AI

China’s cloud infrastructure market grew 54% year on year in Q2 2021 to US$6.6 billion, led by Tencent Cloud, which grew 92%. Tencent Cloud accounted for nearly 19% of total cloud infrastructure spending in China, but remained third behind Alibaba Cloud and Huawei Cloud, and ahead of Baidu AI Cloud. The four Chinese Cloud Titans managed to maintain their dominance of the market, collectively growing 56% to account for 80% of total cloud spending.

Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology combined label-free microscopic imaging with artificial intelligence to quickly detect and classify SARS-CoV-2.

Funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities, the latest Small Starts project led by Abbas Rashidi of the University of Utah introduces a robust, deep neural network model for analyzing the automobile traffic impacts of construction zones.

IBM artificial intelligence partner Spacetime released a new “plug and play” avatar-based virtual assistant (chatbot). Powered by IBM Watson artificial intelligence the solution allows customers to select an avatar of their choice, ranging from simple animated cartoon characters right through to hyper-realistic digital humans. The company says avatars make chatbots far more engaging and helps companies represent their brand to customers better.

Four trends on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2021 are driving near-term artificial intelligence (AI) innovation. These trends include responsible AI; small and wide data approaches; operationalisation of AI platforms; and efficient use of data, model and compute resources.

Artificial Intelligence Technology Solutions, provider of AI-driven security and analytics solutions for enterprise clients, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Robotic Assistance Devices (RAD) has shipped its one-hundredth ROSA device.

NICE has released Enlighten AI for Complaint Management, which automatically identifies and categorises consumer complaints as well as automates the remediation process to drive regulatory compliance and improve customer satisfaction, reducing churn.

From 26 to 29 August 2021, the first International Data Science Film Festival (IDSFF) will take place. The IDSFF is the first film festival in the world to focus entirely on Data Science and AI. The IDSFF will take place in the Mariënburg monastery, home JADS, in the center of ‘s-Hertogenbosch.

Pegasystems announced it has been chosen by the Royal Navy (RN) and the Royal Air Force (RAF) to develop a new, joint low-code platform for candidate recruitment.  The new application will be built on Pega Customer Service Digital Customer Engagement Edition, a bespoke public sector application that will help the RN and the RAF to provide a better experience for both candidates and recruiters, significantly improve the existing recruitment cycles, and provide reporting analytics for greater insights on the process.

Research from the University of Kent and Aalto University, Finland, has concluded with four key guidelines for how society should view and utilise Artificial Intelligence (AI), based on fictional scenarios in 18th Century literature.