There are many opinions about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to change the world with expectations about its capabilities for now and in the future. AI simply refers to intelligence displayed by machines in contrast to that displayed by humans. Although humans are intelligent, they cannot be programmed to exceed their current capabilities in the same way a machine can. This has led to the creation of smart machines that handle tasks otherwise difficult for humans to handle efficiently. Artificial intelligence is gradually becoming a constant presence in many technological applications.

Months after Amazon launched in general availability Neural Text-To-Speech (NTTS) and newscaster style in Amazon Polly, a cloud service that converts text into speech, the Seattle company today debuted two new NTTS voices in U.S. Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese: "Lupe" and "Camila." Like the U.S. English NTTS voice before them, they mimic things like stress and intonation in speech courtesy by identifying tonal patterns. Neural versions of Camila and Lupe are available in Amazon Web Services' (AWS) U.S. East (N. Standard variants are also available across 18 AWS regions, bringing Polly's total number of voices to 61 across 29 languages and the total number of voices available in both standard and neural versions to 13 across four languages. According to Amazon text-to-speech program manager Marta Smolarek, the new U.S. Spanish voice -- Lupe, which is the third U.S. text-to-speech voice in Polly -- not only speaks Spanish but also handles English and provides a fully bilingual Spanish-English experience.

My Ally, the world's only Talent Lifecycle Management (TLM) software provider for fast-growth companies and enterprise businesses, will be showcasing the Artificial Intelligence enabled Source-to-Retain platform at the Gartner ReimagineHR Conference, taking place October 28-30, 2019 in Orlando, Florida. As Talent Acquisition and HR Teams continue to report pains associated with finding, hiring, and onboarding the best talent quickly, the costs for these critical functions in organizations continue to rise. The Society for Human Resource Management states that the average cost to hire an employee in the United States is $4,129, with an average of about 42 days to fill a position. "We started My Ally with the vision of transforming the way companies all over the world discover, hire, and retain talent," said Deepti Yenireddy, CEO and Founder of My Ally. "We know there is a lot of efficiencies and improvements that AI can offer, and we believe Human Resources should be leaders in ushering in the AI assistants and bots to their organizations. We believe AI needs HR, not the other way around."

There are many opinions about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to change the world with expectations about its capabilities for now and in the future. AI simply refers to intelligence displayed by machines in contrast to that displayed by humans. Although humans are intelligent, they cannot be programmed to exceed their current capabilities in the same way a machine can. This has led to the creation of smart machines that handle tasks otherwise difficult for humans to handle efficiently. Artificial intelligence is gradually becoming a constant presence in many technological applications.

There are many opinions about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to change the world with expectations about its capabilities for now and in the future. AI simply refers to intelligence displayed by machines in contrast to that displayed by humans. Although humans are intelligent, they cannot be programmed to exceed their current capabilities in the same way a machine can. This has led to the creation of smart machines that handle tasks otherwise difficult for humans to handle efficiently. Artificial intelligence is gradually becoming a constant presence in many technological applications. From apps and websites that show accurate user recommendations to gaming predictions, it is changing user experience in many fields. Fleet management is one of the areas that AI is disrupting. The growing need to put driver safety first without compromising cost or efficiency has led to the adoption of smart fleet management systems.

Spending on artificial intelligence (AI) in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to surge by more than 50 percent on an annual basis to US$6.2 billion this year, market advisory firm International Data Corp (IDC) said. "Artificial intelligence is having an impact across many industries with widespread utilization, but is still at a nascent stage in the Asia-Pacific," IDC associate market analyst for Asia-Pacific Ritika Srivastava said in a report on Friday last week. "From providing chatbots for better customer service to improving the efficiency of operations and tasks for their business models, industries like banking, retail and professional services are spending in this technology at scale," Srivastava said. The banking industry would lead the way in spending on AI and contribute about 10.7 percent of overall spending in the Asia-Pacific region, the report said. Banks would mostly focus on AI/cognitive systems for fraud analysis and investigation, while also investing in automated customer service agents, it said.

The global business value derived from Artificial Intelligence (AI) is projected to reach over $3,9 trillion by 2022, according to industry analyst firm Gartner. The firm expects that in the next few years, Artificial Intelligence used to support data science and other algorithm-based applications is going to become the most common use for AI, comprising about 44 percent of the total. To face industry projections, the population needs to prepare by promoting education in AI. Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is the world's first graduate-level AI university. Named after His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Armed Forces, the AI university will introduce a new model of academia and research to the field of Artificial Intelligence.

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Your resume may not be the only deciding factor in landing your next job – it could be an'employability score' created by artificial intelligence that has the final vote. More than 100 big name firms are using HireVue's AI-driven assessment, which is technology that ranks candidates based on their facial movements, choice of words and speaking voice. Although employers can pursue any candidate, some have told The Washington Post that they usually focus on those the computer system liked best -- leading some experts to question how bias the process may be. More than 100 employers are using HireVue's AI-driven assessment that ranks candidates based on their facial movements, choice of words and speaking voice HireVue's technology is employed by many large name companies such as Hilton Hotels, Unilever and Goldman Sachs, according to The Washington Post. And with hundreds of applications flooding in for just a single position, the AI has made it easy for human employers to find the perfect candidate what i- but some experts believe the technology can do more harm than good.

McDonald's has failed to lure customers in with new technology, bringing the firm's third-quarter earnings down by two percent and dropping net income to $1.6 billion. Although the firm's net income experienced dipped, it was able to show a 5.9 percent increase in global comparable sales, including a decent rise in the US. However, Investors have put pressure on profits following the fast-food giant's increased spending on a variety of technologies including artificial intelligence and voice recognition. McDonald's has failed to lure customers in with new technology, bringing the firm's third-quarter earnings down by 2% and dropping net income to $1.6 billion. Although the firm's net income dipped, it was able to show a 5.9% increase in global comparable sales, including a decent rise in the US Quarterly earnings for McDonalds were flat at $2.11 per share, while Wall Street was looking for at least $2.21 of earnings per-share, according to analysts polled by FactSet. The Chicago company said its third-quarter revenue was $5.4 billion, again missing Wall Street's mark, which was forecasted to be $5.49 billion.