By: Scott St. John
In this month’s edition, we focus on AI and analytics, as well as many shades of automation, big data, transformation, insights, and innovation. As in line with our theme, industry headlines appeared on these topics, from advances in AI bringing us a new Beethoven from beyond to helping fight infectious diseases before they can get out of hand.
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This month saw a bumper crop of AI news.
One year after Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday, his unfinished 10th symphony, which was completed with the help of artificial intelligence, will celebrate its eagerly awaited premiere on October 9 at the Telekom Forum in Bonn. The AI was not only “fed” Beethoven’s compositions and his notes on the 10th Symphony; it was also supplied with works by composers and musicians who inspired and influenced Beethoven during his lifetime.
In other AI news, AeroFarms and Nokia Bell Labs unveiled a groundbreaking multi-year partnership to pool their expertise and expand their shared capabilities in cutting-edge networks, autonomous systems, and integrated machine vision and machine learning technologies to asset interactions to identify and track the most advanced levels. The Allen Institute for AI announced the 3.0 release of its embodied artificial intelligence framework, AI2-THOR, introducing a first-of-its-kind virtual agent with a highly articulated robotic arm that is articulated to enable a more human-like approach to interaction with different objects.
In the analytical news, SAS and bioMerieux announced the development of a breakthrough analytical solution to provide front-line clinicians with real-time health data for better, faster infection management against antimicrobial resistance.
In the US, the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center continues operationalization of responsible artificial intelligence by announcing a pilot project for a procurement review process that will ensure that the AI acquired from JAIC is in line with the DoD’s AI ethics principles.
The AI news also included innovations. British AI technology start-up Kortical, which helps companies harness machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) skills, announced that it is able to configure machine learning outcomes more quickly as a Vertex by Google and thus goes to the limits of what AI and ML can achieve. Atos and Graphcore have partnered to integrate Graphcore’s advanced IPU computing systems with Atos’ recently launched ThinkAI offering to bring powerful AI solutions to customers worldwide. In the spirit of AI innovation, Vingroup hosted AI Day 2021 in Vietnam on August 27 with the aim of promoting AI research, development and application.
Network development news this month included new reports and research that capture a snapshot of an uncertain and rapidly changing world. According to the OpenVault Broadband Insights report for Q2 2021, migrating to faster speed levels will result in higher broadband usage among all subscribers. The report also found a growing gap between those with the fastest broadband speeds and those who could benefit from upgrades. Research has shown that more than 20 percent of subscribers are ripe for upgrades.
5G Americas has released a new whitepaper that focuses on private and corporate networks. It describes various operating models, network architectures, tools, opportunities and challenges that operators and companies face when deploying private networks to show how the pressure of the digital
