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By Angela Cicily Joseph, ( Image source : Pixabay) The Sputnik moment came when DeepMind’s artificial intelligence system AlphaGo defeated Go’s world champion, Lee Sedol by a marvellous 4 games to 1. Eighteen months later, AlphaZero was released by DeepMind. Unlike AlphaGo, human experts did not train AlphaZero. Instead, it taught itself and was able to not only defeat its predecessor but also other systems. Few months later, countries started investing and announcing national AI strategies. While the race to develop artificial intelligence has gathered momentum with countries like China and the United States of America being leagues ahead, the other countries need to catch up for better economic and political prospects. With an automated world, the developing countries will have less demand for their typical supply of unskilled labour. With AI systems being trained to come up with policy recommendations, countries will have to prepare for a daunting political future. ...

By Deepit Mudaliar, (Image source:  Medical Xpress ) Artificial intelligence (referred as AI) is the intelligence which tries to perform the same activities as the human cognitive abilities. The technology can be introduced into any device, be it a cell phone or any machine equipment in almost every kind of industry. It has now jumped out of sci-fi movies and novels and has engulfed our lives. AI in healthcare has begun assisting doctors. Some of the common uses are for monitoring patient health efficiently using intelligent assistant devices like the Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) and Medical Virtual Assistant (MVA). Chatbots too assist in advising and alleviating stress. Huge amounts of medical data can be analysed with speed and accuracy. It is used in complex surgeries to achieve precision. Predictive analysis can be done using electronic medical records and electronic health records. For example, a patient with a symptom of high blood pressure can be asse...