A fintech startup will help JS Bank reach out to customers, who cannot be profiled for lending purposes through conventional means, by using its Artificial Intelligence based credit scoring model. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the purpose has been signed between …Continue reading
Google’s AI Acquisition Could Be the Next Breakthrough Innovation
Google has done some pretty spectacular things. They’ve gone from being the world’s best search engine to a standing powerhouse of innovation in tech. The list of homegrown products spans across Gmail, the Android OS, the Pixel smartphone and Google Glass, to …Continue reading
Robot Sits for University Entrance Math Exam in China
A robot named AI-MATHS took the math section of the Chinese university “gaokao” entrance exam and achieved passing scores. The test took place in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan province in China on June 7, 2017. The gaokao is widely considered as …Continue reading
Day 1 of Google’s Annual Developer Conference Brings Spate of New Applications
Day one of Google’s annual three-day developer conference brought together industry experts from all across the world and a spate of announcements from Google. During the keynote address, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the company has reached the milestone of getting …Continue reading
Data Science Lab Director Awarded World Bank Grant
Information Technology University (ITU) faculty member and Data Science Lab Director Dr Faisal Kamiran has won a World Bank innovation award for his research on the identification of hotspots for harassment of women in public transport. His team has been awarded $100,000 …Continue reading
Google Can Help Detect Breast Cancer Using Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI, has been making leaps and bounds especially in the healthcare domain. Now Google is using AI to review patients biological tissue samples in order to detect breast cancer. The results of this technology have been revealed …Continue reading
Education Startup at Plan9 Secures Product Acceleration Investment
An education sector startup under incubation at Plan9 has raised product acceleration investment including technical and operational support from Shopistan, a company that provides products and managed services to e-commerce retailers. The announcement was made through a press release last week. Nearpeer, …Continue reading
The Coming Age of Machine Intelligence
Marc Andreessen once said that software was eating the world. The point he was trying to make was that software increasingly represents the value in most economic processes. In this sense, where software was previously one small component of a complex process …Continue reading
Social Media and Big Data in Politics
Growing role of social media and technology in Pakistani politics. All politics is local,” the former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Tip O’Neill is usually credited with this particular catchphrase. However, this is a universal principle when it comes …Continue reading
How AI Is Feeding China’s Internet Dragon
Shortly after walking through the front doors of Baidu in Beijing last November, I was surprised to notice that my face had transformed into that of a cheerful-looking little dog. As I chatted with one of Baidu’s AI researchers, the version of …Continue reading
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