Artificial Intelligence APAC -- Issue #14 – Eugenia Wan – Medium

The White House unveiled a hands-off regulatory approach to foster the development of artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, Google previewed Duplex, an experimental service that lets its voice-based digital assistant book appointments on its own -- but it ended up raising broader questions. Glen Weyl, principal researcher at Microsoft and visiting senior research scholar in economics and law at Yale University, and Bloomberg's Mark Bergen discuss the status of the AI revolution with Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology." China's AI patents account for 22 pct of world's total: official -- www.xinhuanet.com China's patents in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry accounted for about 22 percent of the total globally, according to an official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). Mapping rural areas is a barrier to autonomous vehicles operating in those areas, but cars might not need maps at all.