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3 reasons not to panic about AI

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Artificial intelligence (AI) should be democratized to assist more with peopling understand it and embrace its potential; We have to create guidelines for AI that are agile and adapt to this quickly advancing innovation; A focus on "Trustworthy AI" offers a promising model for advancement and the administration of AI. Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained widespread attention in recent years. Artificial intelligence is seen as a vital innovation to lead us into what's to come. However, while academics, industry leaders and policy-makers alike, I have watched some growing concerns around the vulnerability of this technology. In my observation, these concerns can be categorized into three perspectives: Many people lack a full understanding of AI and therefore are more likely to view it as a nebulous cloud instead of a powerful driving force that can create a lot of value for society; Some companies or individuals worry that they will fall behind as AI becomes more preval...

Expectation of Industry Leaders From Union Budget 2020

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As Union Budget 2020 is around the corner, all the business chiefs and people are eagerly waiting to hear something beneficial. Every year, at the same time, expectations of the industry leaders and shoppers from the government on the taxes and others take a flight. A year ago, the financial backing centers around diminishing red tapism, utilizing innovation, building social foundation, digital India, pollution free India, Make In India, work creation in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and putting vigorously in framework. For the Union Budget 2020, PM Modi encouraged common people to share their expectations from the upcoming budget In the middle of a huge economy slowdown where India’s GDP growth is crashing for the first time in eleven years 2019-20. Government is making efforts to rejuvenate the economy. According to the financial conditions each part is anticipating Union Budget 2020. BW Businessworld accumulated a list of expectations from the ventures: He...

Stan Chudnovsky, Facebook VP of Messenger Discusses Privacy

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  At Facebook, Stan Chudnovsky oversees the Messenger chat app that is utilized by well more than 1 billion individuals every month. He's playing a key role in helping Facebook integrate that app with its other chat tools, WhatsApp and Instagram Direct. The massive project has already gotten pushback from regulators worried about Facebook's size and power. Government officials also worry about Facebook's plans to extend end-to-end encryption to Messenger. Once that happens, Facebook wouldn't be able to respond to law enforcement subpoenas because it wouldn't have a way to unscramble messages. Chudnovsky, who moved to the US from Russia in 1994, joined Facebook in 2015. He spoke with The Associated Press recently about his work and views on privacy. Questions and answers have been edited for length and clarity. Q: What are the biggest roadblocks in bringing end-to-end encryption? A: It's technologically hard to move from the system that is alive and functioni...

Human-assisted AI can improve customer experience : Engineer.ai

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While there is a more prominent push towards automating each business procedure, an incremental approach towards "human-assisted AI" for customer relations and interaction is ready to yield more significant results than complete automation, in many cases Overtime the interaction between technology and humans has evolved to the extent that today we depend on technology for everything - work, shop, interact, explore, entertainment, education and the list goes on. As technology evolves, we will further allow it to invade our lives, both personal and professional. Hence, technology will continue to alter the ways we do our tasks, and will also be a defining factor of who will do the job. In fact, as a consumer, we are already surrounded by AI-enabled services which many brands are adopting swiftly for a competitive edge. Resultantly, technology is representing the brand in front of its customers more often now. Undeniably, with the advent of advanced technology such as AI ...

Why Bill Gates thinks gene editing and AI could save the world

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been attempting to improve the condition of worldwide wellbeing through his nonprofit foundation for 20 years, and today he told the nation’s premier scientific gathering that propels in artificial intelligence and gene editing could accelerate those enhancements exponentially in the years ahead. "We have an open door with the advance of tools like artificial intelligence and gene-based editing technologies to fabricate this new age generation of health solutions so they are available to everybody on the planet. Furthermore, I'm very excited for this," Gates said in Seattle during a keynote address at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Such tools promise to have a dramatic impact on several of the biggest challenges on the agenda for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, created by the tech guru and his wife in 2000. When it comes to fighting malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases, ...

A Week in Sachin Dev Duggal Life: CEO of Engineer.ai

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Sachin Dev Duggal is a serial entrepreneur, founding Engineer.ai in 2012 as a solution to the long and expensive process of app and software development. Prior to this, he founded technology companies Shoto and Nivio. Engineer.ai is a technology company that is re-shaping how bespoke software is built, driven by the belief that everyone should have the opportunity to see their business idea come to fruition, without huge investments of funding, time and technical knowledge. Monday I wake up most mornings at 6:30am. This morning, I wake up even earlier due to the cries of my three-month-old daughter, Samanäya. As I pick her up from her crib and rock her back to sleep, I can hear my phone buzz a million times a second from across the house. With Sam in one hand, I begin to skim through the many emails I’ve received in the last six hours. I don’t even bother checking Slack at this point because messages, from engineering to marketing, run into three digits there in a matter of ...

Shell Aims to Enroll Thousands in Online AI Training

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Regal Dutch Shell PLC is expanding an online program that teaches its workers artificial intelligence abilities, part of an effort to reduce expenses, improve business processes and generate revenue. The Anglo-Dutch oil organization, which has around 82,000 workers, said around 2,000 have communicated enthusiasm for or have approached by management about taking AI courses through online-education company Udacity Inc. They petroleum engineers, chemists and geophysicists, among others. The courses are voluntary, not required, and representatives can finish them at their own pace during work hours, Shell said. The oil organization takes care of the cost of the training. Shell has a broader strategy to embed AI across its operations, a move that has helped the oil giant lower costs and avoid downtime. Other oil-and-gas companies that have tapped AI to improve operations and reduce costs include Exxon Mobil Corp., BP PLC and Chevron Corp. “Artificial intelligence enables us to process ...

How to Hit 1 Million Installs On Your Application - Engineer.ai

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If you ever propelled an application, Builders, you've likely had the experience of waiting by to perceive how many downloads you get. The perfect situation? Somewhere down the line after your release, you arrive at 1 million installs. Actually quite difficult, you may be thinking, yet there are actionable steps you can take to increase your chances of reaching at this objective. What would you be able to do to get this going for your application, Builders by Engineer.ai ? Let’s take a look. Step 1: Make sure it works well This should be a given, but unfortunately that is not always the case. While it is nearly impossible to build an app totally devoid of glitches, the more important part is that when glitches do come up, they are proactively addressed. QC during the monitoring stage of your release should be a priority. In addition to monitoring the actual functionality of your app, make sure you monitor the conversation around it, as well. Disgruntled users will be vocal, a...

How Artificial Intelligence will transform the face of education in future

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With an emphasis on interactive learning and creating personalised education model, artificial intelligence is relied upon to make education progressively effective and fun, writes Sachin Dev Duggal, CEO of Engineer.ai In recent years, innovation has changed the manner in which we see the reality of our world. Be it associating with individuals over the world via social media, shopping garments from an online store or having food supplies conveyed directly at our doorstep, today, human endurance sans innovation is simply unimaginable. Through these years, science fiction, authors, futurists, and movie makers the same have additionally been foreseeing the astonishing (and some of the time disastrous) changes that will emerge with advent of widespread artificial intelligence (AI) – saw as the 'subsequent stage in human development'. Those not so much acquainted with AI may imagine a future loaded with robots that behave like humans. However, in truth,, AI is nothing but advanced...

Trump needs to spend more on military technology

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President Donald Trump this week proposed a negligible 0.3% expansion in military spending to $740.5 billion one year from now. However, inside that financial limit, there's a major accentuation once again on high-tech defense capabilities like cyberwarfare, use of the cloud in the battlefield, specialized drones, advanced communications and artificial intelligence. Here's a portion of the military wizardry your tax dollars are paying for, and a portion of the gear suppliers that will profit if Congress and Trump agree on cutting edge combat zone gear spending. Superfast data transfer to the battlefront Booz Allen Hamilton BAH, -1.57% got its first defense-sector gig in 1940 advising the Navy on how to gear up for World War II. Today it generates 69% of revenue from defense and intelligence customers, and 96% from government agencies overall. It plays a big role in putting high tech in the hands of soldiers on the battlefield. One example: Booz Allen offers technolog...

Ten Top Cloud Computing Groups on LinkedIn Platform in 2020

The expert systems networking site, LinkedIn is a premier place for innovation organizations to assemble data, interface with industry peers, share thoughts and build up a system. Also, even a cloud professional, be it a cloud designer or IT proficient with specialization in working cloud arrangements, can approach extra bits of knowledge into what the most astute in the business are discussing. For them, different distributed computing LinkedIn proficient gatherings are a capable space, in the first place. Through this, cloud experts will have the option to remain mindful and ahead in such a wide market space. In this way, we have assembled a rundown of top 10 distributed computing bunches on LinkedIn in 2020 where various comparative ability meets up to find new experiences, best practices and find out about programming or apparatuses their peers are utilizing in their day by day tasks. Group: Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, SaaS & Virtualization About: A group for Cloud Com...