Newswire) Investorideas.com, a global investor news source covering Artificial Intelligence (AI) brings you today's edition of The AI Eye - watching stock news, deal tracker and advancements in artificial intelligence. FiscalNote Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:NOTE) has announced it "has been selected as one of 14 inaugural "trusted partners" - and the sole provider of legal, political, and regulatory data and information - to collaborate with AI research and deployment company OpenAI by enabling access to select FiscalNote market leading real-time data sets and content for users of OpenAI's ChatGPT platform." FiscalNote's Chairman, CEO, and Co-founder, Tim Hwang, said: "Since we founded FiscalNote a decade ago, the company has been an early adopter and pioneer of AI, uniquely applying it to the political and legal domain, and building a specialized expertise that has made us the unparalleled leader in this space. We're excited to collaborate with OpenAI and, as the market leader in legal and regulatory intelligence, we intend to continue to always be at the forefront as technological capabilities continue to advance. We believe this is the beginning of an innovative collaboration with a fellow AI pioneer, and we intend to continue to push the bounds of what is possible as we use this cutting-edge technology to deliver results for our global customers and advance their business objectives."

TaskUs, Inc. (NasdaqGS:TASK) has announced a strategic partnership with ASAPP, Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) research-driven company, to "unlock the contact center of the future powered by digitally enabled customer service teammates and AI-Native technology to elevate frontline teammates' performance." This will be achieved through a combination of ASAPP's AI technology with TaskUs specialized services and experience "working with fast-growing technology companies to drive exemplary digital customer experience (DCX)."Jarrod "This partnership between ASAPP and TaskUs is designed to deliver exceptional results for our clients and their customers. ASAPP automates time-consuming service and sales processes to increase overall efficiency, enabling TaskUs teammates to focus on providing differentiated customer experiences and resolve customer issues. They will help TaskUs raise human performance, making our frontline teammates smarter and more effective through advancements in its AI applications and services. Our partnership with ASAPP represents the most timely, in-demand advantages of digital transformation-an area where TaskUs truly excels-to more large enterprises seeking its benefits."

AI software provider C3.ai is collaborating with Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT) to enhance its "global customer experience and elevate sales performance using intelligent cloud technology." To achieve this, C3.ai is adopting and deploying Microsoft's Dynamics 365 Sales and Teams, so as to "better prioritize workloads, enhance sales experiences with mixed reality, and manage customer needs with conversation intelligence and sentiment analysis." "We're looking forward to working with C3.ai to further its business goals with our intelligent cloud services. With Dynamics 365 at the center of its business transformation, the C3.ai team can streamline customer engagement across sales and customer service to bring a unique, tailored experience to its employees and customers." NVIDIA Corporation (NasdaqGS:NVDA) has completed the acquisition of computer networking firm Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. for $7 billion.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon (NasdaqGS:AMZN), has announced the general availability of Amazon Augmented Artificial Intelligence (A2I), described as "a fully managed service that makes it easy to add human review to machine learning predictions to improve model and application accuracy by continuously identifying and improving low confidence predictions." "Today, we're excited to help our customers remove another obstacle to building machine learning applications with the launch of Amazon A2I, which makes it significantly easier and faster to incorporate human judgment into machine learning applications in order to ensure higher quality predictions over a sustained period of time." Accenture Federal Services, a subsidiary of Accenture (NYSE:ACN), has won a $96 million contract from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to help the latter to automate manual workflows and introduce applied intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities. Shawn Roman, a managing director at AFS who leads the company's work with VA, commented: "Accenture Federal Services is proud to help VA seamlessly transition its existing service management tools to both improve the user experience and increase the business value of solutions. Working with the Service Management Office, we will use human-centered design thinking methods to put the Veteran, clinician, and VA employees at the center of how services are designed and created."

Smartphones are commonly used for storing and analyzing data obtained from wearable devices. The rapid growth of the smartphone industry has increased the production of android & IoT-enabled responsive and user-friendly applications for wearable devices. Other factors that drive market growth include rapid urbanization and increasing disposable incomes in developing economies, which determine future trends in wearable technology.

Today's podcast features recent interviews with [two] experts in top AI management positions discussing recent developments within their companies and the overall sector: Dr. Danny Rittman, CTO of GBT Technologies Inc. (OTC PINK:GTCH), and Mr. Babak Hodjat, VP of Evolutionary AI, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation (NasdaqGS:CTSH). Listen to the podcast interview with Dr. Danny Rittman, CTO of GBT Technologies Inc. (OTC PINK:GTCH) discussing the company's recently announced implementation and development of recurrent relational reasoning (RRN) in its AI, and its applications in the medical field. In a recently published press release, GBT Technologies CTO, Dr. Danny Rittman explained the company's rationale for incorporating recurrent relational reasoning (RRN) into its Avant! "Our goal is to implement a fundamental part of human intelligence called relational reasoning, which is planned to enable Avant! to acquire expertise on its own by understanding object's relations. Avant! will include an advanced artificial neural network (ANN) capable of pattern recognition and reasoning about those patterns which is very similar to the human brain."

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NasdaqGS:NUAN) has named the board of directors for its automotive spin-off company, Cerence Inc. Arun Sarin, former CEO of Vodafone, will be appointed Cerence Chairman of the Board when the spin-off is completed on October 1, 2019. Also named to the board is Sanjay Dhawan, who previously served as president of the Connected Services Division and chief technology officer of Harman Industries International since 2015. According to the press release, "Dhawan brings a deep understanding of AI and machine learning applications, with a focus on developing solutions at the intersection of devices, sensors, cloud solutions and data integration". "For Cerence's future Board of Directors, we have assembled a group of highly talented leaders who bring a variety of meaningful, deep talent and expertise. As Nuance prepares to spin the automotive business into Cerence, the extensive knowledge, unique insights, and proven success of this board will serve Cerence and its shareholders well and will be integral to the company's bright future."

IBM (NYSE:IBM) has announced the launch of Watson Ads Builder, an AI-powered ad developer that creates a dialogue between the brand and consumer. The platform employs natural language processing to enable fast and accurate conversation with the consumer. "Consumer expectations are shifting, and people expect the ability to communicate with brands on demand. Watson Ads Builder can change where, when and how brands connect with consumers - helping marketers increase loyalty and purchase consideration." Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has teamed with auto company Faurecia and tech firm Affectiva to develop the Connected Car Lab - "a digital product and service innovation facility that fits into a car ... to ideate, test and develop applications and experiences for the car cabin of the future".

Newswire) Investorideas.com, a global investor news source covering Artificial Intelligence issues a special edition of The AI Eye, looking at the battle for dominance between the US and China. On February 11, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence. The document stresses the importance of AI in propelling the US economy and cites current American global leadership in terms of R&D and deployment of AI as justifications for ramping up federal government commitments to promote the technology. Though it is not explicitly mentioned in the document, many commentators felt that the growing rivalry with China in the AI space influenced the President's executive order. Rob Verger, writing for Popular Science, captured the impression of those commentators when he observed: "Competition with China is a big part of the subtext to this announcement..." Some US AI companies were quick to respond.

For investors trying to understand the opportunity and the size of the market, a report from Statista says that, "In 2017, the global AI market is expected to be worth approximately 1.25 billion U.S. dollars. Some current major uses of artificial intelligence include image recognition, object identification, detection and classification, as well as automated geophysical feature detection. The largest proportion of revenues come from the AI for enterprise applications market." Featured Company: Gopher Protocol, Inc. (OTCQB: GOPH) is a development-stage company developing Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence enabled mobile technology. The Company has a portfolio of Intellectual Property that when commercialized will include smart microchips, mobile application software and supporting cloud software.