What would such an AI-augmented future look like? It would seem that such a resilient AI-augmented workforce could also render a large part of the human population redundant. What happens after the pandemics then? Wouldn’t this create another crisis where people’s jobs are displaced? Some jobs will inevitably be replaced by AI in the immediate …

The integration of artificial intelligence and the financial industry has always been a match made in heaven—high volumes, the quantitative aspect of finances, need for expediency and accuracy are ideal for the unique skill-set of AI. But, can it impact the high-risk, high-return world of hedge funds? Several companies think so. What is a hedge …

Develop drugs Google’s DeepMind division used its latest AI algorithms and its computing power to understand the proteins that might make up the virus, and published the findings to help others develop treatments.  BenevolentAI uses AI systems to build drugs that can fight the world’s toughest diseases and is now helping support the efforts to …

If you want to use ML to predict sparse events, then you are going to need a lot sparser events. Maybe we don’t have the direct data to predict the big events like the coronavirus outbreak, but we are very likely to have the data to predict one or more proxy events for an outbreak. …

Executives from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook met officials at Downing Street on Wednesday to discuss their role in the coronavirus crisis. One of the things discussed was their role in “modelling and tracking data”. In similar meetings at the White House, meanwhile, companies were asked how they could use artificial intelligence. A World …

The use of #Artificial Intelligence in education provides the means to cut teacher workload, increase learner progress and eradicate some of the global barriers to learning, but it must be developed and used ethically in order to safeguard learners. The interim report, Towards a shared vision of ethical AI in education, outlines how artificial intelligence …

So, how might artificial intelligence be used in the future? It’s hard to say how the technology will develop, but most experts see those “commonsense” tasks becoming even easier for computers to process. That means robots will become extremely useful in day-to-day life. “AI is starting to make what was once considered impossible possible, like …

With all these new artificial intelligence use cases comes the daunting question of whether machines will force humans into obsolescence. The jury is still out: Some experts vehemently deny that artificial intelligence will automate so many jobs that millions of people find themselves unemployed, while other experts see it as a pressing problem. “The structure …

Rather than serving as a replacement for human intelligence and ingenuity, artificial intelligence is generally seen as a supporting tool. Although artificial intelligence currently has a difficult time completing common sense tasks in the real world, it is adept at processing and analyzing troves of data far more quickly than a human brain could. Artificial …

Adding artificial intelligence to supply chains is delivering tangible benefits for companies putting it in place. Recent research out of McKinsey finds 61% of executives report decreased costs and 53% report increased revenues as a direct result of introducing artificial intelligence into their supply chains. More than one-third report a revenue bounce exceeding five percent. …