Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently released a 116-page policy document that aims to guide automakers and technologists on best-practices when it comes to the manufacturing and deployment of autonomous vehicle features. Apple, which has been rumored to be building a car, recently laid off employees of its automotive project and pivoted from making a car to creating autonomous software, according to reports. Another aftermarket self-driving tech company recently completed a successful 120-mile beer delivery without anyone at the wheel. A big rig cab equipped with sensors made by Otto, a startup bought by Uber recently for $670 million, made the delivery of Budweiser beer while its driver rested in the sleeper berth during most of the trip down Colorado's Interstate 25.

It has revealed some Stranger Things tie-ins for Halloween, including a sticker pack and an AI-assisted scavenger hunt. If you're in New York City today (October 28th) and want to participate, you just ask Google Assistant "Where is Barb," a reference to the character who just kind of ... disappeared from the show. You can also download a Stranger Things sticker pack with artwork inspired by the show (above). As a reminder, it's a messaging service with a built-in conversational "Assistant" bot that can give you information whether you're chatting with it directly or in a conversation with pals.

The immediate reaction to Apple's long-overdue MacBook Pro overhaul seems mixed, to say the least. For every excited reaction to the laptop's adaptive Touch Bar keys, we see people lamenting the lack of ports that professional users actually need, the lack of a 32GB memory option, the lack of an SD card slot, and the lack of, well, pretty much any "pro" features in the entry-level MacBook Pro model (which still costs $1,500 and up). Fear not: If "Pro" is more than a mere buzzword to you, there's a veritable cornucopia of attractive, yet powerful PC laptops just waiting to scratch your itch. For even more options, be sure to check out PCWorld's list of the best PC laptops around.

Artificial intelligence (AI) may sound like science fiction, but it is real, and becoming increasingly important to companies in every sector. The field of artificial intelligence has produced a wide variety of "cognitive technologies" that simulate human reasoning and perceptual skills, giving businesses entirely new capabilities and enabling organizations to break prevailing tradeoffs between speed, cost, and quality. Some experts have called artificial intelligence "more important than anything since the industrial revolution." Throughout the course, participants will build a knowledge base on cognitive technologies to equip them to engage in discussions with colleagues, customers, and suppliers and help them shape cognitive technology strategy in their organization.

Salakhutdinov researches very large neural networks used in a technology called deep learning, which lets a computer learn to perform a difficult task by consuming copious training examples. Speaking recently, Salakhutdinov said that there are three big areas where AI is progressing: giving computers better language understanding; enabling them to learn through repetition and positive reinforcement; and developing ways for machines to learn from unlabeled data. In recent years, competitors such as Google and Facebook have hired leading figures in deep learning to lead their AI efforts. Deep learning has gained prominence in recent years, after proving spectacularly good at enabling machines to recognize objects in images and spoken words in audio.

Word embedding is an alternative technique in NLP, whereby words or phrases from the vocabulary are mapped to vectors of real numbers in a low-dimensional space relative to the vocabulary size, and the similarities between the vectors correlate with the words' semantic similarity. Many different types of models were proposed for representing words as continuous vectors, including latent semantic analysis (LSA) and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). In the skip-gram model, instead of using the surrounding words to predict the center word, it uses the center word to predict the surrounding words (see Figure 3). Deep Solutions delivers end-to-end software solutions based on deep learning innovative algorithms for computer vision, natural language processing, anomaly detection, recommendation systems, and more.

When it comes to enterprise customer care, machine learning enables virtual assistant solutions to automate tasks that used to require a live agent: password resets, address and complex information collection, even sales support. Integrating machine learning into enterprise customer care opens doors to more flexible automated solutions. With the growing challenges and volume of customer interactions that most companies must handle, that flexibility, efficiency, and accuracy is exactly what's needed. By incorporating natural language processing, many of today's automated customer care solutions can more accurately understand what callers are saying.

Eck told the festival's music-savvy attendees about his team's new ideas about how to teach computers to help musicians write music--generate harmonies, create transitions in a song, and elaborate on a recurring theme. The format has come a long way since 1990s Geocities pages and games like Doom, thanks to better computing power, digital samplers, and recent movements like "Black MIDI," in which MIDI musicians like Lee saturate a digital musical score with so many notes, typically in the thousands or millions, that little white peers through. The state of the art in training computers is deep learning, artificial learning that uses neural networks, a method of storing information that loosely approximates the information processing of the brain and nervous system. In computer vision, where deep learning has become the standard machine learning technique, scientists know how a computer learns through a neural network when the computer knows what shapes to look for in an image.

The decision to launch in-app signals a departure in Bank of America's bot strategy. For one, it might have decided that the risks of disintermediation from using an external messaging app were too high -- if consumers were to associate Facebook Messenger with banking services, rather than BofA, that could result in an erosion of loyalty. Laurie Beaver, research associate for BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has compiled a detailed report on chatbots that explores the growing and disruptive bot landscape by investigating what bots are, how businesses are leveraging them, and where they will have the biggest impact. Finally, it compares the potential of chatbot monetization on a platform like Facebook Messenger against the iOS App Store and Google Play store.

One of the most popular ways artificial intelligence has found use on the internet is via its ability to intelligently target visitors based on their behavioral patterns and use the data thus collected to supply them with content recommendations. Rankbrain, the revolutionary new algorithm from Google, makes use of artificial intelligence to process unique search engine queries and supply users with customized results. AdWords, Google's advertisement counterpart, makes heavy use of artificial intelligence to target visitors on the web and supply them with tethered advertisements customized according to their behavioral patterns. Apart from these, several content developers such as Netflix and Amazon Cloud have adapted similar artificial intelligence technologies to target users and provide them with a selective assortment of relevant content based on their browsing history.