If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA TODAY's newsroom and any business incentives. Smart assistants are all the rage right now. Whether you like having Alexa, Google Assistant, or Siri answer your many questions and perform various tasks, having a hands-free smart assistant adds ease (and fun) to your everyday life. Smart speakers come in a range of shapes and sizes at a variety of price points, and the Echo Show sits at the high end of that range.

The mere mention of artificial intelligence (AI) often conjures up images of ultraintelligent robots that process millions of gigabytes of data, before spitting out insights that would have taken humans months of laborious work. But a US-based start-up believes that humans still need to be at the centre of it all. San Francisco-based Unanimous AI has developed artificial intelligence technology based on swarm intelligence – known as the collective behaviour often displayed when groups of people or animals amplify intelligence by working together as a group. The company blends human decision-making processes with AI algorithms to determine the best solution in a question posed to a group of human participants, referred to as a swarm. The swarm is tasked with collectively finding the best answer to the question posed to them, while Unanimous AI's algorithms assess everything from the amount of time it takes for a participant to come to a decision and even the level of conviction they have in their choice.

Healthcare has undergone a transformation over the past several years, shifting from paper-based records systems to electronic records, as well as incorporating digital health monitoring devices and other advanced patient screening systems. These advances have led to an explosion of data, which can best be manipulated and analyzed by artificial intelligence (AI) technology. In healthcare, according to a new report from Tractica, AI is largely being implemented as a tool to more efficiently and accurately review data, and uncover patterns in the data that can be used to improve analyses, uncover inefficiencies, and streamline care, from both a clinical and an operational perspective. The market intelligence firm finds that the overarching driver in these AI implementations is to provide better care for patients, while reducing costs and administrative headaches and bottlenecks. Tractica forecasts that global software revenue from 21 key healthcare AI use cases will grow from $165 million in 2017 to $5.6 billion annually by 2025.

It took six weeks but "Black Panther" has finally been unseated as the top film at the box office. The monsters vs. robots science-fiction sequel "Pacific Rim: Uprising" dethroned "Black Panther" with an estimated $28 million.

A copy of'The Observer' shows an advertisement paid by Facebook in London, March 25, 2018. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized for a "breach of trust" involving misused data from millions of Facebook users. The ads also appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. SAN FRANCISCO -- As Facebook continues to buffet winds of criticism, its founder took out full page ads in U.S. and British newspapers Sunday to apologize to consumers for not properly securing their personal data. "This was a breach of trust, and I'm sorry we didn't do more at the time," Mark Zuckerberg said in the signed ad, which was published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and six British papers.

Tech giant Microsoft will host'AI for All' summit in Bengaluru on March 28 to showcase use cases of artificial intelligence across sectors. The event will feature discussions around the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), and how this can be used to amplify human ingenuity, a Microsoft India spokesperson told PTI. "This is our first summit of its kind in the country. While we had an AI event last year for developers, this one is for a broader audience," the spokesperson added. Participation is expected from industry representatives spanning across verticals like healthcare, auto and IT and IT-enabled services, among others. The event will be addressed by global and Indian Microsoft executives, including Peggy Johnson (Executive Vice President, Business Development), Anant Maheshwari (President, Microsoft India) and Anil Bhansali, Managing Director at Microsoft India (R&D).

Tech giant Microsoft will host'AI for All' summit in Bengaluru on March 28 to showcase use cases of artificial intelligence across sectors. The event will feature discussions around the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), and how this can be used to amplify human ingenuity, a Microsoft India spokesperson told PTI. "This is our first summit of its kind in the country. While we had an AI event last year for developers, this one is for a broader audience," the spokesperson added. Participation is expected from industry representatives spanning across verticals like healthcare, auto and IT and IT-enabled services, among others. The event will be addressed by global and Indian Microsoft executives, including Peggy Johnson (Executive Vice President, Business Development), Anant Maheshwari (President, Microsoft India) and Anil Bhansali, Managing Director at Microsoft India (R&D).

Recreating human intelligence in an artificial way has long been the dream of scientists and film directors alike. Cinematic creations like Bladerunner's replicants and Star Wars' C3-PO are the human reproductions that spring to mind when we think about Artificial Intelligence (AI). But the reality is closer to computer-based AI like The Terminator's Skynet. In this blog, we take a look at how these advances in technology are impacting marketing and which companies are using AI to their advantage. As a marketer, you want to be as relevant to your customers as possible in order to market to them as effectively as possible.

Marketers have become more receptive to the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies, such as machine learning, and their capabilities to deliver better customer experience and marketing performance, according to new research from SEO and content performance marketing firm BrightEdge. The future of marketing is here. David Meerman Scott, who pioneered the practice, wants to give you the lowdown on how to inject your ideas into a breaking news story to get the coverage you want. The firm's second annual 2017 Future of Marketing survey reveals marketers believe in a future ruled by the likes of AI and voice search--yet, most in-house marketers and agency practitioners had done little to introduce these powerful components into their digital marketing strategy to deliver compelling customer experiences that perform. In 2018, marketer responses on the survey reveal quite different patterns of technology adoption and benefits. Most notably, this year's findings revealed 60 percent of marketers intend to use AI to develop content marketing strategy in 2018.

Modern artificial intelligence is way beyond playing chess; it has mastered Go and kicks butt in Dota 2, among other games. What started as a test-lab monkey has evolved into something akin to a prodigy child. Artificial intelligence, or AI, may still have to be fed information, but once it has gathered enough, it can come up with results that mimic the original data. First came the static images -- AI managed to create perfectly convincing images of people who have never existed. Then it showed it was perfectly capable of mimicking different seasons.