Spiraling costs, closed facilities, capacity issues, staff burnout, staff shortages, lots of chaos -- sounds like an ailing industry -- and that industry is healthcare. Can artificial intelligence help mend some of the problems faced by hospitals and healthcare providers? There has been progress on that front -- not fast enough, but progress nonetheless. While interest in healthcare AI is high, "the level of acculturation of C-level executives is lagging, especially for organizations that would need it the most -- pharmas, medtechs and hospitals," a recent Capgemini report relates. The problem, the study's authors relate, is data.

Banks and other financial institutions utilizing artificial intelligence may be uniquely susceptible to retaliatory Russian cyberattacks as taxing international sanctions worsen, experts warn. Those fears, highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal report, comes as Russia's war on Ukraine trundles forward into its second month and as an unprecedented barrage of international sanctions continue to chip away at the Russian economy. Global financial institutions have played an integral role in the sanctions regime from the start, blocking money flows from certain Russian banks, denying them access to international markets, and even freezing the assets of President Vladimir Putin and prominent Russian oligarchs. However, experts fear these same institutions' rapid reliance on machine learning-learning models to automate more and more of their systems in the name of efficiency could come back to bite them in the ass. Andrew Burt, a former policy adviser to the head of the cyber division at the FBI, described AI vulnerabilities as "significant and very widely overlooked" at many financial institutions that have come to rely on them.

In the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey', there is a chilling interaction between an astronaut – David Bowman, and a sentient computer- HAL (Heuristically programmed Algorithmic computer). I'm afraid I can't do that." The story goes that HAL learns, by reading their lips, that the astronauts are going to shut it down, fearing that it is malfunctioning. HAL then decides to kill the astronauts so that it can continue its programmed directives. The movie came out in 1968, and some of the novels in the Space Odyssey series by Arthur C. Clarke are even older.

Though AI has been around for over 60 years, advances in computing and access to data have allowed many industries to exploit the potential of machine learning …

… and satellite systems into agricultural production—and software based on machine learning take greater prominence in the agricultural sector.

The year 2020 took us on a roller coaster ride. A lot of technological changes happened in every sector. Starting from healthcare to manufacturing, business, automobile and education, everything took a U-turn in a single year. No one has ever imagined that people will stay at home on lockdowns and work and learn through remote modes. As we are almost at the end of the year, the train to'somewhere' in automation is still on the track.

Want to get a jump-start on upcoming deals? If a lack of innovation is to blame for stagnating U.S. construction productivity over the last half-century, off-site builders -- and some of their AI partners -- think they may have the solution. Around the country, prefabrication companies of different scopes and specializations are trying to boost their factory environments by using artificial intelligence. Off-site construction firms promise both time and cost savings, with one June report by McKinsey predicting up to 50% quicker builds compared to on-site construction. Cost savings from off-site construction, on the other hand, only now appear to be materializing for builders, in part because of the use of AI.

"One problem, say roboticists, is that robots often can't'see' behind leaves or reach behind a tree branch without potentially harming themselves or the fruit they're trying to grab," they report. "Roboticists are trying to solve these problems by enhancing the quality of sensors that allow robots to understand and navigate their surroundings." "RootAI, a Somerville, Mass., startup that is testing a prototype tomato picker, has started talking to seed developers who want to design crops that are more amenable to robotic harvesters." California's Driscoll's Inc., the world's largest berry distributor, is looking at raising its growing beds, making it easier for both robots and humans to pick fruit. HSBC's robot is boosting foot traffic in New York.

To find an easy way to describe a complex model with a high accuracy is an important objective for machine learning. Many research fields such as medicine, marketing, or finance need algorithms able to give a reason for each prediction made. Until now, a common solution to achieve this goal has been to use induction rule to describe cells of a partition of the features space X. A rule is an If-Then statement which is understood by everyone and easily interpreted by experts (medical doctors, asset managers, etc.). We focus on rules with a If condition defined as a hyperrectangle of X. Sets of such rules have always been seen as decision trees, which means that there is a one-to-one correspondence between a rule and a generated partition cell.

An insurtech disrupter that provides customers with insurance in just six clicks is upping its investment in robotics and AI as it gears up to hit the £15m turnover mark this year. Manchester-headquartered Ripe, which last year rebranded after 20 years as the JRW Group, will also be using data analytics to study behavioural economics and determine what drives customers to buy policies. Ripe was established in 1999 and has been disrupting the traditional insurance model ever since. It uses cutting-edge tech and digital marketing to provide customers with better products, competitive pricing and a slicker online experience. The firm has built its own end-to-end technology platform which it claims allows customers to get a policy in just six clicks. "In some ways, we're the anti-insurer," says executive chairman Paul Williams, who heads up the business along with chief executive Colin Whitehead and managing director John Woosey.