SHANGHAI--Tesla Motor Inc. has revised the marketing of its Autopilot feature in China, after a Beijing driver who sideswiped a parked car when the system was engaged accused the car maker of overplaying its capabilities. Since the weekend, the company has scaled back its description of Autopilot on its website and in other marketing materials from zi dong jia shi, meaning the car can drive itself, to zi dong fu zhu jia shi, meaning...

Robots have come a long way from being depicted as fictional characters in movies to playing an important role in executing critical business tasks, thanks to a versatile technique called'deep learning'. However, there is a growing concern that robots are expected to soon replace humans at operational level in organizations. With prominent leaders openly talking about how people will soon lose jobs to high functioning machines and companies stringently reducing employee strength, there is no denying the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) technology is here to stay. If one were to take a harder look however, one can say that on the contrary AI presents opportunities for the existing workforce to work in concert with the machines. Businesses should be on top of their game in making the best use of AI.

The investment firm Susa Ventures won't have any partners based in Los Angeles as it begins investing from a new 50-million fund. Susa unveiled its second fund -- double the size of its first -- Tuesday. In looking at the first batch of investments, Susa's geographically spread apart team realized that most of the companies were in the San Francisco Bay Area, including finance start-ups Robin Hood and LendUp. They decided to consolidate in San Francisco, too. "To take it to take next level, we all needed to be in the same office and S.F. seemed like the best," said general partner Seth Berman, who moved there from Los Angeles more than a year ago.

Japan lags Silicon Valley in conventional internet services but could become a global leader in the deep-learning technology of artificial intelligence, a leading AI expert has said. Yutaka Matsuo, 41, Project Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo, believes machine learning will revolutionize sectors such as image recognition. "In deep learning, Japan still has a great chance to compete," Matsuo said in an interview. He singled out Sony Corp., Ricoh Co., Olympus Corp. and Canon Inc. as companies that show promise. "Changes happening now are in image processing technology, and Japan has been good at this," he said.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not something that we will use in the future but something that's being used today by brands across world in their marketing efforts. It's an integral part of marketing efforts for brands to help build a better customer experience. FMCG brands are adopting AI to help recognise customer behavior, provide predictive customer service, integrate it as part of the product offering and in many other ways. A leading FMCG brand used AI technology to help recognise micro facial expressions of joy, anger and surprise in a focus group research for a fragrance to help predict whether the consumer liked the product or not. The AI technology developed by Emotient, a startup recently acquired by Apple was able to more accurately predict preferences of the focus group than surveys. Knorr used cognitive technology, a component of AI in its latest campaign Love at First Taste campaign - "Flavour Profiler".

We don't understand AI because we don't understand intelligence

We don't understand AI because we don't understand intelligence

This is part of a series on Artificial Intelligence. If you are catching it for the first time I'd recommend that you start here where I introduce the idea and provide some instrumental background. In the last article, I talked about the usefulness of thinking about artificial intelligence in its chapters. True, you could start biting this elephant anywhere and anyhow. The phases approach is just my recommended way of understanding, with better clarity, the goals and ultimate intentions of AI.

Nick Triantos spent the past year trying to commercialize the technology being developed at SRI International, the Stanford research offshoot that helped invent the Internet and Siri, among other things. Now he has joined Ignition Partners at its new office in Los Altos, where he says he will be able to help create companies from a broader range of innovation. Triantos said his focus will be on business-focused startups, particularly ones working in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and augmented and virtual reality. But he doesn't expect that will include startups in the currently hot space of chatbots, despite his background with voice recognition and machine learning at SRI. The following Q&A about these and other topics has been edited for length and clarity. What was your role at SRI and why are you leaving there? Unfortunately, not many people know about SRI.