Operator, the leading conversational commerce company that makes shopping as easy as a text, today announced that it has closed $15 million in Series B financing to help fund its global expansion - starting with China.
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Tencent, the Chinese tech titan behind WeChat and a wide range of other services, plans to double down on artificial intelligence with a new research center in Seattle.
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HONG KONG - Soren Schwertfeger finished his postdoctorate research on autonomous robots in Germany, and seemed set to go to Europe or the United States, where artificial intelligence was pioneered and established.
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India capitalised on the information technology revolution, that saw us moving from a poor nation to being a force to be reckoned with. It now needs to focus on being at the forefront of the Artificial Intelligence revolution
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Think beyond the nosy neighbour to the corporations that want to utilise minutia of your life to sell products that you may or may not need. Corporations have always been interested in understanding consumer behaviour and been collecting data about users using their products or service.
Source: The Hindu7065
Artificial intelligence could set off a third world war, but humans will win the battle, according to Alibaba founder Jack Ma.
Source: CNBC7989
What worries you about the coming world of artificial intelligence?
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At the annual Futiju Forum, held in Tokyo recently, technology-largely artificial intelligence (AI) including machine learning-was at the centre of all innovation, with the aim of helping solve everyday problems.
Source: Financial Express6243
The country's government has announced a scheme to surpass Western nations and shape the future of AI.
Source: MIT Technology Review7182
When it comes to making machines to perform tasks that humans have done for years, the United States, China and India are far ahead of anyone else, according to a top tech industry executive.
Source: CNN8829
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is headed to the United States where he is likely to meet the pioneers of research on Artificial Intelligence (AI), the science of making machines that think like humans. Mr Gandhi, who recently returned from Norway, is gearing up for another offshore visit, this time to the Silicon Valley in the US to "expand his thoughts about artificial intelligence", party sources said
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Google looks to be quietly forming a team of artificial intelligence experts in mainland China, according to the United States-based internet giants recent jobs listings online.
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For Russia and Vladimir Putin, it is clear that planetary domination and artificial intelligence (AI) are inextricably intertwined. "Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia but for all humankind," he said via live video feed as schools started this month. "Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world."
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The internet revolution in China saw companies design products and services to solve social issues in the world's second-largest economy. Now, businesses are working to innovate in more hardcore technological areas such as artificial intelligence, according to a leading investor.
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China may have the clear lead in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the region, but Japan's government, realising how vital the sector is to its economic future, has intervened in the hopes of levelling the playing field.
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A study from Redwood Software and Sapio Research released October 4th revealed that IT leaders believe automation could impact 60% of businesses by 2022 and threaten jobs in the process. Now, a new, separate report from PwC, the second biggest professional services firm worldwide, suggests a similar timeline; one in which people may need to practice and learn new skills - or be left behind as automation takes over.
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On a tropical island that marks the southern tip of China, a computer program called Lengpudashi is playing one--on--one poker against a dozen people at once, and it's absolutely crushing them. Lengpudashi, which means "cold poker master" in Mandarin, is using a new artificial--intelligence technique to outbet and outbluff its opponents in a two--player version of Texas hold 'em.
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The idea of smart cities - infrastructure interlinked by software - isn't new, but it's undeniably cool. Who wouldn't want to live somewhere where programs use data and evidence, not intuition, to actively improve their day-to-day lives?
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The mainland's private and public sectors are building on rapid advances in technology and readily available consumer data to develop unique applications for consumers and businesses
Source: South China Morning Post9795
As China's population ages, elderly parents find that they are often unable to rely on their only children to care for them. Only 38% of those over 60 live with their children. With over 185 million people over 60 years of age, even the most dedicated working children of aging parents and grandparents struggle to meet their needs.
Source: Forbes10023
Google is actively promoting TensorFlow, software that makes it easier to build artificial intelligence (AI) systems, as a way to forge business ties in China.
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Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt says the US is at risk of falling behind in the race to develop cutting-edge artificial intelligence. Speaking at a tech summit organized by national security think tank CNAS, Schmidt predicted that America's lead in the field would continue "over the next five years" before China catches up "extremely quickly."
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Kai-Fu Lee is very bullish about the future of AI in China. He started his lunch keynote at MIT's AI and the Future of Work event by predicting that self-driving cars will become a mass phenomenon in the U.S. in 15 to 20 years. But in China it will be "more like 10 years."
Source: Forbes16314
How soon will the 'killer robots' come to life? Experts say we shouldn't worry.
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INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES HAVE a limited number of trained human analysts looking for undeclared nuclear facilities, or secret military sites, hidden among terabytes of satellite images.
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A whopping 93 per cent of Indian workers feel positive about meeting bots and virtual assistants at their workplace, a survey conducted in 10 countries has found.
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What's the biggest challenge facing Fortune 500 companies?
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Baidu, China's answer to Google, and Xiaomi, which has modeled itself on the success of the America's most successful technology manufacturer in Apple, have announced a strategic partnership to tackle two emerging technologies, internet of things and artificial intelligence.
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Russia and China want to revolutionize their forces with weaponized artificial intelligence, a field in which the U.S. risks falling behind, according to a new report released Wednesday from former defense officials and field experts.
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Absent new funding and a strategic vision, the United States might lose the race for supremacy in artificial intelligence research to China.
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U.S. may be leading in Artificial Intelligence but China is fast catching up. With the help of government & venture capital funding AI is growing in China. Chris Nicolson, founder of Skymind has started to expand outside of U.S. Tencent is a big investor in his company and so Nicholson assembles a team of four engineers in Fujian, a province in China and also plans to further expand in this region.
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Law students in USA usually tend to get a health of legal technology as part of their education in college. But what about international students? Given that most technology education, research & innovation happens in U.S., studying law in foreign colleges could actually be disadvantageous. However, there is one elite law school which is trying to make sure that it�¢??s students don�¢??t get left behind.
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The two of the largest economies of the world, U.S. & China are leading the world when it comes to artificial intelligence. It is still not clear, which one out of these two is at the top.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already fundamentally changing information technology and stands poised to permeate and transform technology both online and off ranging from manufacturing and transportation to medicine and military applications.
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Hugh White makes the case that America's influence is decreasing in Asia and China is on the eventual but inevitable path to dominating Asia.
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With an aggressive and expansionist China growing as a challenge to both India and Japan, the two countries are increasingly looking at the world from a similar lens.
Source: The Times of India12774
FORMER Google CEO Eric Schmidt has claimed he is "very concerned" about Russia and China leading the way in the race on artificial intelligence technology.
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Alibaba, Amazon, and others are adding ever more capable AI services to their cloud platforms
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has finally caught the Indian government's attention.
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What do you think of this year's predictions? Do you see any new tools on the horizon, or do you believe data science popularity is due for a reckoning of sorts?
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What do you think of this year's predictions? Do you see any new tools on the horizon, or do you believe data science popularity is due for a reckoning of sorts?
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A TERRIFYING new development for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in which a Chinese algorithm can clone anyone's voice from only six seconds of audio could revolutionize 'fake news', it has been reported.
Source: express.co.uk9174
In the early 1990s, IBM, one of the world's largest technology companies, launched its research arm in India just to provide back-end support to its global business. Two decades on, IBM Research is at the heart of innovation that the New York-based firm is working on.
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Around a decade ago at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B), classmates Sneh Rajkumar Vaswani, Chintan Subhash Raikar, and Prashant Iyengar were involved in a project to build intelligent underwater vehicles for the India Navy and the oil and gas industry. In the process, they developed a knack for artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics.
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China will be at par with the U.S. year 2020, by the year 2025 they will be better than us and they will dominate the AI industry by the end of 2030.
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Artificial Intelligence is evolving day by day it's an algorithm which could not only learn from experience but could also transfer that knowledge from one very specific task to another. In fact, A.I breakthroughs have become sparse, and seem to require ever-larger amounts of capital, data and computing power.
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McKinsey recently reported that academic and research institutions in the country publish more cited research papers than the US, UK or any other global leader in AI, producing nearly 10,000 papers in 2015 alone.
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Many would assume it's the United States. After all, the United States is the home of programming language luminaries such as Bill Gates, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Donald Knuth.
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