LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has been monitoring the artificial intelligence-as-a-service (AIaaS) market and it is poised to grow by USD 15.14 billion during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of over 48% during the forecast period. The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current market scenario, latest trends and drivers, and the overall market environment.

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The market is concentrated, and the degree of concentration will accelerate during the forecast period. Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp., International Business Machines Corp., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., Salesforce.com Inc., SAP SE, and SAS Institute Inc. are some of the major market participants. The growing adoption of cloud based solutions will offer immense growth opportunities. To make the most of the opportunities, market vendors should focus more on the growth prospects in the fast-growing segments, while maintaining their positions in the slow-growing segments.

Growing adoption of cloud based solutions has been instrumental in driving the growth of the market.

Artificial Intelligence-as-a-Service (AIaaS) Market 2020-2024: Segmentation

Artificial Intelligence-as-a-Service (AIaaS) Market is segmented as below:

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Table Of Contents:

Executive Summary

Market Landscape

Market Sizing

Five Forces Analysis

Market Segmentation by End-user

Customer Landscape

Geographic Landscape

Drivers, Challenges, and Trends

Vendor Landscape

Vendor Analysis

Appendix

Scope of the report

Currency conversion rates for US$

Research methodology

List of abbreviations

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The opening of the 2020 Bucharest Biennial may be delayed, but the next editions curator has no concerns. Thats because he or she or it is a robot.

Thats right: the chief curator of the 2022Bucharest Biennial is Jarvis, anartificial intelligence programin development from the Vienna-based studio Spinnwerk.

Named after the superhero Iron Mans AI butler, Jarvis will use deep learning in order to learn by itself from databases from universities, galleries, or art centers and select works that fit the chosen theme,Spinnwerk founder Razvan Ion told the Art Newspaper.

Jarviss curatorial choices, therefore, will be limited to artists who are already on the art worlds radar.

Instead of a traditional in-person exhibition, the show will take place in virtual reality, meaning that it will be accessible to anyone in the world who has access to a VR headset. VR booths will also be set up in Bucharest and Vienna.

The rise of the robot curator comes as something of a surprise given that just three years ago, experts were forecasting that jobs in the arts were safe from AI invasion. (The website Replaced by Robot!?still ranks curator as the 34th safest of 702 jobs, with only a .68 chance of automation.)

But since 2017, a robot artist namedAi-Da has generated $1 million in sales, andChristies sold an AI artworkat auction for an astonishing $432,50043 times its estimate.

This years edition of the Bucharest Biennial, titled Farewell to Research, will also be an online affair, at least for the time being.Organized by Henk Slager, a curator of the human variety, it was set to run May 28 to July 4.

Instead, two online eventsa curatorial workshop and a symposium titled Contemporary Art BiennialsOur Hegemonic Machines in States of Emergencywill take place from June 23 to 28.The official opening has been postponed until spring 2021.

The 10th Bucharest Biennale will be on view May 19July 17, 2022.

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On April 8, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a blog post titled, Using Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms, that offers important lessons about the use of AI and algorithms in automated decision-making. The post begins by noting that headlines today tout rapid improvements in AI technology, and the use of more advanced AI has enormous potential to improve welfare and productivity. But more sophisticated AI also presents risks, such as the potential for unfair or discriminatory outcomes. This tension between benefits and risks is a particular concern in Health AI, and the tension will continue as AI technologies are deployed to tackle the current COVID-19 crisis.

The FTC post reminds companies that, while the sophistication of AI is new, automated decision-making is not, and the FTC has a long history of dealing with the challenges presented by the use of data and algorithms to make decisions about consumers.

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LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner, today announced that it has reduced software issue resolution times by 23% using its new patent pending Rimini Street Artificial Intelligence Support Applications (AI Applications), and that to date the AI Applications have won two awards for innovation and achievement in customer service. The new AI Applications are a result of Rimini Streets continued investment in optimizing support processes and ensuring global service delivery outcomes at scale.

Delivering a Better Client Experience Through Artificial Intelligence

The Rimini Street Artificial Intelligence Support Applications were developed by Rimini Streets Global Service Delivery Innovation Team, whose mission is to invent innovative solutions that further enhance a clients overall service experience. Built using open source technologies, the AI Applications can be integrated into support processes along with other new AI Applications when they become available.

The AI Applications provide specific, unique data insights and intelligence to seamlessly accelerate better client service and support outcomes. Initial AI Applications include:

The AI Applications are built on Rimini Streets Artificial Intelligence Platform which includes infrastructure, tools, algorithms and data used to build, train and run the AI Applications that are always learning to translate information into actionable insights that enable better service delivery.

Rimini Streets AI Applications have already delivered substantial service benefits to clients, including accelerating case resolution times by an average of 23% and providing an even faster, more efficient case resolution process than previously experienced.

Rimini Street showed us what they were doing with AI early on and how they were using this advanced platform in their daily support operations; we are now personally experiencing the benefits of this platform including faster time to resolution for our support issues, said Jay Fisher, CIO, BrandSafway. We initiated our partnership with Rimini Street over five years ago, and as our experiences have been positive, we have expanded our support to include other applications. The Company continues to be a great partner and trusted adviser, helping us meet the different challenges of maintaining our enterprise software system while delivering quality support and helping us improve our business outcomes.

Building on Rimini Streets Award-Winning Support Delivery Model

The Rimini Street AI Support Applications have already won two awards a Stevie Sales and Customer Service Award for Innovation in Customer Service and a Stevie American Business Award for Achievement in Customer Satisfaction and build on the Companys successful, award-winning support delivery model. The Companys Global Service Delivery team is comprised of more than 600 full-time, highly experienced software support engineers based in 17 countries, providing 24/7/365 coverage. When a client switches to Rimini Street support, they are assigned a Primary Support Engineer (PSE) with an average of 15 years experience in their particular software system, who is backed by a team of functional and technical experts. In addition, the Company leads the support industry with its service level agreement (SLA) of 15-minute response times for Priority 1 critical cases, and 30 minutes for Priority 2 cases, and consistently achieves scores of 4.8 out of 5.0 (where 5.0 is excellent) on its client satisfaction surveys.

The Rimini Street AI Support Applications leverage what industry analysts refer to as a pragmatic AI approach, which is designed to enhance the human connection versus automation that replaces human interaction in the customer service process, such as chatbots to manage inquiries. The AI Applications solve real-world challenges using machine learning and natural language processing technologies, each with a specific function as it relates to customer service. The work done by the AI Applications happens seamlessly in the background and does not require any action by the client.

Our vision for Rimini Streets AI Support Applications is to deliver an even more proactive and responsive support program that continually resets the bar for excellence in enterprise software support, said Brian Slepko, executive vice president, Global Service Delivery, Rimini Street. Rimini Street is making the investments required to ensure optimized client outcomes globally at scale. This latest achievement from Rimini Streets Global Service Delivery Innovation Team underscores the value of our focus on support innovation and the mission to provide clients with the right support engineering team, at the right time, in the right geography to deliver the right solution.

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Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI) is a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products and a Salesforce partner. The Company offers premium, ultra-responsive and integrated application management and support services that enable enterprise software licensees to save significant costs, free up resources for innovation and achieve better business outcomes. Nearly 2,100 global Fortune 500, midmarket, public sector and other organizations from a broad range of industries rely on Rimini Street as their trusted application enterprise software products and services provider. To learn more, please visit http://www.riministreet.com, follow @riministreet on Twitter and find Rimini Street on Facebook and LinkedIn. (IR-RMNI)

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Consumers are seeing and feeling the impact of COVID-19 supply chain interruptions and delays in their everyday lives, from shortages of paper goods and cleaning supplies in grocery stores, to rising prices for beef and poultry.

For specialized industries such as health care and aerospace, however, the stakes of supply chain interruptions and service failures have perhaps never been higher. So far the traditional hub-and-spoke time-critical logistics industry has largely struggled to adapt, while newer technology-enabled models in the industry are showing significant promise to perform in a crisis.

Artificial intelligence (AI) platforms in particular have shown remarkable resilience during the COVID-19 crisis and the ability to quickly pivot shipments with minimal delays and service failures. California-based Airspace Technologies was one of the first logistics providers in the time-critical space to implement a breakthrough AI-powered platform that they say has enabled them to swiftly adjust operations without interruptions to their 24/7, 365-days-a-year services.

Airspace was built with moments like these in mind. It was designed to perform in a crisis when time is of the essence and lives and entire industries are quite literally on the line, said Airspace Technologies CEO and co-founder Nick Bulcao.

With years of experience specializing in urgent medical deliveries, such as organs for transplant, as well as aerospace parts for downed aircraft, Airspace says they have noticed a significant impact on their business as elective surgeries are delayed and less aircraft are flying. But the automated, AI-driven software that is the heartbeat of their operations has made adjusting to the new realities of the industry immensely more manageable.

With lives on the line, Airspace moved quickly to set up new shipment networks and routes each day to begin transporting urgently needed COVID-19 test kits, blood and plasma units, and vital organs for transplant to get where they need to go. Their fully transparent, automated software platform also allows minute-by-minute real-time tracking of deliveries, so hospitals and labs know exactly where kits or urgent supplies are and when they will arrive.

Airspace is currently making between 250 and 300 health care-related deliveries each day, and has transported as many as 30 organs in just one week.

The companys aerospace parts delivery business has had its own heroic moments during the COVID-19 crisis. An independent delivery driver for Airspace in the Bay Area recounted a harrowing incident last month in which he was asked to make a critical aerospace part delivery not to an airport, but to Stanford University Medical Center instead. Sensing the urgency of the moment, the driver immediately retrieved the part and made his way to the hospital.

Arriving two hours earlier than expected, I called my point of contact, who was still over an hour away. After some coordination with the engineer and hospital staff, I handed over the critical part for the medevac helicopter stranded on the hospital roof to a nurse instead helping get the lifesaving equipment back in the air ahead of schedule, said Bryan Sperry, 61, the driver.

Airspace says software also allowed them to protect workers by rapidly transitioning their team to fully remote operations across the United States.

The key was doing so with zero disruption to our round-the-clock operations and with full capabilities still in place, said Ryan Rusnak, Airspace co-founder and chief technology officer. After some planning, it took the team less than 36 hours to make a complete transition. Theyre now remotely continuing to provide the seamless, end-to-end experience our customers expect.

The transition and dramatic decline in passenger flights has not been without its challenges, though. Fewer passenger flights means fewer routing options, often accompanied by delays that can be costly for customers. That is where the power of the AI platform can often make the biggest difference, Airspace says.

One of the key features of their AI software is an automated delay declaration, which allows the operations team to quickly pivot to the next optimal routing if an order experiences a flight delay even in the middle of a trip. For example, on one day in March this year, amid more than 100 flight cancellations at the Las Vegas airport, Airspaces technology allowed the company to reduce disruption to critical deliveries to less than 38-minute average delays, while over 60% of orders there experienced no delays at all.

The rapidly changing dynamics as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic have created enormous challenges across industries and supply chains, but the power of AI to keep industry and lifesaving goods and services moving in a crisis has shown a positive path toward maintaining affordability, speed, reliability and transparency in urgent logistics.

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Artificial Intelligence Defense Platform, a technology start-up creating AI technology for a safer, more comfortable future, and its Founder Andy Khawaja prepare to create a sustainable habitat on Mars with AI technology.

AIDP and Andy Khawaja recently announced their pioneer project, ISABELLA, which will be an AI processing system capable of learning, retaining, and performing tasks.

They say ISABELLA will give communities the means to ensure tasks and roles are performed to create more sustainable environments and they plan to apply this to space exploration and the inhabitation of Mars.

This year, according to CNBC, Elon Musk announced his plans to build a sustainable city on Mars where food would be grown on solar-powered, hydroponic farms.

Business Insider said SpaceX hopes to build 1,000 starships in 10 years that will average three trips per day in a brief window that comes every 25 months when the orbits of Earth and Mars align.

There will be a lot of jobs on Mars, Musk said, but Dr. Andy Khawaja and AIDP believe there is a lot of room for artificial intelligence to protect lives.

Dr. Andy Khawaja and AIDP are creating artificial intelligence technology that will help create a sustainable environment on Mars as Elon Musk and SpaceX create the means to get there. The two companies could potentially work in unison.

Creating a sustainable environment on Mars requires quite a bit of creation we need to build houses and buildings, grow plants, create water sources. We need so many roles filled. But why risk jeopardizing human life? With AI technology, we can minimize risks and potential sacrifices to reach the goal, Dr. Andy Khawaja says.

According to Business Insider, SpaceX plans to build a city of 1 million people on Mars by 2050. Elon Musk told Ars Technica, Ill probably be long dead before Mars becomes self-sustaining.

But Artificial Intelligence Defense Platform and Andy Khawaja believe that the vision can be realized sooner with its AI technology and compatible systems/machines.

2.6 million years ago, stone tools were created. In 4000 BC, we created the wheel. In the 19th century, we created the lightbulb - then in the 20th century, we created vehicles, nuclear technology, and the internet. In the 21st century, we created biotech, nanotech, and fusion, Dr. Andy Khawaja said, God created mankind. We are creating AI technology. AI technology will save the future of mankind.

AIDP says they plan to save lives with AI technology. Human equivalent machines will create new opportunities and modern advancements for the world and its population.

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Pune, May 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global AI market is set to gain momentum from the rising utilization of cloud-based services and applications worldwide. Also, the increasing adoption of connected devices would impact the market positively in the coming years. This information is published by Fortune Business Insights in a recent report, titled, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market Size, Share and Industry Analysis By Component (Hardware, Software, Services), By Technology (Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Others), By Industry Vertical (BFSI, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, IT & Telecom, Government, Others) and Regional Forecast, 2019-2026. The report further states that the global AI market size stood at USD 20.67 billion in 2018 and is projected to reach USD 202.57 billion by 2026, thereby exhibiting a CAGR of 33.1% during the forecast period.

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Drivers & Restraints-

Rising Demand for Industrial Robots to Propel Growth

The rising demand for customized robots is a vital driver of the AI market growth. Numerous reputed organizations in the developed nations are presently engaging in the development and supply of industrial robots equipped with the AI technology. Japan and South Korea, for instance, supplied approximately 38,600 and 41,400 units of industrial robots in 2016, respectively. Also, in the same year, China provided almost 87,000 units across the globe. Apart from that, AI technology is mainly required in the retail sector for enhancing customer service. Coupled with this, the increasing usage of machine learning (M2P and M2M) would contribute to the market growth. However, the rising concerns regarding the unreliability of AI algorithms and data privacy may hamper the market growth.

Segment-

Natural Language Processing Segment to Dominate Owing to Its Usage in Various Applications

In terms of technology, the market is segregated into natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision, and others. Amongst these, the computer vision segment held 22.5% AI market share in 2018. This system helps in identifying and detecting patterns. It also synthesizes, analyses, and acquires realistic interactive interfaces. Then, it utilizes the ID tags to showcase pictures of associated items. The natural language processing segment currently accounts of the maximum share as it is adopted for a wide range of applications, such as Informational Retrieval (IR), speech processing, semantic disambiguation, text parsing, and machine translation.

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Regional Analysis-

Rising Adoption of AI by Biopharma Companies to Favor Growth in Asia Pacific

In 2018, North America procured USD 9.72 billion revenue and is set to remain in the leading position throughout the forecast period. This growth is attributable to the ongoing technological advancements in the fields of natural language processing, machine learning, and analytical tools. Besides, the rising awareness programs regarding the benefits of AI tools and systems would propel growth in this region. Asia Pacific, on the other hand, is expected to grow considerably backed by the major contribution of China. The government of this country is planning to merge with Baidu to support the implementation of AI and develop a deep learning laboratory consisting of military, manufacturing, smart agriculture, and intelligent logistics. Apart from that, AI is being extensively adopted by a large number of biopharma companies in this region. Developed nations, such as Japan are investing hefty amounts of money in creating AI algorithms to analyze large volumes of data.

Competitive Landscape-

Key Players Focus on Launching New Products to Strengthen Position

The market is fragmented with various companies operating across the world. They are mainly focusing on investing huge sums to develop new products. Numerous start-ups are adopting the strategy of mergers and acquisitions. Some of the others are considering the impact of the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic and are making novel solutions to help people in performing various tasks. Below are a couple of the recent industry developments:

Fortune Business Insights lists out the names of all the AI service providers present in the global market. They are as follows:

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This essay is part of The Big Ideas, a special section of The Timess philosophy series, The Stone, in which more than a dozen artist, writers and thinkers answer the question, Why does art still matter? The entire series can be found here.

Many artists are turned off by artificial intelligence. They may be discouraged by fears that A.I., with its efficiency, will take away peoples jobs. They may question the ability of machines to be creative. Or they may have a desire to explore A.I.s uses but arent able to decrypt its terminology.

This all reminds me of when people were similarly skeptical of another technology: the camera. In the 19th century, with the advent of modern photography, cameras introduced both challenges and benefits. While some artists embraced the technology, others saw cameras as alien devices that required expertise to operate. Some felt this posed a threat to their jobs.

But for those artists willing to explore cameras as tools in their work, the aesthetic possibilities of photography proved inspiring. Indeed cameras, which became more accessible to the average user with advancements in technology, offered another technique and form for artistic endeavors like portrait-making.

Art matters because as humans, we all have the ability to be creative. With time, the art we create evolves, and technology plays a crucial role in that process. History has shown that photography, as a novel tool and medium, helped revolutionize the way modern artists create works by expanding the idea of what could be considered art. Photography eventually found its way into museums. Today we know that cameras didnt kill art; they simply provided people with another way to express themselves visually.

This analogy is crucial to understanding the potential for artificial intelligence to influence art in this century.

As machine learning becomes an increasing part of our everyday lives incorporated into everything from the phones we text with to the cars we drive its only natural to ask what the future of art in such an A.I.-dominated society will be. This question becomes even more relevant as machines step into the artistic realm as creators of art. In summer 2019, the Barbican Centre in London presented A.I.-produced pieces in a show called A.I.: More Than Human. And in November later that year, over one million people attended an exhibition exploring art and science at the National Museum of China in which many works were created using algorithms.

I founded the Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Rutgers University in 2012. As an A.I. researcher, my main goal is to advance the technology. For me, this requires looking at human creativity to develop algorithms that not only understand our achievements in visual art, music and literature, but also produce or co-produce works in those fields. After all, it is our capacity to expand our creative skills beyond basic problem-solving into artistic expression that uniquely distinguishes us as humans.

Human creativity has led to the invention of artificial intelligence, and now machines themselves can be forces of creativity. Naturally we are curious to see what A.I. is capable of and how it can develop. During the past eight years at the lab, our researchers have realized that A.I. has great potential for solving problems in art. For example, as an analytical tool, machine intelligence can help distinguish authentic paintings from forged ones by analyzing individual brush strokes.

A.I. can also make sense of art by helping uncover potentially similar influences among artworks from different periods. In one test, machine learning was able to identify works that changed the course of art history and highlight new aspects of how that history evolved.

Beyond digesting information, machines have also been able to create novel images nearly entirely on their own that viewers are unable to distinguish from works made by human artists. A.I. is even able to compose music that you can listen to on Spotify.

Artists have long integrated new technologies into their practices. A.I. is no exception, yet there is a fundamental difference. This time, the machine is its own source of creativity with the ability to comb through vast amounts of historical and social data, artificial intelligence can produce truly novel and uncanny imagery that is beyond our imagination. This element of surprise is the force that can advance artistic mediums in new directions, with the machines functioning not only as tools for artists, but also as their partners.

But can an artificially intelligent machine be an artist in its own right? My answer is no.

While the definition of art is ever-evolving, at its core it is a form of communication among humans. Without a human artist behind the machine, A.I. can do little more than play with form, whether that means manipulating pixels on a screen or notes on a musical ledger. These activities can be engaging and perceptually intriguing, but they lack meaning without interaction between artist and audience.

In recent years Ive been blessed to work with an increasing number of artists interested in exploring A.I. in their practices. Ive dedicated myself to this work by developing Playform, a platform that allows artists to experiment with artificial intelligence without having to understand or navigate the algorithms and terminology behind the technology.

Once such technological barriers are lifted, artists can make amazing things happen. Some of them use the technology to create images for artworks or for virtual reality projects. Many use A.I. to find inspiration. Others feed images of their own into the computer, using machine intelligence like a workshop to better understand their style.

Ive noticed that new technologies are often met first with skepticism before eventually being embraced. I see the same trajectory emerging for artificial intelligence. Like the camera, A.I. offers a means for artists and non-artists alike to express themselves. That makes me confident that smart machines can only help, not hurt, human creativity. The future of art looks promising.

Ahmed Elgammal is the director of the Art and Artificial Intelligence Lab at Rutgers University and the founder of the A.I. company Playform.

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Burn-In, the latest futuristic thriller from P. W. Singer and August Cole, is technically a novel, but dont call it science fiction: None of the technologyand there is a whole lot of technologyis made up. The characters and plot are invented, but the depiction of the DC of the future is based not on imagination but rather on extensive research. Set roughly 20 years from now, the book taps into existing tech, ideas under development, and current research, all meticulously footnoted throughout the text.

Singer, a strategist and senior fellow at New America, is an expert on defense issues, while Cole once covered the defense industry for the Wall Street Journal. (They previously teamed up for Ghost Fleet, a novel about what a war with China might look like.) Their defense credentials and intriguing approach have earned them a surprising collection of Burn-In blurbs, from David Petraeus to Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof to Garry Kasparov. We talked to Singer about how the book came about and what Washington could be like two decades from now.

A good example would be algorithmic bias. It sounds like this wonky, complex topic, but algorithmic bias is essentially when the AI spits out an outcome or takes an action that is biased in some way that it wasnt originally programmed to do. For example, weve seen AI used to screen who should get bank loans, and it was screening out African Americans. The AI was being racist even though no one had told it to be racist. This is an incredibly important concept, but most people are not going to read an academic paper on algorithmic bias. Instead, we illustrate it through scenes like, for example, when an FBI agent is trying to pick a terrorist out of a crowd at Union Station. Its an exciting scene, and yet at the end of it the reader walks away not just entertained but also understanding some of the concepts of algorithmic bias.

Theres a long tradition of people in policy and politics writing a novel as a side enterprise. Some of them are really great, and some of them are not so great. [Laughs] But this is different in that it is actually part of the plan. Its taking that research that youre doing in the policy world and deliberately sharing it through this mix of fiction and nonfiction. Early on, I think there was a little bit of eyebrow raising, but then after the impact of Ghost Fleet, it was inarguable. It wasnt just that people were seeing an influence on policyit opened up a broader discussion of using this [type of book] as a new kind of tool. We call it useful fiction, or the more technical term is FICINT. For people in the government, theyll recognize the terms of SIGINT, signals intelligence, or HUMINT, human intelligence, and these are the tools that spies and analysts use to explain and explore and analyze. What weve put forward is this concept of FICINT, and its taken off.

New America is a different kind of think tankwe very much have a focus on new ideas and lifting up new voices, and weve also made a strong push to explore how to communicate in new, more-effective ways. In a world thats moving at machine speed, where theres so much going on around us thats hard to understand, it can be incredibly useful to have a guide to take you through that world. That is what narrative isits actually the oldest technology of all. But its not just the complexityits simply how much is going on. Important ideas, important research, are competing for attention. To put it bluntly, people are more likely to read an engrossing novel than a think tank white paper or an article in the Journal of the Association of Obscure Studies. [Laughs]

Burn-In has already had policy impact. The Cyberspace Solarium Commission is a Congressionally mandated bipartisan commission to essentially redo all US cybersecurity strategy. When they developed a report on the changes that the US needed to make in its cybersecurity policy, the commissioners were worried that the report would experience the same fate as all those other lengthy commission reports that had been written on terrorism before 9/11 that werent listened to until they were too late. And so in lieu of a traditional beginning to the report, they actually commissioned a short story from us that was drawn from Burn-In. The beginning of the report is actually this story read from the perspective of a congressional staffer who is tasked with writing legislation in the wake of a massive series of cyber attacks that have crippled Washington, DC. So the idea was to drop the commissions target audience into both a public and personal nightmare experience with the idea of inducing them to ponder what they ought to do in order to avoid going through thisright before they then read a series of policy solutions.

Steve Mnuchin said AI is not something that we have to care about for 50 to 100 years. Im sorry, its here now and it will be an issue that we all have to wrestle with. In many ways, were going through an industrial revolution like what happened with the rise of steam engines. But it goes beyond it, because in this case its a tool that is intelligent and that means there is a series of new questions that we all have to wrestle with. Essentially, we need to understand it and we need to prepare for it. Preparing for it is everything from how we make changes in our education system to changes in our law and policy.

Whats notable to me is how it cuts across so many different areas. Take the idea of face recognition. Its an issue for the DC police and federal government and US military but its also an issue for pretty much every business. Kentucky Fried Chicken is talking about applying face recognition! Okay, so what does that mean? What aspects of it are we okay with and what aspects are we not okay with? So I hope the book, by giving people an ability to visualize this future world, equips them better to navigate it as it all becomes real.

One thing I should add is how the pandemic has accelerated everything that was in play. All of the issues of Burn-In were in motion before the pandemic. But all the data shows that theyve been drastically accelerated by it. Our opening scene has a futuristic delivery robot driving down the sidewalk, and that very system has been deployed to deliver groceries in [parts of DC]. Or one of the characters is doing remote work, but at a cost to his marriagesomething a lot of people are dealing with. Much of the population has been thrown into remote learning and remote work to a level that was never anticipated. In other sectors weve been moved forward in a matter of weeks to where we didnt think wed be for ten years. Telemedicine is a good example of that. And were now putting into place plans for AI tracking of society at whole new levels. When we get through the pandemic, one thing that is easy to predict is that were not going 100 percent back. And so that means also that all the tough social, policy, legal, moral, security, and even family issues that our characters experience, theyre also going to come faster in the real world.

Technology is a tool, and every tool has been used for both and good and ill. The very first stone that was picked up was either used to smash up some food or bash someone in the head. Today, drones have been used for war and theyre also being used by human rights organizations to detect and stop war crimes. In Burn-In we play with that duality of these technologies coming. The Washington, DC, of the future will be a smarter cityyoull have smart homes, smart transportation, the internet of things weaving through buildings that range from government headquarters to restaurants and retail. Its going to create a level of convenience and money-saving and energy-saving that is very much out of the most utopian views of science fiction. Its going to be incredible in so many different ways. But, oh, by the way, it will also introduce new vulnerabilities that bad guys might take advantage of to carry out new kinds of crimes. So that duality is always there. Its up to us to determine which path wins out.

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A DC native, Rob Brunner moved back to the city in 2017 to join Washingtonian. Previously, he was an editor and writer at Fast Company and other publications. He has also written for the New York Times Magazine, New York, and Rolling Stone, among others. He lives with his family in Chevy Chase DC.

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Madrid, 27th May 2020. - Telefnica presents the Telefnica Activation Programme, an initiative aimed at start-ups and SMEs in Germany, Spain and the UK seeking to enhance their technological solutions and accelerate their business development through IoT, Blockchain and Big Data/AI (Artificial Intelligence) technologies grouped into Telefnica Tech. To do so, it will give them the opportunity to get to know and take advantage of the company's different platforms in each of these technologies completely free of charge for a period of six months. Start-ups from these three countries interested in participating in this initiative can submit their applications until 22 June through the website http://www.activationprogramme.telefonica.com.

In addition, the start-ups will opt for the possibility of carrying out a pilot with Telefnica and its corporate customer portfolio, as well as being analysed to assess an investment opportunity by Wayra.

Collaboration is more important than ever, which is why at Connected Open Innovation we want to help start-ups scale by giving them access to our technology platforms through the use of APIs, which are free, agile and simple, said Irene Gmez, director of Connected Open Innovation at Telefnica.

Those companies accepted in the IoT category will benefit from six months of free IoT connectivity, with access to Kite, an IoT connectivity platform developed by Telefnica, which will allow the start-ups to manage their solution in an integrated manner. Moreover, by requesting LPWA connectivity, they will also receive an IoT module and access to The Thinx laboratories in Madrid and Barcelona, where they will be able to perform prototypes and even tests in a real environment, saving time and optimising the investment.

On the other hand, with the blockchain welcome pack the start-ups will be able to enjoy unlimited access for the duration of the programme to the TrustOS modules, a platform that makes it easy for companies to incorporate the main benefits of immutability and transparency inherent to the technology into their value proposition. Thanks to this hybrid solution developed by Telefnica (which combines public and private networks), companies will be able to benefit simultaneously from the transparency and confidence of public networks, guaranteeing the performance and scalability necessary for business operations.

Finally, as far as Big Data/AI technology is concerned, they will have access to the LUCA Suite, an inhouse developed platform that allows to automate the data processing in minutes, integrating Machine Learning capabilities in an easy and intuitive way. In this way, without prior knowledge of automatic learning, it is possible to make predictions that increase business opportunities.

Throughout the experience, a team of Telefnica experts provides personalised support adapted to the needs of each start-up, as well as additional training and networking services to get the most out of the programme.

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Telefnica offers start-ups its IoT, blockchain and artificial intelligence technology to help them boost their business - TelecomTV