Nvidia Founder, President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang introduces the Nvidia Spot, a USD 49.95 microphone and speaker that will let owners use Google Assistant anywhere in a home, as he delivers a keynote address at CES 2017 (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images) LAS VEGAS--Nvidia is best known for the high-end computer graphics cards prized by hardcore gamers. If co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang delivers on his bold vision, more people are likely to recognize Nvidia as the powerhouse behind artificial intelligence in your home and in your vehicle. Clad in his trademark black leather jacket, Huang delivered a high energy opening night keynote address Wednesday night at CES, assuming a prestigious speaking slot that for years was reserved for Microsoft's Bill Gates and later his successor Steve Ballmer. Nvidia (NVDA) is already a star on Wall Street. It is coming off a two-year hot streak, with a particularly sizzling 224% gain in 2016 that made it the top performing stock in the S&P 500.

LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 05: Volkswagen's I.D., an autonomous self-driving concept vehicle is displayed at the Volkswagen booth at CES 2017 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 5, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 8 and features 3,800 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to more than 165,000 attendees. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has officially kicked off today in Las Vegas and it's just as you expected. Lots of news around smart showers, mirrors and even pillows. Probably the last thing you would expect to hear coming out of the world's largest consumer electronics show in LasVegas is from AARP, the consumer advocacy group for Americans over 50.

Nissan is working toward technology to put truly driverless cars on the streets of Tokyo by 2020. The project's goal is driverless commercial vehicles that could deliver packages or transport people on short trips. Work will begin this year with DeNA, a Japanese Internet company, and initial trials will take place in designated driverless car test zones in Japan. The 2020 goal is aggressive, but Nissan probably has the Tokyo Olympics in mind. Many Japanese companies have similar projects to wow Olympic visitors and help the country put its best foot forward.

Get ready for some friendly robots in your airport. LG made two different ones -- one is the Airport Guide Robot while the other is a Cleaning Robot. Simply feed it your boarding pass and it will tell you how to get to your gate and when your flight is going to take off. It can also respond to your voice, tell you the weather of your destination, and offer directions in one of four languages: English, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Oh, and there's a giant display where it shows you where to go. It can even walk you to your gate, if you prefer.

The 9,500-year-old Jericho Skull contains a human cranium packed with soil and covered with plaster to replicate individual facial features. Sea shells are used to represent the deceased's eyes. Researchers have reverse-engineered the ancient ritual practice that created one of The British Museum's most important artifacts--the Jericho Skull--revealing the face of a man whose remains were decorated and venerated some 9,500 years ago. The Jericho Skull is also considered the oldest portrait in the museum's collection, and, until recently, its most enigmatic: a truncated human skull covered in worn plaster, with eye sockets set with simple sea shells that stare out blindly from its display case. A facial reconstruction based on the human remains found inside the Jericho Skull.

New KDnuggets Cartoon examines what can happen when you combine a Self-Driving Car and Machine Learning technology such as Recommendations ... Car: "No, I will not take you to A-1 Steakhouse. I recommend you go to the gym first, and then to V8 vegetarian restaurant" This cartoon was ably drawn by Jon Carter. Here is KDnuggets Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science Cartoon page Recent KDnuggets Cartoons: Cartoon: Thanksgiving, Big Data, and Turkey Data Science. Cartoon: Data Scientist - the sexiest job of the 21st century until ... Cartoon: Facebook data science experiments and Cats Cartoon: It all started with the iPhone answering my email Cartoon: Where humans are still ahead of Deep Learning Cartoon: A solution for Data Scientists allergies caused by Big Data Cartoon: Data Scientist - the sexiest job of the 21st century until ... Cartoon: Facebook data science experiments and Cats Cartoon: It all started with the iPhone answering my email Cartoon: Where humans are still ahead of Deep Learning Cartoon: A solution for Data Scientists allergies caused by Big Data

In late December 2016, I announced a small gift of 10 Deep Learning books to people interested in or working in AI. This is my way of paying back to the community which has been extremely generous with ideas and code. I asked people to send me an email letting me know their interest in AI and their contributions to the community. Here is the video of the announcement. I received nearly 300 emails from people from around the world -- pretty much every continent other than Antarctica!

We are writing this blog to motivate all developer towards artificial intelligence and while reading this blog removes the complex that A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) is tough, difficult and blah, blah, blah. So now, we will explore the whole new world of artificial intelligence. So, what is artificial intelligence? Again, as we said we don't make things complicated, so, A.I. is just a piece of code which solves your real-life problem without getting any humans involved in it, or to be specific we can say that a software which is like a small child which needs some training and after that it is capable of solving your real-life problems. And if you want a specific definition by Alan Turing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is usually defined as the science of making computers do things that require intelligence when done by humans.

Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance says it has two primary goals for the move: to increase productivity by 30 percent and to save about 140 million yen (US$1.2 million) a year. Workers at Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance are being replaced with an artificial intelligence system. The system is based on IBM's Watson Explorer which the company says has "cognitive technology that can think like a human," enabling it to "analyse and interpret all of your data, including unstructured text, images, audio and video." "With Watson, you can provide personalized recommendations by understanding a user's personality, tone, and emotion," IBM adds. Despite the AI'hire', the final say on all of the company's insurance payouts remains with a human.

Yandex recently announced its new search algorithm Palekh, which improves how Yandex understands the meaning behind every search query by using its deep neural networks as a ranking factor among others. Ultimately, the new algorithm helps Yandex improve its search results across the board but especially for long-tail search queries. As most State of Digital readers know, long-tail search queries are categorized by searches that the search engine very rarely processes. There is a correlation between the rarity of a query and the length of it. Typically, the shorter the query the more common it is and the longer it is the more rare it is.