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Artificial intelligence (AI) is already trending, and it’s still heating up. There are countless applications for AI — everything from procuring better search results to diagnosing complex medical conditions. Developers and engineers are pooling their resources to create the best AI algorithms they can, bringing the technology to new industries and pushing the limits of what machine learning can accomplish. The market for AI is projected to hit $36.8 billion by 2025, and may only grow from there as general AI gets closer and closer to human-level functionality. But the growing wave of AI is about more than just the AI industry. In fact, there are dozens of secondary tech industries that are developing or growing in response to AI’s growing needs — and they’re worth considering if you’re looking for promising investments, or a new career path that can support AI without getting into the thick of machine learning. read more..

At some point we’ve all succumbed to the lure of a terrible online quiz that purportedly tells you how long you will live after asking a set of inane questions. But imagine if a seriously intelligent artificial intelligence was asking the questions, and it could accurately predict how long you have left to live? A team at the University of Adelaide in Australia has been working to create an AI system that can predict a person’s lifespan just by studying images of their organs, and its early results show its predictions are just as good as a human doctor. read more

Kaggle, a website that hosts public competitions on machine learning tasks, announced Tuesday that it now has over 1 million users a little more than seven years after it launched. It’s a sign of accelerating interest in the artificial intelligence and machine learning field, since Kaggle competitions give data scientists a way to test techniques on real-world tasks with the chance to compete for prize money. Competitions work by providing teams with a data set and then evaluating how well the models they create succeed at the task laid out. read more

Australian scientists have built an artificial intelligence system that can predict whether or not you will die soon by looking at images of your organs. Researchers at the University of Adelaide used AI to analyse the medical imaging of 48 patients’ chests. The system was able to predict which patients would die over the next five years with about 69% accuracy. Based on deep learning, the AI draws conclusions based on large repositories of data previously fed into it. read more