Before scientists can effectively capture and deploy fusion energy, they must learn to predict major disruptions that can halt fusion reactions and damage the walls of doughnut-shaped fusion devices called tokamaks. Today, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University are employing artificial intelligence to improve predictive capability....

Another important distinction is Skychain's use of distributed computing technologies based on the blockchain principles. Many thousands of crypto miners will provide their computational resources to Skychain to get a reward each time an independent neural network performs calculations at the request of an end user, or each time a neural network is trained at the request of its developer. It means that Skychain's end users and neural network developers won't need to bother about obtaining any special hardware or computational resources.

Open any business publication or digital journal today, and you will read about the promise of AI, known as artificial or augmented intelligence, and how it will transform your business. The fact is: AI will not only transform your entire business -- whether you are in healthcare, finance, retail, or manufacturing -- but it will also transform technology itself. The essential task of information technology (IT) -- and how we measure its value -- has reached an inflection point. Instead, insight is the new currency. The speed with which we can scale that insight and the knowledge it brings is the basis for value creation and the key to competitive advantage.

The incredible potential for driving efficiency and change with Big data and advanced analytics - as well as all the associated technologies such as machine learning, the Internet of Things, and predictive modelling - is so great, it should be available to everyone. Not just those who have spent years in college studying the fundamental mathematical and statistical systems under the hood of today's analytics toolsets.

A new, multiyear competition to build the world's coolest artificial intelligence could win you $5 million. The prize for the challenge comes from IBM, TED and the XPRIZE Foundation, who want to stimulate research on AI "to tackle some of the world's grand challenges."

Taipei, Nov. 2 (CNA) Artificial intelligence (AI) is not destructive, asserted Rob High, International Business Machine (IBM) Watson Chief Technology Officer, at an annual IBM forum held in Taipei Thursday. His remark came in the wake of a United Kingdom's Daily Mail report that Facebook shut down a chat bot experiment after two AI robots developed their own language to communicate. Answering questions at the forum, High said that even though some people may believe that chat bots are learning new languages, he thinks they are simply trying to optimize the language. Humans shouldn't think that AIs will develop consciousness or naturally produce ethics, but they should bear the responsibility to make sure that AIs are being used ethically, said High. Watson is a computer system developed by IBM that is capable of answering questions posed by humans verbally. In 2011, it competed on the popular game show Jeopardy and won first place, beating human contestants.

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At this year's Genius of Things (GoT) event in Boston, IBM announced that we are working with Golden State Foods to embrace two big opportunities for growth and change in the food services industry. Golden State Foods are using Watson IoT to assist fleet management and safety for their 2,000 trucks, and creating connected restaurants in over 125,000 locations. To say that Golden State Foods operate on a large scale is something of an understatement. They are one of the largest diversified suppliers to the food service industry, servicing around 125,000 restaurants in over 60 countries from their 50 locations, and producing 400,000 hamburger patties per hour. Many of the restaurants they supply are quick serve and rely on speedy, safe and quality food production and delivery to meet their customers' expectations.

The IBM Watson Data Platform already provides data scientists with the ability to crunch numbers and share large data sets across different public and private clouds. Now the company has its sights set on artificial intelligence (AI), reports Enterprise Cloud News (Banking Technology's sister publication). Big Blue has announcing expanded capabilities and tools for the Watson Data Platform that include data visibility and security for data scientists and developers who are creating AI-based applications. These new tools and services will be integrated within the Watson Data Platform and made available through the IBM Cloud. The company plans to make sure those building private clouds, or using its public Bluemix cloud, can have access. Watson, cognitive computing, cloud computing, as well as AI and machine learning are all part of IBM's plan for the company to grow and move away from selling legacy hardware and software packages.

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