Intel, the world's largest semiconductor company, aims to gain the upper hand in the budding field of artificial intelligence with a new lineup of chip products in 2017, a senior executive said. Vice President Raejeanne B. Skillern's comments came as Intel's main rival in the AI chip market, Nvidia, is working with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on chip products that can handle massive amounts of video, images and voice recognition tasks. "Nvidia has gotten a very tiny piece of the market right now," Skillern told the Nikkei Asian Review in early December. "We take the competition very seriously. While Intel controls 98% of the global market for data center server chips, Nvidia's graphics-oriented products have become the preferred option for internet titans like Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, along with researchers striving to train computers to recognize complex patterns and objects.

Every year, we reach new heights in dating technology, as apps, platforms, and gadgets become more deeply entangled in our relationships. No doubt, dating in 2017 will not be materially different from what it was like in 2016--a year tends not to make a lot of difference--but we can certainly glean a picture of what sex and love will look like in the not-so-distant future and beyond. In a way, pop culture is already showing us. One of the most acclaimed TV dramas of the year, HBO's Westworld, is set in an enormous Dionysian amusement park in which humans indulge their sexual and emotional fantasies with lifelike robots. We're not there yet, but this past April, a Hong Kong designer unveiled his very own humanoid robot that looked remarkably similar to actress Scarlett Johansson.

The "world's first manned bipedal robot," made by South Korea's Hankook Mirae Technology, took its first small steps in South Korea this week, and with it made a giant leap in the future of robotics. Such robo-suits have long been a part of popular imagination through cinematic experiences in films and anime such as Iron Man, Gundam, Pacific Rim and Avatar among many more. However, at 13 feet tall (approximately 4 meters) and weighing 1.5 tons, with each metal arm weighing 286 pounds, the robot called "Method-2" is far more astounding than comparable CGI renditions. Significantly, the creation of such a robo-suit -- that gives the humans piloting them enhanced abilities -- represents the revolutionary and potentially limitless applications of such a technology. With improvements, the technology could one day be used for construction and demolition work, rescue operations, or even deep sea and space exploration.

MUMBAI: HDFC Bank has tied up with Niki.ai, the artificial intelligence firm funded by Ratan Tata & Ronnie Screwvala, to bring in'conversational banking' - chatbots that facilitate commerce and banking transactions without getting out of the chat window. The chatbot is presently available on Facebook messenger where it can be used for e-commerce transactions like booking a cab, ordering food or paying bill. Speaking to TOI, Nitin Chugh, HDFC Bank's digital banking head, said that the chatbot was designed to work as a virtual concierge service. The HDFC Bank on-chat app is available to anyone and not just those with HDFC Bank accounts. "The chat opens a payment gateway through which transactions can be made using any bank account," said Chugh.

Do you have an iPhone? Tell Siri that you want to buy Apple. Trying that in a suburban Long Island, N.Y., town recently resulted in Siri asking if the user wanted to go to the Apple Store at a nearby mall. Then, Siri suggested, the closest branch of Apple Bank for Savings? Then the virtual assistant suggests a nearby floor covering company named for the fruit.

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