A woman from Cairns, Australia, used Siri to call an ambulance for her one-year-old daughter, Giana, when she stopped breathing. After dropping her iPhone, Stacey Gleeson shouted at the handset to activate Siri and told it to contact the emergency services as she began CPR.

Siri, which has been a part of Apple's iPhone for several years, has a voice activation function that helped a mom call for an ambulance when her daughter stopped breathing. When a mother from Cairns, Australia needed to call an ambulance for her one-year-old daughter who stopped breathing, Apple's Siri came to the rescue. Stacey Gleeson noticed her daughter Giana was turning blue, according to BBC. While running to her daughter's aid, she dropped her phone. But, the mother shouted to activate Siri and got emergency services on speakerphone.

You submitted your questions about artificial intelligence and robotics, and we put them – and some of our own – to The Conversation's experts. It is 100% plausible that we'll have human-like artificial intelligence. I say this even though the human brain is the most complex system in the universe that we know of. But there are also no physical laws we know of that would prevent us reproducing or exceeding its capabilities. Popular AI from Issac Asimov to Steven Spielberg is plausible. What the question doesn't address is: when will it be plausible? Most AI researchers (including me) see little or no evidence of it coming anytime soon. Progress on the major AI challenges is slow, if real.

The counting grid is a grid of microtopics, sparse word/feature distributions. The generative model associated with the grid does not use these microtopics individually, but in predefined groups which can only be (ad)mixed as such. Each allowed group corresponds to one of all possible overlapping rectangular windows into the grid. The capacity of the model is controlled by the ratio of the grid size and the window size. This paper builds upon the basic counting grid model and it shows that hierarchical reasoning helps avoid bad local minima, produces better classification accuracy and, most interestingly, allows for extraction of large numbers of coherent microtopics even from small datasets. We evaluate this in terms of consistency, diversity and clarity of the indexed content, as well as in a user study on word intrusion tasks. We demonstrate that these models work well as a technique for embedding raw images and discuss interesting parallels between hierarchical CG models and other deep architectures.

Footage of Bryde's whales feeding has been caught on camera. It was filmed with the use of a drone in research that paves the way for further studies in marine animal behaviour. Dr Barbara Bollard-Breen a senior lecturer at Auckland University of Technology, spoke to BBC News about the importance of the footage.

A woman from Cairns, Australia, used Siri to call an ambulance for her one-year-old daughter when she stopped breathing. Stacey Gleeson grabbed her iPhone and ran to the child's room to help her but dropped it as she turned on the light. She shouted at the handset to activate Siri and told it to get the emergency services on speakerphone as she began CPR. Ms Gleeson told the BBC she feels it may have saved her daughter's life. She instructed Siri to call an ambulance on speakerphone and was able to communicate with the emergency services while resuscitating Giana.

Quick thinking and Apple's digital assistant have saved the life of a little girl in Australia. Stacey Gleeson called on Siri after realizing her one-year-old daughter had turned blue and stopped breathing. 'Hey Siri, call me the ambulance', Gleeson yelled at her white iPhone that laid on the carpet across the room, which prompted the digital hero to dial for help. Stacey Gleeson (pictured) called on the power of Siri after realizing her one-year-old daughter had turned blue and stopped breathing. 'Hey Siri, call me the ambulance', Gleeson yelled, which prompted the digital hero to dial for help -- allowing her to focus on reviving her daughter Stacey Gleeson caught a glimpse of Giana on the baby monitor and saw she had turned blue and stopped breathing.

In an interview with iTnews, Philip Scorgie, who joined Allens last month from Chicago-based Mayer Brown, said that he expects large Australian law firms to begin adopting cloud-based cognitive computing systems within the next year. But he believes predictions that'robot lawyers' will replace humans are overstated. He instead views cognitive computing as augmenting, rather than replacing, human capabilities, for example by assisting lawyers to handle large data volumes to produce structured documents. The CIO also said that nervousness around the access foreign governments might have to firms' sensitive client data has meant the legal sector has been hesitant to adopt cloud technologies, particularly in Australia and Europe. But he added that doing so carried a risk that in-house legal teams would do so and handle more work themselves.

Smartphones are great devices, but not for everything. There are often times when having a device on you is the last thing you need, particularly if you are not using the screen. Amazon, Google and Apple are all betting that screen-less, intelligent, voice interaction will play a large role in the future of the internet at least in the home (if not the office, the car etc.). This article looks at some of the trends and recent announcements that suggest that voice control interfaces linked to artificial intelligence (AI) platforms is the future of the internet. There were two major milestones in the technology calendar this week.

Apple needs to change its attitude and approach to customer data, back away from the big data corner it has painted itself into, and use its upcoming World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) to lay out some sort of artificial intelligence vision. Amazon has Alexa and its Echo. Google has Home, Assistant and a bevy of other services. Meanwhile, Apple has its long-in-the-tooth Siri that reportedly will be opened up to third party developers. Over the last two years, Apple has dug its heels in on privacy, vilified ad models to some degree and knocked Silicon Valley rivals (read Facebook and Google) for using customers as the products and collecting too much information.