Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

Montreal-Toronto AI Startups Have Wide Range of Focus

Includes Healthcare, Biomed, Text Analysis, Legal Research, Image Analysis, Drug Discovery, Education Canada has made a commitment for many years to the study of AI at universities across the county, and today robust business incubation programs supported by Canada’s state and regional governments work to transform research into viable businesses. This AI ecosystem has produced […]

MIT Researchers Pushing Machine Learning to Speed Drug Development

Designing new molecules for pharmaceuticals is primarily a manual, time-consuming process that’s prone to error. But MIT researchers have now taken a step toward fully automating the design process, which could drastically speed things up — and produce better results. Drug discovery relies on lead optimization. In this process, chemists select a target (“lead”) molecule […]

VA, IBM Extend Watson For Genomics Partnership

The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and IBM Watson Health have announced the extension of a public-private partnership to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to help interpret cancer data in the treatment of Veteran patients. First announced two years ago as part of the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative, VA oncologists have now used IBM Watson for Genomics […]

This sex doll maker in China is embedding its products with artificial intelligence – South China Morning Post


South China Morning Post

This sex doll maker in China is embedding its products with artificial intelligence
South China Morning Post
Amid Beijing’s push to turn the country into an artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouse and embed the technology in all facets of life, some Chinese entrepreneurs are taking the expertise to a new frontier: sex dolls. WMDOLL, one of China’s biggest sex

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Mark Cuban on dangers of AI: If you don’t think Terminator is coming, ‘you’re crazy’ – CNBC


CNBC

Mark Cuban on dangers of AI: If you don’t think Terminator is coming, ‘you’re crazy’
CNBC
Speaking to an audience of conservative high school students at the High School Leadership Summit Turning Point USA event in Washington D.C. Tuesday, Cuban laid down several serious warnings about the future of artificial intelligence and among them …

Voices From artificial intelligence to accounting intelligence – Accounting Today


Accounting Today

Voices From artificial intelligence to accounting intelligence
Accounting Today
Some call artificial intelligence the fourth industrial revolution — and it fascinates us, raises many questions, excites us, even scares us a little. (I’m still not sure I want to be on the same roads as self-driving cars!) But there is no denying

Report: AI is the new space race, and the US needs a “Sputnik moment” – MIT Technology Review


MIT Technology Review

Report: AI is the new space race, and the US needs a “Sputnik moment”
MIT Technology Review
The United States could lose its economic and political standing in the world if it doesn’t develop a comprehensive, high-priority plan for artificial intelligence. That’s the stark warning from a new report issued today by the Center for a New