Darktrace, the leader in Enterprise Immune System technology, presented a radical vision of cyber defense at InfoSec World 2016, Orlando, yesterday, where'immune system'-inspired technology can automatically find and respond to evolving cyber-threats. IT Security Architect at Steelcase, Stuart Berman, joined Sean O'Connor, Director at Darktrace on the conference stage as a guest speaker, to discuss how enterprises can tackle the cyber security challenges of tomorrow. As one of the world's leading manufacturers of corporate office environments, Steelcase is known for embracing new technology and innovation, and was quick to recognize the importance of adopting new models of security. Speaking at the InfoSec World Conference in Florida yesterday, Stuart Berman, who has over 20 years' experience in information security, shared his views on the future of cyber defense. "Math and machine learning are an important part of advanced threat defense, in the context of today's fast-moving, distributed work environments," Berman commented.

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence IoT Industry Insider subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. More than half (51%) of professionals in the supply chain and logistics industry believe robotics and automation will provide a competitive advantage in their industry, according to a recently released survey from industry association MHI and Deloitte. That number is up from 39% in a similar survey last year, The Wall Street Journal reported. More of the respondents cited robotics and automation as a competitive advantage than other technologies that are more prevalent in the logistics industry such as sensors, cloud computing, and inventory management tools.

Business InsiderChatbots aren't robots, but they are supposed to be close to mimicking humans. Chatbots are the future, whether we're ready for them or not. "It's technology that's inevitable," Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella has said. On Tuesday, Facebook is expected to release a Bot Store in a launch that could define the next decade in the same way that the Apple App Store launch paved the path for companies like Uber to build a business off your phone. So what are these chatbots, and why is everyone obsessed?

Now, she is applying her creative talents toward building the personality of a different type of character: a virtual assistant, animated by artificial intelligence, that interacts with sick patients. Unlike the fictional characters Ewing developed in Hollywood, who are put through adventures and plot twists, most virtual assistants are designed to perform largely prosaic tasks, such as reading through email, sending meeting reminders or turning off the lights. Writers for medical and productivity apps make character decisions, such as whether bots should be workaholics, self-effacing or eager beavers. At a recent meeting of Microsoft Cortana's six-person writing team -- which includes a poet, a novelist, a playwright and a former TV writer -- the group debated how to answer political questions.

Until recently, Robyn Ewing was a writer in Hollywood, developing TV scripts and pitching pilots to film studios. Now, she is applying her creative talents toward building the personality of a different type of character: a virtual assistant, animated by artificial intelligence, that interacts with sick patients. Ewing works with engineers on the software program, called Sophie, which can be downloaded to a smartphone. The virtual nurse gently reminds users to check their medication, asks them how they are feeling or if they are in pain, and then sends the data to a doctor. As tech behemoths and a wave of startups double down on virtual assistants that can chat with humans, writing for AI is becoming a hot job in Silicon Valley.

At this year's GPU Technology Conference, Facebook AI Research showed off a neural net that lets you generate unique images based on a text description. First they typed "beach" and what looked like a painting of a beach appeared. The image had clouds, so next they typed "beach -clouds" and a brand new beach image appeared with blue sky and no clouds. Lastly, they typed "sunset beach -clouds" and yet another beach image appeared with an orange-red sunset. Amid an impressive conference of photorealistic graphics, self-driving cars, and supercomputers, this was the presentation that drew the most "wow"s from the crowd, and for good reason.

Provalis Research announces today the release of a new version of its powerful text analytics software, WordStat 7.1. The software release includes a geographic information system (GIS) mapping and data editing module, allowing businesses to obtain insightful geospatial intelligence. This innovative module provides users with the ability to create a wide range of maps out of pure text data. The analysis of unstructured text data with geographic affinity poses some challenges when an organization is seeking to obtain insightful results. "The implementation of tools currently on the market is a complex process that usually requires in-depth geographic information science (GIS) knowledge," says Normand Péladeau, Provalis Research's CEO.

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has made a lot of news recently. While much of that talk involves predictions of gloom and doom, that's not my focus here. When it comes to e-commerce, and really commerce in general, AI is poised to begin disrupting the entire industry. An interesting convergence is taking place; one that will have massive implications in the way merchants sell their products and services and the way consumers buy them. We are setting the stage for an era where transactions will take place with no human interaction at all.

The Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud computing are three technologies that are converging to disrupt nearly every industry. IoT refers to a connected network of objects embedded with technology that enables the collection and exchange of data. Cloud computing is the storing and retrieval of data, and accessing application programs via the Internet. Artificial Intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence by machines. We are currently in the midst of the rise of the first wave of this technological convergence.

Each of those SMs also contains 32 FP64 CUDA cores, giving us the 1/2 rate for FP64 and new to the Pascal architecture is the ability to pack 2 FP16 operations inside a single FP32 CUDA core, when under the right conditions.Nvidia has just announced a new GPU platform called the Tesla P100. NVIDIA NVLink for maximum application scalability – The NVIDIA NVLink high-speed GPU interconnect scales applications across multiple GPUs, delivering a 5x acceleration in bandwidth compared to today's best-in-class solution.Specifically, the DGX-1 can pump out 170 teraflops – that's 170,000 floating operations per second – with its eight 16GB Tesla P100 graphics chips.The hype for the upcoming next generation NVIDIA GeForce Pascal graphics processing units is now at an all-time high as majority of the reports are claiming that the GPUs might be making their way into the market in the coming months. The GPU is meant for data centers, scientific and technical research, or churning statistics. It features NVIDIA's new Pascal GPU architecture, the latest memory and semiconductor process, and packaging technology – all to create the densest compute platform to date.Other technologies employed in the DGX-1 include 16nm FinFET fabrication technology, for improved energy efficiency; Chip on Wafer on Substrate with HBM2, for maximizing big data workloads; and new half-precision instructions to deliver more than 21 teraflops of peak performance for deep learning.Nvidia's new GPU is the first to be based on its Pascal architecture. It provides the throughput of 250 CPU-based servers, networking, cables and racks – all in a single box.