All the major economies in the world understand the strategic importance of artificial intelligence in empowering and transforming economic growth in the coming decades. China is no exception. In July 2017, China’s State Council laid out an ambitious AI strategic plan to create a domestic 1 trillion yuan (US$147.80 billion) AI industry and make China the world’s [...]
Flying cars may not be unique to science fiction for much longer. Uber Technologies Inc., the company behind the popular car service app, is once again partnering with NASA, and this time, it's supplying information to the agency so that it can simulate the flight of a small passenger-carrying aircraft within the airspace [...]
CONCERNS have been expressed on many occasions in the media over the current less-than-desirable state of science, technology and innovation (STI) and research, development and commercialisation (RD&C) in Malaysia. I have myself written about the Academy of Sciences Malaysia’s Science Outlook 2015 and 2017 reports and concluded that the current status of [...]
Artificial intelligence has so far been mainly the plaything of big tech companies like Amazon, Baidu, Google, and Microsoft, as well as some startups. For many other companies and parts of the economy, AI systems are too expensive and too difficult to implement fully. What’s the solution? Machine-learning tools based in the cloud are [...]
