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Maria Bartiromo, host of "Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street" on Fox Business Network will host at documentary on the future of artificial intelligence. Seth Harrison, sharriso@lohud.com

On a recent Friday, Maria Bartiromo, the financial television icon, offered a visitor a tour of her new corner office in the News Corporation Building in midtown Manhattan.

The office, lined with floor-to-ceiling windows, is furnished with a cognac leather sofa, chairs and a large desk.

Isnt it great?" she said, with a broad smile."Im still settling in."

Bartiromo, who has been with Fox News and Fox Businessfor more than five years, extended her tenure with the networks with a multi-year deal earlierthis week. (Fox did not divulge the length of the contract.)

By 10 a.m., shed already logged four hours of on-camera work.

Maria Bartiromo, host of the Fox Business Network show "Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street" photographed in Manhattan Sept. 13, 2019. Bartiromo is producing a documentary on artificial intelligence that will be aired on Fox on September 22nd. The documentary will highlight the future of the artificial intelligence and its possible impact on business. (Photo: Seth Harrison/The Journal News)

Bartiromo, 52, who made history as the first person to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange nearly 25 years ago, is arguably one of the hardest working journalists around. As an anchor for Fox Business Network and FoxNews Channel, she helms 16 hours of live programming each week and is on air six days a week.

Shes also become a cultural icon: Joey Ramone (of The Ramones) wrote a song dedicated to her; her nickname Money Honey (a moniker she trademarked before letting it lapse) even spawned a range of action figures and card games. The London-based Financial Timeshas gushinglydescribed her as the"Sophia Loren of financial journalism."

Bartiromo spent nine months working on a documentary on the future of artificial intelligence, or AI,and its impact on business.

Artificial Intelligence: The Coming Revolution, which airs at 8 p.m. Sunday on Fox News, sheds light on how Armonk-based IBM, among others,is expanding into AI. IBM CEO Ginni Romettytells Bartiromo that one of IBMs biggest focus areas in AI is health care. The AI health care market is slated to expand from $2.1 billion to $36.1 billion in 2025.

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This is a long road, but this is one of the industries so badly in need of AI, Rometty tells Bartiromo, who visited IBMs headquarters in Armonk as well as the T.J. Watson Research Lab in Yorktown Heights for the special.

It is difficult for a doctor, with the amount of data, and so we've been working away on Watson for health. Oncology was one of the early things we started on.We're now at 300 hospitals in over 125,000 patients around the world where the AI has helped the doctor identify the diagnosis and the appropriate treatment.

Last year, Mayo ClinicandIBMWatson Health unveiled results from early use of the Watson forclinicaltrial matching for breast cancer.

"AI is truly changing our lives," Bartiromo said. "People think that things that are happening are little incremental gains like Siri or your Echo at home or GPS, but it's only scratching the surface."

Along with Rometty, Bartiromo interviewed Ford CEO James Hackett, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman and billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel for the documentary. "What I came away with was this idea that we are embarking on a new era, a new revolution, very similar to where we were in the '90s when we were embarking on the dotcom age," Bartiromo said.

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In1995, Bartiromo started a little revolution of her own.

A year after joining CNBC as a correspondent, she was tapped to report fromthe floor of the New York Stock Exchange, the first reporter to do so.

We were starting a new show called 'Squawk Box'and we wanted to be different," Bartiromo said. "The first day on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange was scary. There was a core group of people who did not want me there. They just didn't;it was a boys club."

Maria Bartiromo photographed on the set of her show, "Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street" on the Fox Business Network in Manhattan Sept. 13, 2019. Bartiromo is producing a documentary on artificial intelligence that will be aired on Fox on September 22nd. The documentary will highlight the future of the artificial intelligence and its possible impact on business. (Photo: Seth Harrison/The Journal News)

Bartiromo had spentthe previous five years as an executive producer and assignment editor withCNNBusiness Newswhen she put together an audition tape to apply for an on-screen job at CNBC.

I remember meeting Roger Ailes and some other people at CNBC and I knew that we hit it off,"she said. "I immediately went from New Jersey, where their studios were located, to New York City to buy new dresses. I had to go to bed to get up again at midnight to go back to work at CNN. And in the middle of my nap, I got a call from CNBC saying they wanted to make me an on-air reporter. This was in October 1993.

Her then-supervisor at CNN, Lou Dobbs (who is now a colleague atFox Business Network), was not happy.

He said to me, Maria, this is the worst decision you're ever going to make.And I said, I'm sorry, I have to follow my gut." A year later, she was reporting from the floor.

Bartiromo, who was recruited by Ailes to join Foxin 2014, currently anchors "Mornings with Maria" and "Maria Bartiromos Wall Street" onFox Business Networkand "Sunday Morning Futures" on Fox News Channel. The 6-year contract came with a$6 million annual salary.

Asked for her take onAiles, her mentor, who was forced to resign in 2016 after former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson brought a sexual harassment lawsuit against him, she said:I never had any of those issues at all. But, obviously, after all of the things that took place, we recognize that Roger Ailes had many flaws.

Maria Bartiromo, host of the Fox Business Network show "Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street" photographed in Manhattan Sept. 13, 2019. Bartiromo is producing a documentary on artificial intelligence that will be aired on Fox on September 22nd. The documentary will highlight the future of the artificial intelligence and its possible impact on business. (Photo: Seth Harrison/The Journal News)

Its no secret that PresidentTrump thinks of Bartiromo as a friendly interviewer. Hes had four sit-down interviews with her. In June, he also called in to her Fox Business show for a lengthy phone interview that was widely described as unhinged.

Asked why she thinks the president reaches out to her more frequently than others, she said:

I can only speculate that the president knows that I get to business and don't focus on the things that are not important to the American people," she said. "From my standpoint, I focus on policy, not personality. And I think much of the media focuses on his personality."

Bartiromo pointed out that shemoderated two presidential primary debates in 2016 for Fox."Our debate came right after the CNBC debate. When I got to the debate stage, I talked about economy, I talked about jobs, wages, all the things that I think were important to the American people. Those were all the things that he was also focused on."

Critics have called her out for not pushing back against Trump, butBartiromo points to the interview earlier this year when she repeatedly pressed him over his attacks onJohn McCain.

Trumps response: Calling Bartiromo fake news.

I push back on President Trump 100% when I need to, but I'm not going to join these groups of people who hate him and have their ideologies leading their journalism. If I don't slam him every day, I get slammed. It's absolutely ridiculous.

If Trump were re-elected in 2020, would she consider a post in the administration?

"No, I am not interested in leaving this industry. I love journalism. And that is my priority. I plan to continue seeking the truth and being a journalist."

As a journalist, Bartiromo says she's most proud of the fact that her reporting helped to "democratize" the stock market, bringing information directly to viewers.

"Every day I called all my sources on every trading desk and I said to them, 'what are you pushing? What are you telling your clients to do'? And they would tell me, 'we're upgrading IBM, we're downgrading ABC, we're doing this or that.' And I would go on the air with it every morning at 7 a.m., exactly when the big institutional players would get that information. Ithink I was part of democratizing information so that investors were on the same playing field as the institutions. That was very powerful."

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Bartiromo grew up in Brooklyn, the granddaughter of Italian immigrants; her father owned the Rex Manor, a restaurantin Brooklyn, which he inherited from his father.

"It was named after the Rex, the ship that brought my grandfather from Italy to America in 1919," she said. Maria and her sister got jobs as coat check girls at the family-owned restaurant.

"My vision of my father is that he was always behind the stove, sweating with a bandanna around his head. He worked hard. My mom worked hard, too, so I have an upbringing of just watching my parents work so hard and that shaped me," she said.

When Bartiromo was studying economics atNew York University, it washer mother who suggested she give journalism a try.

My mom said youd be a good broadcaster. I was always a ham. I always wanted to be on camera. I was always dancing. I was a happy kid, always dancing and wanting to be on and being heard.

And she has been.

"When I got to that floor, (of the stock exchange) I saw that they tried to push me around," she said. "And I said, they're not going to get me down. They're not going to.I know this stuff better than anybody. I'm gonna own this job. I'm not going to allow them to push me around. And so that's what happened.

Her advice for others?I always tell this to emerging journalists and people who ask me, 'how did you do it?' Own your stuff. Know your stuff. You have to own your job, own your stuff so that you gain the respect that you deserve.

Artificial Intelligence: The Coming Revolution, which airs 8 p.m.Sunday on Fox News, sheds light on how Armonk-based IBM, among others,is expanding into AI.

MariaBartiromo, whohosts the documentary,had some takeaways:

Implications for people entering the workforce: "Kai Fu-Lee, the former president of Google China,has studied this and said that 40% of all jobs are going to be replaced (by AI) in the next 10 years.When there is a job that relies heavily on data, such as the eligibility of a person to get a mortgage, a machine can go through large sets of data very quickly. As a result, companies will adopt AI and they will cut jobs.

Predicting wildfires;spying: "At the IBM lab, I spoke with Dario Gill, the head of AI and the head of computing, who along with his team, was looking at wildfires. They were trying to get ahead of wildfires and they were looking at all the data around what causes a fire. They were looking at vegetation, they were looking at temperatures. All these things can go into a dataset and educate the computer about which forests are most vulnerable.

But it also being used for things like facial recognition. China is using facial recognition to track its citizens. And in one second, they can zoom in on your face and know exactly who you are, exactly what you've been doing, and then they're giving you a score, a social score at the end of the year."

Should we trustcompanies to self-police? "Its hard to know if we can trust them. I like small government and I'm a proponent of low regulation.The fact that San Francisco banned facial recognition is illuminating because it tells you that even local governments are worried about this. So I guess there should be boundaries. There should be boundaries around AI."

Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy covers women and power for the USA Today Network Northeast. Write to her at svenugop@lohud.com

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Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology, says the Federal Government plans to establish an agency that would be in charge of artificial intelligence and robotics.

He made this disclosure on Monday in Abuja when the Nigeria Science Academy visited him in his office, to officially invite the Ministry to their forthcoming programmes to boost the sector.

News Agency of Nigeria reports that Artificial Intelligence is a general term that implies the use of a computer to model, including robotics, natural language processing, computer vision and it is sometimes called machine intelligence.

Onu disclosed that for a very long time his ministry has been working to establish the agency, and it has passed through a lot of processes.

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According to him, the ministry is close to achieving its aim and when it is fully achieved it would be made public to Nigerians.

We are very committed to ensuring that we have at least one research institute, centre or Agency that will concentrate on artificial intelligence and robotics, he said.

Onu said this has become imperative because with the establishment of artificial intelligence the level and quality of research, universities, and industrial laboratories in the country would increase and could compete favourably with international standard.

He expressed the hope that the private sector would show interest and at the end, it would be commercialised, saying that positive ideas could be translated to products and services available in the market place.

According to Onu, it will also help create jobs, grow the economy and boost the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country.

The institute once established would be useful and the Academy of Engineers that would work closely with the ministry to attain maturity.

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Idemia National Security Solutions (NSS) has announced the appointment of Dr. Mark J. Burge, who is known in the artificial intelligence community for leading federal, industrial, and academic teams developing machine learning programs to address difficult biometric and computer vision challenges, to the newly created position of Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer.

Burge brings experience working in academia with ETH Zurich, OSU, USNA, in government for IARPA and the NSF, and in industry for Mitre and Noblis, to the new office, according to the announcement.

As Chief AI Officer, Mark will lend insights and expertise to high-impact government and commercial R&D programs, drive groundbreaking research for AI/ML applications, and strengthen NSSs strategic positioning as the leader of identity intelligence solutions for the national security community, comments Idemia NSS President and CEO Scott Swan.

The intricacies of deploying biometric facial recognition to enhance national security were explored by Swan fellow NSS executives B. Scott Swann and James Loudermilk in a guest post for Biometric Update earlier this year.

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Sponsored content: As the volume of data beamed in from Earth observation satellites increases quasi-exponentially, machine learning helps to make sense of it

A book from 1984 bears testimony to Dr Carsten Brockmanns long interest in artificial intelligence (AI).

Today he is applying this knowledge at an ever-increasing pace to his other interest, climate change. What was theoretical back then is now becoming best practice, says Brockmann, who believes AI has the power to address pressing challenges facing climate researchers.

Orbiting our planet with sensors pointing Earthwards are over 700 Earth observation satellites, transmitting hundreds of terabytes each day to downlink stations. Processing and extracting useful information is a huge data challenge, with volumes rising quasi-exponentially. And its not just a problem of the data deluge: our climate system, and environmental processes more widely, work in complex and non-linear ways. AI, and in particular machine learning, is helping to meet these challenges, as accurate knowledge about global climate change becomes more urgent.

ESAs Climate Change Initiative (CCI) provides the systematic information needed by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. By funding teams of scientists to create world-class accurate, long-term, datasets that characterise the Earths changing climate system, the CCI is providing a whole-globe view. Derived from satellites, these datasets cover 21 GCOS-defined Essential Climate Variables from greenhouse gas concentrations to sea levels and the changing state of our polar ice sheets. Spanning four decades, these empirical records and underpin the global climate models that help predict future change.

AI algorithms computer systems that learn and act in response to their environment can improve detection rates in Earth observation. For example, it is common to use the random forests algorithm, which uses a training dataset to learn to detect different land cover types or areas burnt by wildfires. In machine learning, computer algorithms are trained, in the statistical sense, to split, sort and transform data to improve dataset classification, prediction, or pattern discovery.

Connections between different variables in a dataset are caused by the underlying physics or chemistry, but if you tried to invert the mathematics, often too much is unknown, and so unsolvable, says Brockmann. Thanks to Earth observation projects like the CCI programme, we have huge, multi-dimensional datasets to explore. For humans its often hard to find connections or make predictions from these complex and nonlinear climate data, he says.

Neural networks are used to take account of cloud cover by the ESA Climate Change Initiative Ocean Colour project when generating global monthly composite map of chlorophyll concentration (August 2018)

AI helps by building up connections automatically. Exposing the data to AI methods enables the algorithms to play with data and find statistical connections. These so-called concolutional neural network algorithms have the potential to resolve climate science problems that vary in space and time. For example, in ESAs CCI programme, scientists in the aerosol project need to determine changes in reflected sunlight due to the presence of dust, smoke and pollution in the atmosphere, called aerosol optical depth.

Dr Thomas Popp, who is science leader for the aerosol project, thinks there could be further benefits by using AI to retrieve additional aerosol parameters, such as their composition or absorption from several sensors at once. I want to combine several different satellite instruments and do one retrieval. This would mean gathering aerosol measurements across visible, thermal, and ultraviolet spectral range, from sensors with different viewing angles. He says solving this as a big data problem could make these data automatically fit together and be consistent.

Explainable AI is another evolving area is the field which could help unveil the physics or chemistry behind the data, says Carsten Brockmann, who is in the CCIs Ocean Colour science team.

In AI, computer algorithms learn to deal with an input dataset to generate an output, but we dont understand the hidden layers and connections in Neural Networks: the so-called black box, says Brockmann. We cant see whats inside this black box, and even if we could, it wouldnt tell us anything. In explainable AI, techniques are being developed to shine a light into this black box to understand the physical connections.

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Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS) Market: Brief Account

The global AIaaS market is predicted to gather pace in terms of growth as it registers a healthy CAGR during the forecast period 2018-2026. Well-established tech companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and Google offer AI services alongside their technology services in order to stay competitive in the industry. They realize that offering AI tools and software is not enough to maintain their supremacy in the technology world. Other software or professional service firms may partner with AI solutions providers to expand their customer base. In this regard, it could be said that the demand in the global AIaaS market will increase in the next few years.

The global AIaaS market could see classifications as per type of end-use industry, organization size, and technology. Among technologies, machine learning is anticipated to significantly increase the demand in the global AIaaS market.

The report presented here takes into account the rise and slow growth of the AIaaS market in different regions and important factors responsible for its growth. It also brings to light the nature of competition and how players are competing against each other in the global AIaaS market.

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The global AIaaS market is prognosticated to gain from the rise in the demand for cognitive computing and artificial intelligence. In addition, the increasing adoption of cloud-based solutions could create ample of opportunities in the global AIaaS market. AIaaS vendors are also prophesied to bank on the rising demand for sophisticated analytical systems and advanced workflow optimization. Furthermore, the global AIaaS market could take advantage of the increased spending on AI to extend its presence in key end-use industries.

However, the global AIaaS market is envisaged to suffer from the lack of trained professionals. Nevertheless, there could be profit-making opportunities birthed in the global AIaaS market due to the increase in IoT demand and rising number of applications.

Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS) Market: Regional Analysis

North America is projected to rank higher in the AIaaS market on the basis of revenue share. Availability of IT infrastructure and heavy presence of large enterprises in the region could catapult the AIaaS market in North America. High demand for AI could be another factor augmenting the demand in the North America AIaaS market.

Asia Pacific is also envisioned to become a prominent region for AIaaS market because of the rise of the IT and telecom industry. Nonetheless, there could also be strong demand for AIaaS arising from other industries such as healthcare, retail, and BFSI. The Asia Pacific AIaaS market is forecast to grow at a quick pace in the coming years.

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The global AIaaS market witnesses the presence of top players such as Apple Inc., IBM Corporation, and Alphabet Inc. Collaborations, acquisitions, and new product launches could be highly adopted in the global AIaaS market as powerful growth tactics. Nevertheless, players may also focus on developing services to gain a competitive edge in the global AIaaS market.

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What do cat videos, robotic dogs and same-day package delivery have in common?All of them share a connection to artificial intelligence or AI.

On this episode of Intersection, we talk to a panel of experts about the misconceptions and the reality of AI, how it helps us navigate our physical and social landscapes, and the massive amounts of data that drive advances in it.

From self-driving cars to mass surveillance, we take a deep dive into the past, present and future of AI, in a conversation recorded in front of a live audience on Sept. 12 at the Orlando Science Center.

Joining us on the panel: HP Newquist, director of the new Orlando Science Center exhibit,AI: Your Mind and the Machine;Dan Myers, assistant professor and chair of computer science at Rollins College;Walt Wilson, vice president of operations for Winter Park-based Fleet Zoo andJeremy Joseph, senior manager of Sensor Application Software at Luminar Technologies in Orlando.

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The states new 25-member commission on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Associated Technologies picked its leadership and areas of focus in its first meeting.

Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield was elected chairman and State Sen. Jabo Waggoner (R-Vestavia Hills) will serve as vice-chairman. Waggoner proposed a joint resolution creating the commission in the last legislative session, which Gov. Kay Ivey approved.

The commission is expected to examine several areas of focus, such as how schools and universities can develop AI-educational programs and privacy issues for consumers. It will meet over the next seven months and deliver a report to Ivey in May 2020 on how AI can benefit the economy.

The board also picked five subcommittees to begin work next month. Their areas of focus are:

*State regulations, government oversight and potential legislative action.

*Education and workforce development.

*Healthcare and medical services.

*Future and evolving industries, economic development and research.

*Ethics, privacy and security.

Artificial intelligence is a powerful, disruptive technology that has the potential to forever change the way we live our lives and how businesses across Alabama operate, Canfield said. Its critical that we understand how AI will bring about these sweeping changes, and this commission will help us develop insights into what the future has in store of Alabamas citizens and businesses.

Members of the committee include figures from business, education and government. Members are Hari Narayanan and Gerry Dozier, Auburn; Jeff Carver, Alabama; Curt Carver, UAB; Alex Yasinac, USA; John Beck, UAH; James Cimino, UAB; Melvin Evans, Hand Arendall; Jim McLane, NaphCare; Jacob Kosoff, Regions Bank; Joshua Jones, StrategyWise; Vicki Karolewics, Wallace State; State Reps. Kirk Hatcher and Craig Lipscomb, State Sen. Dan Roberts, J. Michael Hardin, Samford University Provost; John Brandt, Southern Company; Leonard Tillman, Balch & Bingham; Mike Rowell, CIO of ALFA; James Mizell, Microsoft senior account executive; Jason Asbury, NXTsoft; Syed Raza, Jefferson State, and Marty Redden, acting secretary of Alabama Office of Information Technology.

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Thanks to artificial intelligence and facial recognition, you can unlock your phone merely by showing your face to your screen. The technology is impressive but what's less understood, however, is just how AI classifies you behind the scenes through its algorithms.

Now you can find this out thanks toImageNet Roulette, where you can upload images of yourself and be tagged as a specific type of person and can grasp an understanding of how AI categorizes us.The results are entertaining at times but sometimes they're rude and borderline racist.

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Created as part of an art exhibition Training Humans at the Prada Foundationmuseum in Milan,ImageNet Roulettewas made to show us how we as humans are classified by computer systems or machine learning systems.

Gathering information from its neural network, which is trained to select categories of 'Person' descriptions from the ImageNet dataset, it has over 2,500 categories to choose from, to classify humans.

These classifications have been put together to form an exhibition at the Prada Foundation, created by Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford.

ImageNet Roulette is available online. Anyone can take a screenshot or upload an image of themselves. You then receive your classification based on the uploaded image.

ImageNet, on the other hand, is one of the most significant and important training sets in artificial intelligence. Launched in 2009, it grew exponentially.

Scouring the Internet for images, it collected millions of photos and for a while became the world's biggest academic user of Amazon's Mechanical Turk. At the end of the day, ImageNet had 14 million labeled photos, which have20,000 different categories.

Through ImageNet Roulette it is made clear that some classifications are relatively harmless, even amusing perhaps. Some people arecategorized as 'nonsmokers,' 'face,' or even 'psycholinguist.' Nothing too horrible.

However, when some images were taken in the dark, or with darker lighting, the categories jumped to 'black,' 'black person,' 'negro,' and 'negroid.'

For people with dark skin, the labels jumped to 'mulatto,' 'orphan,' and even 'rape suspect.' All the fun quickly disappears here.

These categories were added by the original ImageNet database, back from 2009, not by the ImageNet Roulette creators.

Essentially, the categories are based on how closely linked the images are with the training images from ImageNet's database.

This goes to show how biased these algorithms in AI can be. The data was collated from a number of sources: the original creators of ImageNet, the society that produced the images, the Amazon Mechanical Turks workers' opinions, and the dictionaries that provided the words in the first place.

Unfortunately, the algorithms were originally created by humans, and they must be the ones to change them in order to remove any bias.

Ultimately, the website says: "we want to shed light on what happens when technical systems are trained on problematic training data. AI classifications of people are rarely made visible to the people being classified. ImageNet Roulette provides a glimpse into that process and to show the ways things can go wrong."

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In the early days of Facebook, the social media platform aimed to create a global community of users unified by similar interests and contacts. Now, it wants to help you improve your fashion know-how.

The social media platform recently announced that it is building an artificial intelligence (AI) system that offers fashion advice and helps a user change their outfit to make it more 'fashionable.'

So, how does it work? The system titled Fashion+++ uses a deep image neural network to identify clothes and offer subtle alterations on what a user should remove, add or swap. It can also recommend ways to adjust a piece of clothing, such as tucking in a shirt or rolling up the sleeves, Facebook explains.

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So, in the words of Queer Eyes Tan France, Facebook's Fashion+++ aims to elevate your look.

On the definite plus side, the technology heroes sustainability, prioritising advising users how to make garments they already own more on trend, rather than suggesting they need to buy something new.

Fashion++ focuses specifically on minimal edits, suggesting adjustments that are more realistic and practical than buying an entirely new outfit, an explanation of Facebook+++ reads on the social media platforms website.

The system uses a discriminative fashionability classifier that is trained on thousands of publicly available images of outfits that have been judged to be stylish.

On the other hand though, giving Facebook the reins to appraise your personal choices might seem unsettling.

Daisy Murray, writer at ELLE UK, sees the benefits of Facebook+++ for the environment and consumer's self-esteem, but is weary of its advice.

'We all know that the drive to buy more, instead of playing with the garments we already have in our extensive wardrobes, is really harming the planet,' she says.

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'Everyone deserves to feel self-assured and empowered in what they wear when they walk out the door. Any efforts to help people feel more confident, whilst working with the clothes they already have, are in my books fantastic.

'My one concern is the potential limitations of the AI - personal style cannot be learned. A handy tip here or there is great, but we don't want to look homogenised. Only a person can bring their personality to what they wear.'

In other words, many will be cautious about letting a machine dictate their personal choices.

News of Facebooks latest technological venture comes amid growing adoption of technology in the fashion industry.

In recent years, Tommy Hilfiger has sent a solar-powered phone-charging jacket down the runway and Net-A-Porter has experimented with technology that scans your data for information on upcoming events and tailors its fashion suggestion.

Meanwhile, digital supermodels are now fronting campaigns for Balmain and Ellesse and digital collections worn among influencers on Instagram are increasingly becoming the norm, rather than the anomaly.

The future of fashion is officially here.

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ANN ARBOR - Two University of Michigan experts in the field of artificial intelligence and mental health will be presenting "Artificial Intelligence, Personalized Technology, and Mental Health" in a special edition of "Friday Night AI" at the Ann Arbor District Library's downtown branch on Sept. 27.

AI professor Emily Mower Provost and the director of the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program, professor Melvin McInnis, will be addressing the following questions during theirthought-provoking presentation:

As personalized technologies and AI continue to develop, their impact on everyday life grows. From offering personalized monitoring strategies to enabling health-focused applications, AI has transformed countless lives. But, can it completely transform the mental health system? And, should it? Join the conversation on Sept. 27.

The event is free and open to the public but registration is required. Register here.

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