In partnering with Knorr, we developed an online insights tool which helps consumers understand more about their personal flavour profile and provide them with tailored recipe recommendations. As Knorr already has over 178 years' worth of experience in the art of flavour, cognitive technology was the best fit to leverage this understanding, to identify the complex connection between flavour, our taste preferences and recipes. Interestingly, the cognitive technology that is behind the Knorr Flavour Profiler was recently designed at the Network and Information Sciences International Technology Alliance (ITA). The Cognitive Era is the next step in the application of science to understand nature and improve the human condition.

Over the past several years, Riot Games, which produces the immensely popular League of Legends, has been experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive analytics tools to find the online trolls and make their games more sportsmanlike. "We used to think that online gaming and toxic behavior went hand in hand," explains Jeffrey Lin, lead game designer of social systems at Riot Games. "First, put the tools in the hands of the community and second, build machine learning systems that leverage the scale of data--contributed from the community through reports--to combat the problem." To learn how Big Data, automation and artificial intelligence will shape the future, download the HPE white paper "Big Data in 2016."

Specifically, the assignment of meaningful tags (annotations) to each unique data granule is best achieved through collaborative participation of data providers, curators and end users to augment and validate the results derived from machine learning (data mining) classification algorithms. The annotations provide curation, provenance and semantic (scientifically meaningful) metadata about the data source and the data object being studied. The design and specification of a unique, meaningful, searchable and scientifically impactful set of tags can be achieved through collaborative (human-plus-machine) annotation efforts and through discovery informatics research. These steps will produce a searchable classification and indexing scheme for the curation, classification, discovery, reuse, interoperability, integration and understanding of digital repositories.

About a month into Japan's professional baseball season, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, the 2014 and 2015 national champions, are doing no worse. Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of the SoftBank Group, celebrates with fans after the Hawks advanced to last year's national championship series. Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of the SoftBank Group, celebrates with fans after the Hawks advanced to last year's national championship series. Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of the SoftBank Group, wants to make the Hawks the best baseball team in the world.

While most banks are offering banking facilities through mobile, DBS has said digibank has some unique features. Wherever they are, whatever their need, digibank customers can converse with digibank's AI-powered virtual assistant to get their queries answered or banking transactions performed. Because the virtual assistant understands natural language and has learning ability, it is able to respond in real-time. Most bank customers receive One-Time Passwords (OTPs) via SMS, and then typing codes into pages to authorise their mobile banking transactions.

The platform is called Mana and aims to drive automation and bring in innovation amongst businesses, the company said at its annual conference in San Fracisco. Mana, with the Infosys Aikido service offerings, lowers the cost of maintenance for both physical and digital assets; captures the knowledge and know-how of people in an organisation; simplifies core business processes and enables businesses to bring new user experiences leveraging technology, the company said in a statement. "We can automate the repetitive, mechanisable tasks; we can capture the knowledge and know-how across people and long-lived systems and bring this knowledge back inside the systems to drive more value; and in doing these things we can free people to put all of our creativity, passion, and imagination into thinking about the bigger opportunities ahead of us," he added. This initiative will be to simplify and automate migration of systems to Microsoft's products, to accelerate Microsoft Azure-based and other digital transformations for clients.

Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic added to the urgency of the meeting by issuing a report calling for a complete ban on autonomous killer robots. It would undermine human dignity to be killed by a machine that can't understand the value of human life. "It would undermine human dignity to be killed by a machine that can't understand the value of human life," she says. The next meeting in Geneva is set for December, when a U.N. group will decide whether to formally start developing new international law governing killer robots.

AI is an intelligent technology that makes computer work smartly like an intelligent human, and Pichai says machine learning and AI will "allow you to use your voice to search for information, to translate the web from one language to another, to filter the spam from your inbox, to search for "hugs" in your photos and actually pull up pictures of people hugging ... to solve many of the problems we encounter in daily life. It's what has allowed us to build products that get better over time, making them increasingly useful and helpful."

French officials have unveiled a humanoid diving robot that they hope will give a big artificial hand to the practice of underwater archaeology. It is intended to help researchers explore underwater archaeological sites that are too deep to be explored by human divers. According to Stanford, the concept for Ocean One was born from the need to study coral reefs deep in the Red Sea, far below the comfortable range of human divers. No existing robotic submarine can dive with the skill and care of a human diver, so OceanOne was conceived and built from the ground up as "a successful marriage of robotics, artificial intelligence and haptic feedback systems."

First off, I've seen the season premiere of Person of Interest, which airs next Tuesday, May 3. We've talked a lot about how Person of Interest is one of the best science fiction shows on TV … Read more Read more In any case, the season premiere is brilliant, and I'm now desperate to see the rest of the season. And I think this season we'll see Amy Acker's character, Root, imploring him to not only rebuild it but to take the limiter off, what it's capable of. One of the biggest reasons why a lot of people are desperate to see the final season of Person of Interest is the relationship between super-hacker Root and the badass assassin, Shaw.