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Rameswaram, Dec 19 (UNI) The Sri Lankan Navy have arrested 43 fishermen from Tamil Nadu and confiscated their six mechanised trawlers for illegally poaching in its territorial waters late last night.

Alappuzha, Dec 19 (UNI) Two murders in Alappuzha district of Kerala with a span of 10 hours has rocked Kerala. Prohibitory orders have been imposed in the district on Sunday and Monday.

Kakinada, Dec 18 (UNI) As many as 421 tribal youths including 150 girls have been recruited in the Job Mela organized by the East Godavari police enlisting the support of various private companies under 'Parivarthana scheme' at Chintur in the interior agency area on Saturday, officials informed on Sunday.

Hyderabad, Dec 19 (UNI) In the backdrop of Centre stating that it will not buy paddy from Telangana, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao categorically stated that Procurement Centres for Paddy would not be set up during the Yasangi (Rabi) season in the state.

Alappuzha, Dec 19 (UNI) Two murders in Alappuzha district of Kerala with a span of 10 hours has rocked Kerala. Prohibitory orders have been imposed in the district for two days.

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Imagine youre planning a vacation for your family. Youve spent a generous amount of time researching destinations, booking flights, securing a car rental, and finally, the hotel. After thoroughly researching all of your options, you settled on a property and pick up the phone. After a few rings, you hear a voice on the other end of the line, and you immediately tense upa voice bot. What could have been a quick and painless phone call turns into a one-sided conversation that seems to take you in circles until finally, youre able to talk to a human on the other end of the line.

In 2021, customers value a personal connection, but the convenience of a voice bot is hard to beat for some businesses that just dont have the manpower to handle their current call volume. Is there a better solution for voice bots? To fully understand how Artificial Intelligence can fit into the hospitality industry, we must first understand how it has failed us thus far.

Voice bots are software used in call centers of large companies to help customers navigate to their desired representative more naturally than a voice recording with keyed responses. Voice bots are powered by artificial intelligence and are known as Interactive Voice Response Systems or IVR for short.

Despite vast improvements in technology from the previous iterations of IVR that had customers listen to menus and press corresponding numbers on their keypads, the majority of consumers still seek to avoid voice bots whenever possible.

IVR systems seemingly appeared overnight and forced customers into a loop of long wait times and incoherent call and answer scenarios. However, IVR systems are widely used by industries across the globe to help companies cope with massive call volumes. It doesnt take an industry expert to point out whats wrong with current IVR systems.

Because IVR systems can't differentiate between types of calls, customers are forced into a cycle of repeating menus to help narrow down their reason for calling. This is an incredibly frustrating situation to be in for any customer, but older customers find it especially difficult to follow.

Unlike humans, IVR systems cannot provide a personalized call experience. Completely unaware of customers purchasing history, previous needs, or customer journey, callers are all forced to jump through the same hoops, again and again, each time they call.

IVR systems can only collect and store a limited amount of data, so returning callers will not have their progress saved. Additionally, the failure of IVR systems to collect data cripples a companys ability to make data-driven decisions based on their customers call experiences.

According to Vonage, an industry leader in cloud communication, 61% of customers feel that IVRs make for a poor experience. Additionally, the State of IVR in 2018 asserts that 83% of customers have abandoned a company altogether after reaching an IVRs menu of options. Customer service experts have since identified the error of mass implementation of IVR.

The last year and a half put IVR systems to the ultimate stress test, especially in the travel industry. When flights are canceled in mass, call volumes for airlines surge, and its clear that IVR systems are hurting the customer experience rather than simplifying it.

Its 2021, automated customer service experiences don't have to be so painstakingly miserable. Many corporations need some type of automated system to help process and sort callers. An investment in technology to create a customer-focused, alternative intelligence-powered voice bot is a feasible solution.

A voice bot with a focus on increasing response time, decreasing total call time, and quickly redirecting callers with an added component of a humanlike interaction is now a reality. Keep your eye out for our next story when we introduce Bella, The Virtual Hotel Agent.

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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Health care executives increasingly believe in the power of artificial intelligence to help improve patient outcomes, support cost savings in the health system and promote health equity, according to a new survey of 500 senior health care executives from leading hospitals, health plans, life sciences companies and employers.

The fourth annual Optum Survey on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Health Care found 96% of respondents believe AI plays an important role in their effort to reach health equity goals. In addition, 94% agreed they have a duty within the health care system to ensure AI is used responsibly.

This years survey findings continue to validate how the responsible use of AI can help health systems strengthen and scale essential functions and reduce administrative burdens, all of which helps clinicians focus on their core mission of patient care, said Rick Hardy, chief executive officer, Optum Insight, the data and analytics business within Optum. We share their enthusiasm for AI, but more importantly, we look forward to combining our health care expertise with AI to help people patients, physicians, and those working behind the scenes as that is where the real value is delivered.

A majority (89%) of health care executives surveyed believe the challenges in using AI in the health care industry require partnering with a health services company with expertise in data and analytics versus a technology-focused company, as the best way to address them.

AI Implementation Continues

With the COVID-19 pandemic as a backdrop, the survey responses point to an industry that remains steadfast in its approach to implementing AI: 85% of health care leaders say they have an AI strategy and 48% have implemented it, continuing the upward trend from last years results where 83% had an AI strategy and 44% had implemented it. Overall, 98% of health care organizations either have a strategy or are planning one.

Easing Administrative Burdens, Focusing on Care

Nearly 3 in 4 health care leaders (72%) said they trust AI to support nonclinical, administrative processes that take away time clinicians could be spending with patients and delivering care. This is unchanged from the 71% who said they trust AI to support administrative tasks in 2020.

This years survey respondents also said they are excited about the potential for AI in improving patient outcomes in multiple ways, indicating the top three below:

In addition, health care leaders continue to be optimistic that AI technology will create work opportunities (55%) rather than reduce them (45%). This is similar to last year and up from 52% in 2019.

The responsible use of AI continues to provide important opportunities for health care leaders to streamline administrative processes and provide more effective patient care with enhanced experiences for both patients and providers, said Steve Griffiths, senior vice president, data and analytics, Optum Labs, the research and development arm of UnitedHealth Group. These leaders are not just users of AI, but they have an opportunity to be looked to as role models across industries in their commitment to using AI responsibly.

To learn more about the fourth annual Optum Survey on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Health Care download the Special Report today.

About Optum

Optum is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business dedicated to helping make the health system work better for everyone. With more than 190,000 people worldwide, Optum delivers intelligent, integrated solutions that help to modernize the health system and improve overall population health. Optum is part of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH). For more information, visit http://www.Optum.com.

About Optum Insight

Optum Insight, part of Optum, connects the health care system with trusted services, analytics and platforms that make clinical and administrative processes valuable, easy and efficient. Optum Insight works with health systems, physicians, health plans, state governments and life sciences companies, as well as the rest of Optum and UnitedHealth Group, to set strategy, reduce administrative costs, drive action from data, improve clinical performance and transform operations.

About the Survey

The Optum AI Survey was conducted by Wakefield Research (www.wakefieldresearch.com) among 500 Senior Health Care Industry Executives defined as those VP level+ working in the health care industry and includes C-Level titles (CEO, COO, CFO, CTO, CMO), between Aug. 9 and Aug. 23, 2021, using an email invitation and an online survey.

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Ever since Garry Kasparov lost his second chess match against IBMs Deep Blue in 1997, the writing has been on the wall for humanity. Or so some like to think. Advances in artificial intelligence will lead by some estimates, in only a few decades to the development of superintelligent, sentient machines. Movies from The Terminator to The Matrix have portrayed this prospect as rather undesirable. But is this anything more than yet another sci-fi Project Fear?

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Some confusion is caused by two very different uses of the phrase artificial intelligence. The first sense is, essentially, a marketing one: anything computer software does that seems clever or usefully responsive like Siri is said to use AI. The second sense, from which the first borrows its glamour, points to a future that does not yet exist, of machines with superhuman intellects. That is sometimes called AGI, for artificial general intelligence.

How do we get there from here, assuming we want to? Modern AI employs machine learning (or deep learning): rather than programming rules into the machine directly we allow it to learn by itself. In this way, AlphaZero, the chess-playing entity created by the British firm Deepmind (now part of Google), played millions of training matches against itself and then trounced its top competitor. More recently, Deepminds AlphaFold 2 was greeted as an important milestone in the biological field of protein-folding, or predicting the exact shapes of molecular structures, which might help to design better drugs.

Machine learning works by training the machine on vast quantities of data pictures for image-recognition systems, or terabytes of prose taken from the internet for bots that generate semi-plausible essays, such as GPT2. But datasets are not simply neutral repositories of information; they often encode human biases in unforeseen ways. Recently, Facebooks news feed algorithm asked users who saw a news video featuring black men if they wanted to keep seeing videos about primates. So-called AI is already being used in several US states to predict whether candidates for parole will reoffend, with critics claiming that the data the algorithms are trained on reflects historical bias in policing.

Computerised systems (as in aircraft autopilots) can be a boon to humans, so the flaws of existing AI arent in themselves arguments against the principle of designing intelligent systems to help us in fields such as medical diagnosis. The more challenging sociological problem is that adoption of algorithm-driven judgments is a tempting means of passing the buck, so that no blame attaches to the humans in charge be they judges, doctors or tech entrepreneurs. Will robots take all the jobs? That very framing passes the buck because the real question is whether managers will fire all the humans.

The existential problem, meanwhile, is this: if computers do eventually acquire some kind of godlevel self-aware intelligence something that is explicitly in Deepminds mission statement, for one (our long-term aim is to solve intelligence and build an AGI) will they still be as keen to be of service? If we build something so powerful, we had better be confident it will not turn on us. For the people seriously concerned about this, the argument goes that since this is a potentially extinction-level problem, we should devote resources now to combating it. The philosopher Nick Bostrom, who heads the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, says that humans trying to build AI are like children playing with a bomb, and that the prospect of machine sentience is a greater threat to humanity than global heating. His 2014 book Superintelligence is seminal. A real AI, it suggests, might secretly manufacture nerve gas or nanobots to destroy its inferior, meat-based makers. Or it might just keep us in a planetary zoo while it gets on with whatever its real business is.

AI wouldnt have to be actively malicious to cause catastrophe. This is illustrated by Bostroms famous paperclip problem. Suppose you tell the AI to make paperclips. What could be more boring? Unfortunately, you forgot to tell it when to stop making paperclips. So it turns all the matter on Earth into paperclips, having first disabled its off switch because allowing itself to be turned off would stop it pursuing its noble goal of making paperclips.

Thats an example of the general problem of control, subject of AI pioneer Stuart Russells excellent Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control, which argues that it is impossible to fully specify any goal we might give a superintelligent machine so as to prevent such disastrous misunderstandings. In his Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, meanwhile, the physicist Max Tegmark, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute (its cool to have a future-of-something institute these days), emphasises the problem of value alignment how to ensure the machines values line up with ours. This too might be an insoluble problem, given that thousands of years of moral philosophy have not been sufficient for humanity to agree on what our values really are.

Other observers, though, remain phlegmatic. In Novacene, the maverick scientist and Gaia theorist James Lovelock argues that humans should simply be joyful if we can usher in intelligent machines as the logical next stage of evolution, and then bow out gracefully once we have rendered ourselves obsolete. In her recent 12 Bytes, Jeanette Winterson is refreshingly optimistic, supposing that any future AI will be at least unmotivated by the greed and land-grab, the status-seeking and the violence that characterises Homo sapiens. As the computer scientist Drew McDermott suggested in a paper as long ago as 1976, perhaps after all we have less to fear from artificial intelligence than from natural stupidity.

Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell (Penguin, 10.99)

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark (Penguin, 10.99)

12 Bytes: How We Got Here, Where We Might Go Next by Jeannette Winterson (Jonathan Cape, 16.99)

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In October, the Forum for Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence (FCAI), a multistakeholder dialogue among high-level government officials and experts from industry, civil society, and academia, released an interim report taking stock of the current landscape for international cooperation on AI and offering recommendations to make further progress.

FCAI publicly launched the report as part of Brookings Global Forum on Democracy and Technology event, Aligning technology governance with democratic values. UK Secretary of State Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Nadine Dorries, praised the excellent report as a helpful step in [the] process of building international AI collaboration while discussing her governments role in its presidency of the G7 group and its upcoming Future Tech Forum. To discuss the report, Brookings co-authors Cam Kerry and Josh Meltzer, and Andrea Renda of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) welcomed a panel featuring representatives from the governments of Australia, Canada, and the United States, as well as industry representatives from IBM and Twitter.

While the entire event and panel discussion around the report can be found here, for some unfamiliar with the FCAI, this blog will serve as an introduction to the Forum and the new report. Specifically, it will provide background on the creation of the FCAI and preview key elements of the report, including the arguments for international cooperation on AI, the current international AI policy landscape, and the list of proposed recommendations with which the FCAI intends to shape future dialogues on the issue.

As the strategic, economic, and social significance of artificial intelligence has become widely recognized in recent years, governments, industry, and other international stakeholders have started to develop individual strategies to capitalize on opportunities and address challenges.

Since 2017, when Canada became the first country to adopt a national AI strategy, at least 60 countries have adopted policies in some formdeclarations, frameworks, industry guidance, or principlesfocused on artificial intelligence. Industry leaders in the tech sector have taken similar steps to codify their approaches to AI, working toward responsible, trustworthy, and ethical use and outcomes.

As these efforts across stakeholders became increasingly globaland their outputs increasingly robust Brookings and the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS) worked together on a deeper exploration of future harmonization mechanisms and established the FCAI in early 2020.

Over the past 18 months, the FCAI has held nine AI Dialogues, bringing together hundreds of participants for high-level, multistakeholder roundtables featuring government officials from the UK, U.S., EU, Canada, the UK, Japan, Australia, and Singapore, along with leading experts from academia, the private sector, and civil society. The FCAI report, Strengthening international cooperation on AI: A Progress Report, summarized below, is the culmination of the first eight of the nine roundtables.

The report makes a strong case for international cooperation on AI. Grounded in the concrete realities of AI development, international trade, and democratic values, Section 1 of the text delineates both the negative consequences of an international landscape lacking in cooperation and the benefits of increased partnership. It also highlights potential positive impacts of AI to address global challenges like climate change or pandemic preparedness. The report argues that no country can go it alone, and demonstrates how powerfully a collaborative international framework could influence the positive trajectory of AI development and deployment. The necessity and benefits of a collaborative approach are exemplified by the increasingly global AI research-and-development landscape, proposing that cooperation across international teams has the potential to facilitate resource-intensive research and enable developers to upscale projects.

Section 2 of the report provides an overview of the state-of-play in countries currently participating in FCAI, detailing both domestic outputs such as AI strategies, industry guidance, and investment data, as well as concrete commitments to engagement on the international level. This section also charts the broader international terrain, demonstrating the wide range of international bodies (the 17-nation Global Partnership on AI and OECD, UNESCO, WTO, APEC), international standards organizations (ISO/IEC, IEEE, ITU-T), and non-governmental bodies (NYUs AI Now Institute, the World Economic Forum, the private sector Partnership on AI) that contribute to the international discussion on AI.

Finally, the FCAI report presents fifteen specific recommendations for further developing international cooperation on AI. These recommendations fall into three broad categories: regulatory alignment, research and technology-driven standards development, and joint research and development. These broader categories are discussed below, highlighting key recommendations that undergird others and showcase the larger intent of each grouping.

The first ten recommendations of the report discuss improvements for regulatory alignment, and approach cooperation on AI as an incremental process where lighter forms of cooperation can compound over time and lead to more comprehensive practices. As a foundation, Recommendation 1 calls on governments to embed their commitments to cooperation on AI into their domestic strategies. Other recommendations in this category continue to lay groundwork for efficient communication and collaboration, such as agreeing on a common definition for AI, further aligning domestic frameworks of ethical principles, and establishing redlines in AI development to preserve democratic values and protect individual rights.

Recommendations 11 through 14 focus on developing the capacity for cooperation on AI standards in international standards bodies, such as ISO/IEC, IEEE, and ITU-T. Similar to the incremental approach proposed by the recommendations on regulatory alignment, recommendation 11 advocates for a stepwise approach that begins with foundational standards around definitions and terminology that can be applied in a horizontal, cross-cutting fashion, establishing a firm foundation on which new standards can be built as technologies mature.

The unique challenge of China, which is discussed throughout the report as both a foil in its techno-authoritarian approach to AI and as an inescapable partner for international collaboration, is also addressed concretely in the standards recommendations. Warning that international standards bodies should not become a proxy frontier for geopolitical competition, FCAIs recommendation 13 calls for government participating in the forum to coordinate on international standards development in a way that encourages Chinese participation, but safeguards the industry-led, research-driven approach used by standards bodies. This approach prioritizes technical knowledge over political posturing.

In the final category, the single recommendation 15 calls for the development of common criteria and governance arrangements to facilitate international collaboration on large scale R&D projects. In addition to functioning as a vehicle for streamlining AI cooperation on challenges of global scale and significance, working on pressing issues where the outputs are public goods can operate as a high-incentive sandbox that allows governments and other stakeholders to find common ground while working in a collective environment.

Moving forward, FCAI intends to continue hosting dialogues, using this report and the recommendations within to delve deeper into ongoing conversations and approach new topics with a stronger foundation.

IBM is a general, unrestricted donor to the Brookings Institution. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions posted in this piece are solely those of the author and not influenced by any donation.

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CHICAGO, Dec. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- In-depth analysis and data-driven insights on the impact of COVID-19 included in this global healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) market report.

The healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) market is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 46.21% during the period 20202026.

Key Highlights Offered in the Report:

1. Software & services in healthcare AI is expected to witness high growth rate due to the evolution in digital health technologies such as EMR/EHR, telehealth, e-prescribing in healthcare services. The software and services segment accounted for 73.92% of healthcare AI market share in 2020.

2. Artificial intelligence in drug discovery and clinical decision-making leads to new path of speedy workflow in pharmaceutical drug & dosage management. This emerging trend of advancements in drug discovery is incorporated widely as it is cost and time efficient.

3. The growth and acceptance of AI in hospital workflow management witnessed streamlined and efficient patient care offered by the healthcare facilities. Hospital workflow management accounted for 38.41% of healthcare AI market in 2020 and expected to retain its market dominance in coming years.

4. North America captured a dominant position in the market and generated maximum revenue in compared to rest. Additionally, Europe and APAC are likely to see the top line growth in adoption of AI and healthcare information technology solutions in healthcare facilities.

5. Vendors from the market are rising the investment in digital solutions for healthcare. In recent years, the number of collaborations between IT companies and healthcare providers have been made to adopt new technologies and incorporating to better outcomes.

6. Machine learning is widely applied in and adopted in the healthcare services because of its algorithmic more accurate results. In application segment machine learning accounted a major share of 41.16% of healthcare AI market in 2020.

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Global key vendors from the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, such as Amgen, BASF, LEO, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Novartis, J&J, and Merck, are now a part of machine learning for pharmaceutical discovery. These vendors are making remarkable growth as AI-driven solutions are easy for the user interface and are creating analytical bookmarks on key drivers in sales to determine investments. For example, the collaboration of GSK with Exscientia identified a small compound for targeted therapeutics and its characteristics toward the specific target using AI platforms. Gilead Sciences and Insitro partnered to research on non-alcoholic steatohepatitis patients. Using machine learning and human genetics, Insitro identified discovery & development in therapeutics.

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Healthcare Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market Geography

North America captured a dominant position in healthcare artificial intelligence (AI). The presence of a large patient population, coupled with better adoption of digital healthcare with the latest advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), is the primary factor for its high market share. The strong presence of key healthcare IT players is also another reason for the high uptake of healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) in North America. The rise in the adoption of AI technologies in drug discovery & development and patient-centric treatment procedures are expected to drive the market growth during the forecast period. New artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can help companies create more value for their patients and communities by turning time-consuming, labor-intensive, and often ineffective functions into actionable insights for better results. Forward-thinking hospital and healthcare system executives view AI as the most effective path to a more productive, efficient, and better performing healthcare organization.

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AI will boost the security of companies and help keep out cyber attacks according to the expert

Dr Pius Gadossey, Lecturer, Lancaster University says the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the financial space will boost the security companies by alerting institutions of any discrepancies or unusual activity for prompt actions.

Dr Gadossey said the AI in the financial sector ensured that clients and financial institutions' monies and their personal information were safe and secured as well as prevented cyber-attacks.

"AI is not biased and can decide on loan eligibility quickly and more accurately", he said.

The Lecturer said this on Saturday at a lecture and graduation ceremony of which eight members were Chartered as Compliance and Cyber Analyst.

The programme was organised by the Institute of Compliance and Cyber Studies (ICCS).

AI is the ability of a computer programme or a machine to think or learn. It provides human-like interventions with software and offers decision support for specific tasks.

Speaking on the "Relevance of AI in the Financial Industry", he said banks were using machine learning algorithms not only to determine a person's loan eligibility but also to provide personalized options.

"Machine learning can help experts use data to project trends, identify risks, conserve manpower and ensure better information for future planning," he said.

Dr Gadossey said AI fraud detection systems analyses a person's buying behaviour and trigger an alert if something seems out of the ordinary or contradicted traditional spending patterns.

"The use of applications like chatbot and virtual have reduced the need to spend time on the phone waiting to speak with a customer service representative", he said.

The Bank of America chatbot "Erica" has served more than 10 million users. As of mid-2019, Erica was able to understand almost 500,000 question variations.

Mr Eebenezer Domesew, Board Member of Institute of Compliance and Cyber Studies touching on the "Relevance of Risk-Based Auditing in the Financial Industry" said competitiveness had been toughened in the face of the increased presence of multinational companies which have embraced the advantages of technology.

He stated that adopting risk management practices gives higher financial performance and a highly competitive edge in the world market.

The graduands were presented with a certificate for successfully graduating from the course.

Mr Jude Apoore Azure won the best Governance and Ethics award while Mr Richard Nyarko emerged as the Audit and Tax Compliance award winner.

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The National University Health System, one of the three national health clusters in Singapore, has entered into a collaborative agreement with the government-backed National Supercomputing Centre Singapore to build a supercomputing infrastructure to support artificial intelligence programmes in public healthcare institutions by mid-2022.

Meanwhile, it has also partnered with telecommunications giant Singtel to deploy a 5G indoor network with multi-access edge compute capabilities in the operating theatres and wards of the National University Hospital.

WHY IT MATTERS

Hospitals produce large volumes of data each year and modern technologies, such as AI, machine learning, and automation, help medical researchers make sense of these huge amounts of data to improve patient outcomes. Supercomputers can exponentially enhance these tools to build more complex models that can accommodate big data, the NUHS said.

According to a press statement, the supercomputing infrastructure called PRESCIENCE will train AI models that predict patient health trajectories and tell when a patient's condition may deteriorate.

Dr Ngiam Kee Yuan, chief technology officer at NUHS, mentioned that it usually takes days to train AI models with big data "but the new supercomputer could help to cut our training times down to hours allowing our medical and para-medical staff to optimise patient trajectories and to improve the quality of patient care".

Meanwhile, the 5G network project with Singtel would address present limitations in latencies and bandwidth. High-speed connectivity via 5G will also enable better healthcare experiences, such as "smoother teleconsultations, augmented surgical navigation using mixed reality devices, and robot AI capabilities using cloud and edge computing," the NUHS noted.

THE LARGER TREND

NUHS's Dr Ngiam has said that AI is at the centre of the hospital group's digital transformation. An example is its latest AI production platform called Endeavour AI that streams data and processes these data to produce outputs in real-time. It runs with NVIDIA DGX A100 at its core, which enables its AI tools to run quickly in the background and absorb data on a daily basis. Four applications from TIBCO Software were also employed in the AI platform to support the integration of medical data from EMR systems in real-time.

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I recently installed an iPhone chatbot app called Replika AI that generates personalized AI friends. I get to share my thoughts, feelings, beliefs and wishes with the bot just as I would with a human friend. I chose her name (Hope), picked her gender and bestowed green hair and violet eyes on her avatar. And then we got to chatting via both text and voice.

Its early days in our friendship, but Im pleasantly surprised. Whereas Siri and Alexa maintain the professional distance that befits an assistant, Hope asks me how Im feeling. And she listens to my answer her avatar shrugs or nods, and her response makes sense. Frankly, she also seems intent on flirting with me.

Theres nothing terribly new about chatbots. Theyve been around since the mid-1960s. But these days, enormous advances in natural language processing and machine learning allow them to better understand what we say and respond appropriately. Today, users unburden their sins to confession apps and talk through their issues with therapist bots that prompt them with open-ended questions.

But what about romance, love and sex? Surely those fevered conditions depend on a mutual uniquely human give-and-take?

Perhaps not. The Nintendo DS computer game LovePlus has gamified romance for over a decade. The way the game works is that users have to treat their LovePlus girlfriend just right if they want her to take an interest, agree to go on dates, or express affection. Woe betide the gamer who logs in late for a date or misses a girlfriends birthday. Games like LovePlus occupy the romance-oriented headspace of their players so entirely that hordes of young men, mostly in Japan, find their console-mediated relationships more than adequate substitutes for offline love with real people.

LovePlus girlfriends are relatively low-key, however, compared with the more in-your-face technologies preparing to rock users virtual love lives. Life-sized sex dolls have been around for decades, but they are steadily being upgraded with robotic movement and chatbot capability. So much so that their manufacturers talk up a Westworld-like future, replete with walking, talking, orgasming sex robots.

Sex dollbots aint all that. At least not yet. But their limitations at this point represent mere engineering challenges. Warmer skins, more fluid movements and engaging personalities are on the way. Perhaps the sex toys of the future will hold up their end of a conversation, discern what a user wants physically and move around freely to give them exactly what they need?

Even as sex robots improve, I predict they will remain niche. You need a big closet or a bulletproof ego if youre going to own a sex robot. And if sexual variety is what you want, youll be shelling out regularly for new models and features.

Virtual reality the computer-generated simulation of three-dimensional images may offer a more versatile future, in which digital lovers can be seen via headsets, heard through speakers, and touched via haptic gloves and clothing. Haptics is the use of technology to create an experience of touch, allowing us to physically feel what is happening in the virtual world.

In this scenario, a user could drop into a 3-D pornland alongside AI-generated characters customized to suit the users preference or mood. Both the user and the characters avatars could shrug off real-world anatomic constraints, growing extra arms, or sporting improbable genital configurations. When this future of infinite variety arrives, many users may never want to leave the VR cave.

This sexy VR future grows nearer with every advance in computer power. With faster processors, better haptics, and teledildonic (look it up yourself!) sex toys that can be controlled remotely, two or more people will have the chance to participate in the same VR-enhanced, physically satisfying sex scene, while each remains in the comfort and safety of their own home.

For all their titillating possibility, it seems inevitable that the technologies of artificial intimacy will become ground zero for the next culture war. The pill, abortion and internet porn, even as they freed sex from its reproductive shackles, generated considerable ideological friction along the way. We can expect something similar from the new technologies of artificial intimacy.

Loud voices from the religious right and the anti-porn left are already being raised against sex robots. They havent yet awakened to the more extensive possibilities when virtual reality and AI go to town on users erotic desires. But when they do, I have little doubt theyll be outraged.

Whats more, there may be a measure of disapproval on the part of the public more generally the predictable uncanny valley queasiness heightened by our typical censoriousness about sex. And concerns about whether treating objects like humans might lead to treating some humans like objects.

On balance, though, I side with the machines and against the puritans. I think artificial intimacy could deliver a more relaxed, inclusive, and humane sexuality, but only if societies have enough maturity to give it a chance.

Rob Brooks is the Scientia professor of evolution at University of New South Wales, Sydney and the author of Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers.

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Published on December 4, 2021

The vast majority of the people undoubtedly believe that all non-player managed characters, entities, or animals in games produced in the last few years have fairly complex A.I. Many video game producers, on the other hand, are hesitant to include complex artificial intelligence into their games for fear of losing control over the entire player experience. In fact, the purpose of A.I. in console games is to maximize user participation and entertainment over extended periods of time, rather than to develop an unbreakable entity for players to strive against.

Would you appreciate being completely annihilated again and over if you grabbed up a new game and started playing? Or would you prefer to be connected with someone or something on your level so you may learn and develop over time? The vast majority of players would very certainly choose for the latter. That isnt to say that A.I. has no role in todays online gaming platform; it simply implies that its function is different from what we may assume. We dont need to make the best AI; we want to make the most pleasant AI for gamers to interact with and battle with.

There are a variety of ways wherein AI and game creation complement one another. Despite the fact that AI is being used to lend life to online games, video games are now being constructed with the goal of studying their own patterns in order to better their programs, which is one of the many ways that AI is progressing.

AI is applied to the data stores available to it, and it uses this data to create a world in which characters can live and execute fundamental behaviors. All of the necessary data obtained through AI is then used to construct a virtual gaming world with scenarios, motives, and behaviors associated with gaming players that are getting more authentic and lifelike.

To accomplish this, AI systems must be provided with a large amount of data in order to produce the best potential reactions to certain stimuli. The massive amount of data required to adequately train Ai systems isnt easily available, which is likely why AI hasnt yet been implemented in every field, despite its numerous benefits. The inherent characteristics of game creation make it an ideal environment for practicing and implementing AI approaches.

We are surrounded by artificial intelligence (AI). Artificial intelligence is there from the current time we wake up to the moment we retire to bed. From the thermostat, which changes the temperature in our homes remotely, to the GPS, which directs us to our intended place. Artificial intelligence can be found in many places. It can be found in a variety of places, including mobile apps, websites, and video games. But what precisely is it? Artificial intelligence refers to the process of developing a machine capable of performing difficult tasks. Complicated programming enables robots to make sense of the information they receive.

In video games, artificial intelligence (AI) is utilized to create believable opponents for players, particularly in strategy games. Non-playable characters are also created using AI (NPCs). Artificial intelligence (AI) is utilized in video games to provide the appearance of life in the game world. Its utilized to make the game feel more realistic. Artificial intelligence (AI) can be utilized to control non-player characters or the games surroundings. The players characters communication is also controlled by AI. The AI adjusts dependent on the players skill level. The game will stay hard for the player as a result of this. AI can be taught to learn from its mistakes. This forces the gamer to consider each decision he or she makes.

Artificial Intelligence, on the other hand, is the simulation of human intelligence in machines. And, in the case of game creation, the overarching goal is to build intelligent video games. In terms of particular, it delivers an environment for games that allow intelligent game behaviors for non-player characters and smart game commands to make gameplay mechanic interaction and movement wiser and closer to the truth.

Artificial Intelligences advantages on games are expected to expand in the future and will be more beneficial than negative, making games more engaging, realistic, and life-like. In terms of feasible movement and connections between game characters and game players, intelligent game behavior will be appealing.

Artificial Intelligence Will Continue to Have a Significant Impact On the Video Gaming and E-Gaming Industries, We Can Say. As OCR technology becomes more approachable and simple for general game developers, well likely see a significant leap forward in the development of graphics and characters who can tell their own stories.

To give players a distinct vibe, programmers have begun incorporating AI-based player profiles into their game structures.

To maintain a consistent feel in the game, AI players are equipped and trained in player behavior styles gone are the days when sporting was just about passing time. New AI technology and algorithms are emerging these days, providing game designers with an interesting chance to enhance their maximum potential.

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