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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an evolving technology which is thriving among every business group in the world. AI is everywhere. As many as 20 per cent of jobs are likely to be AI-based jobs in most companies, according to McKinsey global institute. But what is artificial intelligence and how can it be useful for your field, if you have been thinking about this, we have got you covered.

Here is a list of courses that can help young professionals of any stream boost up their skill-set. These courses are imparted online, are short-term, flexible, and can be a good utilisation of the lockdown period.

AI for everyone: This course is offered by online platform Coursera and offered by deeplearing.ai. Coursera claims to provide a definitive picture related to what AI is, how can you build it in your company, and how versatile it is. The course will teach learners how to spot opportunities to apply AI to problems in your own organisation, what it feels like to build machine learning (ML), and data science projects, as per Coursera. It is 6 hour-long course and available free of cost.

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Artificial intelligence A-Z: This course is created by Kirill Eremenko founder of the super data science team available at Udemy. This course provides insights to beginners as it covers all the basics of artificial intelligence. Udemy claims to teach about the virtually operated self-driven car, solving real-life world problems with AI, playing games with the help of AI, etc through this course. It is a 17-hour long course which provides a certificate on completion of the course.

Introduction to AI: Created by Microsoft and offered by edX, the course focuses mainly on communicating with artificial intelligence. Through the course, students will understand the language of AI and ways to communicate with bots. It is free of cost with an optional paid certificate. The duration of this course is four weeks, accommodating 3-4 hours per week.

Artificial intelligence for trading and nano degree: The course is available at Udacity and particularly aims at training candidates in the trading and financing industry. Through this course, students will learn about analysis, investing research using AI, compare historical data with the current stats. Through the course, Udacity claims to provide personal career coach and real-life projects from industry experts. Its estimated time is six months which is divided into 10 hours per week. This paid course.

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AI for business leaders: This course is in partnership with BMW and offered by Udacity. This course will help you see the language of business through the eye of Artificial intelligence. Company leaders will learn more about the technical and practical aspects of machine working and how it can be incorporated in ones business by giving powerful insights related to strategies, feedbacks, application, history of companys data etc. It will for sure help businesses to grow vast also for people to understand the technical working better. The duration of this paid course is 4-8 weeks at 5 hours per week.

Introduction to AI: The course is available on website elements of AI. It teaches about the basics of AI to beginners. To pursue the course, no prior skills in math or programming are required. The course claims to make learners understand how AI affects our day to day life and what can one do to enhance Artificial intelligence and increase its practical uses in our life. It looks into machine learning (ML) and the implications of AI, according to the website. It is a self-paced course, in which after completion you will be acquiring a merit-based certificate.

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VeChain will be opening the first blockchain technology session in this conference, with our session titled "blockchainize the future, power the economy".

The blockchain forum will be co-hosted by the Shanghai Municipal Commission Of Economy And Informatization, Shanghai Finance Information Association and several other large enterprises and organizations. VeChain will be sharing our experience in the blockchain deployment, integration and usage for various business scenarios and current successful users.

VeChain Attending WAIC Alongside Tech Giants and Juggernauts

Since the first WAIC in 2018, the event has become a grand meeting and festival, accumulating international influences across various industries. In line with the growing trend of the online new economy and digital transformation, this year's conference will be inviting top-of-line tech enterprises, including Microsoft, Amazon, Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei and more.

This event will be the perfect avenue for VeChain to showcase our industry-leading blockchain infrastructure and technology. As the company responsible for opening the blockchain session of the WAIC conference, we have no doubt that our keynote will be closely listened to by other attendees and VIPs invited to the event.

Blockchain: Trillion Yuan Focal Point Of The Chinese Government and Economy

On 20 April 2020, China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the cabinet-level department that draws up policies and strategies for the direction of the Chinese economy, has expanded its definition of "new infrastructure" to include blockchain technology.

Investment in new infrastructure is expected to comprise 7%-12% of all infrastructure spending, with China International Capital Corporation (CICC) seeing new infrastructure investment of between 1-1.8 trillion yuan. As blockchain technology is becoming one of the major technical forces to boost the post-COVID economy, WAIC intends to open more discussions around its development.

With the theme of "Intelligent Connectivity Indivisible Community", this Conference will be a high level platform attracting the most influential scientists and entrepreneurs around the world as well as government leaders to converse and talk about the technological frontiers, industry trends and provoking issues in forms of speeches and high-level forums.

VeChain will capitalize on this massive opportunity to pitch and share our experience and solutions to all stakeholders attending the conference. We are confident that our reputation and experience in solving pain points in the business world will convince even more partners to come onboard and expand our networking opportunities.

About WAICArtificial intelligence has become a core driving force for the new round of industrial transformation and is exerting an extremely profound impact on the world's economy, social progress and human life. In order to deepen the integration of the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and the real economy as required by the Party's 19th National Congress, better serve the national innovation-driven development strategy, follow the international trend of new round of technology revolution and industrial reform and to develop Shanghai into a globally known center of science and innovation, Shanghai is set to build the world's top platform for AI cooperation and exchange via series of global conferences so as to promote and lead the integration of AI industry and technological innovation amid the global trend of new scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation.Website: http://www.worldaic.com.cn/portal/en/aboutus.html

About VeChainLaunched in 2015, VeChain connects blockchain technology to the real world by providing a comprehensive governance structure, a robust economic model, and IoT integration. VeChain is the pioneer of real-world applications using public blockchain technology, with international operations in Singapore, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, Hong Kong, and San Francisco. Together with our strategic partners PwC and DNV GL, we have established cooperative relations with many leading enterprises in different industries, including Walmart China, Bayer China, BMW, BYD Auto, Haier, H&M, LVMH, D.I.G, ENN, Shanghai Gas, AWS, PICC, ASI etc.Website: http://www.vechain.com

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Monday, 6 July 2020, 3:36 pmPress Release: Securely

International research[1]is clearly showing the value of sensors in a privateresidence to extend the amount of time a person can remainindependently in their home for longer.SECURELY is atrust-owned New Zealand company that has a range of productsthat use sensors and artificial intelligence to monitoractivity within a home. These same products can indicateillness or deteriorating health by alerting family andcaregivers to changes in daily routine.

GeneralManager Mark Smith says having infra-red motion detectionsensors installed throughout the residence can let familyand carers know that a person is up and about in themorning. He said unusual patterns of activity, or lack ofactivity, such as not using the kitchen or bathroom can beearly indicators of illness that can be quickly followed upon.

Products like our FAMILY and PRO packs havesensors linked to an APP that enable family to view activityfrom wherever they may be at work or living in adifferent town. Its unobtrusive for those in the home,but it provides greater peace of mind for family andcarers.The resident themselves can summon help at anytime using their medical alarm, through a pendant or simplycalling for help using voice activated emergency calldevice."

Mark Smith says technology is providinggreater independence and peace of mind for family and carersof seniors, but it also has potential for those with mentalillness and conditions like dementia as sensors can beinstalled on doors and gates with a text alert sent tofamily members.

ThefiguresAccording to the Ministry of SocialDevelopments Aging in Place": The Views of OlderHomeowners on Maintenance, Renovation and Adaptationolder people prefer to remain in the familyhome.Statistics NZ, 2013 Census, show that most peopleaged 65+ live in private dwellings but the proportiondecreases with age. In 2013, of people aged 65+ living inprivate dwellings: 59.3 % were aged 6574 years; 31.0 %were aged 7584 years; 9.7 % were aged 85+.

Thereare also sound financial reasons for seniors staying in thefamily home for longer. Compare the cost of a FAMILY or PROpack at a few hundred dollars compared with the cost ofresidential care which can range into the thousands permonth depending on whether you are eligible for theResidential Care Subsidy after being Means Tested, and thelevel of care and service you require.

Fallsin the homeWe know from ACC data that one thirdof people over 65 fall in their home every year. The ACCcost due to fall-related injuries in the home were more than$163milion in 2016, estimated to rise to $418 million by2025.Of those that fall, 60% spend an average of 12hours on the floor before being found. And 88% of thosefalls require hospitalisation[2].

Paintinga different picture with technologyBut forthose that had fallen and lain on the floor unable orunwilling to call for help (only 20% of those with a medicalalarm use it to call for help)[3]this could have been preventedthrough:

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Artificial Intelligence In Movies

If science experts from across the world are to be believed, then artificial intelligence is the next big thing that is going to hit the world. Amongst the science community, artificial intelligence has grown from strength to strength over the years, and it is no mystery that todays a revolution in itself. However, one cannot deny that the existence of artificial intelligence is just for the namesake of common people like you and me.

Talking more about artificial intelligence to Japanese scientists had created an artificial intelligence robot named Erica, which they had used for several years to get the hang of artificial intelligence uses that they can extract from her and other devices that could be made on similar lines.

Erica, the artificial intelligence robot, proved to be too good for the job and has been a great help for the scientists who are devising the new Internet of Things for artificial intelligence. Talking more about the application of artificial intelligence, a movie is being made in Hollywood, which will be titled b. Now the makers of the movie have decided that as the lead actress, they want to sign Erica the artificial intelligence robot.

It sounds strange, but it is the truth that they want the voice of Erica as their lead actress in a science fiction movie that they are about to produce pretty soon. What is to be seen is what character does Erica really play, and how does she give justice to what is needed in a real-time movie. The makers are confident that people are going to love Erica in the role of the lead actress.

They said that they had worked for over a year to extract and instill emotions and dialogue delivery in Erica, who had no such experience to know anything about all this. It will be interesting to see whether these emotions are able to replicate on the screen. Nevertheless, it is our revolutionary step, and fans are extremely excited to watch the film.

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The global Artificial Intelligence Software System market is valued at 2650 million USD in 2017 and is expected to reach 46000 million USD by the end of 2023, growing at a CAGR of 60.9% between 2017 and 2023.

Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence displayed by machines, in contrast with the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by humans and other animals. Artificial intelligence software system is Software that is capable of intelligent behavior. In creating intelligent software, this involves simulating a number of capabilities, including reasoning, learning, problem solving, perception, and knowledge representation.

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Undoubtedly, artificial intelligence (AI) is able to support organisations in tackling their threat landscape and the widening of vulnerabilities as criminals have become more sophisticated. However, AI is no silver bullet when it comes to protecting assets and organisations should be thinking about cyber augmentation, rather than just the automation of cyber security alone.

Areas where AI can currently be deployed include the training of a system to identify even the smallest behaviours of ransomware and malware attacks before it enters the system and then isolate them from that system.

Other examples include automated phishing and data theft detection which are extremely helpful as they involve a real-time response. Context-aware behavioural analytics are also interesting, offering the possibility to immediately spot a change in user behaviour which could signal an attack.

The above are all examples of where machine learning and AI can be useful. However, over-reliance and false assurance could present another problem: As AI improves at safeguarding assets, so too does it improve attacking them. As cutting-edge technologies are applied to improve security, cyber criminals are using the same innovations to get an edge over these defences.

Typical attacks can involve the gathering of information about a system or sabotaging an AI system by flooding it with requests.

Elsewhere, so-called deepfakes are proving a relatively new area of fraud that poses unprecedented challenges. We already know that cyber criminals can litter the web with fakes that can be almost impossible to distinguish real news from fake.

The consequences are such that many legislators and regulators are contemplating the establishment of rule and law to govern this phenomenon. For organisations, this means that deepfakes could lead to much more complex phishing in future, targeting employees by mimicking corporate writing styles or even individual writing style.

In a nutshell, AI can augment cyber security so long as organisations know its limitations and have a clear strategy focusing on the present while constantly looking at the evolving threat landscape.

Ivana Bartoletti is a cyber risk technical director at Deloitte and a founder of Women Leading in AI.

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Jul 4th 2020

Artificial intelligence is an oxymoron (Technology quarterly, June 13th). Intelligence is an attribute of living things, and can best be defined as the use of information to further survival and reproduction. When a computer resists being switched off, or a robot worries about the future for its children, then, and only then, may intelligence flow.

I acknowledge Richard Suttons bitter lesson, that attempts to build human understanding into computers rarely work, although there is nothing new here. I was aware of the folly of anthropomorphism as an AI researcher in the mid-1980s. We learned to fly when we stopped emulating birds and studied lift. Meaning and knowledge dont result from symbolic representation; they relate directly to the visceral motives of survival and reproduction.

Great strides have been made in widening the applicability of algorithms, but as Mr Sutton says, this progress has been fuelled by Moores law. What we call AI is simply pattern discovery. Brilliant, transformative, and powerful, but just pattern discovery. Further progress is dependent on recognising this simple fact, and abandoning the fancy that intelligence can be disembodied from a living host.

ROB MACDONALDRichmond, North Yorkshire

I agree that machine learning is overhyped. Indeed, your claim that such techniques are loosely based on the structure of neurons in the brain is true of neural networks, but these are just one type among a wide array of different machine- learning methods. In fact, machine learning in some cases is no more than a rebranding of existing processes. If by machine learning we simply mean building a model using large amounts of data, then good old ordinary least squares (line of best fit) is a form of machine learning.

TOM ARMSTRONGToronto

The scope of your research into green investing was too narrow to condemn all financial services for their woolly thinking (Hotting up, June 20th). You restricted your analysis to microeconomic factors and to the ability of investors to engage with companies. It overlooked the bigger picture: investors can also shape the macro environment by structured engagement with the system itself.

For example, the data you used largely originated from the investor-led Carbon Disclosure Project (for which we hosted the first ever meeting, nearly two decades ago). In addition, investors have also helped shape sustainable-finance plans in Britain, the EU and UN. Investors also sit on the industry-led Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure, convened by the Financial Stability Board, which has proved effective.

It is critical that governments apply a meaningful carbon price. But if we are to move money at the pace and scale required to deal with climate risk, governments need to reconsider the entire architecture of markets. This means focusing a wide-angled climate lens on prudential regulation, listing rules, accounting standards, investor disclosure standards, valuation conventions and stewardship codes, as well as building on new interpretations of legal fiduciary duty. This work is done most effectively in partnership with market participants. Green-thinking investors can help.

STEVE WAYGOODChief responsible investment officerAviva InvestorsLondon

Estimating indirectly observable GDP in real time is indeed a hard job for macro-econometricians, or wonks, as you call us (Crisis measures, May 30th). Most of the components are either highly lagged, as your article mentioned, or altogether unobservable. But the textbook definition of GDP and its components wont be changing any time soon, as the reader is led to believe. Instead what has always and will continue to change are the proxy indicators used to estimate the estimate of GDP.

MICHAEL BOERMANWashington, DC

Reading Lexingtons account of his garden adventures (June 20th) brought back memories of my own experience with neighbours in Twinsburg, Ohio, in the late 1970s. They also objected to vegetables growing in our front yard (the only available space). We were doing it for the same reasons as Lexington: pleasure, fresh food to eat, and a learning experience for our young children. The neighbours, recently arrived into the suburban middle class, saw it as an affront. They no longer had to grow food for their table. They could buy it at the store and keep it in the deep freeze. Our garden, in their face every day, reminded them of their roots in Appalachian poverty. They called us hillbillies.

Arthur C. Clarke once wrote: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Our version read, Any sufficiently advanced lifestyle is indistinguishable from hillbillies.

PHILIP RAKITAPhiladelphia

Bartleby (May 30th) thinks the benefits of working from home will mean that employees will not want to return to the office. I am not sure that is the case for many people. My husband is lucky. He works for a company that already expected its staff to work remotely, so had the systems and habits in place. He has a spacious room to work in, with an adjustable chair, large monitor and a nice view. I do not work so he is not responsible for child care or home schooling.

Many people are working at makeshift workspaces which would make an occupational therapist cringe. Few will have a dedicated room for their home office, so their work invades their mental and physical space.

My husband has noticed that meetings are being set up both earlier and later in the day because there is an assumption that, as people are not commuting, it is fine to extend their work day. Colleagues book a half-hour meeting instead of dropping by someones desk to ask a quick question. Any benefit of not commuting is lost. My husband still struggles to finish in time to have dinner with our children. People with especially long commutes now have more time, but even that was a change of scenery and offered some incidental exercise.

JENNIFER ALLENLondon

As Bartleby pointed out, the impact of pandemic working conditions wont be limited to the current generation. By exacerbating these divides, will covid-19 completely guarantee a future dominated by the baby-Zoomers?

MALCOLM BEGGTokyo

The transition away from the physical office engenders a lackadaisical approach to the work day for many workers. It brings to mind Ignatius Reillys reasoning for his late start at the office from A Confederacy of Dunces:

I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.

ROBERT MOGIELNICKIArlington, Virginia

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Litmus, the Intelligent Edge Computing Platform for IIoT, andProcessMiner, an artificialintelligence platform for manufacturing, announced a partnership to cross-promote their platforms to offer manufacturers a solution that includes real-time data collection, analysis, prediction, and process recommendations for continuous improvement.

Litmus provides the data intelligence platform to collect, normalize, and analyze high volumes of live data from industrial assets and make it available to OT and IT systems via edge-to-enterprise integration.The ProcessMiner program uses machine learning and sensor data to model, predict and prescribe process control recommendations for product quality improvement purposes.

One of the benefits of the Litmus platform is the bidirectional data and signal delivery capabilities for machines on the factory floor. The Litmus platform collects and normalizes data in real-time at the edge.

After Litmus delivers data to the ProcessMiner platform, the corrective action or recommendation signals can be sent back to the appropriate machine controller usingLitmus Edge. Those signals drive process control activities on the machine, delivering corrective action(s) in real-time.

Under terms of the agreement, both organizations will promote their respective platform capabilities throughout the manufacturing industry.

For more information, visit:www.processminer.com or http://www.litmus.io.

Tiera Oliver, edtorial intern for Embedded Computing Design, is responsible for web content edits as well as newsletter updates. She also assists in news content as far as constructing and editing stories. Before interning for ECD, Tiera had recently graduated from Northern Arizona University where she received her B.A. in journalism and political science and worked as a news reporter for the university's student led newspaper, The Lumberjack.

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Volkswagen is looking to boost its production by as much as 30 per cent in next five years by using Artificial Intelligence at its facilities. The Industrial Computer Vision AI technology will help the carmaker in image recognition processes and speed up production time by reducing manual interventions

The process extracts information from optical data, such as the real environment at the plant, which it then evaluates using artificial intelligence (AI). The procedure is similar to the human capability of recognising, processing and analysing images. Volkswagen has been working with this technology for several years and is now intensifying its efforts.

The first application, which is to be rolled out via the new Volkswagen Industrial Cloud throughout the Group next year, is currently being tested by Porsche in Leipzig. The application functions as follows: several labels are attached to each vehicle produced, for example with vehicle information or notes on airbags. Many of these labels contain country-specific information and are written in the customers language. The proper application of these labels is ensured by Computer Vision.

At the Porsche plant in Leipzig, an employee on the production line now scans the vehicle identification number to ensure clear identification of the vehicle. Photos are taken of each label attached to the car. The app checks the images to ensure that the labels have the correct content and are written in the appropriate language on a real-time basis and provides the production line employee with feedback on whether everything is correct. This saves several minutes per vehicle.

Another solution currently being prepared for use throughout the Group comes from Ingolstadt, where Audi uses it for quality testing at the press shop. Cameras combined with software based on machine learning detect the finest cracks and defects in components.

Volkswagen has set up a team of about 60 Computer Vision experts for the further development of the technology and the evaluation of new utilisation possibilities. In addition to the use of the technology in production, Volkswagen plans applications along the entire value stream, for example in sales and after-sales. For development work on the optical procedure, Volkswagen is recruiting experts for this area in Berlin, Dresden, Munich and Wolfsburg. In addition, the Group continues to build up its skills in the fields of camera technology, machine learning and the operation of Computer Vision solutions.

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On 1st of July 2020, the Committee of Ministers decided, in line with paragraph 8 of the Resolution CM/Res(2011)24, to give Israel the observer status totheAd hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI).

Israel will, as from now, fully contribute to the work of the CAHAI. Its participation expands the reach of the CAHAI,which already includes Canada, the Holy See, Japan, Mexico and the United States of America among its observers.

The CAHAI is currently examining the feasibility of a legal framework for the development, design and application of artificial intelligence, based on the Council of Europe standards on human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

The CAHAI's work will be the result of a unique and close co-operation between numerous stakeholders from various sectors ranging from member and non-member States, but also representatives of civil society, research and academia, and the private sector.

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