of the main stage presentation was Tim O'Reilly (CEO of O'Reilly Media). Tim coined the phrase Web 2.0, is helping to push the maker movement and has spent decades being at the bleeding edge of technology.

However, the new Microsoft is directed towards building more intelligent apps and services, where the company's future seems bright once again. Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella has expressed his fascination with HoloLens, the company's most exciting product in years. Even though it will take some time until we see the full potential of this platform, we can already see what it's capable of. After all, HoloLens is highly futuristic, innovative, and intelligent – and this is exactly what the new Microsoft hopes to become. What is important to consider is how different tech giants are trying to implement the next-generation technology into their products and services.

This course will help you to gain the skills to use one of the fastest growing mobile technologies, Chatbots. Now you too can learn to build sophisticated Chatbots for your customers all with NO Coding. I will show you examples of travel bots, entertainment bots, productivity bots, and retail bots. Come join us for what is a fun course to learn a technology with a lot of profit potential.

This course will help you to gain the skills to use one of the fastest growing mobile technologies, Chatbots. Now you too can learn to build sophisticated Chatbots for your customers all with NO Coding. This course is for those in Web design, marketing and graphics, who want to be able to offer their clients something new and exciting. I will cover Chatbots for Websites, for Facebook, for KiK, and for Slack – although the bots created can be used also on many other services. I will show you examples of travel bots, entertainment bots, productivity bots, and retail bots.

Everybody talks about AI, but nobody talks about what it means for you. During this session, we will talk about how artificial intelligence can be used to amplify human capabilities in threat detection, evidence gathering, and remediation. The traditional security infrastructure has changed over time, and threat behavior has evolved and become more complex than ever. To confront this shifting landscape, artificial intelligence has been introduced by numerous platforms to more accurately identify threats. In this session, we'll talk about how that artificial intelligence works, what it is capable of, and most importantly, how it can help your business.

One of the difficult problems in using machine learning to generate sequences, such as melodies, is creating long-term structure. Long-term structure comes very naturally to people, but it's very hard for machines. Basic machine learning systems can generate a short melody that stays in key, but they have trouble generating a longer melody that follows a chord progression, or follows a multi-bar song structure of verses and choruses. Likewise, they can produce a screenplay with grammatically correct sentences, but not one with a compelling plot line. Without long-term structure, the content produced by recurrent neural networks (RNNs) often seems wandering and random.

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Pizza Hut announced this week the launch of a social ordering platform, or "chatbot," a means of conversational ordering on Facebook Messenger and Twitter. The new platform will be available across Pizza Hut social media accounts in August. Chatbots are relatively new, but have gained widespread interest from businesses, such as 1-800-Flowers, which has been testing them for four months, and Whole Foods, which introduced its Facebook Messenger chatbot on Tuesday. "The new Pizza Hut social ordering platform is another example of making it easy for our customer to order their favorites from Pizza Hut," said Baron Concors, Chief Digital Officer, Pizza Hut. "We are constantly pursuing ways to simplify our ordering experience. This platform allows our consumers to quickly order or get information where they are already spending a great deal of their time."