An artificial intelligence programme could be used to more quickly predict the outcome of coronavirus patients by studying X-rays of their chest. Developers at the Oxford-based data-visualisation company, Zegami, have created a machine learning model that can diagnose the virus from the images. However, the team say that in order to get better and more detailed results their AI needs to be trained on a wider range of X-ray images from infected patients. The team believe it could have an artificial intelligence system in place within a matter of weeks to study the disease if it gets enough X-ray images. Zegami CEO, Roger Noble, has written an open letter to the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust asking for more images to train the AI model.

Finland's Artificial Intelligence Programme challenges enterprises to commit to the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI). It encourages enterprises to draw up their own ethical principles for AI that would guide how AI is applied and developed in the enterprises in fair and trust-building ways. At first, the aim is to get at least 300 enterprises sign up for the challenge. "The use of AI will increase and become everyday practice in enterprises at a fast pace. This trend also raises concerns about whether the new technology respects our values. Finland's Artificial Intelligence Programme aims to make AI a success factor for Finnish enterprises, and having a set of ethical principles is an asset for a responsible business," says Minister of Economic Affairs Mika Lintilä.

The programme aims to produce AI engineers with a highly relevant skillset in AI topics. Students will learn how to use and develop intelligent computer systems that can learn from experience, recognise patterns in vast amounts of data and reason strategically in complex decision-making situations. The programme content will deliver a comprehensive range of topics integral to the study of AI. These include machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, optimisation, anomaly detection and big data processing to name but a few. The programme will start in September 2018 producing the first AI graduates in 2019.

Artificial Intelligence is the newest trend to hit the world of money. We are seeing the launch of a number of services based on'chatbots', which are designed to respond to your needs, and prompt you to take sensible financial steps. The question is whether they will make any difference. See also: Virtual reality'to replace high street shopping by 2050' See also: Industries poised to be taken over by robots See also: New robot will park your car for you Patrick Connolly, a certified Financial Planner for Chase De Vere, says: "We are seeing artificial intelligence progressing incredibly rapidly across different financial services, and over the next five to ten years we can expect to see dramatic changes. Chatbots are one early sign of the progress made so far."

Who needs Art critics when a computer can do the job? Visitors to the Tate will be invited to access an Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme which uses algorithms to explain the relevance of works in the collection. "We can't wait to begin working with Tate, Microsoft and a talented team of AI specialists to create this living, seeing, algorithm." Tate Britain has awarded the 15,000 IK prize and a 90,000 production budget to the Italian team behind Recognition, a research project which will merge AI and art, to "uncover the hidden links between current events and art from the Tate collection." Supported by Microsoft, the Fabrica team, based in Treviso, will use powerful algorithms and "machine learning" to search through Tate's vast digital collection and archive and news images of current events, unearthing "hidden relationships between how the world has been represented in image form, in the past and present."