Although there are still significant challenges hospitals must overcome before they adopt artificial intelligence across their operations, AI holds a lot of promise in healthcare, freelance journalist Larry Alton wrote in Venture Beat.
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Microsoft Research on Feb. 1 established the Cortana Intelligence Institute in partnership with the company's Cortana Research team and RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Seventy-three percent of C-suite executives and IT decision makers agree artificial intelligence has transformed the way they do business, according to a survey by IT consultancy Infosys.
Google unveiled the first class of startups for its artificial intelligence-focused accelerator, called Google Developers Launchpad Studio, according to a Nov. 1 company blog post.
Apple's mobile devices could become a major artificial intelligence platform in the future, COO Jeff Williams said at an event in Taipei, Taiwan Monday, according to Reuters.
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London-based artificial intelligence company DeepMind, which is owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, is training its software to fold proteins for drug discovery, reports Bloomberg.
Michael Howell, MD, joined Google Research as the division's chief clinical strategist earlier this month, a Google spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review via email.
DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence arm, launched an ethics and society research unit to evaluate its breakthroughs in AI science and application, according to a company blog post.
Apple is looking for a software engineer with a background in counseling or psychology to help design functions for its digital voice assistant, Siri, according to a job description on the company's website.
Amazon and Microsoft are partnering to integrate their two voice-powered digital assistants, reports CNBC.