Chatbots can help you order pizza, accept payments and be super racist, but their usefulness has been pretty limited. However, Facebook announced today that it has created a much more capable bot by giving it the ability to negotiate, strategize, and plan ahead in a conversation. Getting computers to understand conversation at a human level has been a pretty unsuccessful venture thus far. It requires not only a large amount of knowledge but rapid and accurate adaptability as well. But researchers at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) have developed a new technique that lets bots successfully navigate a very human type of dialogue -- negotiations.

Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the market's leading independent all-flash data platform vendor for the cloud era, today announced Pure1 META, it's Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform for delivering on the vision of self-driving storage. Pure1 META is delivers global predictive intelligence by collecting and analyzing over 1 trillion array telemetry data points per day and enables effortless management, analytics and support. Pure1 META represents a major breakthrough in enterprise artificial intelligence and machine learning. Through the new Workload DNA generated by Pure1 META, customers will be able, for the first time in the industry, to predict both capacity and performance and get intelligent advice on workload deployment, interaction and optimization. With Pure1 META, Pure Storage continues to advance in its vision of delivering self-driving storage.

When talking about machine learning algorithms, Amazon definitely comes to mind. The e-commerce giant has (arguably) the most sophisticated ML toolset around that is uses for drone deliveries, online tailors, or its AWS offering. Turns out, Amazon's lesser known operation – small business lending – is also powered by machine learning, Bank Innovation has learned. Since the launch of its SME lending program in 2012, the company has issued more than $3 billion in total loans, with more than $1 billion issued in the past 12 months, Amazon announced today. In total, more than 20,000 "invited" businesses received those loans.

BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at GE's Minds Machines Europe event, GE Ventures (NYSE:GE) announced the launch of Avitas Systems, a new company that will use predictive data analytics, robotics, and artificial intelligence to deliver advanced inspection services to the oil and gas, transportation, and energy industries. Routine inspections can be slow and costly, and often include humans performing high-risk tasks. Data is manually collected and processed, and can take weeks to analyze. By reducing high-risk tasks through robotics, Avitas Systems can make inspection processes safer and more efficient through data automation, decreasing costs by up to 25%. By performing inspections based on anticipated risk, instead of regular time intervals, Avitas Systems can also help to increase asset longevity.

SYS-CON Events announced today that MobiDev, a client-oriented software development company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. MobiDev is a software company that develops and delivers turn-key mobile apps, websites, web services, and complex software systems for startups and enterprises. Since 2009 it has grown from a small group of passionate engineers and business managers to a full-scale mobile software company with over 200 developers, designers, quality assurance engineers, project managers in house, specializing in the world-class mobile and web development. The company's main focus is saving the time and efforts of clients by providing full-cycle product development, offering dedicated project teams for long-term collaborations, making quality assurance an integral part of development, and regular product deliveries. Another major work principle embraced by MobiDev is flexibility: the company adjusts its activities to clients' business processes, tools, and environments; enables transparency of actions and quick problem-solving; and establishes effective communication with other involved teams, if required.

Machine learning is an entirely new approach to health analytics because it can generate robust insights from unstructured and imperfect data; such as the free text notes found throughout electronic health records. Validated by over a decade of research and clinical applications, Cyft technology will employ machine learning and natural language processing as well as device signal processing to analyze multiple data sources and create predictive models for use by health professionals. These models will detect and alert caregivers to opportunities to intervene in the care of patients at risk for deterioration in their health outcomes. The three-year project is funded by a grant from the Helmsley Charitable Trust, a foundation that seeks to improve lives by supporting exceptional efforts in the U.S. and around the world. "Advancing care for type 1 diabetes has traditionally been difficult as we are working to better understand the impact of clinical and sociodemographic risk factors on outcomes, while also incorporating these insights into patient management strategies," said Mark Clements, MD, Ph.D. "Due to the development of machine learning technologies we can now make these data points immediately useful to individuals who are delivering care, not just those conducting research. This project aims to not only prove we can generate accurate type 1 diabetes learning models, but also use this information to proactively improve health outcomes and impact the wider type 1 diabetes community."

Microsoft has revealed its new console, which it says is the most powerful ever made. The Xbox One X has the fastest chip ever used in a console and will be capable of showing games with better graphics and clarity than ever before, the company said. It will go on sale on 7 November, Microsoft said during a spectacular demonstration at the E3 games conference. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

NEW YORK, May 16, 2017 – The Tax & Accounting division of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of trusted answers for businesses and professionals, today announced that it will be collaborating with MindBridge Analytics Inc. to provide audit firms with unparalleled data analytics capabilities. The relationship will fully leverage MindBridge Artificial Intelligence (Ai) Auditor to further expand the capabilities of the market-leading Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting Audit Suite. "The machine learning capabilities of MindBridge Ai Auditor are unique in the audit field and go well beyond the capabilities of any data analytics technology we've seen for the full audit profession," said Salim Sunderji, Managing Director, Checkpoint, with the Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting business. "We look forward to working with both MindBridge and our audit customers to deliver game-changing improvements in the audit process through the use of integrated, cloud-based data analytics, and to deliver integrated audit solutions that bring the profession into a new era of productivity and effectiveness." MindBridge's Ai Auditor acquires and analyzes financial data to pinpoint unusual activity using a combination of machine learning, data science and artificial intelligence technologies.

The combination will generate immediate results for both Caruma and RoadBotics' customers in the fast-growing and emerging connected vehicle market. Caruma's artificial intelligence-based connected-vehicle platform will incorporate RoadBotics' algorithms, data collection engine, and the processing to deliver advanced information on road surfaces, features, object detection and analysis. "Our growing ecosystem of vision-based connected-vehicle integrations leverages the power of Caruma's open platform to drive innovation, and RoadBotics is a great example of that," said Chris Carson, Chief Executive Officer at Caruma Technologies, Inc. "We're excited to work with this outstanding team and truly believe that their inclusion into our ecosystem will be a significant step towards improving infrastructure management, traffic management, and roadway maintenance." RoadBotics, a computer vision company spun out of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute last year, utilizes an advanced cascade approach with multiple, specialized algorithms chained together to achieve a complex understanding of the world. The technology identifies, characterizes and assesses various real-world roadway conditions that gives roadway managers, vehicles, and others a variety of roadway and signage maintenance recommendations.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PulsePoint, a leading global programmatic advertising platform, today announced the next generation of its content marketing platform. Story by PulsePoint provides unified distribution across top social media channels, native and content discovery platforms and premium websites -- at global scale. This consolidates workflow and simplifies execution for content marketing. Content marketing continues to grow in importance as advertisers look for ways to differentiate themselves and connect with their core audiences in an increasingly complex media landscape. Branded content has proven successful.