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Chatbots for HR, staff wellbeing and mental health
Dean Withey is CEO of ubisend.
'Killer robots' are here to stay for now as UN ban looks a distant prospect
The head of UN body on autonomous weapons says "robots are not taking over the world".
Fraud Prevention: Does one size fit all?
Vishal Marria is CEO of Quantexa.
Using artificial intelligence for 'extreme vetting'? Not on our watch, 50 scientists say
Leading researchers castigated a federal plan that would use artificial intelligence (AI) methods to scrutinise immigrants and visa applicants, saying it is unworkable as written.
Blockchain bots: Why we need a decentralised and open AI future
Nathan Shedroff is Executive Director at Seed Vault Ltd
HFR launches 'Portfolioscope' - SaaS platform for hedge funds
New software service provides access to information on risk, attribution, performance, and other factors, global coverage of all assets classes.
Big data provider to the hedge fund industry drills into the challenges of location data
Real-time location data specialist Thasos has spent six years in stealth – one of those on-site at a $10bn-plus hedge fund.
Expensive lawyers under threat from artificial intelligence
A new law firm in far north Australia will use artificially intelligent lawyers to provide basic legal advice.
Who is Stuart Russell? Berkeley AI professor to screen film at UN calling for ban on 'killer robots'
Building killer robots is easier than making a self-driving car because cars have a higher standard of performance and safety, say scientists.
This $100m startup wants to enhance human intelligence by planting chips into your brain
The founder of Kernel, Bryan Johnson, plans to develop a brain implant within the next two decades that will enhance our cognitive abilities.
This AI bot fights scammers with inane email conversations
A new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has been created to fight back against pesky email scammers who fill up your inbox with dodgy links and the promise of riches.
AI and marketing: Control your emotions to take the prize
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has certainly hit the mainstream with undeniable force over the last year.
Artificial intelligence will soon be used to create 'weapons of mass destruction'
Hundreds of artificial intelligence (AI) experts are hoping to ban the weaponisation of autonomous technology, warning that it could become the "third revolution in warfare."
Stephen Hawking: AI could 'develop a will of its own' in conflict with ours that 'could destroy us'
"Unless we learn how to prepare for, and avoid, the potential risks, AI could be the worst event in the history of our civilization," Hawking said.
Citadel Datathon providing mainline into hottest new data science talent
20 teams of students will meet for the final championship at the New York Stock Exchange in November.
Why Thomson Reuters' introduction of enterprise graph analytics to its global customers is a big deal for big data
Older technology hasn't been able to keep up with data volumes and demand for insights; Cambridge Semantics' Sean Martin explains why business should sit up and take notice.
OpenMined: AI + blockchain = data democracy revolution
Andrew Trask, founder of the OpenMined project, will be talking about homomorphic encryption and deep learning at Newsweek's AI and data science conference in New York.
Big data: Estimize teaches the discretionary world about quant trading and data science
Estimize will be offering one of the L2Q training days as part of Newsweek's data science and capital markets event in New York later this year.
Stephen Hawking warns AI could 'replace humans altogether' and create a 'new form of life'
Hawking has previously cautioned that the rise of powerful AI will be "either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity".
Machine learning: What are the basics?
Jennifer Roubaud, VP of UK and Ireland with Dataiku, talks about Machine Learning and what it means for data driven organisations.
Big data: RavenPack collaborates with Credit Suisse on new Artificial Intelligence Sentiment Index
The AIS Index tracks the performance of a US large-cap sector-rotation strategy, based on sentiment scoring extracted from news data.
New AI-powered system created by Japanese researchers can detect bowel cancer in less than a second
The AI can be made to work with an endoscope, giving technicians accurate diagnoses almost instantly, claim researchers.
SoftBank wants to kick-start 'singularity', create AI with IQ of 10,000 in 30 years
According to SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, AI will surpass human intelligence by over 100 times in the next 30 years.
End of Captcha? This AI can crack powerful human-verification tool
A San Francisco-based company, Vicarious, has built an AI that can see and read like a human brain, effectively rendering Captchas obsolete.
Elon Musk trolled by humanoid robot Sophia that was granted citizenship by Saudi Arabia
Elon Musk has previously described AI as a "fundamental risk to the existence of human civilisation".
What is Shelley? An AI from MIT that collaborates with you to write short horror stories
The AI program has been named after the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley.
JP Morgan deploys Mosaic Smart Data for fixed income data analytics
Mosaic's predictive analytics and AI technology is first graduate from bank's 'In-Residence' fintech programme
Thomson Reuters big data Knowledge Graph delivers social network for finance
The Knowledge Graph uses a common language of Permanent Identifiers which connect some two billion relationships.
NVIDIA teaches the world about deep learning in finance
One of NVIDIA's first deep learning in finance lab courses will be taking place on 5 December at Newsweek's AI and Data Science in Capital Markets event.
InsureTech: Breaking point and price competition
Sam Madden, UK Director at Wiraya, examines the state of price comparison sites targeting the insurance industry.