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In what could be one of the boldest moves by a company not primarily in the healthcare space, Microsoft claims that it will try to solve the cancer problem in 10 years using artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning in several ways. The software company already has about 150 people working in its facilities in…
“If a self-driving car isn’t safe, we have the authority to pull it off the road. We won’t hesitate to protect the American public’s safety. We have to get it right.” This is what U.S. President Barack Obama wrote in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette special piece published yesterday Sep 19, according to Fortune. The federal government is looking…
In 2014 Google bought a UK-based artificial intelligence research lab called DeepMind for a hefty $530 million. Since then, DeepMind has made rapid progress in AI technologies, including health and gaming applications. The latest achievement of DeepMind is WaveNet, an AI computer program that can almost mimic the way humans speak. Experts say that WaveNet has…
There has been a torrent of bad news streaming from Alphabet in the past few weeks, making it clear that the company that has always looked like many different companies under one umbrella is finally making an attempt to get its house in order. It is not that many things were wrong under Alphabet, Google’s…
Hot on the heels of confirmed reports that China is getting ready to equip cruise missiles with artificial intelligence targeting capability, a “summer study” on autonomy done by the Defense Science Board shows that the U.S. has already been thinking of weaponizing artificial intelligence. The DSB is a federal advisory committee to the U.S. Secretary of…
In an extremely generous gesture, gaming chipmaker Nvidia donated a supercomputer to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s pet project, OpenAI. The computer, called the DGX-1, literally has the power of “250 servers in a box”, giving it the capability required to compute the complex algorithms involved in artificial intelligence projects. According to Fortune, Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun…
The dream of one day having an entity with artificial intelligence diagnose your condition and recommend the best treatment may still be years away, but at IBM Watson Health and elsewhere, the technology and capability is evolving at such a rapid pace that such a function could well be part of regular healthcare practices. About…
The battle for artificial intelligence bots just went up several notches as Apple’s Siri launched the beta version of iPhone’s virtual assistant Siri for their Mac products earlier this month. Obviously, the most relevant comparison people are making is with Cortana, Microsoft’s own virtual assistant that runs on Windows PCs. Though Siri is new to desktops…
Not many people have heard of Civil Maps, but now that they’ve got Ford Motor Co. as their newest investors, Civil Maps is literally on the map. Raising $6.6 million from multiple investors including Modus Ventures, which led the funding, Civil Maps also bagged Cloud Ventures as an investor. The company is owned by Jerry…
Amazon made waves in 2014 when it introduced its own version of an artificial intelligence-based virtual assistant (VA) on its Echo speaker. Dubbed Alexa, the VA is already capable of answering simple questions and giving thought-out responses to queries put to it. From accessing your playlist remotely via Bluetooth to ordering a pizza, Alexa performs…
In a recent article published on bbc.com, tech reporter Zoe Kleinman tells of an Australian mother who used Siri on her iPhone 6 to phone emergency services when her year-old child stopped breathing. The incident happened in March, but when the woman approached Apple with a first-hand report of the incident, it caught the attention…
An Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP Software system virtually assists any type of industry because efficiency, workflow speed and overall productivity are important in every company, no matter what their line of business is. The healthcare sector is no exception, and ERP software in healthcare grows rapidly today. This software helps reduce labor and inventory…
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