The cybersecurity company that became a household name after causing a massive global IT outage last year has announced it will cut 5% of its workforce in part due to "AI efficiency". In a note to staff earlier this week, released in stock market filings in the US, CrowdStrike's chief executive, George Kurtz, announced that 500 positions, or 5% of its workforce, would be cut globally, citing AI efficiencies created in the business. "We're operating in a market and technology inflection point, with AI reshaping every industry, accelerating threats, and evolving customer needs," he said. Kurtz said AI "flattens our hiring curve, and helps us innovate from idea to product faster", adding it "drives efficiencies across both the front and back office". "AI is a force multiplier throughout the business," he said.

Women's day and Women's History Month are especially meaningful to me as a proud father of a daughter. I want my daughter to understand how wonderful and invaluable she is, not only to me and her mother, but also to everyone else in the world. Second, I want her to be exposed to amazing women who are accomplishing great things on a daily basis. I live, work and breathe AI and Technology. Through my work and research, I have encountered the work of countless amazing women in this sector.

Women's day and Women's History Month are especially meaningful to me as a proud father of a daughter. I want my daughter to understand how wonderful and invaluable she is, not only to me and her mother, but also to everyone else in the world. Second, I want her to be exposed to amazing women who are accomplishing great things on a daily basis. I live, work and breathe AI and Technology. Through my work and research, I have encountered the work of countless amazing women in this sector. This month, I'd like to introduce you to nine incredible women who are making a difference in AI and Technology, as well as what barriers we all still face. During International Women's History Month, it is our pleasure to highlight and honor 9 women who are pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence and ensuring that technology advancements contribute to the greater good.

The news seemed to arrive all at once, even though Canada has long been at the forefront of technology, from Vancouver's film studios to Montreal's world-class animation talent. But in the past few months, things were different. Everyone seemed to come together (a rarity) and as a group, all parties were thinking ahead (another rarity): academia, government, non-profit organizations and businesses all came out in strong support of artificial intelligence research and development. The announcements were made in relatively quick succession: A new federal budget would provide $125 million to improve Canada's competitive and strategic advantage in AI. The University of Toronto's Vector Institute would hire roughly 25 new faculty and research scientists devoted to the field of artificial intelligence.

The central question if you notice is that - these complex AI programs are designed to perform one specific task and be good at it to the extent that they can defeat the best human in that task. A normal human may not be the best in every task that he/she does, but overall they do multiple task quite good from making breakfast, driving to work, spending time with family/friends etc. So there are different aspects of empathy, evolution, emotions and combination of all of these things make us the great humans (Ensemble Learning). However, AI is not designed with these ideas in mind. Humans are very good in learning knowledge in unsupervised manner and transferring that knowledge to learn new things - (Transfer Learning).

Even though it can't be widely generalized, it's still a very big deal. To put Google's AlphaGo win in perspective, let's consider the other two major victories of machines over humans in recent com... This is because AlphaGo displayed true cognition. Keep in mind we're not talking about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) but it is Artificial Special Intelligence (ASI). Fairly significant, but not nearly as significant as presented in the press.