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Mark Hurd used the firm's EMEA conference to make predictions around the union between disruptive tech such as AI and the cloud Artificial intelligence will be seamlessly integrated into all cloud apps by 2025 rather than being introduced as an afterthought, according to Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. During the same time frame, as the world of business shifts further towards this increased use of AI and automation, there will be mass job creation rather than annihilation. Indeed, claims Hurd, some 60% of the IT jobs that will be required come 2025 don't actually exist today. "The reality is cloud adoption is moving faster than predicted. Cloud is not just a technology. Cloud is a strategy, cloud is a business model," Hurd told delegates in attendance at the firm's Oracle OpenWorld event in London. What's more, AI and robots will need to be managed and monitored in a way not too dissimilar to current, human employee/employer relationships. "There will be a superv...

Opening the platform up means developers and AI experts to develop cross-device AI tools AWS has released its Neo-AI code as an open source project, encouraging developers and other AI experts to contribute to the platform. The company explained that usually, ensuring a machine learning model works across a variety of hardware platforms (especially those running on edge networks) is difficult because there are so many factors and limitations to consider. Even in less complicated devices, there are so many software variations that it can be tricky to make sure machine learning works across all of them. As a result, manufacturers and vendors are being limited by which companies they can work with to provide machine learning tools they require. With AWS’s Neo-AI, machine learning models are automatically optimised for use TensorFlow, MXNet, PyTorch, ONNX, and XGBoost models, converting them into common formats to work on a wider variety of devices. The models can be run at a fa...

India's Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been ranked third most-valued IT services brand globally in 2018-19, after Accenture and IBM, according to a report by Brand Finance. Four Indian IT services companies -- TCS, Infosys, HCL and Wipro -- clinched spots in the top-10 global tally. Valued at $26.3 billion, Accenture took the title of the world's most-valued IT services brand. The tag was previously held by IBM, which now occupied the second place with a brand value of $20.4 billion, according to the report. "Holding steady in third place is India's largest IT services conglomerate, TCS, up 23% to $12.8 billion, with a value bolstered by the brand's disciplined focus on the market's increased demand for digital services," it added. Brand Finance said TCS is also the first Indian IT services brand to achieve success in the Japanese market and has positioned itself as a leader in providing a superior all-round customer experience, leverag...

Source: Maharashtra Times (Mumbai edition) Marathi dated January 22, 2019 (Accessed on January 22, 2019)

HIGHLIGHTS The course will include study of algorithms, signal processing, robotics It will also teach the ethical impact of AI and related technologies B.Tech. in Artificial Intelligence will be offered from 2019-2020 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad is introducing a new B. Tech. course in Artificial Intelligence that will be available to the students beginning the coming academic year (2019-2020). It is the first such full-fledged B. Tech. programme to be offered by an Indian university. Even internationally, only select institutions like Carnegie Mellon University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are currently offering similar courses, claimed IIT Hyderabad in a press release. According to a  report  in NDTV, the B.Tech. in Artificial Intelligence course will intake 20 students each year, who will be selected through the JEE Advanced entrance examination that the students across the country take every year to get admission in th...

In the past few years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has remained in the limelight with countries like China and the US leading the way. But, did you know that India too has joined the AI bandwagon? According to a latest LinkedIn report, India ranks third in the global front with respect to the penetration of AI skills (46%) just after China (48%) and the US (46%)! Exciting, isn’t it? Stating that AI is ushering in a new era of digital revolution, the report highlighted three key points: With an increase of 190% between 2015-17, AI skills are one of the most widely growing skills on LinkedIn. The industries incorporating more AI skills within their workforce are the most dynamic industries. The countries that record the highest usage of skills in and around AI are China, the USA, Israel, and Germany. Another study titled The Augmented Human Enterprise (a collaborative study by Goldsmiths, the University of London, and Automation Anywhere) reinforces India’s stand as one amon...

Mumbai-based Amrut Deshmukh is gaining popularity for summarising the bestselling books, in just 20 minutes. He shares the book briefs as text or audio messages via WhatsApp. To read more about him and his mission, do have a look at the following websites: https://www.edexlive.com/people/2018/apr/19/amrut-deshmukhs-booklet-app-lets-you-read-a-book-in-20-minutes-2511.html  (Accessed on January 22, 2019) Do watch his interviews on YouTube at: Amrut & Amit - Zapatlepan Te Janatepan - YouTube Making India Read | Amrut Deshmukh | TEDxNayapura - YouTube Download "Booklet App" by Amrut Deshmukh from  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.booklet.app&hl=en_IN

A total of 118 Videos created by NPTEL on Deep Learning. Visit the below URL for the entire playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyqSpQzTE6M9gCgajvQbc68Hk_JKGBAYT  (Accessed on January 22, 2019)

An introductory lecture overviewing the basics of deep learning including a few key ideas, subfields, and the big picture of why neural networks have inspired and energized an entire new generation of researchers. For more lecture videos visit our website or follow code tutorials on our GitHub repo. INFO: Website: https://deeplearning.mit.edu GitHub: https://github.com/lexfridman/mit-dee... Slides: http://bit.ly/deep-learning-basics-sl... Playlist: http://bit.ly/deep-learning-playlist OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:53 - Deep learning in one slide 4:55 - History of ideas and tools 9:43 - Simple example in TensorFlow 11:36 - TensorFlow in one slide 13:32 - Deep learning is representation learning 16:02 - Why deep learning (and why not) 22:00 - Challenges for supervised learning 38:27 - Key low-level concepts 46:15 - Higher-level methods 1:06:00 - Toward artificial general intelligence Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5xeyoRL95U (Accessed on January 22, 201...

New lecture on recent developments in deep learning is defined in the state of the art in our field (algorithms, applications, and tools). This is a complete list, but hopefully a good sampling of new exciting ideas. For more lecture videos visit our website or follow code tutorials on our GitHub repo. INFO: Website: https://deeplearning.mit.edu GitHub: https: //github.com/lexfridman/mit-dee ... Slides: http://bit.ly/2HiZyvP Playlist: http: // bit ly / deep-learning-playlist OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 2:00 - BERT and Natural Language Processing 14:00 - Tesla Autopilot Hardware v2 +: Neural Networks at Scale 16:25 - AdaNet: AutoML with Ensembles 18:32 - AutoAugment: Deep RL Data Augmentation 22:53 - Training Deep Networks with Synthetic Data 24:37 - Segmentation Annotation with Polygon-RNN ++ 26:39 - DAWNBench: Training Fast and Cheap 29:06 - BigGAN: State of the Art in Image Synthesis 30:14 - Video-to-Video Synthesis 32:12 - Semantic Segmentation 36:...

Deep learning capabilities are driving powerful new opportunities for AI.  Deep learning using neural networks and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) is starting to surpass machine learning for image recognition and other applications. Deep neural networks are helping to advance self-driving cars, faster development of new drugs, and real-time multiple-language translation for online chats.  Find out more about:  Machine learning versus deep learning The power of inference GPUs delivering near real-time performance To read the full-text, visit the following URL: https://www.tcs.com/content/dam/tcs/pdf/technologies/artificial-intelligence/abstract/Deep-learning-with-neural-networks-and-GPUs-0917-1.pdf Source:  https://www.tcs.com/accelerating-the-power-of-deep-learning  (Accessed on January 22, 2019)

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been the talk of the start-up town for a while now. E-commerce major Flipkart plans to create an AI unit called AIForIndia. Online transportation network company Ola recently rolled out an AI-based real-time tracking mechanism for passenger safety. But Unicorns and established players aren't the only ones bullish on this technology. There is a clutch of newbie ventures that have focused their business models primarily around AI. From leveraging artificial intelligence for those in search of a life partner to deploying it for curating gourmet and healthy food menus, start-ups are utilising the much-in-demand technology in the most unique ways. AI offers tremendous growth potential for start-ups, with private sector investment scaling up over the years. As per industry estimates, more than $150 million has been invested across 400 AI-focused start-ups in India over the last few years. Meanwhile, private sector investments in AI in the US have be...

The researchers from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and ETH Zurich in Switzerland drew inspiration from bacteria to design the highly flexible biocompatible micro-robots. HIGHLIGHTS ·          Scientists have developed tiny, smart robots that can swim through blood vessels ·          These devices can pass through narrow blood vessels ·          The robots can be either controlled using an electromagnetic field or left to navigate Scientists have developed tiny, smart robots that can swim through blood vessels, paving the way for ingestible machines that could deliver drugs directly to diseased tissue in the future. The researchers from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and ETH Zurich in Switzerland drew inspiration from bacteria to design the highly flexible biocompatible micro-robots. Since these devi...

SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE TASK OF HANDING OUT AADHAAR CARD REGISTRATION FORMS TO PARENTS STARTING NEXT WEEK MUMBAI: Schools across Maharashtra have been asked to ensure that no student is left without an Aadhaar card. The education department recently received 816 machines from the government, which will be installed at schools across 408 talukas in the coming days. The circular issued by the education department reads: “While the card is not required for school admissions, it is still an essential document for midday meal, scholarships, etc. It is thus important for students to get the card to avail these facilities.” An official from the state education department said school staff will be trained for the task in the coming days. Students who have an Aadhaar card but are yet to update their biometric details on the portal also need to complete the process soon. Schools have been given the task of handing out forms to parents from the next week. After students regist...

Solutions were presented at Mumbai By Design, a festival organised by a city-based academy From building sensors to gauging traffic congestion in an area to magnetically levitated pods providing public transport, college students came up with innovative design-based solutions for transport-related problems in the city. The solutions were presented at Mumbai By Design, a festival organised by Pearl Academy — an education institute from Andheri — last week to celebrate the diversity and distinct cultural influences in the city. One of the competitions titled ‘Design Intervention’ invited design-led innovations to solve daily issues such as traffic management and rail efficiency. Students from 15 institutes present innovative measures and futuristic ideas to address these problems. Rajat Kushwaha, a student of the Industrial Design Centre at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) suggested installing electromagnetic induced charging for electric cars on roads. “We ...

GOOD READS Article / Infographic Gist URL / Source Accessed On How Technology Incumbents Can Realize Their Cloud Growth Ambitions Cloud services and related software and hardware accounted for the majority of IT growth in 2013–17. https://www.bain.com/insights/how-technology-incumbents-can-realize-their-cloud-growth-ambitions/   January 19, 2019 Top 5 Industries Blockchain is Likely to Disrupt [Infographic] 5 Industries Blockchain is Slated to Disrupt in The Coming Years https://medium.com/data-tech/top-5-industries-blockchain-is-likely-to-disrupt-infographic-615fa03b9ebf January 19, 2019 Three Ways AI is Impacting Logistics and Supply Chain Transportation, logistics and supply chain processes are going through intense transformation. We have identified three ways AI can revolutionize supply chain management and ...