Wouldn't it be convenient if robots could charge your electric vehicle so that you don't have to? Volkswagen recently showed the world its dreamed-up future where robots with digital faces roam around parking garages to charge EVs using traveling battery packs. The autonomous robot would find your car, attach a charger to it and then move on to other vehicles while your battery juices up. The seemingly random unveil was meant to provide "a glimpse into the future in which the search for charging stations" comes to an end, VW said. The German automaker envisions you summoning the robot via an app.

Anyone that has ever spoken the words "Hey Siri" or "OK Google" into their phone knows how to use voice assistants. The revolution of digital and artificial intelligence is affecting more and more aspects of our lives and businesses. It is being used to create bots for automation or to simply make sense of the billions of datasets that are being generated daily. Generally, when it comes to artificial intelligence it is all about making processes easier or better. Especially while dealing with customer interactions the new possibilities of AI, most prominently chatbots are creating a more enjoyable customer experience.

The Neural Net of electric vehicle maker Tesla continues to improve regularly, and it seems that the company would like to make sure that it evolves at a faster rate. A new Tesla patent reveals that the company would like to enable a more efficient autonomous driving systems on Tesla vehicles. It would be made possible through a new data pipeline focused on more optimized data processing. The recently spotted Tesla patent titled "Data Pipeline and Deep Learning System for Autonomous Driving" was published just a couple of days ago. The concept is that Tesla would revolutionize and improve beyond deep learning systems used for autonomous vehicles.

Machine Learning and Artificial intelligence is the revolutionary development of technology. Machine learning and AI has become part of our daily life and make it convenient for our daily living. Artificial Intelligence is different from machine learning. They have similarities but entirely different from each other. The difference between ML and AI is mentioned above.

Chinese technology giant Baidu has overtaken Google and Microsoft in an artificial intelligence competition designed to test how well a machine can understand human language. Baidu, which is often referred to as China's Google, achieved the highest ever score in the General Language Understanding Evaluation (Glue) – widely considered to be the benchmark for AI language understanding. The firm's Ernie (Enhanced Representation through kNowledge IntEgration) model became the first to score above 90 on the test, topping a leaderboard dominated by US tech firms and universities. The feat also makes it one of only 10 AI systems to surpass the average human score of 87.1 on the GLUE benchmark. Ernie used a similar method to Google's Bert (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) model, which transformed natural-language understanding for AI when it was created last year.

Tesla's Neural Net continues to improve and become more advanced on a daily basis, but it appears that the electric car maker is making sure that it will evolve at an even faster rate in the future. A recent patent, for example, would allow Tesla's autonomous driving systems to work more efficiently, thanks to a new data pipeline focused on optimized image processing. Tesla's patent for "Data Pipeline and Deep Learning System for Autonomous Driving" was published on December 26. The idea behind the patent is to revolutionize and improve upon past deep learning systems that have been used for autonomous driving vehicles. In the past, these systems have used "captured sensor data" to retrieve information.

Chatbots have emerged as the preferred interface as more and more searches are shifting from text to voice. While globally, banking bots have moved beyond answering transactional queries to full-service mode, the Indian BFSI sector bound by regulatory norms is still in an evolving stage. They are now moving to full-fledged virtual assistant mode, thanks to artificial intelligence and machine learning. The year 2019 saw many new innovations in this sector. This year's Turing Award went to Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton & Yoshua Bengio who have been referred to as the Godfathers of AI for having developed some remarkable innovations in the field of artificial intelligence.

The concerted drive for autonomous cars goes back decades. You'll probably be surprised to learn that the first self-driving car was showcased in the 1920s. Since then, significant strides have been made thanks to advances in automotive, mechanical, electrical and electronic technology. Nevertheless, for something that saw its first prototypes a century ago, autonomous cars have struggled to really catch on. The coming of the Computer Age has however breathed new life into autonomous cars.

Its popularity shows the Echo is staying ahead of smart speaker competitors like Google Home. On the list of top downloads, Google Home placed seventh on Google Play and ninth in the iPhone App Store. Last year, it looked like Google Home might prove a serious challenge to Amazon, but for now the device is lagging. In the U.S., Amazon Echo holds 70% of the smart speaker market, while Google Home has 25%, according to the Consumer Research Intelligence Partners. Globally, the Echo has 36.6% of the market in the third quarter, putting it significantly ahead of Google Home (12.3%) and a pack of competitors, according to analysis firm Canalys.

Microsoft is devising a new roadmap for Cortana by integrating it with various applications. Earlier in 2019, Satya Nadela, CEO of Microsoft, said that the firm no longer sees Cortana as a competitor to other prominent virtual assistants Alexa and Google Now. The company is rather working towards revamping the way Cortana is being leveraged across the world. In an announcement on Friday, Microsoft notified users of several countries that they are pulling out Cortana support from Android and iOS platforms. Come 31 January 2020, Cortana will disappear from India, UK, Australia, Mexico, Spain, Canada, Germany, and China.