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MIT News - Study: Social robots can benefit hospitalized children

05 July, 2019

Interacting with a robotic teddy bear invented at MIT boosted young patients’ positive emotions, engagement, and activity level.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office June 26, 2019

A new study demonstrates, for the first time, that “social robots” used in support sessions held in pediatric units at hospitals can lead to more positive emotions in sick children.

Many hospitals host interventions in pediatric units, where child life specialists will provide clinical interventions to hospitalized children for developmental and coping support. This involves play, preparation, education, and behavioral...

InfoWorld - Machine learning algorithms explained

05 July, 2019

By Martin Heller Contributing Editor, InfoWorld | MAY 9, 2019

Machine learning uses algorithms to turn a data set into a model. Which algorithm works best depends on the problem

Machine learning and deep learning have been widely embraced, and even more widely misunderstood. In this article, I’d like to step back and explain both machine learning and deep learning in basic terms, discuss some of the most common machine learning algorithms, and explain how those algorithms relate to the other pieces of the puzzle of creating predictive models from historical data.

What are machine learning...

Startup Valley News - KI-Standort Schweiz: Ein Erfolgskonzept mit Vorbildcharakter

05 July, 2019

25. Juni 2019 redaktion künstliche Intelligenz, Schweiz

Künstliche Intelligenz wird die Welt revolutionieren. Unternehmen, die jetzt nicht handeln, werden den Anschluss verlieren.

Maschinelles Lernen, Roboter, die sicherere Entscheidungen treffen als der Mensch, autonom fahrende Autos: Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) wird die Welt revolutionieren, darin sind sich alle Experten einig. Firmen und Branchen, die es versäumen, sich im Zuge der fortschreitenden Digitalisierung neu aufzustellen, werden den Vorsprung der anderen schon sehr bald nicht mehr aufholen können. Ein Land, das vielen anderen Ländern in Europa...

TechTalks - What is emotion AI?

04 July, 2019

By Rana Gujral

Human emotions exist on a spectrum. More than 50 individual emotions within the categories of love, surprise, joy, anger, sadness, and fear represent the spectrum of human conversation. Each of these emotions has hundreds of potential signals – some of them through body language, some through words, and others through tone of voice. The ability to recognize these signals and respond indicates someone’s emotional intelligence, which strongly correlates to their potential success in life.

The same is true for machines. As artificial intelligence becomes more ubiquitous in consumer applications, it must develop a...

Generalitat de Catalunya - Departament de Polítiques Digitals i Administració Pública - A Catalunya hi ha 179 empreses dedicades a la intel·ligència artificial que ocupen 8.400 treballadors, segons un estudi de la Generalitat

04 July, 2019

Aquestes empreses facturen més de 1.350 milions d’euros, d’acord amb un informe elaborat conjuntament pel Departament d’Empresa i Coneixement i el Departament de Polítiques Digitals i Administració Pública presentat aquest dijous. El Govern està elaborant una estratègia de país en IA per situar Catalunya al capdavant del desenvolupament i l’adopció de la intel·ligència artificial a escala europea i consolidar-la com a pol tecnològic mundial en aquest àmbit. La intel·ligència artificial engloba tecnologies que doten les màquines amb capacitats cognitives pròpies de les persones perquè puguin prendre decisions automatitzades a...

Les Echos - S'il te plaît, robot, donne-moi mon chiffre d'affaires

28 June, 2019

La finance commence à être touchée par les « agents conversationnels », souvent par e-mail ou SMS, mais la voix devrait indubitablement se développer. - Shutterstock

CECILE DESJARDINS Le 25/06 à 06:00

Tendance / De nouveaux chatbot spécialisés sont à même de répondre aux demandes financières, mais aussi d'interagir avec les systèmes.

Wanda est d'une efficacité exceptionnelle :

« Wanda, quel est le chiffre d'affaires du mois dernier ? »

- « Bien sûr, le voici »

- « Peux-tu me sortir un graphique comparatif et l'envoyer au directeur général ? »

- « C'est fait. »

Il n'a fallu que quelques instants à Wanda pour afficher les résultats comme les graphiques attendus. Cette remarquable diligence s'explique...

Babin Business Consulting - Journey to Artificial Intelligence

27 June, 2019

Nicolas Babin

In the 50s, we started to see SQL databases with only one type of format. Then moving along, larger databases such as Oracle and Informix appeared. I started to use Dbase as a relevant tool in the early 80s. Today the variety of formats like pictures, videos, texts, engineering data, spreadsheets, mobile data, social media and emails require a different database format. This is why NoSQL started to exist (not only SQL). Data and the amount of data are more and more available. The power of data also started to become clear in the early 50s. However, at that time we did not know how to gather data and more importantly...

Forbes - We Must Stop Comparing Deep Learning's Real Accuracy To Nonexistent Human Perfection

26 June, 2019

Kalev Leetaru Contributo

As deep learning has become ubiquitous, evaluations of its accuracy typically compare its performance against an idealized baseline of flawless human results that bear no resemblance to the actual human workflow those algorithms are being designed to replace. For example, the accuracy of real-time algorithmic speech recognition is frequently compared against human captioning produced in offline multi-coder reconciled environments and subjected to multiple reviews to generate flawless content that looks absolutely nothing like actual real-time human transcription. If we really wish to understand the...

El Món - A Catalunya hi ha 179 empreses d'intel·ligència artificial

26 June, 2019

El conjunt d'aquestes companyies ocupen 8.400 treballadors i arriben a facturar més de 1.350 milions d'euros

A Catalunya hi ha 179 empreses que treballen en l’àmbit de la intel·ligència artificial que ja ocupen 8.483 treballadors i facturen de manera agregada 1.358 milions d’euros. Així es desprèn de l’estudi La intel·ligència artificial a Catalunya elaborat conjuntament per Acció i el Departament de Polítiques Digitals i Administració Pública.

El director general d’Innovació i Economia Digital, Dani Marco, i la gerent d’Intel·ligència de Mercat d'Acció, Imma Rodríguez, han presentat l'estudi durant...

Robotics & Automation News - How artificial intelligence is powering cybersecurity

26 June, 2019

JUNE 24, 2019 BY DAVID EDWARDS

Technology progresses daily and with this progression come threats and risks to social, financial and economic life.

Today, cyber-attackers have resorted to the use of automation to launch more frequent attacks on different businesses and corporations.

While cyber-attackers are expending a lot of resources to launch more sophisticated attacks, many organizations still rely on manual efforts to gather internal security findings and contextualize them with external threat information.

It was reported that carelessness of employee was the reason behind the ransomware...

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