AI

Google has released the details of a new system which claims to create near-human accuracy in computer speech.

Some 42% of CFOs stated they saw AI as the most significant technology for finance over the next five years.

"This likely will not be terribly far into the future," the report by Paris-based multinational advertising and public relations company, Havas reads.

AI and data sharing, green crypto mining, magical blockchains and a new 'World Computer'.

"You could say that my motivation is obsession, with porn or imaginary internet points or problem solving," Reddit user Deepfakes said.

In the context of automation, the future is always uncertain but it is also ripe with opportunity.

Elad Walach, CEO, Aidoc, looks at five ways AI will impact healthcare in the coming year.

Day one of Newsweek's AI and data science in capital markets event examined a range of new data sources.

A robot has learned to predict its movements a few seconds into the future, giving it enough time to constantly adjust itself as it carries out tasks.

In their quest for a killer moment, business leaders often overlook simple opportunities to leverage digital technologies.

It's worth mapping key trends that are challenging traditional methods of recruitment.

Makers of the drone say that only governments and militaries that are authorised by the UK can purchase them.

Nigel Edwards, head of UK at EXL Service, says the spectre of fraud could be emboldened by the open banking rules.

Alarming report finds firms also losing an average of more than seven days a year on account of IT woes.

NVIDIA will be offering a day-long training session on 5 December, as part of Newsweek's data science and capital markets event in New York next week.

Rather than robots, the most common applications for business will use machine or deep learning to automatically analyse big data - and will be available to all.

Joséphine de Chazournes, Senior Analyst at Celent and Arno Castanet, Solution Marketing Manager at Finastra explore how capital markets must evolve

Blue collar and white collar professionals are being increasingly replaced by robots as technology becomes more and more sophisticated.

Christian Ball, Head of Retail Financial Services, GFT, looks AI, PSD2 and Banking as a Platform (BaaP).

The distribution of AI-enabled research is seen across three classes of adopters: advanced trading, competitive data scientists and master data scientists.

By Rohit Talwar, Steve Wells, Alexandra Whittington, Maria Romero, and April Koury, from Fast Future Publishing

Benoit Coeure, a senior central banking official, says "economic agents could become less anchored to actual activity and more prone to manias and panics."

Professor Anasse Bari of New York University, formerly with the World Bank Group, is a prominent figure in the realm of predictive analytics.

Dean Withey is CEO of ubisend.

The head of UN body on autonomous weapons says "robots are not taking over the world".

Vishal Marria is CEO of Quantexa.

Nathan Shedroff is Executive Director at Seed Vault Ltd

New software service provides access to information on risk, attribution, performance, and other factors, global coverage of all assets classes.

Real-time location data specialist Thasos has spent six years in stealth – one of those on-site at a $10bn-plus hedge fund.

A new law firm in far north Australia will use artificially intelligent lawyers to provide basic legal advice.