C-level executives and senior managers at large organisations are now seeking new candidates who have these skills, showed the survey by enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company UiPath.
Tag: Artificial Intelligence
CyFy 2019: Whose data is it Anyway?
“Whose Data Is It Anyway‘ would be the topic of the hour when a panel of 6 esteemed personalities across fields of research, technology, law gather.
AI-based method may help improve Crohn’s disease treatment
The study, published in the journal Genome Medicine, used artificial intelligence (AI) to examine genetic signatures of Crohn’s disease in 111 people.
Trafficking victim forced to have sex with Artificial Intelligence luminary Marvin Minsky
The victim, with Virginia Giuffre, said she was also instructed to have sex with former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, Prince Andrew of Britain and other prominent men, the VentureBeat reported on Friday.
Indian real estate firms fast adopting AI technology: Report
According to the report, the global “AI-in-construction” market was valued at $312 million in 2017 and is expected to reach $3,161 million by 2024.
Artificial intelligence can beat doctors in predicting heart attack
Doctors use risk scores to make treatment decisions, but these scores are based on just a handful of variables and often have modest accuracy in individual patients
ABB chief meets CM Devendra Fadnavis to forge AI partnership
Mumbai: ABB Chief Executive Officer Ulrich Spiesshofer met Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis here on Wednesday to discuss how a partnership could be created to deploy Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digitalisation technologies for the state. They also discussed issues of robotics, e-mobility and to take skills development to the next[Read More…]
Facebook intends to develop its own AI chips: Report
San Francisco: Facebook intends to develop its own Artificial Intelligence (AI) chips to facilitate faster computing needed to achieve new AI breakthroughs like digital assistants with common sense, said a media report. In an interview with The Financial Times, Facebook’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun indicated that the social networking[Read More…]
Interview: Shortage of skilled IT workforce looms over India says Nasscom
By Bhavana Akella Bengaluru: As the demand for disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Analytics grows, shortage of a skilled IT workforce to run them is posing a challenge to the stake-holders, Nasscom, the industry’s apex body, has said. “There is an urgent need to re-skill about 50[Read More…]
Around 37% firms adopted AI in some way globally: Report
Stamford, Given the level of ease and convenience that Artificial Intelligence (AI) brings with its implementation and use, the number of organisations that adopted AI in some way or the other globally has risen from 25 per cent in 2018 to 37 per cent today, global market research firm Gartner[Read More…]
LG joins Microsoft to accelerate autonomous vehicles business
Las Vegas,LG Electronics has partnered Microsoft to help grow its autonomous vehicle and infotainment system business by leveraging Microsoft’s Azure cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies along with LG’s future self-driving software developments. LG will apply Microsoft’s AI knowledge to its Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Driver-Status Monitoring Camera (DSM)[Read More…]
‘AI in activity trackers, smartwatches threatening privacy of health data’
New York, Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in devices such as activity trackers, smartphones and smartwatches, are threatening the privacy of people’s health data, finds a study led by an Indian-origin researcher, arguing that current laws and regulations do not safeguard individuals’ confidential health information. The findings, led by University[Read More…]
AI offers $340bn opportunity to retail sector: Capgemini
Paris, The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers about $340 billion cost-saving opportunity for those retail companies that are able to scale and expand the scope of their existing deployments, according to a new global study from French technology services major Capgemini. However, just one per cent of retailers have[Read More…]
Microsoft, Taiwan AI Labs collaborate for genetic analysis
San Francisco/Taipei, Microsoft and Taiwan AI Labs have collaborated and unveiled TaiGenomics — an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based genetic analysis platform — using Microsoft Azure Cloud computing and storage capabilities. The platform uses AI to process, analyse and draw inferences from vast amounts of medical and genetic data provided by patients[Read More…]
Microsoft ‘Intelligent Cloud Hub’ to build AI-ready workforce in India
New Delhi: Microsoft on Thursday announced a three-year “Intelligent Cloud Hub” collaborative programme in India to empower institutes to skill students in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cloud technologies. The dedicated AI infrastructure and Internet of Things (IOT) hub programme will equip selected research and higher education institutions with AI infrastructure,[Read More…]
Amazon scraps internal Artificial Intelligence recruiting tool biased that was against women
Amazon.com Inc’s machine-learning specialists uncovered a serious issue where the new recruiting engine did not like women. The Amazon team had been working on software programmes that can review job applicants’ resumes and select the top talented five people familiar with the efforts. The company had been building the programme[Read More…]
Panasonic to foray into flagship smartphone segment in India
After creating its space in the entry-level and mid-price segment, Panasonic is geared up to launch two Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled premium smartphones in the Indian market on October 4. The flagship devices will hit the shelves next month as the festive season inches closer, industry sources told IANS on Monday.[Read More…]
Google launches AI-packed Android 9 Pie
San Francisco:– Google has released its latest version of Android Operating System — Android 9 Pie, which harnesses the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to predict how users would like to experience their devices while offering a smoother navigation system and an easier way to track and limit usage of[Read More…]
Around 1.4 lakh jobs vacant for AI, Big Data Analytics roles in India: Report
New Delhi: Around 1.4 lakh jobs are vacant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data Analytics segment across various sectors in India out of the total demand of 5.1 lakh employees, a Nasscom report said here on Thursday. Of the total demand, 3.7 lakh jobs are filled, it said.[Read More…]
Microsoft offers public courses to build AI skills
San Francisco: Microsoft has added a new track to its Professional Programme courses to help people working in the IT industry build skills in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The track is open to the public and is comprised of online courses. The applicants would use technologies like python,[Read More…]
AI can better predict biological age via smartphone data
Moscow: Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology can produce improved digital biomarkers of ageing and frailty via gathering physical activity data from smartphones and other wearables, a new study suggests. According to the researchers from the longevity biotech company GERO and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), AI is a powerful tool[Read More…]
Canada’s top Sikh tycoon donates $10 mn to university
Toronto: Canada’s top Sikh real estate tycoon Bob Dhillon donated $10 million to the University of Lethbridge in Alberta on Wednesday. The university has renamed its business school after him. It will henceforth be called the Dhillon School of Business. Calgary-based Bob (Navneet) Dhillon is the president and CEO of[Read More…]
Hawking treated Artificial Intelligence as threat to humanity
New Delhi: Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, who died on Wednesday, always warned against Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its growing dominance over humanity. “Earth is becoming too small and humanity is bound to self-destruct, with AI replacing us as the dominant being on the planet,” he told wired.com in[Read More…]
Google AI that helped NASA find exoplanets now open for all
San Francisco: A Google model based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) that helped NASA discover two exoplanets, is now available for researchers to process data from Kepler Space Telescope. The “TensorFlow” model decoded massive sets of data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope to discover two exoplanets last[Read More…]
India one of most important markets to sell, develop products: Lenovo CEO
India is one of the most important markets for Lenovo to not only sell its products but to develop them, a top official of the Fortune 500 company said. Yang Yuanqing, Chief Executive Officer of Lenovo, said that given India’s population, it remains one of the largest and most important[Read More…]