Swish

In Just 4 Hours, Google’s AI Mastered All The Chess Knowledge in History https://futurism.com/4-hours-googles-ai-mastered-chess-k//

"Whether you're expanding your existing infrastructure or moving aggressively to the cloud, there is no such thing as a magic easy button for IT. While it's easy to get excited about new cloud services and other new technology, 80 percent of the IT budget is usually spent on existing operations."

'He reminded security programmers that "security problems are just bugs." And, that security hardening patches should never result "in killing processes. The only process I'm interested in is the _development_ process, where we find bugs and fix them."'

"[A] team of GE Healthcare engineers is using the knowledge gained from more than a century in the industry and access to the world’s largest medical equipment installed base to reinvent X-Ray. They have created the X-ray Quality Application, an analytics tool that in the future, will integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning to help hospitals set a new standard for intelligent scanners and raise the bar for efficient, high-value patient care starting with helping to automatically identify and analyze the root causes of rejected X-ray images."

The AI boom in healthcare is just starting, and the up-and-coming list of players is endless. Niramai is working on early detection of breast cancer. Ten3T is providing remote health monitoring services via AI to detect anomalies and alert the doctor. HealthifyMe, a Bangalore startup, is working on lifestyle diseases like obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. With its AI-enabled nutrition coach, Ria, HealthifyMe brings the best of elite nutrition expertise with AI in the loop.

"When we asked Fidji Simo what she wanted to share with our readers, she polled her team at Facebook to see what they would highlight as her core competency. What attribute or habit has prompted her rocket-fueled rise through the company’s ranks? There was quick and enthusiastic consensus: Simo has the uncanny ability to juggle many important projects and priorities without losing focus."

Did you do your Black Friday shopping online this year? Mobile or Web?

"Jakob Nielsen, the founding member of the Nielsen Norman Group, offers an excellent insight into potential confusion in mental modelling. This takes place when users fail to recognise key differences between similar (but not identical) parts of a system. He observes that many users seem unable to distinguish between the search field on Google and the URL entry field in a browser. These users will use Google to search for the name of a well-known website in order to click the link rather than simply entering the name plus .com in the URL bar. (A problem that Google Chrome, shown below, tries to resolve by making the URL bar a search tool)."

"For companies, these new technologies may improve productivity in a meaningful way, particularly in sectors that are less digitized than others, such as capital goods, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and financial services. Many of these business sectors have a wide range of data flowing through their systems, and don’t necessarily use that data to its full potential."

"Piloted in factories during the years that Google Glass was dormant, and now roaring back to life and commercially available, the Google Glass relaunch got under way in earnest in July of 2017. The difference here was the specific audience: workers in factories who need hands-free computing because they need to use their hands at the same time."

Civil promises to use the technology to build decentralized marketplaces for readers and journalists to work together to fund coverage of topics that interest them, or for those in the public interest."