Massachusetts General Hospital is buying into deep learning artificial intelligence, and it will use Nvidia's new DGX-1 deep-learning supercomputer that was announced today. Nvidia is partnering with the MGH Clinical Data Science Center, which wants to advance health care with AI to improve the detection, diagnosis, treatment, and management of diseases. "Deep learning is revolutionizing a wide range of scientific fields," said Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, at the company's GPUTech event in San Jose, California, today. "There could be no more important application of this new capability than improving patient care. Massachusetts General Hospital runs the largest hospital-based research program in the United States, and is the top-ranked hospital on this year's U.S. News and World Report's "Best Hospitals" list. The center will train a deep neural network using Mass General's vast stores of phenotypic, genetics, and imaging data. The hospital has a database containing some 10 billion medical images. To do this, it will use the Nvidia DGX-1 -- a supercomputer designed for AI applications. Using AI, physicians can compare a patient's symptoms, tests, and history with insight from a vast population of other patients. Initially, the MGH Clinical Data Science Center will focus on the fields of radiology and pathology -- which are particularly rich in images and data -- and then expand into genomics and electronic health records. "We now have the ability to expand the field of radiology beyond its predominant state of providing visualization for human interpretation," said Keith J. Dreyer, vice chairman of Radiology at Mass General and executive director of the center, in a statement. "Guided by precision healthcare, we are entering the radiological era of biometric quantification, where our interpretations will be enhanced by algorithms learned from the diagnostic data of vast patient populations.

Were you able to attend this year's South by Southwest (SXSW)? As always, the annual convergence of anything relevant and compelling has ignited some amazing conversation. THE FUTURE OF BIG DATA AND AI, by far one of our favorite panels, brought to light persuasive commentary on the applications of AI and how data has renewed these functions. Being the retail aficionados that we are, we couldn't help but tie those topics right back to retail and eCommerce. Amongst the four panelist, Dr. Doug Lenant, CEO of Cycorp, affirmed that deep learning technology has been around for about 30 years.

Nvidia's fastest GPU yet, the new Tesla P100, will be available in servers next year, the company said. Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cray and IBM will start taking orders for servers with the Tesla P100 in the fourth quarter of this year, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said during a keynote at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. The servers will start shipping in the first quarter of next year, Huang said Tuesday. The GPU will also ship to companies designing hyperscale servers in-house and then to outsourced manufacturing shops. It will be available for in-house "cloud servers" by the end of the year, Huang said.

Can Azure Drive Your Car – I got the idea after making my GA code in PowerShell and then saw George Hotz self driving car ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v KTrgRYa2wbI). I thought, I might be able to make mine own self driving car using Azure Machine Learning. So I started thinking and came up with the idea to create a top-down car game which can be controlled by keyboard and web requests. Since I did not know anything about game programming, I turned to my friend Andreas who helped me get started. I wanted both stepless throttle and steering.

Using machine-learning to forecast which accused perpetrators of domestic violence -- particularly those whose crimes result in injuries -- will be re-arrested on similar charges can cut such recidivism in half, according to a recent report. Machine learning used during the arraignment process prevented "well over" 1,000 domestic violence incidents annually in at least one large metropolitan area, according to authors Richard Berk, a professor of criminology and statistics in the School of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton School, and Susan B. Sorenson, director of the Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence. For their study, "Forecasting Domestic Violence: A Machine Learning Approach to Help Inform Arraignment Decisions," Berk and Sorenson analyzed 28,646 domestic violence arraignments that led to official charges and the corresponding releases. "Under current practice, about 20 percent of the individuals released after arraignment are arrested for domestic violence within two years. If magistrates only released offenders our forecasts identified as good bets… [f]ailures could be cut in half."

Along with the tools out there for blind programmers to use, artificial intelligence might be something else that they can add to their tool belt. With recent developments at Microsoft, it could even help them see what is happening in the world around them. Saqib Shaikh is a London-based software developer who is working for Microsoft on the firm's Bing search engine, according to Forbes. He has been personally involved in the development of an application for cognitive computing, image recognition, and mobile headset technologies. The intelligence comes from "Seeing AI," a research project that helps people who are blind.

Salesforce has acquired MetaMind, an AI startup company. With the two coming together, they will be able to offer customers AI solutions with capabilities that further automate and personalize customer support, marketing, and other business processes. Salesforce's data science capabilities will be extended by embedding deep learning within its platform.

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) has strived to be a leader in the artificial intelligence arena, developing advanced AI theories and applications that permit machines to learn, evolve and make independent decisions. Microsoft's AI research team is building software that automatically learns from data, becoming more intelligent over time. For Microsoft stock, shifting focus to artificial intelligence could create a solid foundation for future stability and growth. The company's most well-known AI project is Cortana, an integrated smartphone assistant that first appeared on Windows Mobile devices back in 2013. Unfortunately for Microsoft stock holders, at the time she was more of an effort to just keep up with Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Alphabet Inc (GOOGL, GOOG), with management hoping to retain at least some of its dying mobile device division.

BENGALURU: Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Infosys, on Monday announced that it will provide a corpus grant worth 24 crore over the next three years to the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi to establish the Infosys Centre for Artificial Intelligence on its Okhla campus. The centre will initially be headed by Srikanth Saripalli, an expert in robotics and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), currently spending his sabbatical at IIIT-Delhi. The centre will facilitate work on both fundamental and applied aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) and focus on areas such as robotics, machine learning, computer vision, AI for software systems, large-scale data analytics, among others. Several faculty members of IIIT-Delhi will be associated with the centre, and research will be conducted by PhD scholars, post-docs, students, and visiting researchers. The centre will start a specialised MTech course.

Hyundai is working on a new connected car it calls a "high-performing computer on wheels" that will tap big data and analytics for proactive service and constant connection. The company will collaborate with leading global IT and networking companies to develop a self-driving "hyperconnected and intelligent car," it announced Tuesday, with a focus on connecting it to other cars, the office, and the home. Four key areas will help the new cars make the most of data. A smart remote maintenance service, for example, will remotely diagnose and fix vehicle issues before they become apparent, Hyundai said. Autonomous-driving capabilities will be another key element, as will what Hyundai calls "smart traffic" features to help reduce congestion and make trips quicker.