In a feat reminiscent of the controversial victory by supercomputer'Deep Blue' over world chess champion Garry Kasparov, a computer program has managed to beat a string of professional poker players at the game. DeepStack, as it was called, defeated 10 out of 11 players who took part in a total of 3,000 games as part of a scientific study into artificial intelligence. The 11th player also lost, but by a margin that the researchers decided was not large enough to be statistically significant. This is not the first time a computer has won at poker. Libratus, a program developed by Carnegie Mellon University academics, won $1.76m (£1.4m) from professionals in January, for example.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most evocative and confusing terms in technology. According to Accenture, artificial intelligence (AI) could add an additional US$814 billion in 2035 to the UK's economy--with growth rates increasing from 2.5 percent to 3.9 percent in 2035. We have seen a machine master the complex game of Go, previously thought to be the most difficult challenge of artificial processing. We have witnessed vehicles operating autonomously, including a caravan of trucks crossing Europe with only a single operator to monitor systems. We have seen a proliferation of robotic counterparts and automated means for accomplishing a variety of tasks.

This article was originally published on International Business Times. Space, far from being the final frontier, may turn out to be the key to unlocking unknown insight about planet Earth. From retail traffic levels to agriculture to poverty mapping, the up-and-coming Californian company is taking a scientific approach to data by partnering with satellite firms to blast rockets into space and watch key industrial changes from the black sky above. By 2020, there will be enough satellites in space to take real-time surveillance of the entire world, said AJ DeRosa, an Orbital Insight executive during Newsweek's AI and Data Science conference in London on March 1. "Yes, Skynet is here," he laughed. Yet, Orbital Insight is not hoping to become an AI-based overlord.

The first annual Gigaom AI conference took place in San Francisco earlier this month. If you are unfamiliar with Gigaom, they are a technology research firm, finding and presenting the latest developments in technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), big data, Internet of Things (IOT), and more. The Gigaom AI conference focused on the applications and benefits of using AI to advance business, and how to implement it now. We wanted to share some highlights and our main takeaways from the event. "The effect that #AI will have on the world will be much more profound than computers or the iPad."

Amazon.com (AMZN) on Thursday blamed human error for an outage at its cloud-services unit that caused widespread disruption to internet traffic across the U.S. earlier this week. In a post on its website, Amazon said the outage started with a typo at Amazon's North Virginia data centers Tuesday. An employee trying to speed up the company's S3 cloud-storage billing system tried to take a few servers offline. The employee mistyped the command, however, affecting more servers than intended, which led to a cascade of failures that ultimately knocked out S3 and other Amazon services. It also took longer than expected to restart certain services, Amazon said.

Three heads are better than one. This is perhaps what electronics company Sony and LG and instant messaging app Line are thinking now that they have partnered together to develop a smart speaker that would rival Amazon Echo and Google Home and an AI assistant that would be worthy competitor for Alexa, Apple's Siri and Google Assistant. Leading this partnership is the popular chat app who is now ready to foray into the world of artificial intelligence. Line has a strong following in Asian countries, especially in Japan and South Korea. But it needs support to venture into this new market and realize its goal of launching its own intelligent assistant and smart speaker.

Behold.ai's medical software uses cutting-edge artificial intelligence to help radiologists make better medical decisions. In this post, we share our backstory and discuss how we are reimagining how radiologists diagnose patients, which allows healthcare providers to streamline operations. We also explain how we use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power our services. His mother discovered a lump on her breast in 2006 and got a mammogram. The scan was read as negative for breast cancer, though that wasn't the case.

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Scientists at MIT have developed an artificial intelligence that is an actual challenge to its biological gamer counterparts. The CSAIL team trained a neural network in the fine art of Super Smash Bros. Melee and the result was so impressive that it can knock out top ranked players. The team's lead research Vlad Firoiu told TechCrunch that the AI balances a calculating strategy with reckless abandon. Its computer brain also means it has reflexes unmatched by humans. For instance, it has no idea what to do with projectile-based attacks and it loses its cool when its opponent hides in a corner.

WHEN someone goes into cardiac arrest, survival depends on how quickly the heart can be restarted. Enter Amazon's Echo, a voice-driven computer that answers to the name of Alexa, which can recite life-saving instructions about cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a skill taught to it by the American Heart Association. Alexa is accumulating other health-care skills, too, including acting as a companion for the elderly and answering questions about children's illnesses. In the near future she will probably help doctors with grubby hands to take notes and to request scans, as well as remind patients to take their pills. Alexa is one manifestation of a drive to disrupt an industry that has so far largely failed to deliver on the potential of digital information.