Accenture announced the global rollout of an intelligent automation platform, Accenture myWizard, that enables services consisting of systems integration and application development and management. The platform combines Accenture's industry and technology assets and business knowledge with intelligent automation, including artificial intelligence at its core. Accenture myWizard supports productivity improvement for clients by employing a team of virtual agents, powered by AI, to analyze data, identify patterns and guide human workers to make better-informed decisions. This can support business performance which can include significant improvement in application quality, cost reduction and speed to market. The new platform brings together several Accenture industry aspects, including intelligent and analytics tools and methods, as well as tools from across Accenture's alliance partner ecosystem.

Artificial intelligence is, in a word, incredible. The definition of what artificial intelligence is also experiences steady growth, which speaks volumes about how the technology works and how it's used and enhanced. One particular area of A.I. that's received widespread attention from the tech community lately is neural networks. In short, neural networks use a network of nodes that each do their own processing to give a machine the ability to process information in the same way a human brain does, allowing for hugely enhanced function and a wider range of applications. The most exciting of these applications is a neural network's ability to learn not by having to be programmed or taught, but from experience.

According to The Next Web, Facebook is helping blind people'see' photos by using artificial intelligence to narrate them via its iOS app. By using neural networks, the Facebook app will generate a description for every photo e.g. In addition, Facebook is reportedly using artificial intelligence to produce detailed maps illustrating population density and the access to internet across the globe. This should help Facebook bring internet to parts of the world that are without access. Facebook has analysed 20 countries and 21.6 million square kilometres amounting to 350TB of data.

In this special guest feature, Dave O'Flanagan, CEO and co-founder of Boxever, outlines how airlines are leveraging big data and predictive capabilities to transform how they engage with customers. Dave is the CEO and co-founder of Boxever, a data science and omni-channel personalization platform for travel companies. The subprime financial crisis revealed that our data is only as good as our ability to analyze and understand it. AI will be necessary to helping prevent the next crisis before it happens. Marco Scirea, a PhD student at the IT University of Copenhagen, won the best paper award at the EvoMUSART conference for his research on music composition using artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence will identify, assess and underwrite emerging risks and identify new revenue sources. The first machine age, the Industrial Revolution, saw the automation of physical work. We live in the second machine age, where there is increasing augmentation and automation of manual and cognitive work. This second machine age has seen the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), or "intelligence" that is not the result of human cogitation. It is now ubiquitous in many commercial products, from search engines to virtual assistants.

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The basic premise of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) was originally that human intelligence is predictable enough that it can be simulated with computers. As such, A.I. is a broad field involving many areas of research. This includes computer vision, language recognition, decision-making. In more recent years, A.I. has also acquired other challenges including machine learning/ deep learning, as well as robotics as a whole. In fact, if you were to ask the average person what they thought of when someone mentions "artificial intelligence," it's likely they would say "robots" -- thanks to pop culture: TV shows, movies, comics, books and toys.

"Thousands of other abilities contribute to our intelligence, but the use of language as a means of communicating complicated ideas trumps them all."- Here are answers to top five questions regarding natural language generation (NLG). What is Natural Language Generation? Natural Language Generation (NLG), a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) which produces language as output on the basis of data input, is not a new concept. What is new, however, is the increase in adoption of NLG into the enterprise.

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China on Friday revealed a realistic robot they've been working on for the past three years. Called, Jia Jia, the robot is said to be capable of human-like facial expressions, along with talking and interacting with people nearby. While its creators describe it as looking similar to a "real woman," at least it's a step up from that nightmarish home-made Scarlett Johansson robot. Among the details the researchers have incorporated into Jia Jia are the way its eyes will glance around a room in a natural way, as well as mouth movements that align with its speaking. Not only can it respond to humans, but it can recognize when someone is taking a picture and make appropriate comments, such as warning not to stand too close for fear of making her face "look fat."

Police are investigating a pilot's claim that his plane was struck by a drone as it approached Heathrow airport. The Metropolitan police said they were contacted on Sunday afternoon by the pilot, who landed the plane safely at Terminal 5. No one has been arrested, officers said. The flight, BA727, was coming in to London from Geneva, carrying 132 passengers and five crew. British Airways said the Airbus A320 had been examined by engineers and cleared to take off for its next flight after the incident.