Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Artificial intelligence (AI)

Army deploys AI-based surveillance system

Indian Army deployed an AI-based suspicious vehicle recognition system in eight locations in northern and southern theatres

06 Aug 2022 11:19 PM

An Artist’s impression of Exoplanet. (Photo: PIB)

60 potential habitable planets found using new AI-based algorithm devised in India

The study was conducted by astronomers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, along with astronomers from BITS Pilani, Goa campus

10 Feb 2022 12:29 PM

Projects must be led by an Indian not-for-profit organisation and can either develop original ideas or adapt successful technologies, techniques or processes from other fields.

Indian innovators stand to win as many as 12 grants from UK's Innovation Challenge Fund

The £3 million fund is looking for research and development proposals to tackle the coronavirus pandemic or to promote a greener planet.

17 Aug 2020 7:37 PM

AI-powered technologies can also be used to help patients communicate their symptoms remotely and in the privacy of their homes, which will be of benefit to patients with mobility issues.

Artificial intelligence can aid in faster, better Alzheimer’s diagnosis, says study

Widespread implementation of AI can help predict which patients showing mild cognitive impairment will go on to develop Alzheimer’s.

29 Jul 2020 8:47 PM

In this June 19, 2019 photo construction crews work on the replacement border wall on the boundary between the United States and Mexico near the Calexico Port of Entry. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which built the steel wall, plans to install 200 autonomous surveillance towers by 2022, after a two-year pilot project using four. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Mani Albrecht of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs)

Eye in the sky tower: AI will monitor US-Mexico border, tip off patrol agents about 'infiltrators'

Of the 2,000 mile border with Mexico, Trump’s steel wall covers just 200 miles, and border patrol agents can’t be everywhere.

03 Jul 2020 9:24 PM

The AI-based system captures images of the field view and computes the distance as per criteria set by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. In this representative image, people enjoy the warm weather on the beach in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, June 13, 2020. The Spanish government has announced that the northwestern region of Galicia will move next week to what the government calls "the new normal," when some rules, such as wearing face masks when social distancing is not possible, will remain in place. (Photo | AP)

I don't like it when you get too close: IIT Kharagpur's develops proximity warning system

The device will play an alert through audio output, whenever any violation of the social distancing norms occurs.

13 Jun 2020 11:15 PM

IBM has struggled to compete with top cloud rivals Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

IBM's new CEO Arvind Krishna, on a path to sharpen focus of company, cuts US jobs likely in thousands

The company will eliminate software and services that don’t align with its top two focus areas: cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

23 May 2020 7:35 PM

Bengaluru start-up uses AI to come up with potential Covid drug

This is the second breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19 in India.

22 May 2020 10:16 PM

Google said it will honour all existing contracts with its customers, but didn’t specify what companies. Greenpeace’s report says Microsoft appears to be leading the way with the most oil and contracts, offering AI capabilities in all phases of oil production. Amazon’s contracts are more focused on pipelines, shipping and fuel storage, according to the report. (Photo | Flicker)

Reminded of its climate change pledge, Google says it will stop building AI tools for oil extraction

Greenpeace report said Amazon, Microsoft, Google undermining their own climate pledges by partnering with Shell, BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil.

20 May 2020 7:45 PM

For new patients, the model will perform a baseline prediction that is updated each time new health data becomes available.

System using machine learning can soon tell which COVID patients are at risk of cardiac events

Researchers hope to create a predictive risk score that can determine adverse cardiac events up to 24 hours ahead.

18 May 2020 3:59 PM

Technology will play a stronger role than ever before - enabling economic recovery and helping each one of us achieve more, Microsoft India President Anant Maheshwari says.

Investments in cloud, AI and cybersecurity being accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic

Technology is playing a key role in education, health and public distribution as movement restrictions become the norm.

16 May 2020 4:29 PM

The professor claims that when pictures of an individual's X-ray are uploaded, the software will be able to tell within seconds whether the person is infected by COVID-19 or other kind of pneumonia. (Representative Image | AFP)

IIT-Roorkee professor's AI-based software compares lung X-rays to detect COVID-19

The software has been fed a database of lung X-rays of thousands of covid, pneumonia and TB patients to tell them apart, the professor says.

24 Apr 2020 1:37 PM

In India, 39 per cent of digital workers want to be trained OTJ (On The Job) to keep their knowledge on AI, ML, IoT up to date, which is the highest amongst the survey respondents, the Gartner report said.

India's IT workers are world's most digitally adaptive, says survey

Digital workers in Singapore and India use real-time messaging and social media tools more often than in China, France, Germany, US and UK

16 Apr 2020 7:02 PM

Artificial Intelligence will analyse numerous voice samples to detect a vocal fingerprint specific to people infected with the coronavirus. (Representative Image)

Israel working on app that can tell from your voice if you're infected by coronavirus

Voice samples from virus carriers in various stages of illness and non-infected people are being collected to detect a vocal 'fingerprint'

31 Mar 2020 1:59 PM

Last week, researchers joined the White House in an effort to make available some 29,000 coronavirus research articles that can be scanned for data mining. (Photo | Pixabay - Gerd Altmann)

AI could be key to containing pandemics like the novel coronavirus outbreak in the future

Several AI systems identified the first signs of the outbreak on December 30 but the extent of the severity of the disease was not known

26 Mar 2020 12:20 PM

It will soon be normal for machine learning systems to drive our cars and help doctors diagnose and treat our illnesses. It's important that kids are aware of how Artificial Intelligence can be used in real life applications, Siddh Sanghvi said. (Photo | Khaleej Times)

Indian student in Dubai builds robot modelled on Lego Technic toys to automatically dispense hand sanitiser

The robot detects a hand at a distance of 30 cm and squirts a drop of sanitiser fluid on to the hand

21 Mar 2020 4:21 PM

Air pollution can cause cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and respiratory diseases.

Novel machine-learning based system predicts air pollution

Large amounts of data are fed into the system to enable predictions from learning patterns and other features

20 Mar 2020 8:49 PM

Admitting it was not possible to identify the gender of a person by appearance, Google said its image classification service Cloud Vision API would stop categorising people under gender labels (Photo | Pixabay - Elchinator)

Microsoft, IBM may have to tweak AI to drop gender labels, following Google's example

Research showed that the AI tools used by Microsoft and IBM were more likely to misidentify the gender of dark-skinned women

01 Mar 2020 9:28 PM

AI has established itself as one of the digital frontiers of innovation. The industry which was initially predicted as a USD 250 million market opportunity, is now projected to reach USD 35-50 billion by the end of 2025

Artificial Intelligence & Intellectual Property – Driving growth for Media Tech & IT

The amendments in the IP sector as well as the advancements in the AI sector, both are driving media and IT sector towards growth.

12 Oct 2019 5:30 PM

The machine vision system was developed by Tomas Jenicek and Ondrej Chum at the Czech Technical University, Prague. (Photo: cdn.technologyreview.com)

AI algorithm can detect connections between classic paintings

Historians will be able to use the tool to derive connections between various artists and their works.

01 Aug 2019 4:03 PM

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