Last?week, the reigning champion Martin Truex Jr. bested the field to take the checkered flag at Pocono. Will he begin to take over? This is his fourth Top 5 finish in the last four races. So far, the year has been dominated by Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, and now Martin Truex Jr. who is looking to rack up some wins with his recent momentum. The Monster Energy Cup series travels to Michigan International Speedway(MIS).

What if we could form meaningful relationships with AI? IBM designer Adam Cutler argues that we're already doing this -- we name our cars and mourn our iPhones when they break -- but imagine if we could develop a deeper emotional bond with our machines. By interpreting intent through language and pairing it with tone and semantic analysis in real time, Cutler shares a vision of the future where AI can predict what you want based only on the smallest, most human of hints....

CARFIT and CEA have signed an agreement to create a joint laboratory focused on Artificial Intelligence related to car vibrations and their interpretation. The lab will bring together teams from the List, a CEA Tech Institute, and from CARFIT to share knowledge and expertise. The joint lab will be dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence methods for identifying signs of mechanical failures exposed by car vibrations....

In this contributed article, Sharmistha Sarkar of India based Progressive Markets, highlights a handful of compelling technology advancements that are helping to drive the evolution of artificial intelligence. Industry is expected to grow at a CAGR of 46.5% from 2017 to 2025. The market is growing fast due to improved productivity through AI, its diversified application areas, and big data integration drive....

When Timnit Gebru was a student at Stanford's prestigious Artificial Intelligence Lab, she ran a project that used Google Street View images of cars to determine the demographic makeup of towns and cities across the U.S. While the AI algorithms did a credible job of predicting income levels and political leanings in a given area, Gebru says her work was susceptible to bias - racial, gender, socioeconomic. She was also horrified by a ProPublica report that found a computer program widely used to predict whether a criminal will re-offend discriminated against people of color. So this year, Gebru, 34, joined a Microsoft Corp. team called FATE - for fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics - in AI....