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Japan and the United States have recently agreed to begin joint research on artificial intelligence in the hope of using the technology for drones that would work in tandem with the Asian nation's next fighter jet. Japan plans to co-develop a next-generation fighter aircraft with Britain and Italy by 2035. While the United States, Japan's key security ally, is not part of the fighter jet project, it has sought to bolster defense cooperation with Tokyo, including in autonomous systems capabilities. The objective of the joint AI study is to "revolutionize airborne combat by merging state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and machine learning with advanced unmanned air vehicles," the U.S. Air Force said in a press release issued last month upon the signing of the agreement. "The AI developed in this joint research is expected to be applied to UAVs operated alongside Japan's next fighter aircraft," it said, emphasizing that the collaboration will be beneficial for maintaining "technological advantages" of the Japan-U.S. alliance.

AI Medtech company WAYCEN (CEO Kyungnam Kim) has won four CES innovation awards among medical AI companies for the first time ahead of "CES 2023", the world's largest electronics trade show, which will be held in Las Vegas, USA, in next January. According to CES 2023 awards results announced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) on February 16, WAYCEN has won four innovation awards for WAYMED Cough, WAYMED Endo PRO and WAYMED EBUS. With two awards each in the areas of digital healthcare and software & mobile apps, it demonstrated the technological leadership of K-medtech. Winning these awards means that WAYCEN has been recognized worldwide for its technical expertise in real-time image analysis technology and medical big data analysis technology. Winning two awards exclusively for the products using real-time image analysis technology is intended to highlight innovations in WAYCEN's medical AI solution range.

The center has four main goals: (1) establishing the Technion as a top-five university in the field of AI worldwide; (2) pooling resources, and recruiting researchers and students from Technion departments to advance and conduct joint research in the field; (3) connecting Technion researchers with relevant parties in the industry, especially tech companies and other organizations that generate Big Data; (4) establishing close research collaboration with other prominent research institutes in the AI field in Israel and the world. In May 2021, the Technion entered a long-term collaboration with American software giant PTC, under which the company will transfer its Haifa research campus to the Technion, to advance joint research in AI and manufacturing technology. PTC joins several other organizations that collaborate with the Technion in these fields, including the technological universities of Lausanne (Switzerland), Eindhoven (Netherlands), Munich (Germany), and the Paris Polytechnique (France) in Europe, as well as Cornell Tech, home of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Waterloo University, and Carnegie Mellon University, which operates the largest center for AI and robotics in the United States. Currently, 46 Technion researchers are engaged in core AI research areas with more than 100 researchers in AI-related fields: health and medicine, autonomous vehicles, smart cities, industrial robotics, cybersecurity, natural language processing, FinTech, human-machine interaction, and others. The center has four main goals: (1) establishing the Technion as a top-five university in the field of AI worldwide; (2) pooling resources, and recruiting researchers and students from Technion departments to advance and conduct joint research in the field; (3) connecting Technion researchers with relevant parties in the industry, especially tech companies and other organizations that generate Big Data; (4) establishing close research collaboration with other prominent research institutes in the AI field in Israel and the world.

CSRankings, the leading metrics-based ranking of top computer-science institutions around the world, has ranked the Technion–Israeli Institute of Technology No. 1 in the field of artificial intelligence in Europe (and, of course, in Israel), and 15th worldwide. In the subfield of machine learning, the Technion is ranked 11th worldwide. The data used to compile the rankings is from 2016 to 2021. An innovation for the Technion's prowess is the Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems (MLIS) research center, which aggregates all AI-related activities. Currently, 46 Technion researchers are engaged in core AI research areas with more than 100 researchers in AI-related fields: health and medicine, autonomous vehicles, smart cities, industrial robotics, cybersecurity, natural language processing, FinTech, human-machine interaction, and others.

The academic collaboration is expected to bring real world industry exposure to students and scholars of IIT Patna, and to provide an opportunity to the faculty members to work closely with Flipkart on research projects. As a part of this MoU, IIT Patna will undertake a number of programs such as joint research activities, writing research papers, organizing seminars, internship / mentorship opportunities, etc. "The aim behind this collaboration is to create industry-focused applied research which could help reach e-commerce to more consumers and sellers alike. With this MoU, we aim to establish deeper academia collaborations which could help students and the academia to leverage our data and platform knowledge to work on India specific e-commerce challenges, in addition to publishing research papers," Mayur Datar, Chief Data Scientist Flipkart, said. IIT Patna's computer science professor Asif Ekbal said the research is particularly aimed at developing robust machine translation techniques for translating the large amount of user reviews written in English to the Indian vernacular languages. Flipkart works closely with academia through some of the leading institutes including Indian Institute of Science (IISC), IIT (Kharagpur, Bombay and Kanpur), IIM (Ahmedabad and Kolkata) and a few foreign universities like Carnegie Mellon University and University of California, San Diego.

There are too many myths circling around artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in marketing. It's slanderous (to the technology industry) to denounce AI as only hype, and incorrect to assume AI is a fabrication coined by companies aiming to drum up publicity for what's merely a machine learning, deep learning, or automation tool. Most tech experts agree that, by 2050, AI will almost certainly handle the vast majority of routine marketing execution. And while AI won't necessarily take your job, it already is and will continue to augment the level of intelligence marketers operate with, the insights they can attain, and the kind of incredibly individualized communication they're are able to deliver to customers. What's clear is that artificial intelligence – as a marketing tool – is already being used by e-commerce companies to gain a competitive advantage.