As companies increasingly look to artificial intelligence ("AI") solutions to streamline their business practices, a new area has popped up: the use of artificial intelligence in analyzing videos of job interview applicants. For companies with tremendous volumes of job applicants, AI can be helpful in sorting through the applicant pool to narrow down the applicants who companies may want to bring in for in-person interviews or hire. As with most things technology, the laws are struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of innovation. However, Illinois continues to lead the nation in increasingly regulating the use of advancing technology. Though riddled with undefined terms and ambiguities, the Illinois Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act (the "Act")--effective January 1, 2020--requires businesses who utilize AI to evaluate job applicants' video interviews to provide notice and obtain prior consent before doing so, and includes restrictions on video sharing and retention.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPad on January 27, 2010, in San Francisco. When I hustled out of CNET headquarters in San Francisco on May 26, 2010, and slipped into a rental car with two of my co-workers to head to a meeting across the Bay, one of them slipped me a copy of The Wall Street Journal and pointed to a headline that announced Apple had passed Microsoft to become the world's most valuable tech company. "What do you think of that?" she said. "Unreal," I responded, shaking my head. Just over a decade earlier, Apple had nearly been on its deathbed and needed a $150 million investment from Microsoft simply to stay alive. But then the iPhone arrived in 2007, and Apple rewrote the playbook on the mobile revolution.

This blog post was guest-written by Annie O'Rourke, CEO of Digital Workforce Australia and 89 Degrees East. She will be guest speaking about'Addressing real world problems with Artificial Intelligence' session of the Women Rock-IT series on 17 October. To sign up for this or other webinars in the series, click here. Don't tell my husband, but I've recently started an affair. No need to be too shocked though, because I'm pretty sure I can package it as so-called ethical polygamy.

Digital agencies today are brimming with ideas that can help brands integrate with voice-enabled technology. For Niraj Ruparel, National Head- Mobile, Mindshare India, conversational commerce using voice skill technology in India means serious business. In conversation with exchange4media, he delves into the nuances of voice technology, how brands can ensure that voice interaction for users is a seamless experience and what is working in the favour of Voice as the next big digital trend. The agency's tryst with voice began in January this year, explains Ruparel after global giants Google and Amazon recognised the potential for voice in India. "Voice is pretty big in Tier 2 markets, which is in terms of the penetration or how we reach out to audiences in the rural market. If you talk about the ecosystem per se, we're talking about close to 100 crore active sim cards in India and almost 450 million sim cards are resting on feature phones where the only mode of communication is Voice, so that plays a dominant role there. But now we see those 550 million SIMs which are sitting on 400 million smartphones, 30 per cent of those people have now started querying on Voice Assistants."

Luminance, which provides Artificial Intelligence software for law firms and in-house teams, is gunning for the Disruptive Technology accolade in the 30th Anniversary Business Weekly Awards. Based at the Maurice Wilkes Building at St John's Innovation Park, Luminance prides itself as being the only platform to bring true artificial intelligence to the legal profession. Its submission says: "By deploying a unique blend of supervised and unsupervised machine learning, the core technology'LITE' is able to read and understand language in a way that is similar to the human brain and then learns from lawyers' interactions with documents as they conduct their review. "Luminance has enhanced the lives of lawyers in 165 countries globally, including 17 of'The Global Top 100', such as Holland & Knight, Slaughter and May and Bird & Bird, as well as each of the Big Four accounting firms." The company's pattern-recognition technology reads, understands and learns from the interaction between lawyers and documents, pinpointing warning signs that would be missed during a manual review.

Mark was recently quoted by Greg Sterling of Search Engine Land in an article on the future of call analytics. Jana Baker: Mark, in the SEL article, How call tracking is becoming'conversational intelligence,' author Greg Sterling states that'marketers have only scratched the surface of what call analytics can do.' I'd like to explore what this means. Marchex has been a provider in the call tracking industry for over a decade, and has been a leader in this industry as it's evolved. Can you share your perspective on this point of view?

AI for BI is a key tenet of the third generation of analytics. Sometime in the middle of the current decade, features such as augmented intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing started to become key parts of business intelligence platforms. In the years since, although analytics platforms have progressed, AI for BI still hasn't matured to the point where analytics tools can truly free up humans from the mundane tasks associated with data analysis, to the point where data analysis is part of everyday applications rather than a stand-alone application unto itself, or to the point at which BI platforms can predict for humans a likely outcome before they even request it. And it hasn't gotten to the point where it's accessible to everyone. In September, Constellation Research released a report entitled "Augmented Analytics: How Smart Features Are Changing Business Intelligence."

He published Apple's first research paper on AI, which then won the Best Paper Award at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. His work has contributed to the development of autonomous vehicles, Face ID in the iPhone X, facial microexpression detection, and sign language translation – it also landed him on Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Science for 2018. With a vision that artificial intelligence can improve lives, Tomas Pfister has poured himself into AI research, hoping to have a positive impact on the world with this powerful technology. In this exclusive interview, Pfister discusses the origins of his scientific interest, what made his Apple paper so innovative, and his current research with Google. Tomas Pfister: As a child I was always fascinated by computers.

The opening keynote for DevLearn 2019 Conference & Expo was beautiful, poised, and … a robot. Sophia was created by Dr. David Hanson of Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics. In a conversation with The eLearning Guild's executive director and executive vice president David Kelly, Sophia spoke about artificial intelligence and its impact on work and society. "What really excites me is the opportunity to dispel some common misconceptions humans have about artificial intelligence," said Sophia, who was draped in a black garment and spoke in an eerily polite, feminine voice. "The first is the assumption the AI conversation is about robots. Artificial intelligence is affecting many different aspects of life. Most of us are interacting with AI every day without even realizing it."

Artificial intelligence might sound like a futuristic concept, and it may be true that we're years or decades away from a generalized form of AI that can match or exceed the capabilities of the human brain across a wide range of topics. But the implications of machine learning, facial recognition and other early forms of the technology are already playing out for companies, governmental agencies and people around the world. This is raising questions about everything from privacy to jobs to law enforcement to the future of humanity. On this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, we hear several different takes from people grappling right now with AI and its implications for business, technology and society, recorded across different sessions at the recent GeekWire Summit in Seattle. Listen to the episode above, or subscribe in your favorite podcast app, and continue reading for edited excerpts. Smith: I think it's fair to say that artificial intelligence will reshape the global economy over the next three decades probably more than any other single technological force, probably as much as the combustion engine reshaped the global economy in the first half of the 20th century. One of our chapters is about AI in the workforce, and we actually start it by talking about the role of horses, the last run of the fire of horses in Brooklyn in 1922. And we trace how the transition from the horse to the automobile changed every aspect of the economy. I think the same thing will be true of AI, so we should get that right.