Machines

• [New] Volvo will start manufacturing the first concept vehicles and machines with steel from SSAB using hydrogen already in 2021.
• [New] Over the next several years, Globo will use Google's experience in data management, artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as its global, scalable and secure infrastructure, to support the communications company's digital evolution.
• [New] One key area of focus in the coming years will be applying the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence to understanding cancer.
• [New] Using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual reality, a team in the U.S. believe they can help predict the location of many submerged archaeological sites that are difficult to access and contain unknown components, to generate and test anthropological and archaeological theories.
• [New] Technologies like AI and machine learning can analyze the past, optimize the present and predict the future.
• [New] Increasing reliance on automated decision-making could lead to workers being hired and fired by algorithm, and that new legal protections are needed to avoid machines making life-changing decisions.
• [New] Revenues in the AI segment of the tech industry are expected to reach US$ 100 billion by 2025, driven by machine learning, deep learning, and conversational AI applications.
• [New] As worldwide distribution grows, machine learning can monitor large-scale distribution, proactively predicting where bottlenecks might occur and helping identify actions to prevent them.
• [New] Pawsey and Quantum Brilliance will join forces with other Australian industry leaders and researchers as part of Pawsey's Quantum Pioneer Program to develop cutting-edge quantum applications in machine learning, logistics, defence, aerospace, quantum finance and quantum research.
• [New] Ethiopia's vision of constructing a national network of industrial parks to attract foreign investment, foster a robust manufacturing sector, and provide badly needed jobs for its young workforce is under threat.
• Machine learning algorithms create constantly evolving threat libraries and threat assessment, designed to exploit open software standards and that allow maximum interoperability with NATO allies and inputs in wider intelligence analysis capabilities.
• Through the increased use of autonomous robots, which use machine learning and artificial intelligence to complete tasks, and collaborative robots, or cobots, designed to work alongside humans, the market segment for industrial robots is forecasted to grow to $14.9 billion globally in logistics.
• Galway is the home of HPE's Cyber Defense Center which protects HPE and its customers from global cyber threats utilizing the latest Machine Learning and AI technologies.
• Less than 15% of Canadian organizations carry out 'predictive and prescriptive' analytics using machine learning, a subset of artificial intelligence, that trains algorithms using dozens of variables on past incidents to help identify where fraud might occur in the future.
• Last year, the World Economic Forum released a report estimating that by 2025, 85 million jobs may be displaced by a shift in labor division between humans and machines.
• As an AspenTech Implementation Service Provider, LTTS will bring its proven digital engineering capabilities and domain expertise across the entire engineering and manufacturing life cycle to leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT services and analytics.
• Azure Arc enabled data services and Azure Arc enabled machine learning are early indicators of how Microsoft plans to unleash its managed services to run on any Kubernetes cluster.
• The increased use of algorithms, machine learning and automation across HR processes could leave employees unable to understand or to challenge life changing employment decisions.
• To exploit the potential of AI, Australian industry will need between 32,000 and 161,000 new specialist AI workers in machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing and other AI technologies by 2030, the AI Roadmap says.
• 30% of Canadian oil and gas workers could lose their jobs within the next decade due to advances in robotics, machine learning and other technologies.
• Part of the advances of AI machine learning over the last couple of decades is being able to learn, not only what's present in an image, or perceptually, but behavior of the world and to predict what might happen next.
• Database giant Oracle Corp. announced a new release of its cloud-based Autonomous Data Warehouse service today, adding new capabilities that analysts say will help democratize machine learning.

Last updated: 11 April 2021