It's time for big business to embrace the public chain – as a coordination tool, rather than as a place to carry out large-scale financial transactions. The group has come up with a new way of using the public ethereum mainnet to connect firms' internal systems for resource planning. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) -- two-part AI models consisting of a generator that creates samples and a discriminator that attempts to differentiate between the generated samples and real-world samples -- have been applied to tasks ranging from video, artwork, and music synthesis to drug discovery and misleading media detection. They've also made their way into ecommerce, as Amazon revealed in a blog post this morning. Frontline healthcare employees -- nurses, call center agents, among others -- have one of the toughest jobs in America.

At the offices of startup Vicarious in Union City, where the San Francisco Bay Area's sprawl abuts rolling hills, 10 robot arms tirelessly place travel-sized beauty products into bins on a conveyor belt. Each gray arm ends in a suction-cup-tipped finger that makes a high-pitched whine as it plucks items such as antiperspirant or hand lotion from crowded boxes. Google Cloud today announced the beta launch of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, a new enterprise-grade service that is meant to give developers a single tool to deploy their machine learning pipelines, together with tools for monitoring and auditing them. "When you're just prototyping a machine learning (ML) model in a notebook, it can seem fairly straightforward," Google notes in today's announcement. "But when you need to start paying attention to the other pieces required to make an ML workflow sustainable and scalable, things become more complex."

Oracle recently announced the availability of Cloud Data Science PlatformAccording to Oracle, the key differentiating factor for its data science platform is team collaboration features and tight integration with a variety of data sources available in OCI. According to Oracle, the key differentiating factor for its data science platform is team collaboration features and tight integration with a variety of data sources available in OCI. Being a cybersecurity analyst at a large company today is a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack -- if that haystack were hurtling toward you at fiber optic speed. Every day, employees and customers generate loads of data that establish a normal set of behaviors. An attacker will also generate data while using any number of techniques to infiltrate the system; the goal is to find that "needle" and stop it before it does any damage.

The German government is facing a bill of around $887,000 (800,000 euros) for failing to upgrade to Windows 10 ahead of the Windows 7 end of support date last week. German newspaper Handelsblatt reports that the German Federal Ministry is looking to secure at least 33,000 machines still running Windows 7, which involves paying Microsoft a fee per device for a year of extended security protection. Lego is releasing an official International Space Station kit, which includes a scale model of the orbital platform, along with a miniature dockable Space Shuttle, a deployable satellite and two astronaut mini figurines. The kit is made up of 864 pieces, and celebrates the science station's more than 20 years in operation. It was originally suggested through Lego's Ideas platform, which crowdsources ideas from the Lego fan community.

Sony is the latest company to dip its toes into AI-powered music. The company revealed this week that its researchers have created a machine learning model that can create kick-drum tracking. MIT computer scientists are hoping to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence to improve medical decision-making, by automating a key step that's usually done by hand -- and that's becoming more laborious as certain datasets grow ever-larger. What's the point of teaching a computer how to knit? MIT researchers found it goes beyond just some nice gloves and scarves, to a window into deep learning forms of artificial intelligence.

In another lifetime, if they had been allowed to follow their natural development, the stem cells taken from embryonic frogs would have turned into skin and heart tissue within living, breathing animals. Instead, in configurations designed by algorithms and constructed by humans, those cells have been assembled into something new: the first-ever robots constructed entirely out of living cells. The last decade was a big one for artificial intelligence but researchers in the field believe that the industry is about to enter a new phase. Hype surrounding AI has peaked and troughed over the years as the abilities of the technology get overestimated and then re-evaluated. The peaks are known as AI summers, and the troughs AI winters.

Researchers said the profiles, linked to the Epoch Media Group, used photos generated by artificial intelligence in a preview of an "eerie, tech-enabled future of disinformation." Facebook said on Friday that it had removed hundreds of accounts with ties to the Epoch Media Group, parent company of the Falun Gong-related publication and conservative news outlet The Epoch Times. The documentary – produced by the actor in partnership with his wife Susan – is one of the platform's highest profile and biggest-budgeted factual commissions to date. The Avengers star is expected to give the Age of AI mass appeal. One AI expert said there was "lots of eye candy for viewers with short attention spans".

How is it that we're able to look at a tree and see beauty, hear a song and feel moved, or take comfort in the smell of rain or the taste of coffee? How do we know we still exist when we close our eyes and lie in silence? To date, science doesn't have an answer to those questions. Forget phrase books or even Google Translate. New translation devices are getting closer to replicating the fantasy of the Babel fish, which in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" sits in one's ear and instantly translates any foreign language into the user's own.

As it becomes easier for humans to do the mundane with the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of human kind to process complex emotions will become imperative. While the evolution of AI and machine learning--and how they will change our lifestyle, the markets and workforce in many sectors--has been staring in our face, it is important to know the following facts. In the last decade, data and analytics have turned baseball into a bonanza of home runs and strikeouts, basketball became a game won or lost behind the arc and even prompted football coaches to start going for it on fourth down. Microsoft's belief that artificial intelligence (AI) will continue to become relevant in the coming years has often been indicated through moves the tech giant has made in the recent past. Earlier this month, the firm partnered up with Novartis to transform the field of medicine using AI.

Gary Marcus is not impressed by the hype around deep learning. While the NYU professor believes that the technique has played an important role in advancing AI, he also thinks the field's current overemphasis on it may well lead to its demise. You are, and welcome to the present and the future of automated machine learning programs that have the ability to significantly increase the speed of analysis of specialized MRI scans. Researchers from Google AI (formerly Google Research) and Toyota Technological Institute of Chicago have created ALBERT, an AI model that achieves state-of-the-art results that exceed human performance. ALBERT now claims first place on major NLP performance leaderboards for benchmarks like GLUE and SQuAD 2.0, and high RACE performance score.