Source: AI Policies Are Setting Stage To Transform Healthcare But More Is Needed. AI Executive Initiative has started flow of funds and agency proposals that will lead to more accurate diagnoses, earlier treatments and ultimately empower patients be in control of their own health. White House and federal leaders have been working behind the scenes to lay the groundwork to use technology for dramatic improvements in healthcare. Since the announcement of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative earlier this year there has been increased funding and agency proposals that will lead to more accurate diagnoses, earlier treatments and ultimately empower patients be in control of their own health. But even more attention is needed to keep America competitive on the global AI front.

Source: Big Tech Is Making A Massive Bet On AI … Here's How Investors Can, Too. Artificial intelligence is becoming the future of everything. Yet, only a few large companies have the talent and the technology to perfect it. That's the gist of New York Times story published late last week. Rising costs for AI research are locking out university researchers and garage entrepreneurs, two of the traditional -- and historically best -- founts of innovation.

Source: How AI is reshaping web development Articles Big Data Innovation Enterprise. How AI is enabling are reshaping web development and giving developers everywhere hope about the future of tech. Few technological developments have garnered as much media attention as AI, and for good reason: Few nascent technologies have disrupted as many industries and commanded as much consumer attention as AI has. Despite the fact that AI is drastically upending many predictions about what the future of business looks like, however, too little attention is being paid to the way that it's radically reshaping web development as we know it. Savvy web developers around the world are already rushing to embrace the power of AI.

Source: Overhyping AI doctors, language translation goes open source, and new jobs on the cards • The Register. Here's a quick roundup to keep you updated on what's been happening in AI, beyond what we've already covered, for your long weekend. It includes news of Samsung and Qualcomm setting up new AI research teams, why human radiologists are still better than machines and support for Amazon's Keras-MXNet backend. Hold your horses AI radiologists People are quick to believe that machines will soon replace radiologists because they think computers are much better at spotting abnormalities like tumors or clots in medical scans. But results reported by Stanford University shows that radiologists still trump AI.

Source: Ucare.ai is using AI to make healthcare more efficient in Southeast Asia TechCrunch. AI is being applied across the board in many industries worldwide, and its scope of influence is only likely to continue to expand as Kaifu Lee, a noted AI expert who was formerly head of Google China, recently told TechCrunch. The main battle appears to be between companies in the U.S. and China, but this week a startup in Southeast Asia came out of stealth mode to show that innovation is present elsewhere in the world. Ucare.ai is focused on applying AI on the healthcare system to increase efficiencies and help patient coverage. It focuses on three distinct audiences: patients, health providers and those who pay the bills.

Source: What AI can really do for your business (and what it can't) InfoWorld. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning are no silver bullets. A CIO explains what every business should know before investing in AI. How can you tell whether an emerging technology such as artificial intelligence is worth investing time into when there is so much hype being published daily? We're all enamored by some of the amazing results such as AlphaGo beating the champion Go player, advances in autonomous vehicles, the voice recognition being performed by Alexa and Cortana, and the image recognition being performed by Google Photos, Amazon Rekognition, and other photo-sharing applications.

Source: Is healthcare ready for AI, potentially the biggest innovation since the vaccine? Artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated into many parts of everyday life, if you look hard enough you can see it in unassuming places; from the facial recognition of Google photos to the spam filter in your favourite email app. But perhaps it is in areas of commerce and industry where we can see its value the most. Manufacturing operations are being optimised, data is being collated and analysed at an ever increasing rate, and deep learning enables'intelligent' machines to make independent decisions without human guidance. So why is Healthcare, an industry worth trillions, not following suit?