David Hanson and I share a similar background in media, art and design. Where we are different is in our focus: I designed "Primo Posthuman" as a future body prototype for exploring theoretical ideas regarding regenerative media, nanorobots and AGI. Alternatively, David is actually building humanoid robots -- including the Robokind commercial robot humanoid, and a variety of extremely realistic robot heads, incorporating unprecedentedly realistic facial expressions and voice. This interview covers some of David's work in this area, including its exciting broader implications. Along with the Robokind, Hanson's celebrated robots have included the Philip K. Dick Android, the walking Einstein portrait Albert-Hubo (in collaboration with KAIST, and pictured below), and Bina48 (to be discussed below). Hanson has received awards from NASA, NSF, AAAI, Tech Titans' Innovator of the Year, and Cooper Hewitt Design.

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates to the NTENT Team! Ricardo will play a key role in fortifying NTENT's innovation leadership in semantic and natural language processing and in shaping the company's technology vision. Get to know a little more about him. You have significant experience in the search space; can you please tell us a little bit about your background? I did my PhD at Univ. of Waterloo on search algorithms related to the New Oxford English Dictionary project. At that time, the dictionary was the largest single file on the planet (a bit more than 500Mb) and searching through it was a challenge.

Manoj Saxena is the executive chairman of CognitiveScale and a founding managing director of The Entrepreneurs' Fund IV (TEF), a 100m seed fund focused exclusively on the cognitive computing space. Saxena is also the chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, San Antonio branch and Chairman, SparkCognition an Austin based cognitive security and safety analytics company. Prior to joining TEF, Saxena was general manager, IBM Watson, where his team built the world's first cognitive systems in healthcare, financial services, and retail. Earlier he founded, built and sold two Austin based software startups. Saxena will be speaking on the subject of artificial intelligence at Gigaom Change Leaders Summit in Austin, September 21-23rd.

Manoj Saxena is the executive chairman of CognitiveScale and a founding managing director of The Entrepreneurs' Fund IV, a 100m seed fund focused exclusively on the cognitive computing space. Saxena is also a Special Advisor to IBM senior leadership where he focuses on operationalizing IBM's 100m Watson Cloud Ecosystem Fund and making side-by-side investments with the TEF IV fund. Saxena is also the chairman of two other startups in the cognitive computing space, WayBlazer and SparkCognition. Prior to joining TEF, Saxena was general manager, IBM Watson, where his team built the world's first cognitive systems in healthcare, financial services, and retail. He received the IBM Chairman's award for Watson commercialization and helped with the formation of Watson Business Group in January 2014 with a 1B investment from IBM. Saxena will be speaking on the subject of artificial intelligence at Gigaom Change Leaders Summit in Austin, September 21-23rd.

Tess. is a London-based online service created for women that offers personalized professional styling recommendations based on artificial intelligence. of 5 (Photo: MyTess/Dasha Egay) Today, artificial intelligence has become the latest trend in various fields, including education, healthcare, the environment and the business sectors. But have you ever wondered what it would be like if artificial intelligence invades the world of fashion? Whether people will admit it or not, fashion is playing an essential role in our daily routines. Since we are currently in an era where artificial intelligence is on the rise, some of us can't help but wonder how AI will change and influence the world of fashion. Earlier in May, people got a glimpse of how experts incorporated artificial intelligence into the ever-evolving field of fashion.

The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, will not only make you fall in love with her timeless charms and classic beauty. Her sense of humor and fun personality would make you understand why Prince William fell in love with her. Middleton showed the crowd her funny side during a gala event by one of their friends held on June 22. An interesting reason behind her humor might shock most of the people. People Magazine reported how Kate Middleton kid around the chefs of the said event saying Prince William is patient enough to put up with her cooking.

Yactraq's machine learning driven audio mining offering makes custom vocabulary based speech analytics affordable for any organization, including SMB's and enterprise business unit's. Yactraq has been selected in a Gartner Cool Vendor (Smart Machines) 2016 among the first 20 companies to be showcased by IBM Watson's Cognitive Gallery and is an IP for Defense partner of Intellectual Ventures, the world's largest patent bank. Q: You've developed a breakthrough artificial intelligence platform for audio-mining and speech analytics; can you give us more insights into your technology? A: Beyond basic functionality offered by legacy audio-mining systems, Yactraq's OmniTraq audio mining product offers revolutionary machine learning driven capabilities that enable our clients to detect customer sentiment and monitor service quality in new and powerful ways, across a range of verticals. OmniTraq can be viewed as an analytics, reporting and search layer that depends on two key technology platforms.

There is general agreement that AI is already having a huge impact on our work and leisure lives, as well as society as a whole -- and the effects are escalating rapidly. More open to debate is exactly what to expect and when. Long-term projections for many economists and robotics designers go only as far as the next five, or maybe 20 years, when driverless cars, elder-case assistants and automated factories will be the norm. Robin Hanson takes another tack. The associate professor of economics at George Mason University is also a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University.

Pieter Abbeel is an associate professor in UC Berkeley's EECS department, where he works in machine learning and robotics--in particular his research is on making robots learn from people (apprenticeship learning) and how to make robots learn through their own trial and error (reinforcement learning). Pieter's robots have learned advanced helicopter aerobatics, knot tying, basic assembly, and organizing laundry. He has won various awards, including best paper awards at ICML and ICRA, the Sloan Fellowship, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (AFOSR-YIP) Award, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (ONR-YIP) Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award (DARPA-YFA), the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program Award (NSF-CAREER), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award, the MIT TR35, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Early Career Award, and the Dick Volz Best US PhD Thesis in Robotics and Automation Award.

The complex passenger flows, demanding identification challenges and pressure-filled security conditions that are inherent in border control make the arena appear an interesting prospect for artificial intelligence-based solutions that can revolutionise critical processes. Machine-learning technologies being developed could identify risk patterns at speeds way beyond humans' capacity, and when tied with the powerful security offered by biometrics, AI's potential to disrupt the world of borders expands even further. What then is the future for the border guard? Will their decades of document security expertise and nuanced instincts be made rendered obsolete by a'border bot'? Planet Biometrics caught up with Cyrille Bataller, Artificial Intelligence lead at Accenture, to learn about his team's AI initiatives for borders and about his views on the importance of a "people-first" approach.