How can machine learning become a greater enabler for healthcare and its participating players? Check out Eugene Borukhovich, our SVP and Healthcare VPL, trying to answer the question at Health 2.0 WinterTech in San Francisco, CA.

Artificial intelligence is coming – so how's it going to change our reality? In March of this year, Google's artificial intelligence, AlphaGo, beat one of the top human intelligences, Lee Sedol, at the strategically mind-boggling board game Go. Experts had thought we were years away, but the computer played elegant, creative moves to outfox a Go master. So are we on the brink of an AI revolution? Peter Bentley, a computer scientist at University College London, says "since the beginning of artificial intelligence research, one of the main ways that we have tested the intelligence of our computers is to ask them to play games with us, and the progression towards the recent victory has been a long one. But in all of these cases playing games is a hugely simple task."

Autonomous, a company specializing in robotics and artificial intelligence products, recently began an Indiegogo campaign for its Drone Racing Kit. The modest 10,000 goal was met within an hour of launching, and the device is still gaining momentum. The Drone Racing Kit features two drones, two controllers, flags, cones, and a backpack, in addition to two VR headsets. The headset itself is similar to Samsung's Gear VR and Google Cardboard in that it slips over a mobile device (phone or tablet) and uses lenses to project the images three-dimensionally. The drones sport a camera that brings the user to the pilot seat with the mobile HMD, providing a first-person view of the remote-controlled device as it soars around a track of your own design.

Narrative sci-fi exploration title Event[0] will be launching on PC for Windows 7 or later in September. In Event[0], you'll need to build a relationship with a ship's computer in order to get home. In Event[0], its just you and your starship's artificial intelligence, called Kaizen. Using natural language, you can communicate with Kaizen through computer terminals throughout the ship. Kaizen can respond to your messages using over two million lines of procedurally-generated dialog.

Much virtual ink gets spilled each week enumerating the many horrors that could be ours in an AI-filled world, but top researchers in the field are already thinking ahead and making plans to ensure none of that happens. In particular, the importance of making artificial intelligence "human-aware" has come to be viewed as a top imperative for the field, earning it special status as an official theme of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence taking place this week in New York. "It's crucial that we design smart systems to work well with people," said Harvard professor Barbara Grosz during a panel discussion at the conference on Tuesday. AI should be a complement for human intelligence, not a replacement, Grosz said. As such, an ability to understand who it's interacting with and respond accordingly -- such as by explaining the decisions it makes -- is essential.

MPI (Message Passing Interface) is the de facto standard distributed communications framework for scientific and commercial parallel distributed computing. The Intel MPI implementation is a core technology in the Intel Scalable System Framework that provides programmers a "drop-in" MPICH replacement library that can deliver the performance benefits of the Intel Omni-Path Architecture (Intel OPA) communications fabric plus high core count Intel Xeon and Intel Xeon Phi processors. "Drop-in" literally means that programmers can set an environmental variable to dynamically load the highly tuned and optimized Intel MPI library – no recompilation required! Of course, Intel's MPI library supports other communications fabrics including InfiniBand as well. Training a machine learning algorithm to accurately solve complex problems requires large amounts of data.

Even though we are social animals, managing relationships is not an easy task. Everyday interactions with people around us can become tricky as stress, anger, exhaustion, and other emotions start affecting the way we and others react to different situations. The inability to correctly "read" other people and understand how we should treat them causes disagreements and even fights. All these struggles have led to numerous investigations about humans' interactions, resulting in the creation of a term researchers Peter Salavoy and John Mayer coined Emotional Intelligence (EQ or EI). Recently, conversations about the relationship between EI and artificial intelligence have developed.

Exactly how that breaks down between the likes of, say, Universal Music Group and up-and-coming artists, YouTube doesn't say. In recent months, Content ID has been updated to use smarter fingerprinting that can detect tricks like stretching a video's aspect ratio, flipping the image horizontally, or slowing down the audio. It's also been plugged into Google's machine learning algorithms.

The Internet of Things will create a vast surge in the amount of data that we – and our devices – generate. To make sense of this trove of information will require the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence by researchers, firms, and government. Digital sifting creates both promise and peril, and is certain to clash with important social norms. For example, it may force us to revisit norms around privacy, ownership, prediction, and the public-private boundary. The Section on Internet and Computer Law welcomes submissions for papers about this clash.

Much virtual ink gets spilled each week enumerating the many horrors that could be ours in an AI-filled world, but top researchers in the field are already thinking ahead and making plans to ensure none of that happens. In particular, the importance of making artificial intelligence "human-aware" has come to be viewed as a top imperative for the field, earning it special status as an official theme of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence taking place this week in New York. "It's crucial that we design smart systems to work well with people," said Harvard professor Barbara Grosz during a panel discussion at the conference on Tuesday. Nominate your analytics project today! AI should be a complement for human intelligence, not a replacement, Grosz said.