Cortical.io today announced a new release of its Cortical.io Contract Intelligence software. Utilizing a patented natural language understanding (NLU) approach based on semantic folding theory, the software analyzes the content of large quantities of documents with a degree of accuracy that is difficult to achieve with manual labor or other automation tools. It automatically and accurately searches, extracts, classifies and compares key information from agreements, contracts, and other unstructured documents like policies and financial reports. The Cortical.io Contract Intelligence solution understands the meaning of whole sentences and concepts, instead of just keywords.

Microsoft has patented an AI chatbot that will let people have conversations with people who have died.

An AI chatbot described in a December patent, first spotted by Input, filed by Microsoft is capable of imitating your dead relatives so you can have an instant messenger-style conversation with them from beyond the grave.

According to Fed Scoop, the GSA will use artificial intelligence to monitor its AI applications.

The General Services Administration will use artificial intelligence to monitor the deployment of AI applications as part of an $807 million contract awarded to NCI Information Systems.

A new screening test being developed in Korea uses artificial intelligence to find prostate cancer, reports Phys Org. 

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men. Patients are determined to have prostate cancer primarily based on PSA, a cancer factor in blood.