The Otsu school in Japan will feed AI information from about 9,000 suspected bullying cases, reported by their elementary and junior high schools, between 2012 and 2018. This information will include details on the students involved,  their ages, genders, absenteeism records, and academic achievements as well as when and where any bullying incidents took place. Through an AI theoretical analysis of past data, they plan to properly respond to cases without just relying on teachers' past experiences. The hope is that the AI will allow school officials to identify the bullying cases that are likely to escalate in seriousness so that they can intervene and diffuse situations before it's too late. https://futurism.com/the-byte/school-bullying-artificial-intelligence

Daitum won Asia Pacific's largest start up pitch competition StartCon and an $1 million investment from Right Click Capital. It's an Australian-based AI company born out of the vision to make decision analytics accessible to everyone, Data is the new black. Advances in IOT technology and connectivity mean data is ubiquitous. But business value comes from action, not the data itself. And while predictive data analytics is great, it doesn't tell you what to do with the insights it generates, leaving the most important part of the business equation unanswered. Decision analytics bridges this gap, turning data into action and automating the answering of the "what should I do" question. With decision analytics, businesses can make smarter more-informed decisions backed by justifiable actions based on their own data. It's said to be the next big thing in computing.  htt

Staybil is?award-winning,?AI-powered software that allows organizations?to incorporate multi-site hiring and rostering into their existing workforce management software. It allows?staff to pick up and swap shifts in the best locations, and organisations to optimize travel for staff that they hire. Staybil's vision to revolutionise how work is found and kept is based on the belief that the future of urban life depends on workforce geo-optimisation designed to reduce commuting time and traffic congestion. www.staybil.com

China's state news agency has debuted a virtual anchor, an AI news reader, designed to be able to deliver the news 24 hours a day. Developed by Xinhua and Chinese search engine company Sogou, the anchor has been designed to simulate human voice, facial expressions and gestures. It learns from live broadcasting videos and can read texts naturally. www.cnn.com/2018/11/09/media/china-xinhua-ai-anchor/index.html

Imagine this: You file a police report, but back at the station, they feed it into an algorithm?? and it accuses you of lying, as though it had somehow looked inside your brain. That might sound like science fiction, but Spain is currently rolling out a very similar program, called?VeriPol, in many of its police stations. VeriPol?s creators say that when it flags a report as false, it turns out to be correct more than four-fifths of the time. https://futurism.com/the-byte/lie-detector-false-police-reports