Guide to the Latest Developments in Artificial Intelligence

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence has cited that China is leading in the race of publishing AI research papers, both high-impact, and beginner level papers. It is estimated from the data collected that China is likely to publish more top papers by 2020 as compared to the US.

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The advent of the intelligent technologies will create a fission of information related to it. We have created a few points to sum up highlights from the latest developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

• Business executives are embracing the AI tech regardless of concerns and confusions.
• According to research by Celonis on the application of AI by businesses, it has been deciphered that 73% of senior executives want to increase investment in  machine learning and automation technology, while the rest 33% plan to get an insight into the understanding of their business functioning so that they could pick the technologies suitable for their businesses.
• Further to this, about 90% of IT leaders profess that AI/ML use will increase in the future and almost 41% pick up technologies that are AI-powered. The top concerns with regards to using AI tech are Data security, AI and MI implementation and driving innovation/incorporating new tech.
• Businesses across the technology spectrum are speculating whether machines will take over most of the jobs performed by humans and also ask for regulation of the number of jobs businesses can replace with automatons.
• Investors are succumbing or acting irrationally to the increasing forecasts backed by millions and billions of dollars of AI research. The wave of machines performing menial and bigger computational tasks is shadowing the input-output hardware and software businesses. This year’s Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs has been bagged by the trio of Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun who have pioneered breakthroughs in deep neural networks. Pedro Domingos from the University of Washington states that machine learning is becoming a central field in computer science and the Turing Award’s choice of selection backs his statement.
• Artificial Intelligence is not perfect and even massive progress over the years will not be enough to bring it to perfection, just like humans operating AI tech cannot be full-proof from any misadventures.
• Although AI is not perfect yet senior leaders from the business fraternity think that AI tech can be improved by creating institutions that take a multi-dimensional approach to handle eruptions and disruptions from this technology. Patrick H. Winston, who is the Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT thinks that computers can be enabled to think and act in the ethical and moral space just like human beings and he doesn’t find any reason which will subterfuge this proclamation.

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Application of Big Data Across Different Sectors

Technology has come to the horizon of developing intelligent automatons. This has become possible owing to huge developments in technology infrastructure and information. One such modern development is Big Data. Big Data is a field that treats extremely large datasets for better analytics and computational results. It is already on its way to transforming a number of sectors linked to people’s lives.

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Big Data in the Government sector

The government of a country has voluminous data on its citizens, topography, mineral wealth, unemployment, and more. Governments across the globe use this data to make policies for its citizens, and scientific methods like Big Data analytics come a long way in helping them with the same.

• The government makes use of Big Data to create welfare schemes that will turn out to be effective after they are operational. To develop such schemes, the government relies on the data it has collected from people and other sources on a number of fields.
• The cyber threat prevention agencies rely on Big Data to recognize loopholes in the digital setup and hence prevent data theft. Moreover, tax evaders can be tracked using Big Data findings.

Big Data in Media and Entertainment industry

The rise of social media platforms has given a new aspect to communication. Almost every person that possesses a smartphone casts his/her social footprint on the web, which in turn is stored on the servers and hence contributes to creating a database.

• The media and entertainment industry can predict user interests and hence steer in the direction of creating popular media projects.
• Big Data helps in pinpointing animosities and get a visual insight if audience reviews.
• Big Data can help the advertisement industry to target a specific audience based on the data analysis.
• Example: Spotify provides auto-suggestions and music recommendations to users on the basis of analyzed data collected from users all over the world.

Big Data in Weather Forecasting

Weather forecasting agencies and other big corporations across the world rely on data collected from a number of satellites to predict accurate weather for different regions. Accurate weather forecasts help in making necessary preparations for times of crises. Moreover, natural disaster patterns and freshwater statistics can also be deduced from the images provided by satellites.

Big Data in Banking Sector

The data stored by banks is to grow by 700% by 2020 according to a study conducted by GDC prognosis. It turns out to be Big Data literally and otherwise. This data can be used for tweaking key banking operations for better security and customer interaction.

• Big Data can help to curb the misuse of credit and debit cards
• Big Data provides business clarity to the leading management of a bank.
• It may help to mitigate the financial risks when analyzed effectively.

Billy Mark is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technical industry since 2002. As a technical expert, Billy has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as office.com/setup.

6 Best Productivity Apps for Thinkers

Do not let the stream of your thoughts go into the puddle. With a smartphone based application users can now transform the power of their thoughts into the productive real-life matter, be it a futuristic tech journal or the unending datasets of business-related subjects, users get the options of managing their work according to their preferences.

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• MindNode 5 for Mac and iOS

MindNode helps you express the creative information passing through your neurons into interactive visual diagrams. Its user-friendly interface features a beautiful design, extreme sync and plethora of export-import options. A beginner’s favorite mind-storming app as it may turn out to be.

Apple devices which work on Mac and iOS versions have easy sync capability, and you can even use it on iPad in its all round compatibility. Moreover, users have the option to fiddle with some features in the Apple Watch.

• Notability

Notability enables to scribble the mind maps on Apple’s UI, especially iPad’s great touchpad. Its interface provides a real-life artistic look which tries to portray stationery aesthetics to the writing exercise. Example, paper color choices, Apple Pencil designed doodles, and various line/grid options.

Moreover, users can adjust the size/width of the stroke, can add photos, gifs, custom shapes and even capture audio recordings.

• Ulysses

Bloggers, journalists, and authors want a top-notch experience of all the power writing tools at one place, without any distractions and Ulysses seems to be the app that quenches all their brain-storming needs. It is a popular mind-mapping tool that provides all the productivity tools in one place.

• Bear

Bear is a powerful tool that integrates lots of plug-in and allows a smooth working experience. Users can take advantage of its easy note-making interface and unique text-editor.

It incorporates Markdown syntax which provides a real-time rich preview and Polar, which is a Markdown spinoff and possesses some unique features. Bear also has the option to be tied to other apps in the Apple device like the Things-to-do app.

• Productive

Productive tracks a user’s small consistent writing actions and solidifies the user’s confidence. The tracked habits are marked in a large green dot which is chained to a green line, and it keeps the user motivated as it grows when the particular habit keeps on going.  It amplifies the secret of consistency while delivering productive outcomes.

• Apple’s Voice Memos

Apple’s Voice Memos give a hands-free experience to keep track of daily activities or to-dos. Users can record a memo in the app about all the mix-ups present in mind at the end of the day or in the middle of something to reckon it later in a better manner.

Billy Mark is a self-professed security expert; he has been making the people aware of the security threats. His passion is to write about Cyber security, cryptography, malware, social engineering, internet and new media. He writes for Norton security products at norton.com/setup.

7 Best Uses of Virtual Reality in 2019

Virtual reality is developing and touching other fields rather than just gaming. It has an enormous ability to interact with individuals and businesses. The innovation of virtual reality was tagged with gaming initially but now, industry and market are also getting acquainted with its use. As it is providing a new approach to feel our surrounding, therefore the digital world is all set to explore its dimension and use. Resultantly, some other exposures like a business, hospitality, real estate, hotel, and tourism industry and manufacturing are also set to try virtual reality.

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Some other implementing areas of virtual reality other than gaming are:

1. VR in HR and employment

With the amazing features of virtual reality, the business sector is using it in employee recruitment. It provides real working experience to a new trainee and facilitates companies by providing a real-world case study to judge a candidate at the time of recruitment. It will also train the new employee for upcoming challenges by providing them a feel of a typical and sometimes tough task which prepares them for futuristic circumstances.

2. Office association

Many corporate houses implement it for maintaining and facilitating collective work culture in the office. Assignment oriented virtual reality has been applied to work collectively in an assignment without any physical displacement. In this way, it enhances the work efficiency, coordination among worker and on-time dispatch of assignment. It is improving the team-culture in the workplace which is essential for any industry to boom. Business meeting, presentations and video conferencing becomes easy and erases the need for physical presence or face to face meeting .hence decrease the traveling and associated expenses as well as consuming a reasonable amount of time.

3. Forecast and creativity

It encourages the creativity and boosts the fresh business thoughts by testing them before real implementation. Now, forecasting of data-trends based on massive data analysis and estimation of the effect of a new idea becomes easy and accurate.  Business houses can predict the sale and purchase graph virtually.

4. Safety and designing

Virtual reality can modify the whole designing and manufacturing approach. Technicians and engineers can see their designs implementation virtual before its real implementation and can rectify their design fault and can test the safety manual at the very early phase of its manufacturing. In this way, it not only improves the quality of the product but also encourages the manufacturer to rectify little mistakes.

5. Virtual practice in health care:

It helps medical practitioner as well as the student to study and visualize the environment of a real case that will help them to learn quickly as well as correctly. They can practice virtual surgery and get profound knowledge by monitoring even small and negligible errors. They can use it at home and practice a specific test as many times as they want. This will give them expertise in surgery.

6. Helping in fighting with anxiety

Fear and anxiety can spoil any work. Virtual reality provides a real-world experience that can reduce the fear and anxiety from an individual. It works in mental treatment as well as in day to day life. It can cure the pain and inhalation problem that happens to someone due to fear or anxiety.

7. Traveling becomes fun

It gives client virtual feeling of different destination or other entertaining pleasure during travel or leisure time. It will cut short the idleness and tedious experience of traveling.

So, virtual reality comes with countless benefits, and they are still getting explored. It has great potential to cater to different field and sector of society.

Billy Mark is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technical industry since 2002. As a technical expert, Billy has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as office.com/setup.

Everything You Need to Know About Artificial Neural Networks

Neural networks are the most advanced and technically potential solutions that make computing faster and more efficient. It is going to change the processing speed tremendously in the very near future.  Although it is in its infant state, it will turn the whole device to device and device-human interaction whether it is voice control or medicinal use. The deep sense hybridization of the neural information system of a human body with technology and artificial intelligence make it a complex techno-human arrangement that will speed up the processing of a computer system into the altitude of computation.

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An ANN (artificial neural network) is the inherited data processing mythology from the human nervous system. It works very similarly to the processing of a human brain which fundamentally works on a centralized structure or a novel paradigm which is connected through various intense inter-connected highly processing units and work as a unit while solving a specific task. The nodal structure is a computer program associated with millions of artificial neurons (the smallest unit of the human brain) which are designed for a specific purpose. They communicate with each other, transfer data to each other as well as the nodal unit during a task.

ANN is one step ahead of traditional information processing system as it can learn from different case study and examples. It is the simple inter-communication system of complex, hybrid and complicated behavioral artificial neurons that can perform learn process and give output identically.

The fundamental functioning of a neural network resides in the mechanism that it can be used as well as referred as an example to learn simultaneously. It also gathers the informatics of input and output gathering and generation by their hidden features of input distribution like Boltzmann machine and deep learning algorithm. In this way, it keeps an eye on every single activity and lean the pattern of it and compares it with any past problem simultaneously and can trigger an alarm if found any resembles to that very problem.

What is the use of neural network?

In a neural network, each neuron or nephron holds a unique ability and expertise of handling a proper set of data and case. In this way, it is beneficial in retrieving a pattern or detection of trends from huge, unstructured, complex and complicated data. As neuron have expertise in dealing with a specific kind of data, so they can predict very accurately about a problem and can provide much proper guideline and solution to cater to it.

 It will open the gateway of:

• Adaptive learning: By which we can practice different case-based problem-solving exercise.
• Self-organization: ANN can create an organization, back-up support or representation against the data which it collects from the various mean. This organization has all the necessary tools to cater to the problem because many neurons analyses the data and give their opinion on which organization shaped itself.
• Real-time management: Deep sense of analysis and data collection helps us to be quick and respond against any problem in real time.
• Problem tolerance: The huge umbrella of a network with different expert hand makes it more fault proof, as it predicts the future problems too early based on data trends and resolve it perfectly with its expert neurons.
• Exception handling: It can decode minute trends which could be hidden in a massive set of similar data and can make an adequate solution for that by violating the rule which applies on bulk or similar data. In this way, it can fragment itself from nay inbound rule and work more efficiently than a human.
• Custom Engineering: ANN can figure out problems and suggest a proper solution, in this way it is opening the gate of custom engineering which can guide to solve or solve in place of a human to solve a problem by analyzing a problem and resolve according to ANN’s guideline or recommendation.

Apart from its amazing quality and features, large data requirement, expensive setup, and difficulty in framing the concept into reality are some hurdles that make it complicated and futuristic.

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Everything You Need to Know about Health IT

Designing, developing, creating and maintaining the information system for the health sector is known as Health IT. It is playing an essential role in healthcare and public medical facilities through its automatic and inter-exchangeable data mechanism. It facilitates the whole health care industry by cutting cost, reducing human error and improving patient’s convenience and safety. It also smoothens the money transfer, insurance facilities, and payment. The new and quick documentation and easy medical facilities are the byproducts of health IT.

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EMR: Electronic medical report was the first step towards health IT. It is the authorized and doctor monitored report card of any one’s health in a digital format that could be used and shared by different health care related agencies and insurance policies.

PHR:  The digital record of self-created health chart, or shared report of many health care organizations or health statistic of various healthcare institute which are monitoring any or many healthcare issues and the case studies of any or many patients. The smartphone makes it more frequent and popular, as an ordinary patient can easily monitor their health with the help of certain apps and can create a health card. The integration of PHR with EHR makes it more robust and analytical.

 PHM: Population health management collected, arrange and manage the data of patients. It provides an appropriate suggestion regarding treatments and financial support after critically analyzing the data. It associates many agencies and support system to ensure the efficient outcome of patient health and other support during treatment of an individual as well as for the whole mass which came under a similar kind of case.

PACS:  Picture archiving and communication system erases the need for manual file management. The digital transmission of clinical reports, images, and retrieval of information in a different platform, uplifted the responsibility of the patient to keep many test reports, x-rays and other images and reports safe and up to date before doctor’s appointment.

Telemedicine: The most revolutionary Health IT tool that makes medical facilities more inclusive even in the remote parts of the world. It not only decreases the cost of medical support but also saves an impressive amount of time. Now, health monitoring and doctor consultation are available on a smartphone or by video conference that removes the obstacles of face to face visit.

Patient portal: The Patient portal is a web or smartphone accessible platform through which any patient can access their health-related data, can design their health chart and book appointment or get online doctor consultation. It can hold doctors visitation report; test labs report, medical summary, list of allergies, insurance coverage and many other digital documents which can be accessed anywhere, anytime.

Benefits of health information technology

It facilitates us to analyze the health condition of an individual as well as a whole community or city and even country by BigData analysis. It provides an upper edge in managing and limiting the spread of any chronic situation.

The facility to share a case study or the pattern of any disease or the analysis of any case can speed up the innovation, academic research, and making of new medicine and other curing tools.

It provides the right to know about their health condition and freedom to choose treatment method to an ordinary patient.

Billy Mark is a self-professed security expert; he has been making the people aware of the security threats. His passion is to write about Cybersecurity, cryptography, malware, social engineering, internet, productive software and new media. He writes for software products at office.com/setup.

Cyber attacks in the Biotech Industry

Last decade saw unprecedented growth in the biotech industry and other life sciences sectors. The latest gene therapy for cancer, the ability to generate one’s organs for transplant using pluripotent cells or advancements in creating bionic prosthetics, all of these are some of the many achievements made in this field. With this astounding growth comes a significant concern and that is cyber attacks. The sources suggest the biotechnology firms are among the most targetted by the hackers and phishing sites.

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The motivation behind targeting such firms is money whether directly or indirectly. These firms store critically essential data, and information about the drugs, health records of patients, clinical trial data, etc. this information has very high trading value in the black market. In addition, companies target their rivals to fulfill their ulterior motives but leave patients at a loss.

• Consequences of cyber attacks

Biotechnology companies often conduct clinical trials of their drugs for which they collect highly sensitive patient data especially their DNA information. Organized criminal groups may use this data bank for illegal purposes like identity theft if they get their hands on it. The stolen information can be misused to create bioweapons and such other deadly alternatives.

Safety of data is particularly necessary for a firm at the research and development stage especially before the company gets patent for a new drug or therapy. Loss of information at this stage may result in to let go off economically scalable information.

Ransomware is the latest among the cyber attacks, which created chaos in the past few years. The virus not only disrupts the software and infects data; it locks down the system or encrypts your files and demands hefty amount as ransom to regain access to your computer. One such ransomware attack in recent times is WannaCry that twisted arms of many strong organizations.

• Ways to prevent these attacks

Role of regulators is crucial in protecting against these attacks. From time to time, there have been regulations by governments and relevant organizations to keep the security threats at bay.

1. The employees are the first victims of these attacks and provide the gateway in the organization to the hackers. Educate them about cyber attacks are, what they can cost and how to mitigate them.
2. Strong inward and outward firewalls should be in place to save the system.
3. Authentication for secure login should be more complicated than a mere password like biometric authentication at all levels.
4. The IT team of the company to have the business continuity should create a sound backup solution.

Billy Mark is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technical industry since 2002. As a technical expert, Billy has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as office.com/setup.