Serial entrepreneur Mark Cuban believes artificial intelligence will prove more impactful than PCs, the internet, and wireless communication. So, in 2019 he founded the Mark Cuban Foundation AI Bootcamps program in Dallas, with a focus on teaching underserved high school students the concepts and skills associated with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Today, the program is helmed by Director Yvette Medina and delivers that curriculum nationwide. Medina says the program aims to do the "heavy lifting" to recruit students and train employees. Last year, free bootcamps for 9th- to 12th-graders were hosted in more than 20 U.S. cities.

I've got some of these perceptions and systems technology and emergent behavior pieces that are relevant to this, and I'm smart enough to apply the necessary things. So, while I've got people that invested $20 million in my company, I'm not telling them that I'm likely to have the breakthrough for artificial general intelligence. Instead, I'm saying there's a non-negligible chance that I will personally figure out some of the important things that are necessary for this. The emergence of artificial general intelligence in a way that can impact the economy really is a'change-the-world-level' event, where this is something that reshapes almost everything that human beings can do. This is something that is almost the largest scale that you can think about.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is nothing new in health care applications. AI can be seen in robotic surgeries, image and data analysis, automation of administrative tasks, and assisting clinical diagnostics. The use of this technology is helping providers offer faster service, more accurately diagnose diseases, and analyze data to identify trends or genetic information. We are now seeing these tools expand beyond the typical hospital or primary care setting to include health care providers like dentists to create a new standard of care, improve business operations, and support public health research in dentistry. I sat down with Florian Hillen, Founder and CEO of VideaHealth, an AI and machine learning company created to improve the delivery of health care services for dentistry, to hear more about how AI is impacting this field of medicine.

"We can then hand that to a product team and to R&D and say, 'This is what customers are asking for--go develop a solution that we can then sell as a company,'" she says. The focus is on repeatable and scalable solutions, she emphasizes. The Atos team tries to understand a customer's needs and what their point of view is. It's "really important that we don't give our customers a point of view until after they've given us theirs," Flores says. It's key to build from that and really understand where someone is coming from for the best solutions. A unique approach of the lab is bringing in multiple stakeholders from different parts of the business.

All parts of the transportation industry are being affected by next-gen technology with the AI market in transportation estimated to grow by nearly 20 percent annually to $10.3 billion by 2030. To support a strategy to enhance its products with more data-driven and artificial intelligence/machine learning-based solutions, Dallas-based Omnitracs LLC--a leading provider of fleet management solutions to transportation and logistics companies.--has In this role, Bose--who has a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence--will oversee Omnitracs' data and AI offerings and operations, helping its customers with actionable insights that support their broader business goals, according to a statement. "Omnitracs has a deep history of providing progressive technologies to the transportation and logistics industry," Bose said in a statement. "Digital transformation is reshaping the industry rapidly, and I look forward to leveraging Omnitracs' rich data securely and applying data science and AI techniques to bring new value to Omnitracs customers."