If companies fail to make artificial intelligence (AI) a core competency within the next five years, they will face either stagnation or elimination, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. The company's latest Thematic Research report: 'Artificial Intelligence – Thematic Research', reveals that incumbents in virtually every industry are facing some kind of game-changing disruption from AI technologies, with some being better prepared than others for the challenges ahead. AI adoption is highest in the banking and financial services, automotive, technology and telecoms verticals while the construction, energy and education industries lag behind. The report also identifies the market leaders and notable disruptive start-ups across seven AI technology areas, namely; machine learning, data science, conversational platforms, computer vision, AI chips, smart robots and context-aware computing. Ed Thomas, Senior Analyst, Thematic Research Technology at GlobalData, commented, ''Nearly 70 years since Alan Turing posed the question'Can machines think?', AI is finally beginning to have an impact on the global economy.

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The field of computer science is exceptionally vast and ever-expanding. It will take a lifetime to just fathom its depth, forget mastering all the diversified fields. However, it's'programming' which is ubiquitous in the various branches of computer science. Programming offers a plethora of opportunities to kick-start your professional career. Now if you dabble in the art of coding (the other term for'programming'), yet the multitude of options confuses you, pore over the following article to find your niche in computer science.

Explaining automatically generated recommendations allows users to make more informed and accurate decisions about which results to utilize, and therefore improves their satisfaction. In this work, we develop a multi-task learning solution for explainable recommendation. Two companion learning tasks of user preference modeling for recommendation} and \textit{opinionated content modeling for explanation are integrated via a joint tensor factorization. As a result, the algorithm predicts not only a user's preference over a list of items, i.e., recommendation, but also how the user would appreciate a particular item at the feature level, i.e., opinionated textual explanation. Extensive experiments on two large collections of Amazon and Yelp reviews confirmed the effectiveness of our solution in both recommendation and explanation tasks, compared with several existing recommendation algorithms. And our extensive user study clearly demonstrates the practical value of the explainable recommendations generated by our algorithm.

In 1971, Terry Winograd wrote the SHRDLU program while completing his PhD at MIT. SHRDLU features a world of toy blocks where the computer translates human commands into physical actions, such as "move the red pyramid next to the blue cube." To succeed in such tasks, the computer must build up semantic knowledge iteratively, a process Winograd discovered was brittle and limited. The rise of chatbots and voice activated technologies has renewed fervor in natural language processing (NLP) and natural language understanding (NLU) techniques that can produce satisfying human-computer dialogs. Unfortunately, academic breakthroughs have not yet translated to improved user experiences, with Gizmodo writer Darren Orf declaring Messenger chatbots "frustrating and useless" and Facebook admitting a 70% failure rate for their highly anticipated conversational assistant M. Nevertheless, researchers forge ahead with new plans of attack, occasionally revisiting the same tactics and principles Winograd tried in the 70s. OpenAI recently leveraged reinforcement learning to teach to agents to design their own language by "dropping them into a set of simple worlds, giving them the ability to communicate, and then giving them goals that can be best achieved by communicating with other agents."

Welcome to this course: The Complete Natural Language Processing (NLP) Course. Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of computer science, artificial intelligence and computational linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages, and, in particular, concerned with programming computers to fruitfully process large natural language corpora. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is used in many applications to provide capabilities that were previously not possible. It involves analyzing text to obtain intent and meaning, which can then be used to support an application. This comprehensive course will get you up-and-running with advanced tasks using Natural Language Processing Techniques with Python.

Gaming retailer Steam will continue to allow controversial content on its online store, the company has confirmed. The announcement comes less than a month after Steam was heavily criticised for allowing a school shooting simulator, which allowed players to take on the role of a gunman on a murderous rampage inside a school, on its online store. Steam eventually pulled the video game, dubbed'Active Shooter', after more than 271,900 people signed an online petition calling for its removal. The move appears to have prompted the online retailer, which is owned by Valve, to review its screening policy. Steam has now confirmed that it will not remove any content from its online store simply because some users deem it to be in bad taste.

At its heart, AI is computer programming that learns and adapts. It can't solve every problem, but its potential to improve our lives is profound. At Google, we use AI to make products more useful--from email that's spam-free and easier to compose, to a digital assistant you can speak to naturally, to photos that pop the fun stuff out for you to enjoy. Beyond our products, we're using AI to help people tackle urgent problems. A pair of high school students are building AI-powered sensors to predict the risk of wildfires.

It goes without saying that Natural Language Processing, or NLP, is one of the most important and demanded technologies of the present day. You can find it everywhere as people communicate almost everything in language: it is present in web searches, advertisement, emails, customer service, language translation, summaries, etc. On my first acquaintance with NLP, I remember watching an online lecture where a lady was saying: "NLP is easy. Just install the NLTK library and with a minimum experience in Python you can start experimenting". Time flies, as our QA engineers like saying in their test logs.

On June 10 Michael Royzen, 18, will don his cap and gown and graduate from The Bush School in Seattle, Washington. Like many of his classmates, the soon-to-be high school grad has been busy finishing up projects and finals, celebrating, and preparing for the big day. He admits, however, that he has been slightly distracted by the recent launch of his seventh app for iOS, Apple's mobile operating system. SmartLens, designed to turn your phone into a search box, is Royzen's most sophisticated app yet, and is fittingly launching at a time when the teen software developer is considering future prospects and the shape of his life after high school. That will definitely involve entrepreneurship, but not before he first heads to college. KWHS caught up with Royzen to discuss his latest fascination with artificial intelligence (human intelligence exhibited by machines) and find out what's in store for a kid who has caught the eye of media outlets like GeekWire (he was the featured'Geek of the Week' in February 2017) and companies like Apple and Microsoft. An edited version of our interview appears below. Knowledge@Wharton High School: How does your SmartLens app operate?