Intel does a lot of the heavy lifting to power some of our most-used products, working silently behind the scenes to make things run. But South by Southwest is far from a subtle, behind-the-scenes kind of place--and Intel's pop-up lounge was full of demos that showed off what the company is doing in the AI space. My favorite demo may not have been flashy, but it showed off a key component of machine learning: object recognition. I held up a series of photos showing a wide variety of stuff--animals, people, vehicles, household items, plants--and the software correctly named it all. It also told me how confident it was in its answer, and many objects were named with 100-percent accuracy. The demo was limited to just 20 objects, but the full scale of Intel's platform can process many, many more.

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The Nintendo Switch could be easily hacked into because it relies on old software, according to security experts. The console has now been available for nearly two weeks, and hackers are discovering vulnerabilities inside the system's software. The most worrying was found by one developer on Twitter who noticed that the WebKit browser engine, which the Switch uses for a variety of features, can be broken into and taken over. If that happened, hackers could steal data from the device or use it for other malicious purposes. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

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As Matt Asay observed last week, AI appears to be reaching "peak ludicrous mode," with almost every software vendor laying claim to today's most hyped technology. Hang on -- see what I did there? I used "AI" and "machine learning" interchangeably, which should get me busted by the artificial thought police. The first thing you need to know about AI (and machine learning) is that it's full of confusing, overlapping terminology, not to mention algorithms with functions that are opaque to all but a select few. This combination of hype and nearly impenetrable nomenclature can get pretty irritating.

There is a lot of hype (as you know) related to Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning and specifically deep learning (complex neural networks). You also know (if you have been keeping up with the news) that we are all users of such techniques in many every day tools. But recently the technology has gotten a little too close for comfort. Some vendors in the data space, specifically focused on data quality, MDM and data management have started talking about how deep learning will change the use of those tools significantly. At this point, I am not so sure.

In 2016, experts loudly professed that the next big thing to turbocharge your marketing was to use chatbots. This suggests that 2017 will see experts questioning and pulling apart such forecasts, with a return to a more level-headed realistic evaluation of what they can provide in 2018. For now, though, we are still in the optimistic phase with great plans for what chatbots can do and the benefits they will provide to us. Thus far, the theory is sound: chatbots are computer programmes ranging in form from the most basic, providing pre-set answers to a set question menu, to more complex forms embodying Artificial Intelligence and are capable of more human interaction. They interact with customers, prospects or end-users in a conversational form – presented either as speech or as text – to service, sell and deliver friendly 24/7 support to the customer experience.

The breakthrough that has not yet happened that will completely rearrange the current landscape of AI is using an extremely small dataset to train AI systems. Right now, AI requires very large training data sets to learn. And we have proof in the human toddler that we can actually have learning with very small data sets. Somebody in the future will figure out how to do that well. That will be a really huge shift, and it will be very liberating in many ways.

Fear is holding back small businesses from trading internationally, according to a report from HSBC late last year. Specifically, a lack of international business knowledge and experience has small suppliers reluctant to step onto the global stage. Stepping onto the international market means exposure to new types of risk, including the risk of non-payment from a foreign, unfamiliar corporate client. Euler Hermes is just one company aiming at this space, providing businesses with trade credit insurance. Earlier this month the company launched a partnership with analytics-as-a-service company Flowcast to integrate artificial intelligence into the trade credit insurance process.

When IBM CEO Ginni Rometty delivered the opening keynote at HIMSS17 she effectively set the stage for artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and machine learning to be prevalent themes throughout the rest of the conference. Healthcare IT News asked our readers where they stand in terms of these initiatives. And we threw in a bonus question to figure out what their favorite part of HIMSS17 was. Some 70 percent of respondents are either actively planning or researching artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and machine learning technologies -- while 7 percent are rolling them out and 1 percent have already completed an implementation. A Sunday afternoon session featuring AI startups demonstrated the big promise of such tools as well as the persistent questions, skepticism and even fear when it comes to these emerging technologies.