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MATLAB Deep Learning

Ensemble learning or model ensembling, is a well-established set of machine learning and statistical techniques for improving predictive performance through the combination of different learning algorithms. The combination of the predictions from different models is generally more accurate than any of the individual models making up the ensemble. Ensemble methods come in different flavours and levels of complexity (for a review see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1106.0257.pdf), but here we focus on combining the predictions of multiple deep learning networks that have been previously trained.

Full article at https://blogs.mathworks.com/deep-learning/2019/06/03/ensemble-learning/

Celebrating Four Years of the Informed.AI Group

Celebrating Four Years of the Informed.AI Group

Wow. I can not believe it has actually been four years since I launched our first AI related website.

The progress made this past 12 months has been amazing, and demonstrates the momentum we now have. Our mission remains focused on enabling people to learn more artificial intelligence, making the subject more accessible to everyone. Essentially Supporting the AI Community. 

We have for the first four years been dedicated to individuals and this still remains a key part of our audience, however, we are seeing a great need to support businesses. Our Awards was always targeted to supporting AI companies, but now we need more and more traditional businesses wanting to know more about AI. 

Over the four years, our user base has demonstrated wonderfully encouraging organic growth. We now have close to 1,000 visitors per day to our websites from every country across the world. 6,000 members are part of our Neurons professional network with 25 groups in 15 countries and this is expanding on a weekly basis, and with nearly 100,000 followers of our various social media channels, and several thousand people subscribing to our various newsletters. 

We also have a great network of volunteers, from the chapter leaders of the various meetup groups, to the judges for the for annual achievement awards, and the central team that support me on many other tasks and plans.

This is truly a community for the people, run by the people, and it makes me so proud to be part of it.

I want to thank you all for being part of the community and ask that you share with you friends and colleagues and help us make this the best and biggest AI community. 

Business Focus – AI & Robotics Events (AIR.Events)

Our journey to support businesses wanting to learn more about AI has really started with our acquisition of the AI events company run by CBM. These events include regular Directors’ Forums events, hosted by Gallup in the Shard, our next event is on the 27th June focused on AI & CX Transforming Financial Services. We then have AI Transforming Retail and Customer Data on the 17th July. 

As part of this acquisition we will also be running the AI & Robotics Main Event Conference on the 4th October. 

To support businesses further, we will be organising Roundtable Workshops and Dinners. 

Please visit our site AIR.Events

If your business would like to be involved with these events in any way, please contact us via air@informed.ai or visit our website.

into.AI

into.AI is the main portal for individuals, providing useful information and news on AI, and links to all our other mini-sites. 

We want to thank everyone for their continued involvement. We are always looking for contributors, to submit stories, press releases and thought leadership articles. Sharing your news and thoughts is all part what this ecosystems is designed for, so please don’t hesitate to submit your news on our platform. 

We are now also creating our own unique stories, articles and papers, which we hope you will enjoy. This exclusive content will also be shared as part of our newsletters.

We have a regular spotlight for those AI companies / startups that want to showcase their new products to the community. Totally free method of promoting yourselves. We have also featured individuals who have authored books for example. 

Shared.AI

One of our newest sites is Shared.AI, this is a simply site that allows individuals and companies to submit a range of different AI related information, from links to companies and products to news and press releases. This allows a single place to submit useful information that will be shared across our network. It also has a blog of the most recently submitted items.

Awards.AI

 

 

The AI Awards, have been a huge success on a global scale, we have already awarded over 60 winners of the AI Awards. Having now entered our third year, we are making it a much bigger programme of events throughout the year. Currently still open for nominations, across 60+ categories of awards, the judging and showcases will occurring in the coming months at various locations, with the awards ceremony happening in late November / early December. 

The Awards are still open for nominations, visit Awards.AI to submit your nomination before 1st July.

This is the Oscars of the AI tech world, the only independent AI Awards. 

Neurons.AI and Chapters.Neurons.AI

We continue to grow our Professional Network for AI Practitioners and Researchers call Neurons. This is a mix of both online and offline interactions, with meetups, forums, user blogs and messaging. This platform allows us to facilitate the knowledge sharing between organisations, allowing us all to benefit from the open developments of this field. 

We have just launched a new online portal for Neurons.AI and will be combining the chapters site into it very soon. This update will allow us to add more functionality over the coming weeks and months.

We have over twenty Chapters in 15 countries around the world, and continue to grow the number every month.

If you would like to lead a chapter in your City, please let us know.

Our next London meeting is on the 28th May … so please come along … https://Chapters.Neurons.AI/UK/London

Events.AI

Now listing over 200 AI related events, conferences, meetups, one-day events and webinars. With the largest list of discount codes for AI conferences in one place. It is the goto place to see what events are running. Many of the large conference organisers list there events on our site. 

Vocation.AI

We are actively looking to acquire a recruitment company to help us develop and grow our capability around our careers portal and jobs board. 

Showcase.AI

Our newly acquired AI & Robotics Conference will become the AI Showcase in 2020 and we will have two conferences one in London and another in Edinburgh.

In 2021 we will look to expand this to include an international conference.

Management Team & Advisory Board

We are starting the process of getting a management team and advisory board together. This is a critical part of our development as a group, allow us to increase our offerings and to make our products and services more advanced. This marks a new phase of maturity for us, and a significant change to our business structure and organisation.  

This will also allow me to transition more responsibility to a wider team and removing myself as a potential bottleneck. I can then focus on more advanced and new products and services while the team ensure the current platform is stable and continues to grow.

We are also actively looking to establish a global advisory board, if you are interested to join, please let us know via  our contact us page

Having a management team is combined with our strategy of growth by acquisition, with one acquisition already executed this year and two more planned. 

Sponsorship

Our main challenge with this ecosystem, is that there is so much more we would do with the platform, given more time and resources.

We have a number of sponsorship opportunities across the platform, including the Awards, Neurons and our Events. If you would like your company to be associated with the great work we are doing with this ecosystem, please contact us for more details. 

In addition we have a number of additional projects and sites in the planning stage which we will be launching in the coming months, which will add new capabilities to our portfolio of sites.

Volunteers Needed

We are always looking for more help and support from volunteers. 

We need more chapter leaders, and co-leads for each chapter, with additional support for each too.

Much more help on content for many of our sites, from blogs to structured updates on specific sites. We really need alot of help here. Please contact us to find our more.

Partners & Sponsors 

Partnerships, Sponsorships and Business Development are all areas we need to extend and develop over the coming months. We would appreciate any help from people who believe they can contribute to these areas for us.

We Value your Support Feedback and Comments

As always, your feedback is welcomed and encouraged, as we want to make sure we are delivering useful sites and functionality. The best way to do this is email us at talk@into.AI

Thank you for your continued support and encouragement.

From the Informed AI Team

Our group of websites includes:

http://into.AI
http://Neurons.AI

http://Chapters.Neurons.AI 

http://Awards.AI

http://Events.AI

http://Showcase.AI

http://Vocation.AI

http://Study.AI

http://Informed.AI

Our social media:

@into_AI
@Awards_AI

@Events_AI

@Showcase_AI

@Vocation_AI

@Neurons_AI

@Informed_AI

We also have facebook pages and our Informed.AI LinkedIn page.

With thanks 

Andy

Prof Andy Pardoe

Founder of the Informed.AI Group

Pardoe.AI

@Pardoe_AI

Celebrating Four Years of the Informed.AI Group

Wow. I can not believe it has actually been four years since I launched our first AI related website.

The progress made this past 12 months has been amazing, and demonstrates the momentum we now have. Our mission remains focused on enabling people to learn more artificial intelligence, making the subject more accessible to everyone. Essentially Supporting the AI Community. 

We have for the first four years been dedicated to individuals and this still remains a key part of our audience, however, we are seeing a great need to support businesses. Our Awards was always targeted to supporting AI companies, but now we need more and more traditional businesses wanting to know more about AI. 

Over the four years, our user base has demonstrated wonderfully encouraging organic growth. We now have close to 1,000 visitors per day to our websites from every country across the world. 6,000 members are part of our Neurons professional network with 25 groups in 15 countries and this is expanding on a weekly basis, and with nearly 100,000 followers of our various social media channels, and several thousand people subscribing to our various newsletters. 

We also have a great network of volunteers, from the chapter leaders of the various meetup groups, to the judges for the for annual achievement awards, and the central team that support me on many other tasks and plans.

This is truly a community for the people, run by the people, and it makes me so proud to be part of it.

I want to thank you all for being part of the community and ask that you share with you friends and colleagues and help us make this the best and biggest AI community. 

Business Focus – AI & Robotics Events (AIR.Events)

Our journey to support businesses wanting to learn more about AI has really started with our acquisition of the AI events company run by CBM. These events include regular Directors’ Forums events, hosted by Gallup in the Shard, our next event is on the 27th June focused on AI & CX Transforming Financial Services. We then have AI Transforming Retail and Customer Data on the 17th July. 

As part of this acquisition we will also be running the AI & Robotics Main Event Conference on the 4th October. 

To support businesses further, we will be organising Roundtable Workshops and Dinners. 

Please visit our site AIR.Events

If your business would like to be involved with these events in any way, please contact us via air@informed.ai or visit our website.

into.AI

into.AI is the main portal for individuals, providing useful information and news on AI, and links to all our other mini-sites. 

We want to thank everyone for their continued involvement. We are always looking for contributors, to submit storiespress releases and thought leadership articles. Sharing your news and thoughts is all part what this ecosystems is designed for, so please don’t hesitate to submit your news on our platform. 

We are now also creating our own unique stories, articles and papers, which we hope you will enjoy. This exclusive content will also be shared as part of our newsletters.

We have a regular spotlight for those AI companies / startups that want to showcase their new products to the community. Totally free method of promoting yourselves. We have also featured individuals who have authored books for example. 

Shared.AI

One of our newest sites is Shared.AI, this is a simply site that allows individuals and companies to submit a range of different AI related information, from links to companies and products to news and press releases. This allows a single place to submit useful information that will be shared across our network. It also has a blog of the most recently submitted items.

Awards.AI

The AI Awards, have been a huge success on a global scale, we have already awarded over 60 winners of the AI Awards. Having now entered our third year, we are making it a much bigger programme of events throughout the year. Currently still open for nominations, across 60+ categories of awards, the judging and showcases will occurring in the coming months at various locations, with the awards ceremony happening in late November / early December. 

The Awards are still open for nominations, visit Awards.AI to submit your nomination before 1st July.

This is the Oscars of the AI tech world, the only independent AI Awards. 

Neurons.AI and Chapters.Neurons.AI

We continue to grow our Professional Network for AI Practitioners and Researchers call Neurons. This is a mix of both online and offline interactions, with meetups, forums, user blogs and messaging. This platform allows us to facilitate the knowledge sharing between organisations, allowing us all to benefit from the open developments of this field. 

We have just launched a new online portal for Neurons.AI and will be combining the chapters site into it very soon. This update will allow us to add more functionality over the coming weeks and months.

We have over twenty Chapters in 15 countries around the world, and continue to grow the number every month.

If you would like to lead a chapter in your City, please let us know.

Our next London meeting is on the 28th May … so please come along … https://Chapters.Neurons.AI/UK/London

Events.AI

Now listing over 200 AI related events, conferences, meetups, one-day events and webinars. With the largest list of discount codes for AI conferences in one place. It is the goto place to see what events are running. Many of the large conference organisers list there events on our site. 

Vocation.AI

We are actively looking to acquire a recruitment company to help us develop and grow our capability around our careers portal and jobs board. 

Showcase.AI

Our newly acquired AI & Robotics Conference will become the AI Showcase in 2020 and we will have two conferences one in London and another in Edinburgh.

In 2021 we will look to expand this to include an international conference.

Management Team & Advisory Board

We are starting the process of getting a management team and advisory board together. This is a critical part of our development as a group, allow us to increase our offerings and to make our products and services more advanced. This marks a new phase of maturity for us, and a significant change to our business structure and organisation.  

This will also allow me to transition more responsibility to a wider team and removing myself as a potential bottleneck. I can then focus on more advanced and new products and services while the team ensure the current platform is stable and continues to grow.

We are also actively looking to establish a global advisory board, if you are interested to join, please let us know via  our contact us page

Having a management team is combined with our strategy of growth by acquisition, with one acquisition already executed this year and two more planned. 

Sponsorship

Our main challenge with this ecosystem, is that there is so much more we would do with the platform, given more time and resources.

We have a number of sponsorship opportunities across the platform, including the Awards, Neurons and our Events. If you would like your company to be associated with the great work we are doing with this ecosystem, please contact us for more details. 

In addition we have a number of additional projects and sites in the planning stage which we will be launching in the coming months, which will add new capabilities to our portfolio of sites.

Volunteers Needed

We are always looking for more help and support from volunteers. 

We need more chapter leaders, and co-leads for each chapter, with additional support for each too.

Much more help on content for many of our sites, from blogs to structured updates on specific sites. We really need alot of help here. Please contact us to find our more.

Partners & Sponsors 

Partnerships, Sponsorships and Business Development are all areas we need to extend and develop over the coming months. We would appreciate any help from people who believe they can contribute to these areas for us.

We Value your Support Feedback and Comments

As always, your feedback is welcomed and encouraged, as we want to make sure we are delivering useful sites and functionality. The best way to do this is email us at talk@into.AI

Thank you for your continued support and encouragement.

From the Informed AI Team

Our group of websites includes:

http://into.AIhttp://Neurons.AI

http://Chapters.Neurons.AI

http://Awards.AI

http://Events.AI

http://Showcase.AI

http://Vocation.AI

http://Study.AI

http://Informed.AI

Our social media:

@into_AI
@Awards_AI

@Events_AI

@Showcase_AI

@Vocation_AI

@Neurons_AI

@Informed_AI

We also have facebook pages and our Informed.AI LinkedIn page.

With thanks 

Andy

Prof Andy Pardoe

Founder of the Informed.AI Group

Pardoe.AI

@Pardoe_AI

The post Celebrating Four Years of the Informed.AI Group appeared first on NEURONS.AI.


Link to Full Article: Read Here

Celebrating Four Years of the Informed.AI Group

Wow. I can not believe it has actually been four years since I launched our first AI related website.

The progress made this past 12 months has been amazing, and demonstrates the momentum we now have. Our mission remains focused on enabling people to learn more artificial intelligence, making the subject more accessible to everyone. Essentially Supporting the AI Community. 

We have for the first four years been dedicated to individuals and this still remains a key part of our audience, however, we are seeing a great need to support businesses. Our Awards was always targeted to supporting AI companies, but now we need more and more traditional businesses wanting to know more about AI. 

Over the four years, our user base has demonstrated wonderfully encouraging organic growth. We now have close to 1,000 visitors per day to our websites from every country across the world. 6,000 members are part of our Neurons professional network with 25 groups in 15 countries and this is expanding on a weekly basis, and with nearly 100,000 followers of our various social media channels, and several thousand people subscribing to our various newsletters. 

We also have a great network of volunteers, from the chapter leaders of the various meetup groups, to the judges for the for annual achievement awards, and the central team that support me on many other tasks and plans.

This is truly a community for the people, run by the people, and it makes me so proud to be part of it.

I want to thank you all for being part of the community and ask that you share with you friends and colleagues and help us make this the best and biggest AI community. 

Business Focus – AI & Robotics Events (AIR.Events)

Our journey to support businesses wanting to learn more about AI has really started with our acquisition of the AI events company run by CBM. These events include regular Directors’ Forums events, hosted by Gallup in the Shard, our next event is on the 27th June focused on AI & CX Transforming Financial Services. We then have AI Transforming Retail and Customer Data on the 17th July. 

As part of this acquisition we will also be running the AI & Robotics Main Event Conference on the 4th October. 

To support businesses further, we will be organising Roundtable Workshops and Dinners. 

Please visit our site AIR.Events

If your business would like to be involved with these events in any way, please contact us via air@informed.ai or visit our website.

into.AI

into.AI is the main portal for individuals, providing useful information and news on AI, and links to all our other mini-sites. 

We want to thank everyone for their continued involvement. We are always looking for contributors, to submit storiespress releases and thought leadership articles. Sharing your news and thoughts is all part what this ecosystems is designed for, so please don’t hesitate to submit your news on our platform. 

We are now also creating our own unique stories, articles and papers, which we hope you will enjoy. This exclusive content will also be shared as part of our newsletters.

We have a regular spotlight for those AI companies / startups that want to showcase their new products to the community. Totally free method of promoting yourselves. We have also featured individuals who have authored books for example. 

Shared.AI

One of our newest sites is Shared.AI, this is a simply site that allows individuals and companies to submit a range of different AI related information, from links to companies and products to news and press releases. This allows a single place to submit useful information that will be shared across our network. It also has a blog of the most recently submitted items.

Awards.AI

The AI Awards, have been a huge success on a global scale, we have already awarded over 60 winners of the AI Awards. Having now entered our third year, we are making it a much bigger programme of events throughout the year. Currently still open for nominations, across 60+ categories of awards, the judging and showcases will occurring in the coming months at various locations, with the awards ceremony happening in late November / early December. 

The Awards are still open for nominations, visit Awards.AI to submit your nomination before 1st July.

This is the Oscars of the AI tech world, the only independent AI Awards. 

Neurons.AI and Chapters.Neurons.AI

We continue to grow our Professional Network for AI Practitioners and Researchers call Neurons. This is a mix of both online and offline interactions, with meetups, forums, user blogs and messaging. This platform allows us to facilitate the knowledge sharing between organisations, allowing us all to benefit from the open developments of this field. 

We have just launched a new online portal for Neurons.AI and will be combining the chapters site into it very soon. This update will allow us to add more functionality over the coming weeks and months.

We have over twenty Chapters in 15 countries around the world, and continue to grow the number every month.

If you would like to lead a chapter in your City, please let us know.

Our next London meeting is on the 28th May … so please come along … https://Chapters.Neurons.AI/UK/London

Events.AI

Now listing over 200 AI related events, conferences, meetups, one-day events and webinars. With the largest list of discount codes for AI conferences in one place. It is the goto place to see what events are running. Many of the large conference organisers list there events on our site. 

Vocation.AI

We are actively looking to acquire a recruitment company to help us develop and grow our capability around our careers portal and jobs board. 

Showcase.AI

Our newly acquired AI & Robotics Conference will become the AI Showcase in 2020 and we will have two conferences one in London and another in Edinburgh.

In 2021 we will look to expand this to include an international conference.

Management Team & Advisory Board

We are starting the process of getting a management team and advisory board together. This is a critical part of our development as a group, allow us to increase our offerings and to make our products and services more advanced. This marks a new phase of maturity for us, and a significant change to our business structure and organisation.  

This will also allow me to transition more responsibility to a wider team and removing myself as a potential bottleneck. I can then focus on more advanced and new products and services while the team ensure the current platform is stable and continues to grow.

We are also actively looking to establish a global advisory board, if you are interested to join, please let us know via  our contact us page

Having a management team is combined with our strategy of growth by acquisition, with one acquisition already executed this year and two more planned. 

Sponsorship

Our main challenge with this ecosystem, is that there is so much more we would do with the platform, given more time and resources.

We have a number of sponsorship opportunities across the platform, including the Awards, Neurons and our Events. If you would like your company to be associated with the great work we are doing with this ecosystem, please contact us for more details. 

In addition we have a number of additional projects and sites in the planning stage which we will be launching in the coming months, which will add new capabilities to our portfolio of sites.

Volunteers Needed

We are always looking for more help and support from volunteers. 

We need more chapter leaders, and co-leads for each chapter, with additional support for each too.

Much more help on content for many of our sites, from blogs to structured updates on specific sites. We really need alot of help here. Please contact us to find our more.

Partners & Sponsors 

Partnerships, Sponsorships and Business Development are all areas we need to extend and develop over the coming months. We would appreciate any help from people who believe they can contribute to these areas for us.

We Value your Support Feedback and Comments

As always, your feedback is welcomed and encouraged, as we want to make sure we are delivering useful sites and functionality. The best way to do this is email us at talk@into.AI

Thank you for your continued support and encouragement.

From the Informed AI Team

Our group of websites includes:

http://into.AIhttp://Neurons.AI

http://Chapters.Neurons.AI

http://Awards.AI

http://Events.AI

http://Showcase.AI

http://Vocation.AI

http://Study.AI

http://Informed.AI

Our social media:

@into_AI
@Awards_AI

@Events_AI

@Showcase_AI

@Vocation_AI

@Neurons_AI

@Informed_AI

We also have facebook pages and our Informed.AI LinkedIn page.

With thanks 

Andy

Prof Andy Pardoe

Founder of the Informed.AI Group

Pardoe.AI

@Pardoe_AI

The post Celebrating Four Years of the Informed.AI Group appeared first on NEURONS.AI.


Link to Full Article: Read Here

New Portal for Neurons.AI

We are very pleased to announce the launch of a new portal for Neurons.AI. This is the foundation for us to build additional functionality over the coming weeks and months, with a focus on delivering more content, both from our own portfolio of websites but also from user driven content too.

There is a lot of functionality available to users include;

  1. Extensive User Profiles that allow you to share your AI interests and expertise with other members.
  2. Users can submit blogs, articles, news stories and press releases to be shared with the Neurons.AI and Informed.AI community.
  3. A forum area to post questions or answer others.

We will also be combining our chapters website into the our main portal at neurons.ai over the coming weeks too, allowing easy access to information about our network of meet-up groups as well as all the online content too.

We have already included an Events section that lists all the eventbrite details from our various Chapter events. We will be migrating the chapter pages over time too.

We already have over 700 members of the site now, and are looking forward to growing this much more over the coming weeks and months.

As always we welcome your comments, feedback and suggestions, please visit our site and goto our Contact Us page.

The post New Portal for Neurons.AI appeared first on NEURONS.AI.


Link to Full Article: Read Here

New Portal for Neurons.AI

We are very pleased to announce the launch of a new portal for Neurons.AI. This is the foundation for us to build additional functionality over the coming weeks and months, with a focus on delivering more content, both from our own portfolio of websites but also from user driven content too.

There is a lot of functionality available to users include;

  1. Extensive User Profiles that allow you to share your AI interests and expertise with other members.
  2. Users can submit blogs, articles, news stories and press releases to be shared with the Neurons.AI and Informed.AI community.
  3. A forum area to post questions or answer others.

We will also be combining our chapters website into the our main portal at membersai.wpengine.com over the coming weeks too, allowing easy access to information about our network of meet-up groups as well as all the online content too.

We have already included an Events section that lists all the eventbrite details from our various Chapter events. We will be migrating the chapter pages over time too.

We already have over 700 members of the site now, and are looking forward to growing this much more over the coming weeks and months.

As always we welcome your comments, feedback and suggestions, please visit our site and goto our Contact Us page.

The post New Portal for Neurons.AI appeared first on NEURONS.AI.


Link to Full Article: Read Here

BELT AND ROAD FORUM IN CHINA: PRODINTELLIGENCE WINS SECOND PRIZE

 ProdIntelligence – Estonian-based AI and Machine Learning R&D startup – wins the second prize at the annual Belt and Road forum (May 16, 2019) – Chinese government programs aimed to boost trade and other infrastructure in more than 80 countries from Asia to Europe and Africa.

Svitlana Kutia, the Head of Business Development in China presented the main platform – Deep Neural Network (DNN) for a business forecast by Deep Learning Studio. With several projects in Central Europe ProdIntelligence demonstrated the high level of prediction accuracy – up to 95%. This particular factor played a huge role in the jury’s decision to award the company with the second prize.

“China will work with all countries involved under the principle of consultation and collaboration for shared benefits to pursue the Belt and Road initiative against high standards so that it will deliver quality outcomes and create even greater development opportunities for the people in the Asia-Pacific and beyond”, the Chinese president said.

The Belt and Road initiative is Xi’s signature foreign policy plan, unveiled five years ago to boost trade through investment in ports, power plants and other infrastructure. Having since been expanded to the Arctic and South America, the initiative has become synonymous with much of China’s diplomatic and foreign economic activity.

The post BELT AND ROAD FORUM IN CHINA: PRODINTELLIGENCE WINS SECOND PRIZE appeared first on NEURONS.AI.


Link to Full Article: Read Here

BELT AND ROAD FORUM IN CHINA: PRODINTELLIGENCE WINS SECOND PRIZE

 ProdIntelligence – Estonian-based AI and Machine Learning R&D startup – wins the second prize at the annual Belt and Road forum (May 16, 2019) – Chinese government programs aimed to boost trade and other infrastructure in more than 80 countries from Asia to Europe and Africa.

Svitlana Kutia, the Head of Business Development in China presented the main platform – Deep Neural Network (DNN) for a business forecast by Deep Learning Studio. With several projects in Central Europe ProdIntelligence demonstrated the high level of prediction accuracy – up to 95%. This particular factor played a huge role in the jury’s decision to award the company with the second prize.

“China will work with all countries involved under the principle of consultation and collaboration for shared benefits to pursue the Belt and Road initiative against high standards so that it will deliver quality outcomes and create even greater development opportunities for the people in the Asia-Pacific and beyond”, the Chinese president said.

The Belt and Road initiative is Xi’s signature foreign policy plan, unveiled five years ago to boost trade through investment in ports, power plants and other infrastructure. Having since been expanded to the Arctic and South America, the initiative has become synonymous with much of China’s diplomatic and foreign economic activity.

The post BELT AND ROAD FORUM IN CHINA: PRODINTELLIGENCE WINS SECOND PRIZE appeared first on NEURONS.AI.


Link to Full Article: Read Here

Artificial Intelligence In Military Market Trends, Growth Forecast 2019-2028

Artificial Intelligence In Military Market Trends, Growth Forecast 2019-2028

Artificial intelligence is an area of computer science that uses digital computers or robots that have ability to perform tasks by using human intelligence which include learning or acquisition of information, reasoning, and self-correction. Artificial systems are commonly used in expert systems that make complex decisions, speech recognition, evaluate investment opportunities etc.

Increasing adoption of artificial intelligence in consumer electronics and healthcare sector is a primary factor driving demand for this technology in the global market. This demand is expected to increase exponentially during the forecast period owing to increasing application of artificial intelligence in various other sectors. Features such as high computing power and accuracy to enhance productivity and improve customer satisfaction are also some of the factors that are expected to drive demand in the global market.
Rising adoption of artificial intelligence technology in media and advertising to determine the influencing factors for consumer buying behavior is expected to boost demand during the forecast period.

Challenges such as high production and deployment costs are hampering demand for artificial intelligence technology in the market globally. Lack of skilled labor to manage, monitor, and operate systems is restricting growth of the global artificial intelligence market. Majority of companies operating in the market are facing challenge related to accumulating funds for early stage R&D of prototypes and their underlying technologies.

The global artificial intelligence market is segmented on the basis of solution, technology, industry verticals, and region. On the basis of region, the global artificial intelligence market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East & Africa.

North America is the leading regional market and is expected to hold its dominance over the forecast period owing to increasing adoption of artificial intelligence technology in various sectors, cloud based services, and government funding. Europe is expected to witness remarkable growth during the forecast period. Among other regions, the market in Asia Pacific is expected to register rapid and high revenue growth during the forecast period.

Key players in the global artificial intelligence market are Atomwise Inc., Google Inc., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corporation, Rocket Fuel Inc., Qlik Technologies Inc., MicroStrategy, Inc., Brighterion, Inc., Numenta Inc., Sentient Technologies, and Inbenta Technologies, Inc.

Source: https://marketresearch.biz/report/artificial-intelligence-in-military-market/

MATLAB

MATLAB

Today we will highlight signal processing applications using deep learning techniques. Deep Learning developed and evolved for image processing and computer vision applications, but it is now increasingly and successfully used on signal and time series data.

Deep learning for signal data typically requires preprocessing, transformation, and feature extraction steps that image processing applications often do not. While large high-quality image datasets can be created with relatively low-cost cameras, signal sets are harder to obtain and will usually suffer from large variability caused by wideband noise, interference, non-linear trends, jitter, phase distortion, and missing samples.

https://blogs.mathworks.com/deep-learning/2019/05/13/deep-learning-for-signal-processing-applications/

London Neurons Summer Party – Tuesday 28th May

All,

Please come and join us for our 4th Anniversary Celebrations on Tuesday 28th May from 6:30pm

Join this event and meet local professionals working in AI, Machine Learning and Data Science. We also get representation from VCs and Startups joining us too. This will be an opportunity to talk with people across a diverse range of industries who are apply machine learning to solve their specific business problems. Our meetings are a mix of social networking and knowledge sharing with experienced practitioners  talking about their application of AI and Machine Learning. A great opportunity to meet new people and build your network of people working in this amazing industry. Bring an open mind, a willingness to meet and talk with new people and enjoy good vibes.

For more details and to reserve your ticket visit : http://chapters.neurons.ai/uk/london/

 


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The Workforce Impact of AI in Government

Use of intelligent automation can lead to a surge in employee development but leadership must establish and reinforce the expectation that automation will augment the workforce. Augmenting the workforce will enable employees to spend more time on strategic initiatives instead of mundane tasks. IA can allow for more opportunities for employees to deliver tangible value.

However, AI technology can bring both optimism and anxiety to the workplace. The process of reducing, or even eliminating, drudge work such as inputting and processing is one reason why managers are enthusiastic about new applications based on artificial intelligence.

With this, staff resources can be freed up to do other, more important work, with people having time to focus on creative projects and deal directly with clients and customers. However, this new labor and cost saving technology can make everyone be on their toes – worrying that it will wipe out categories of employment. Cognitive technologies are increasingly capable of carrying out tasks once reserved for knowledge workers.

Technology, from farm equipment to factory robotics, has always displaced low-skilled workers but it’s not until recently that it’s threatened white-collar professionals. For the first time, knowledge workers whose jobs once seemed secure are feeling endangered.

Conversations with government executives suggest that most lack a clear vision of how AI applications might affect their staff and missions. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics optimistically predicts the government workforces will see almost no job losses between now and 2024. On the other hand, a recent study by Deloitte-UL and Oxford University suggests that up to 18% of UK public-sector jobs could be automated by 2030.

See the full report here.

The key to planning ahead for IA is to understand how much time cognitive technologies could save. Based on Deloitte research, a new method of studying AI-based technology’s effects on government workforces indicated that cognitive technologies could free up large numbers of labor hours by automating certain tasks and allowing managers to shift employees’ tasks to requiring human judgment.

Intelligent automation could save hundreds of millions of staff hours and billions of dollars annually. It could free up to 30% of the government workforce’s time within five to seven years and minimal investment in AI would result in savings of just 2% to 4% of total labor time.

Most existing quantitative models rely on occupations as the unit of analysis. This begins by tallying workers by occupation and predicting which jobs will be replaced by technology.

Technology often substitutes for specific tasks, while workers who previously performed them shift to jobs complementary to the new technology. Recent history should that this has also been true for government work. Deloitte has developed a new methodology for measuring the amount of time government workers spend on the tasks that fill up their work days.

Deloitte estimates that the two workforces collectively work 4.3 billion (federal) and 108 million (state government) hours a year. Deloitte grouped the tasks they perform into “generalized work activities” using the US department of Labor’s activity framework. For both federal and state workers, by far the most time-consuming activity is documenting and recording information – a task capturing 10% of both federal and state government work hours.

Learn the latest information on Process Automation in Government at our event held in Washington D.C. on May 29th.  Access the agenda here.

 

 


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How AI Is Changing Customer Service

How AI Is Changing Customer Service

According to “MyCustomer” reports, 80% of all UK businesses will have a chatbot solution in place by the end of 2020.

The rise of artificial intelligence and the accessibility of disruptive technology in the current marketplace means that any company can take their business to the next level with an AI chatbot.

Unfortunately, brands from most industries are still facing a host of challenges when it comes to getting the full value out of intelligent solutions.

Here, we’re going to cover everything you need to know about the market for modern chatbot tools, and how they can help you to transform customer service.

Read more at https://www.ringcentral.co.uk/blog/the-rise-of-chatbots/

From Finance to Technology – TD Bank’s IA Strategy

TD Bank takes rank as Canada’s second largest bank and is the tenth-largest bank in North America. TD Bank focuses on retail banking, employs over 26,000 people and provides its services to about 25 million customers.

Over the last five years, TD Bank has focused on transforming their businesses technologically – meaning that the bank has transformed its company from finance to technology. It all started with an idea that moving to a Big Data environment could bring about a 50-fold reduction in cost. By moving to this new infrastructure of Big Data, TD Bank effectively democratized access to the information it gathers and stores as part of its business. These factors include customer service interaction, transactions and data-driven insights.

In order to implement this infrastructure, the TD Bank team asked these questions:

1) What is the data?

2) Who can access the data?

3) Under what circumstances can the access it?

Once these questions were answered, they knew that the format of their new infrastructure would be suitable and always have the ability to be found and accessed. The next step in implementing Big Data was set out what problems the technology needed to be used for. They wanted to go for “quick wins,” where the objective would be how quickly Big Data could generate savings through driving efficiencies that are greater than the infrastructure costs to deploy.

The development of the technological tools enabled the bank to act on the wealth of data it holds on its customers to be able to offer them tailor-made services. For example, if the bank knows that a customer is in the process of a major life event, such as buying a house or having a child, this data informs them with the products and services they might be offered. These tools also made it possible for customers to use digital services such as an app, which allows them to track their accounts on a mobile device.

Layer 6 AI

The capability of this transformation was made possible by TD’s acquisition of an artificial intelligence startup in Toronto, called Layer 6 AI. Layer 6 was launched in late 2016 and uses AI in its platforms to analyze a variety of data forms to learn and anticipate a customer’s specific needs. TD Bank is Layer 6’s sole client and customer. Machine learning is increasingly being adopted throughout financial services in Canada and TD Bank has paved the way. Royal Bank of Canada has not only invested in AI research but has also set up labs in Toronto, Edmonton and Montreal. Meanwhile, federal and Ontario governments have doubled down on AI throughout the country’s various research institutes – which both TD Bank and Royal Bank of Canada are partnered with.

TD Bank’s AI Commitment

Prior to the Layer 6 AI startup, TD Bank has shown commitment to using automation to improve their customer’s experience through its Twitter chatbot and their adoption of Amazon Alexa devices to offer voice banking.

Presently, TD Bank has committed to reversing the trend of Canadian developers to flock elsewhere, like Silicon Valley. TD Bank joined an effort, sponsored by the Canadian innovation center Communitech, to bring as many developers back to Canada as they can. Canadians recently held an event called ‘Go North’ in Silicon Valley. TD Bank was the only bank that participated.

“The developers didn’t go to Silicon Valley because they don’t like the weather in Canada; they went to Silicon Valley because they thought they couldn’t find the right employers up here,” said Jeff Henderson, the chief information officer at TD Bank. “Our message down there is no, there are employers up here like TD Bank. You can come and work at TD and make a difference.”

Henderson also said that they are being very aggressive in acquiring new talent and leveraging their skills. TD aims to hire 1,000 technologists this year, including data scientists and artificial intelligence experts. They plan to recruit 65% of these field experts in other places than a bank, such as college campuses and of course, Silicon Valley.

The Future for TD Bank

The next step for TD is to start using software-as-a-service, or SaaS, applications. These applications will help people share documents and help the bank adopt agile development methods. According to Henderson, employees responded to a survey saying that want more mobility and to be unchained for their desks. That’s exactly what the purpose of implementing SaaS is.

Another factor of using SaaS is to create a more positive culture surrounding the employees. With this service they plan to redesign their work spaces to be more open, have less assigned seating and more team rooms.

To become a bank of the future TD Bank is using in-house innovation. The bank has labs in Communitech as well as in Cisco’s Toronto innovation lab that is used to design and test new products. According to Henderson, TD Bank is in a test-and-learn phase. The best use case for AI, in his opinion, is using virtual assistants that better understand the customers and their needs for the best personalized customer experience. TD Bank is currently testing some options in this concept.

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Canada and IA Applications

The digital development of AI, which is essentially machines assisting decisions and performing tasks that normally require human intelligence is used across various industries from technology to the public sector. These technologies help improve our lives by supporting our decision-making and driving greater efficiencies by reducing time spend on day-to-day processes so we can optimize our time and efforts.

The same benefits can be brought to companies to create a talent advantage, drive efficiencies to create value and reduce waste in competitive industries. Intelligent automation and artificial intelligence can help organizations maximize their investment in talent by automating manual processes that sift through piles of data with machine intelligence. This allows organizations to focus on bigger opportunities and challenges – generating value and saving time and money.

See the full report here.

Canada was the first country in the world to develop and implement a national AI strategy. About 18 months ago, Canada led the globe by announcing the first national strategy. The five-year PanCanadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy unified Canada’s three major institutes – Vector Institute in Toronto, Amii in Edmonton and Mila in Montreal – with a national vision. Working together, the institutes would recruit and develop a critical mass of top AI researchers and practitioners that would, hopefully, become a magnet for investment and other top talent from around the world.

Although this strategy has worked in one way or another – the global race for AI development is on and Canada is not the front runner. According to an Accenture 10-country survey of 3015 business leaders, including 44 Canadian Executives – Canada is only narrowly ahead of Brazil and behind the rest of the surveyed countries, including the United States, China and the United Kingdom.

In a study conducted by Forbes Insights, Canada ranked last out of 10 countries, with only 31% of adopters of the technology claiming successful deployment, compared with 59% in Indian and 58% in Germany. Canadian companies also came ranked last for full deployment throughout their firm and encountered the most resistance from employees due to concerns about job security.

Trying to catch up

In a country, with a built-in AI strategy, citizens lack the trust in AI and has a lack of understanding what it is. Deloitte found that 86% of Canadians said they don’t ever use AI-powered tools despite the fact that 76% of them use a smartphone with AI-enabled virtual assistant programs and mapping software.

As a society, Canada must address real concerns about AI and the creations of undetectable fake news, the misuse of personal data or facial recognition software, decision-making tools that reinforce societal biases and cyberwarfare. If Canada doesn’t assume leadership role then other countries will take advantage of lack of competitiveness and job losses in Canada will even higher.

However, Canada’s early interest in deep learning allowed universities to attract the best and brightest researchers and students, and build thriving AI ecosystems across the country. One of the most important things for Canada to do to get aside is to work alongside other countries who are far along in intelligent automation and artificial intelligence.

Government commitment to AI has definitely helped Canada keep at the development of AI and will only continue to do so. In addition to providing financial support, Canada’s federal government recently introduced changes to the immigration policy that will make it easier for companies to bring in technical talent from other countries. A fast-track visa program that offers up permanent residency was introduced in June 2017 with the goal of attracting innovators from across the globe.

Canadian businesses do have practical barriers to overcome. Intelligent automation has the potential to transform productivity across all Canadian sectors but the gains will only be recognized if all the necessary complements are in place. Leadership, talent, and startups could be the answers to catching up to the rest of the world.

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Directors’ Forum – AI Transforming Financial Services – Thursday 27th June

AI & Robotics Directors’ Forums hosted at the Gallup offices at the Shard the one day events cover a number of topics covering AI and Customer Experience.

Our First Event is all about AI Transforming Financial Services

Early Bird Tickets available until 17th May (limited number available)

Date 27th June 2019

Website https://air.events/directorsforums/

We have a full schedule of events including the following dates:

  • AI & CX Transforming Financial Services, Thursday 27 June – Tickets Now Available
  • AI & CX Transforming Retail & Customer Data, Wednesday 17 July – Tickets Now Available
  • Conversational AI for Customers and Employees, Tuesday 29 October
  • AI Transforming HR & Recruitment, Thursday 21 November


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From Hype to Reality – Powering the AI-Driven Future of Insurance at Insurance AI and Analytics USA

With 2018 witnessing unprecedented advances in the investment and deployment of artificial intelligence within the insurance industry, Insurance Nexus is delighted to announce that the Insurance AI and Analytics USA Summitwill return to Chicago for a sixth time in 2019, welcoming more than 450 senior attendees to the Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel, May 2-3.

Featuring an agenda designed to tackle the biggest challenges and opportunities in AI and advanced analytics,Insurance AI and Analytics USAis a must-attend for any analytics, underwriting, claims or marketing innovators seeking to both achieve efficient and seamless operations and deliver valuable and relevant products and experiences.

It’s impossible to open a magazine without seeing hype about analytics changing every aspect of your life,” says Will Dubyak, VP Analytics for Product Development & Innovation, USAA. “The Insurance AI & Analytics USA Summit is the optimal place to cut through the noise, hear the latest thinking from industry leaders in analytics, and compare best practices with your colleagues

Across three in-depth tracks, more than 40 expert speakers from leading North American carriers will explore and discuss the latest strategies and approaches being deployed to maximize the impact of AI, machine learning and advanced analytics across the insurance value chain.

Featuring a whole session dedicated to case studies, the practical retelling of success stories will ensure attendees discover how, and where, technological innovations are having the biggest impacts on insurance and walk away with a holistic roadmap for success.

Confirmed speakers so far include Tilia Tanner, Global Head of Analytics, AIG, Eugene Wen, VP of Group Advanced Analytics, Manulifeand Jerry Gupta, SVP, Digital Analyst Catalyst, SwissRe, as well as:

  • Thomas Sheffield, SVP and Head of Specialty Claims, QBE
  • Glenn Fung, Chief Research Scientist, AI and Machine Learning Research Director, American Family Insurance
  • Laurie Pierman, Vice President, Claim Operations,Amerisure Insurance
  • Michiko Kurahashi, Chief Marketing Officer, AXIS Capital

Attendees to Insurance AI and Analytics USAwill also become part of a truly international insurance community, with over 25 hours of networking and interactive discussions aplenty. In addition, our ‘Open Design Workshops’ will see attendees attempt to live-solve industry challenges, giving insight into how peers and competitors alike approach a challenge, and how their own methods might be improved.

At QBE, we’ve spent a great deal of time figuring out how we can strategically deploy artificial intelligence in practical use cases to drive immediate value for business,” states Ted Stuckey, Managing Director, QBE Ventures. “We’re excited to share some of our experience at the Insurance AI and Analytics Conference in Chicago on May 2-3!”

In short, however you are seeking to leverage AI, Insurance AI and Analytics USAis the event for you. Don’t miss this unparalleled opportunity. Join us in making 2019 the year AI insurance changes, forever.

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Insurance Nexus is the central hub for insurance executives. Through in-depth industry analysis, targeted research, niche events and quality content, we provide the industry with a platform to network, discuss, learn and shape the future of the insurance industry.


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