Several police departments nationwide are debuting artificial intelligence that writes officers' incident reports for them, and although the software could cause issues in court, an expert says, the technology could be a boon for law enforcement. Oklahoma City's police department was among the first to experiment with Draft One, an AI-powered software that analyzes police body-worn camera audio and radio transmissions to write police reports that can later be used to justify criminal charges and as evidence in court. Since The Associated Press detailed the software and its use by the department in a late August article, the department told Fox News Digital that it has put the program on hold. "The use of the AI report writing has been put on hold, so we will pass on speaking about it at this time," Capt. Valerie Littlejohn wrote via email.

Washington – Japan, the United States, Australia and India on Tuesday agreed on the need for democratic countries to strengthen their cooperation in developing advanced technologies, apparently to counter China's rise in the field. Ministers and other representatives from the "Quad" nations reached the agreement at an international meeting hosted by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), an independent commission of the U.S. Congress that makes recommendations to the U.S. president and Congress. The participants worked to deepen the ties in the Quad framework in the run-up to a summit the four nations' leaders aim to hold in autumn this year. "Today, emerging technologies such as the internet of things, 5G, artificial intelligence, quantum technology not only produce economic benefits but have the potential to affect civil liberties, human rights and even national security," science and technology minister Shinji Inoue said as he attended the event in Washington virtually. "It is very important for the Quad countries … which share common values, to cooperate in emerging technologies so that sustainable, inclusive, resilient economic growth can be promoted in the Indo-Pacific region," he said.

India on Monday became a founding member of an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven global body called the "Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI)" which aims to promote responsible and human centric-development of AI. Other countries involved include the US, UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea and Singapore. GPAI will bring together leading experts from industry, civil society, governments and academia to collaborate on ways to show how AI can be leveraged to better respond to the present global crisis around COVID-19. The body will be supported by a Secretariat, to be hosted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, as well as by two Centers of Expertise in Montreal and Paris. The news comes after India recently launched its National AI Strategy and National AI Portal that revolve around leveraging AI across education, agriculture, healthcare, e-commerce, finance, telecommunications and other such sectors.

As Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning is evolving at a rapid speed in India and across the globe as well, and these techniques are particularly getting into every field. Retailers are using Artificial Intelligence, social media analytics to understand a targeted set of customer's shopping behavior and preferences. Tribetailing is the strategy adopted by Retail firms to identify and target customers who would most benefit from the offerings. Instead of marketing to everyone for a particular product or an offer Retailers are using this technique to focus on only potential customers. A report "Know your customers: What you see is what you get" said, "There is a dynamic change in customers preferences, Tribetailing helps retailers connect to the customers and understand them better. Artificial Intelligence, Social media analytics, and machine learning are the technologies used by retailers to get information about their customer's online activity, preferences, shopping behavior, history of the customer. With these advanced technologies, retailers can categorize customers in different categories and then coming up with the best solution, offer different offers accordingly such as promotional programs such as membership and discount offers according to the characterization. This info, it stated, is helping retailers to group customers in categories that are different and think of bespoke solutions, and devise personalized advertising and promotional programs like membership as well as commitment programs and discounts to focus on a particular category. With the growth of a tech-savvy and informed more customer base, retailers are more and more replacing the conventional mass-market approach with specific techniques created using insights driven from customer information, stated the report, that had been unveiled in connection with Mapic India. Anil Talreja, partner, Deloitte India said, "with the advent of technology customers trends are evolving at a rapid pace and customers are evolving to proactive seeker of products from a reactive entity.

Uncle Sam is padding the Treasury with millions of dollars to assess bots at the same time that corporations invest more in advanced technology and labor-saving machinery, according to experts. New "robot" taxes are expected to multiply in the coming decades as millions of Americans see their jobs automated away. "Yes, governments already tax robots because they tax virtually everything that goes into developing and making robots," economist and author Mark Thornton told The Post. "In a few cases, there are subsidies such as government grants for robot development. But that still means they are taxing you and me to provide the subsidies." Taxing robots -- a proposal first suggested by Microsoft founder Bill Gates in 2017 as a way for government to tame the inexorable ascent of machines, and to finance new programs like elder care and education -- is back on the front burner.

Robert Downey Jr. used his part of the opening keynote for Amazon's Re:Mars conference in Las Vegas Tuesday evening to announce the launch of a new organization that is committed to using advanced technologies for the good of the environment. The Footprint Coalition, as the group is called, is scheduled to officially launch by April of 2020. "Between robotics and nanotechnology, we could clean up the planet significantly, if not totally, in 10 years," Downey Jr. said, relaying that he had been given these insights a few weeks back by a roundtable of experts. They're like Wikipedia with character defects," he joked during his talk. The announcement came at the end of a 20-plus minute freewheeling talk about artificial intelligence, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Downey Jr.'s own career and the evolution of his Tony Stark character, which featured cameos from Amazon's AI assistant Alexa as well as Matt Damon, who joined via video.

An employee of Indian IT security solutions company Innefu Labs works at its offices in New Delhi. Newer fields, including artificial intelligence, will require highly advanced skills, analysts say. An employee of Indian IT security solutions company Innefu Labs works at its offices in New Delhi. Newer fields, including artificial intelligence, will require highly advanced skills, analysts say. Madeshwaran Subramani is the human face of IT disruption in India.