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The experiment, developed by physicists from ANU, University of Adelaide and UNSW ADFA, created an extremely cold gas trapped in a laser beam, known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, replicating the experiment that won the 2001 Nobel Prize. The artificial intelligence system's ability to set itself up quickly every morning and compensate for any overnight fluctuations would make this fragile technology much more useful for field measurements, said co-lead researcher Dr Michael Hush from UNSW ADFA. The team cooled the gas to around 1 microkelvin, and then handed control of the three laser beams over to the artificial intelligence to cool the trapped gas down to nanokelvin. "It may be able to come up with complicated ways humans haven't thought of to get experiments colder and make measurements more precise.

Based on artificial intelligence, Snips can memorize your contacts, calendar and location, conveniently storing them in one place. The app also guarantees to keep all of this personal data private, meaning no one will see it except for you. "We want Snips to be able to answer any question we might have, do anything we ask it to, and automate our connected devices." As more devices become connected, Snips may one day be able to pick up on how users utilize their tech and automate them for convenience.

But if you're looking for our most hated automated thing in the universe, that's easy. It's the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system, better known as a phone tree. While bots may one day have the potential to replace customer support and e-commerce, human touch will remain essential to the experience for the foreseeable future. Leverage bots to handle the basics, but also create easy opportunities for customers to connect with a live human (or have one call back) if the interaction gets stalled.

As video content matures and proliferates and VR content creates new interactive environments and as the way we access software and apps changes and evolves, PVAs or personal virtual assistants will radically influence the interface with the internet and these new layers of content and virtual experience. Viv is just four years old, but by the time IoT and VR matures, she will be ready to make the smart home, smart city and billions of connected devices truly come to life. While we assume it will be one of the tech giants: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple or Microsoft; disruption doesn't usually come from an established player whose interests and investments are scattered. Just as VR represents a new platform of information, content, advertisement, marketing and social media, and digital experiences, VPAs like Viv could represent another springboard to the future.

Young patients at Alder Hey will soon be able to use their smartphones to ask questions about everything from hospital menus to details of their medical care. The West Derby hospital has teamed up with computer giant IBM to use artificial intelligence to help put children and their families at ease. The technology – known as Watson – will allow kids to ask questions ahead of their admission to hospital, relaxing them as much as possible beforehand. Over the next few months, hundreds of Alder Hey patients and their parents will be asked a range of questions about everything from parking to what they would like to eat, their favourite games and films and what they want their bedroom to look like.

The MNIST database containing 60,000 examples for training and 10,000 examples for testing can be downloaded from LeCun's website. Instead of downloading the database and converting the data to actual images, we can use the helpful library MNIST digits, which creates test- and training sets automatically. If you're using the MNIST digits library, this is checked automatically. To improve the results, the number of elements in the training set and the iterations for the training should be increased.

As a leading technologist, Abinash has a vision that Indians can build great product companies provided the government and telecom operators figure out a way to offer free internet for students. AT: It pains me that we have technology focused on selling retail products to consumers. That said, India has the engineering skills to build technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence. If the product is driven at large corporate then the founder must have great marketing skills.

I learned about entropy as part of my undergraduate Physics education but it turns out that the concept of entropy turns up in many fields including linguistics, themodynamics, information theory, chemistry and artificial intelligence. As part of Sheffield's Open Data Science Initiative, computer scientist, Neil Lawrence, has teamed up with linguist, Dagmar Divjak, to organise a cross-faculty discussion meeting on the subject of entropy. For more details on the day's events, and to register, see http://opendsi.cc/ed2016/program I wasted a little time producing the above logo for the event using Mathematica. You should call it entropy, for two reasons.