Couger CEO Atsushi Ishii appeared as a technical specialist on the program "What is Human? What is Human? is an educational entertainment program that explores the definition of being human by looking at the latest applications of AI and discussing trending AI-related topics. The program featuring Couger's Atsushi Ishii examined the intersection of AI, work and what it means to be human. One popular claim when it comes to work and AI comes from the University of Oxford's Professor Osborne. He has previously stated that within the next 10 to 20 years, about 47 percent of US jobs risk being replaced by automation.

Artificial Intelligence has paved a new way for innovations that have transcended any other technology's impact on society. Influencing and becoming a critical aspect of many industries, AI has become an important asset to possess. The restaurant business is no stranger to AI either. AI for restaurant business has seen a huge surge in terms of demand and necessity in the past decade. The implementation of AI for businesses has shown strongly about how big of a positive impact AI can provide.

Artificial Intelligence has paved a new way for innovations that have transcended any other technology's impact on society. Influencing and becoming a critical aspect of many industries, AI has become an important asset to possess. The restaurant business is no stranger to AI either. AI for restaurant business has seen a huge surge in terms of demand and necessity in the past decade. The implementation of AI for businesses has shown strongly about how big of a positive impact AI can provide.

In his upcoming book, The Future Is Faster Than You Think, which will hit bookshelves in late January 2020, Diamandis makes the case for why he believes big tech companies are going to be running healthcare by 2030. In December, he came to Fast Company's offices to make the case for why Big Tech is the doctor of the future. "We're going to see Apple and Amazon and Google and all the data-driven companies that are in our homes right now become our healthcare providers," he says, referring to smart speakers such as Google's Assistant, Amazon's Alexa, and Apple's HomePod. While many of these home voice assistants started with simple tasks like restocking home pantries and surfacing cooking tutorials, they're already starting to move into the business of managing family well-being. Amazon has put significant effort into making Alexa a health resource.

Examples of artificial intelligence (AI) in pop culture usually involve a pack of intelligent robots hell-bent on overthrowing the human race, or at least a fancy theme park. Sentient machines with general artificial intelligence don't yet exist, and they likely won't exist anytime soon, so we're safe... for now. That's not to make light of AI's potential impact on our future. In a recent survey, more than 72% of Americans expressed worry about a future in which machines perform many human jobs. Additionally, tech billionaire Elon Musk, long an advocate for the regulation of artificial intelligence, recently called AI more dangerous than nukes. Whether we realize it or not, artificial intelligence is all around us and playing an active role in our daily lives. Every time we open our Facebook newsfeed, do a Google search, get a product recommendation from Amazon or book a trip online, AI is lurking in the background.

This article is an excerpt from the Pearson Addison-Wesley book "Pragmatic AI" by Noah Gift. Reprinted here with permission from Pearson and 2019. What do Russian trolls, Facebook, and US elections have to do with machine learning? Recommendation engines are at the heart of the central feedback loop of social networks and the user-generated content (UGC) they create. Users join the network and are recommended users and content with which to engage. Recommendation engines can be gamed because they amplify the effects of thought bubbles.

Despite recent advances in the field of explainable artificial intelligence systems, a concrete quantitative measure for evaluating the usability of such systems is nonexistent. Ensuring the success of an explanatory interface in interacting with users requires a cyclic, symbiotic relationship between human and artificial intelligence. We, therefore, propose explanatory efficacy, a novel metric for evaluating the strength of the cyclic relationship the interface exhibits. Furthermore, in a user study, we evaluated the perceived affect and workload and recorded the EEG signals of our participants as they interacted with our custom-built, iterative explanatory interface to build personalized recommendation systems. We found that systems for perceptually driven iterative tasks with greater explanatory efficacy are characterized by statistically significant hemispheric differences in neural signals, indicating the feasibility of neural correlates as a measure of explanatory efficacy. These findings are beneficial for researchers who aim to study the circular ecosystem of the human-artificial intelligence partnership. Keywords: Affect; Brain Lateralization; EEG; Explanatory Efficacy; Human-centric Explainable Artificial Intelligence; Interactive Explanation; Workload 1. Introduction Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms have resulted in models that not only achieve high predictive performance but also provide explanatory features to support their decisions, increasing model interpretability and transparency in real-world environments [1]. However, merely providing explanations is insufficient. Ultimately, AI should address the problems hindering human-agent interaction. Much of the current work for human-interpretable machine learning systems suffers from a lack of usability and efficacy [2]. Developing such a feedback-based interface for AI systems requires an evaluation on the strength of the cyclic relationship the interface exhibits, which we define as explanatory efficacy . Failing to integrate user knowledge with machine systems can decrease interaction quality to the point of causing interaction breakdowns. Consequently, the systems will lose their ability to justify their recommendations, decisions, or actions, resulting in a loss of trust from their users.

AI presents incredible opportunities for organizations to change the way they do business. With 1,000 researchers--including winners of the Turing Award and Fields Medal--in 11 labs, Microsoft has established itself as a leader in AI through its dogged focus on innovation, empowerment, and ethics. Now, the groundbreaking capabilities of AI can move beyond the lab to make a positive impact on every enterprise, every industry. Manufacturers have accrued vast stores of data through digital technologies and IoT--offering new windows into operational efficiency and business performance. Culling that data for actionable insights on predictive maintenance and performance improvements has become increasingly essential for an industry that operates on thin margins.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / December 12, 2019 / Dimension Five Technologies Inc. (CSE:DFT) (the "Company"), is pleased to announce that it has entered into a share exchange agreement dated December 11, 2019 (the "SEA") with Digital Cavalier Technology Services Inc. doing business as Youneeq ("Youneeq") to acquire all of the issued and outstanding securities of Youneeq (the "Transaction"). The Company and Youneeq have signed the SEA and signatures are being gathered from Youneeq shareholders in order to obtain a fully executed version. The proposed transaction is dependent on all Youneeq shareholders signing the SEA. Youneeq is an award-winning personalization and recommendation engine powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The company is poised to become a leading multi-channel AI personalization engine focused on the anonymous audience, the single biggest segment for marketers.