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Google, Amazon ahead of Apple in artificial intelligence race: Fortune

Apple launched the iPhone X globally

Get your act together on AI

China has already taken a giant leap on artificial intelligence

World's first AI-run global exchange-traded fund debuts

Steve Hawkins said AI will prove itself to be smarter than your average portfolio manager

Future of work might not be so bleak

Technology won't eliminate good jobs, but it could exacerbate inequality

New AI system can decode your mind

The advance can aid efforts to improve AI and lead to new insights into brain function

Tech giants are paying huge salaries for scarce AI talent

Nearly all big technology companies have an artificial intelligence project, and they are willing to pay experts millions of dollars to help get it done

Does regulating artificial intelligence save humanity or stifle innovation?

We humans have already wrestled with these questions in our own, non artificial intelligence

Why I don't see huge value in AI

An unhappy, discontented lot of employees could be the bane of the airline

Artificial intelligence fuels customer experience strategies of iconic firm

Insights from cutting-edge research

India holds a sustainable market for AI-based firms: Intel India MD

Intel India said artificial intelligence and cloud-focused startups have a sustainable market in India with increasing availability of data. The US-based semiconductor and hardware major has trained 9500 developers, students, and professors, across 90 organizations on different AI-based practices to strengthen the ecosystem in IndiaThe company's newly introduced Intel Nervana, a cloud-hosted hardware and software platform that helps developers and researchers test and learn applications, aims to help more people work in AI innovation without making investment. "The big difference between then and now is that companies were focusing on global markets as well as India to get to scale. (But with) the amount of digitisation that is happening now you have a valid and sustainable market within India," said Prakash Mallya, managing director - Sales & Marketing Group, Intel India, adding that more startups would focus on AI-based solutions considering the data boom. Mallya said it ...

How to secure data

We need to build intelligence security systems that can outpace threats and predict attacks

Task force seeks public opinion on artificial intelligence

The task force, set up in August, has been asked to draw up a policy for the accelerated deployment of AI

Chips off the old block: Computers are taking design cues from human brains

New technologies are testing the limits of computer semiconductors, to deal with that, researchers have gone looking for ideas from nature

30% of bank jobs may disappear in next five years, says former Citi CEO

Wall Street's biggest firms are using technologies and are forcing many employees to adapt or find new positions

Four out of five customers prefer human over bots: Study

Nearly four out of five customers in India prefer human chat agents to solve their problems for their smarter solutions than their chatbot counterparts, said a study by IT services company Amdocs & Forrester Consulting. The study noted that 79 per cent of the 1000 odd customers in India and 7000 users globally said they would prefer to speak to a human since human agents better understand their needs and can answer multiple questions. It was conducted amongst customers in India and other countries in Asia, US, Europe and 30 artificial intelligence decision makers from telecom majors and pay TV providers. . Customers complain that bots cannot yet handle complex requests (their biggest problem), understand human emotions (second biggest problem) or deliver personalized offers as well as humans (third biggest problem). "Consumers also have strong views on how they want bots to look like and behave. More than half (53 per cent) prefer their bot to look like a human, as opposed to 19 .

Most companies worry about security of Artificial Intelligence: Survey

The survey said that all the industries, led by insurance have started to invest in AI systems

Artificial Intelligence is creating jobs, hardly stealing: Capgemini

About 9 out of 10 Indian companies say artificial intelligence (AI) has created new jobs, according to a study report by IT services and consulting firm Capgemini. Interestingly, 8 per cent of the 86 companies surveyed in the country said that they witnessed job losses due to emergence of this new-age technology. Rest all have seen job creation through implementation of AI. In fact, said the report, every 6 out of 10 Indian companies have been implementing AI in their operations. Majority of the new job roles created across companies in India and the world are at the senior management level; while India has seen more than 20 per cent of such new roles in AI and digital technology being created at very senior level (C-suite), unlike other countries, noted the report. As much as 40 per cent of the job roles in AI are created at the managerial level in India across eight other nations. AI has significantly improved operational efficiencies at companies across sectors such as ...

Secretive Apple tries to open up on artificial intelligence

Tech giant launches a blog, participates in conferences as it seeks to draw attention to AI efforts

Robots won't steal our jobs if we put workers at center of AI revolution

A third of the tasks performed in 60 percent of today's jobs are likely to be eliminated

India to be 'disrupted' by AI, automation, digital currency in 2017: Report

Key investments will be in innovation in the fields of energy, transportation and manufacturing