In the 2006 film, The Devil Wears Prada, actor Meryl Streep who plays Miranda Priestly, a powerful fashion editor, gives her new assistant a dressing down for not understanding fashion. She tells her that fashion is whatever a select group of designers say it is. But what she fails to anticipate is how these czars of style will one day be challenged on their own turf by another set of fashionistas: machines. As artificial intelligence (AI) pervades almost every field today, lines of an algorithm are now sashaying down the catwalk. India's fashion and retail industry too have started to rely on the power of machines to come up with the latest styles.

Plug in an Amazon Echo and it's obvious that artificial intelligence is using algorithms to produce responses. But drivers in Singapore probably don't realize traffic signal patterns are being determined AI that examines data from street cameras. In the next few years, AI will become increasingly integrated our modern livesin ways that will be at times conspicuous, and other times unobtrusive. AI will get to know you. So said a trio of AI experts...

ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) in Malaysia is progressing by huge strides. The recent announcement of the first AI fund in Malaysia by Kenanga Investors, as well as Al Rajhi Bank's initiative to use AI to boost their anti-money laundering (AML) efforts, as just some examples of the immediate benefits that AI already has in the business world. Yet, the notion of an impending age of automation and AI is evoking mixed reactions. On the one hand, there is excitement around the opportunity it presents to radically lower the cost of operations and boost the speed of doing business. On the other hand, it has given rise to concerns about the future of jobs.

FB Messenger Commerce bots and Google Assistant went big, nearly every company released its own bot and Amazon Echo Dot and Google Home Mini became top holiday gifts - chatbots and assistants finally became mainstream in 2017. Perhaps you've already used one for getting store hours, fixing your internet or even buying a spare turkey. Although chatbots made dramatic improvements in NLP, their biggest shortcoming is that they're still scripted and handcrafted; nothing more than a glorified IVR or worse, a query based search. Sway too far from the script and you get the dreaded'I don't understand the question'. To understand why chatbots suck, you need to understand how they're built.

For years, tech industry financiers showed little interest in start-up companies that made computer chips. How on earth could a start-up compete with a goliath like Intel, which made the chips that ran more than 80 percent of the world's personal computers? Even in the areas where Intel didn't dominate, like smartphones and gaming devices, there were companies like Qualcomm and Nvidia that could squash an upstart. But then came the tech industry's latest big thing -- artificial intelligence. A.I., it turned out, works better with new kinds of computer chips.

BENGALURU, January 16, 2018 – Founded in 2013, Intuition Systems is a leading and fast-growing Artificial Intelligence (AI) company in India, now spreading wings across Asia-Pacific with IVE-POS line of POS and payment products. Made in India, Intuition systems was recently named by top tech magazines as top 5 POS and Top 30 preferred tech work places in India. Intuition Systems is the first POS system company that used an AI-based software platform for restaurant and retail industry, first ever to do so in India. Transportation is a huge problem in fast-growing economies like India. The major problems, especially in Indian cities, include crowded cities, high pollution, unsafe roads, poor logistics, unintelligent and unreliable ancient motors.

HONG KONG – David Hanson envisions a future in which AI-powered robots evolve to become "super-intelligent genius machines" that might help solve some of mankind's most challenging problems. If only it were as simple as that. The Texas-born former sculptor at Walt Disney Imagineering and his Hong Kong-based startup Hanson Robotics are combining artificial intelligence with southern China's expertise in toy design, electronics and manufacturing to craft humanoid "social robots" with faces designed to be lifelike and appealing enough to win trust from humans who interact with them. Hanson, 49, is perhaps best known as the creator of Sophia, a talk show-going robot partly modeled on Audrey Hepburn that he calls his "masterpiece." Akin to an animated mannequin, she seems as much a product of his background in theatrics as an example of advanced technology.

These are the trends that will enable almost every industry to adopt and create IoT solutions in the next few years. Faced with this pace of change and disruption, companies are wondering how to plan, implement, and keep up. They need the right people and the right technology to build a digital vision that will empower employees, engage customers, optimize operations, and transform products. Microsoft has been working with customers and partners across multiple industries and regions to enable this digital transformation, and today we're seeing a new paradigm -- an intelligent cloud with an intelligent edge. Companies are building new experiences that are multi-device, multi-sense and not bound by any particular computing experience.

For years, tech industry financiers showed little interest in start-up companies that made computer chips. How on earth could a start-up compete with a goliath like Intel, which made the chips that ran more than 80 percent of the world's personal computers? Even in the areas where Intel didn't dominate, like smartphones and gaming devices, there were companies like Qualcomm and Nvidia that could squash an upstart. But then came the tech industry's latest big thing -- artificial intelligence. A.I., it turned out, works better with new kinds of computer chips.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Artificial intelligence programs built by China's e-commerce titan Alibaba scored better than humans on a Stanford University reading and comprehension test. "This is the first time that a machine has outperformed humans on such a test," Alibaba said in a statement on Monday. The test was designed by artificial intelligence experts at Stanford to measure computers' growing reading abilities. Alibaba's software was the first to beat the human race. Luo Si, chief scientist for natural language processing at Alibaba's AI research arm, called the milestone "a great honor," but also acknowledged that it is likely to lead to a significant number of workers losing their jobs to machines.