Waymo pioneered self-driving cars; now it's playing catch-up on self-driving trucks. Or is it already in the lead there, too? The self-driving car company, formerly part of Google and now owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet, announced Friday that it will start testing self-driving semitrucks on Atlanta highways next week. The big rigs, made by Peterbilt, will carry cargo bound for Google's data centers, the company said in a blog post. A human driver will be behind the wheel even as the car's software pilots it.

Advanced topic extraction using AI & machine learning, natural language processing, and regex classifiers to identify topics across all data sources - enabling organizations to diagnose not only what is happening in customer interactions, but why it's happening. Sentiment analysis and entity recognition using proprietary and open source algorithms to understand the overall sentiment and label data by types such as person, organization, location, events, and products. Pre-configured industry dashboards and classifier libraries that address the most common uses cases for sales, churn and compliance to jumpstart time-to-value. Data connectors to a variety of data sources and destinations, send classified data to an internal visualization tool or build powerful apps using the ListenLogic API. On premise or cloud deployment leveraging proprietary data redaction that removes personally identifiable information for an added level of security.

Nintendo fans had plenty to be excited about in 2017 with the release of games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey. Now in 2018, Nintendo plans to update more of its popular franchises with Splatoon 2 and a Nintendo Switch version of Super Smash Bros. In addition, the company announced Thursday at its Nintendo Direct event, it's bringing a remastered version of Dark Souls to the console. There's no official name for the new Super Smash Bros. installment yet, but a teaser video clip showed mainstays like Mario and Link from The Legend of Zelda series, as well as newcomers such as the Inklings from Splatoon. Inklings, the human-squid hybrids that can transform to swim through pools of ink, have never been featured in a Super Smash Bros. game before.

Photographers for the now-defunct Life magazine produced some of the most iconic images of the 20th century and left behind an archive of around 6.5 million photos. It's an important historical artifact, but it represents a big challenge for any human who wants to catalog and explore it. That's why Google has stepped up to the plate and announced today that it's used its AI skills to create Life Tags -- a new, searchable archive of Life photographs. It's also a bit slow to load, makes easy mistakes (check the "computer" tag and you get plenty of pictures of pianos, for example), and misses many useful categories, including the photographer, date, and who appears in each picture. The latter would have required a bit of extra analysis, but Google certainly knows how to do facial recognition.

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DataRobot, the pioneer in automated machine learning, today announced that Monsanto Company has selected the DataRobot automated machine learning platform to enable its Artificial Intelligence initiatives. Monsanto is a global modern agriculture company that develops products and digital tools to help farmers around the world grow crops while using energy, water and land more efficiently. Monsanto will leverage the DataRobot platform to improve data processes with automated and predictive analytics models that will provide insights across the company's core business functions including research & development, supply chain, and sales. DataRobot is the world's only software that puts the power of AI into the hands of any business user. DataRobot pre-packages and automates the data science workflow, enabling users to build and deploy highly accurate predictive models in a fraction of the time of traditional methods.

AI Incorporated, Canada's pioneering robotics and artificial intelligence research company, is working on a design for an autonomous refuse receptacle robot. A new application for mobile robotics, the new AI enhanced robotic system allows for a continuous cycle of mobile robotic devices to work in order to provide the end user with unending service. With this new application in mobile robotics, the company plans to use its Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technology combined with deep learning and to pioneer in a new generation of robots. The autonomous refuse receptacle robot is an application for the company's Versatile Self Localizing Autonomous Platforms (VSLAP). This new robot proprietary software called the Quantum Slam Operating System helps companies mobilize any given machine.

Microsoft has announced that its next major update to Windows 10 will include Windows ML, the company's new AI platform. Windows ML will let developers use machine learning systems running in their apps, which could result in faster artificial intelligence. "With the next major update to Windows 10, we begin to deliver the advances that have been built into our apps and services as part of the Windows 10 platform," the company said on its blog. "Every developer that builds apps on Windows 10 will be able to use AI to deliver more powerful and engaging experiences." Microsoft says that the inclusion of Windows ML in the next Windows 10 update will offer a number of benefits to developers.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In 2018, worldwide IT spending is predicted to hit $3.7 trillion, an increase of 4.5% from 2017 according to a recent report by Gartner. The increase in spending will be driven by emerging technologies; IoT, Blockchain and AI are projected to be the key growth areas. Many feel the game-changer for emerging technologies lies in the convergence of IoT, Blockchain and AI. Recently IoT Tech Expo speaker, Cisco's Maciej Kranz* stated that 2018 will be the time when the leading technologies of today; AI, IoT and blockchain will converge to power new solutions. And we can already see an example of this from Porsche which is currently testing IoT, AI and blockchain technology solutions for smart cars.

The artificial intelligence market is expected to reach USD 190.61 billion by 2025 from USD 21.46 billion in 2018, at a CAGR of 36.62%. The market growth can be attributed to factors such as growing big data, the increasing adoption of cloud-based applications and services, and increasing demand for intelligent virtual assistants. The limited number of AI technology experts is restraining the market growth to a certain extent Software to hold largest market share during forecast period Software is expected to hold the largest share of the artificial intelligence market. Continuous developments have been witnessed in AI software and related software development kits. Also, artificial intelligence software is used in various applications, such as virtual assistants, marketing, search advertising, identity access management, intruder detection, and cybersecurity Market for computer vision technology to grow at highest CAGR during forecast period The artificial intelligence market for computer vision technology is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period.

"It seems like every time you turn around, someone is talking about the importance of artificial intelligence and machine learning," said Trey Ideker, PhD, University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center professor. "But all of these systems are so-called'black boxes.' They can be very predictive, but we don't actually know all that much about how they work." Ideker gives an example: machine learning systems can analyze the online behaviors of millions of people to flag an individual as a potential "terrorist" or "suicide risk." "Yet we have no idea how the machine reached that conclusion," he said.