Some of the key players operating in the artificial intelligence market are IBM Corp. (U.S.), Microsoft Corp. (U.S.), Google Inc. (U.S.), IPsoft (U.S.), FinGenius Corp. (U.K.), Rocket Fuel Inc. (U.S.), Mobileye N.V. (Israel), Kensho Technologies, Inc. (U.S.), Sentient Technologies (U.S.), and Zephyr Health (U.S.). The artificial intelligence market is segmented on the basis of technology into machine learning, natural language processing, image recognition, and speech processing. The market for AI was dominated by the machine learning technology as it provides the computers with the ability to learn without being explicitely programmed. This involves the development of computer programs that are capable of updating themselves when exposed to new data. The artificial intelligence market for the media & advertising sector is expected to account for the largest share of the overall artificial intelligence market during the forecast period due to the rising adoption of AI technologies in the media & advertising sector to determine the consumer behavior to influence their buying pattern.

Just last month, Carmen Blandin had a remarkable dream. In it she saw, for the first time, not her old face in the mirror--the one she had for the first 38 years of her life--but the new face she received in a transplant three years ago. "I actually saw me with my new face," she says. In the dream, she was smiling. Carmen became severely disfigured one evening in 2007, at her home in rural Vermont, when her estranged husband doused her with industrial strength lye while she lay in bed.

The new Apple TV is about to get a lot easier to manage and use. At its March 2016 event out of its headquarters in Cupertino, California, today, Apple announced a free update to newer versions of its streaming media set-top box (the ones released last fall, with the black Touch Remote and Siri built-in). The update, which is available today, will give you folders to organize the apps on home screen. It will also add a voice dictation mode for Siri, allowing you to speak the digits of your usernames and passwords directly to Apple's digital personal assistant, in lieu of fumbling with the swipeable on-screen keyboard. You can also search for TV apps using your voice.

Today, we create a staggering amount of information: formulas, tweets, poetry, photos, videos and many more. Even our discoveries and diagnosis generate data. Can we draw meaning from it? Overcome obstacles that used to stop us. Spot diseases before patients display symptoms.

The city of Oulu is situated in northern Finland, just 220km from the Arctic Circle. Although the idea of staying warm indoors is appealing, few seem interested in doing that during Oulu's annual Polar Bear Pitching event. Now in its third year, Polar Bear Pitching is an early-stage startup competition where presentations have no time limits. Entrepreneurs can take as long as they like to pitch to an investor jury, but they only have this freedom while standing in freezing water in a hole drilled into sea ice. "We have always thought we [in Oulu] are slightly crazy and want to do things differently," explains Christian Sundell, chairman of the event organising group.

Lee Sedol, the South Korean Go champion who lost to a computer earlier this month, has said he would like a rematch. Lee, a top-ranking Go player who has 18 international titles under his belt, lost a five-game match to AlphaGo, a computer program developed by British artificial intelligence company DeepMind. However, Lee is ready to take on the machine once again. Speaking to Yonhap News, he said: "I will have to consider it carefully, but if AlphaGo wants a rematch, I'd like to face it again, on the condition it will take place in the near future." He also hinted that he may have discovered the program's secrets, saying: "I figured out AlphaGo to some degree during our last meeting."

Andy Grove, the refu gee from Hungary who became one of the pillars of Silicon Valley and, as both scientist and executive, was a principal figure in the rise of the Intel Corp. and a symbol of the world-wide computer revolution, died Monday. The death was announced on the company's website. It did not give a cause or a location. He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease. In a statement, Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich said that Mr. Grove "made the impossible happen, time and again, and inspired generations of technologists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders."

Machine learning is increasingly enabling companies to gain strategic advantage by turning big data into insightful and actionable information. But how do they access this new world of artificial intelligence? Offering easy access to machine learning, predictive APIs [application programming interfaces] are emerging as a key driving factor for machine learning (ML) and the overall world of artificial intelligence (AI). Predictive APIs offer the flexibility of deciding to host machine learning in the cloud, in-house or both, giving developers the freedom to work in the language and tools they want. "A predictive API exposes machine learning capability so it can either be an API that gives access to a predictive model, and it can also expose access to an ability to learn new models and to create new models from data," said Louis Dorard, who has a PhD in machine learning and is the author of Bootstrapping Machine Learning and is founder of the series of predictive API conferences, including PAPIs.io "There's machine learning APIs where you can send a data set -- for example, one column for the tweet and another column for positive or negative or neutral -- and then they send it back [through] the API and then you can reuse the model for data," Dorard said.

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Well, now I am just wondering how I've lived so long without a holographic butler. See also: Sorry, Tesla: The world's fastest electric car is made in... Croatia? Ignoring my deep disappointment of living sans digital manservant aside, the concept actually makes some sense. That's because Bentley imagines a future when elite drivers won't want simply speak commands to a faceless digital assistant à la Siri. Instead, they'll want to have a personalized experience when in their ultimate luxury machine.