Researchers at institutions including the Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center (IDEAI-UPC), Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) and the i2Cat Foundation have produced a white paper on AI and health. The document, which was recently presented in Barcelona, gathers proposals with the aim of accelerating the adoption of this technology in order to improve medical care. Artificial intelligence (AI) in health offers diagnostic support which facilitates the detection of diseases and injury, and prediction of the effectiveness of a particular treatment and patient progress. AI could also open doors to preventative and personalised medicine, according to the white paper. The document collects a selection of proposals that, between them, highlight the following: facilitating access to health data, the creation of test environments, and the promotion of public-private innovation.

The Energy Department unveiled plans to launch a $5.5 million research center that will bring together top thinkers from three federal and academic institutions to solve some of the world's most complex challenges in artificial intelligence. Researchers from Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and the Georgia Institute of Technology will join forces in the newly unveiled Center for Artificial Intelligence-Focused Architectures and Algorithms, or ARIAA. "AI will allow us to solve problems today, that simply cannot be solved because they are too complex," said Roberto Gioiosa, the senior research scientist at PNNL selected lead the new center. "This is the science of the future." The move follows Energy Secretary Rick Perry's recent announcement that the agency is working to establish an Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office to coordinate and streamline the agency's efforts and growing investments around AI.

Indian-American brothers look to harness artificial intelligence for greater good Google launching artificial intelligence research center in China DUBAI: With the everchanging technological landscape the world is witnessing, Artificial Intelligence's impact on the world of journalism has proved to be a double-edged sword, the Associated Press' Director of News Partnerships Lisa Gibbs explained at Dubai's Arab Media Forum on Tuesday. "The biggest issue we face today is the war on fake news. AI will be a powerful tool for those seeking to create it and those seeking to combat it," she said, adding that, "technology is getting better at creating fake images and thus we need to build tools to spot these fake images, the same goes for text and video." The rise of fake news across social media platforms pushed the Associated Press to launch a tool called "AP Verify" which allows AI to assess and verify news extracted from social media, Gibbs explained. With this, AI is being introduced to more speedily form news stories based on verified minimal information supplied – thus churning out 3,700 stories a day in comparison to the 300 done solely using human journalists.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's GOOGL.O Google said on Wednesday it is opening an artificial intelligence (AI) research center in China to target the country's local talent, even as the U.S. search firm's products remain blocked in the country. Google said in a statement the research center is the first of its kind in Asia and will comprise a small team operating out of its existing office in Beijing. Chinese policy makers have voiced strong support for AI research and development in the country, but have imposed increasingly strict rules on foreign firms in the past year, including new censorship restrictions. Google's search engine is banned in the Chinese market along with its app store, email and cloud storage services. China's cyber regulators say restrictions on foreign media and internet platforms are designed to block influences that contravene stability and socialist ideas.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Wednesday it is opening an artificial intelligence (AI) research center in China to target the country's local talent, even as the U.S. search firm's products remain blocked in the country. Google said in a statement the research center is the first of its kind in Asia and will comprise a small team operating out of its existing office in Beijing. Chinese policy makers have voiced strong support for AI research and development in the country, but have imposed increasingly strict rules on foreign firms in the past year, including new censorship restrictions. Google's search engine is banned in the Chinese market along with its app store, email and cloud storage services. China's cyber regulators say restrictions on foreign media and internet platforms are designed to block influences that contravene stability and socialist ideas.

The new effort by Toyota is also the latest indication of a changing of the guard in Silicon Valley's basic technology research. In September, when Dr. Pratt joined Toyota, the company announced an initial artificial intelligence research effort committing 50 million in funding to the computer science departments of both Stanford and M.I.T. In addition to focusing on navigation technologies, the new research corporation will also apply artificial intelligence technologies to Toyota's factory automation systems, Dr. Pratt said. A version of this article appears in print on November 6, 2015, on page B3 of the New York edition with the headline: Toyota Planning an Artificial Intelligence Research Center in California.