Hello all, I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this and if someone could point me in a better direction I would gladly take this elsewhere. I am a student in college and I have to interview someone in a career similar to the one I would like to be in. I am looking into a career in the artificial intelligence/machine learning field, so if any of you have a career in that or very similar to that I would love to ask you about 10 questions. If you are willing leaving a comment that I could PM you would be amazing. Thanks you for your time, have a great day!

The first time I met Alexa, the A.I. robot voice inside the wine-bottle-size speaker known as the Amazon Echo, I was at my friends' house, in rural New England. "Currently, it is seventy-five degrees," she told us, and assured us that it would not rain. This was a year ago, and I'd never encountered a talking speaker before. When I razzed my friend for his love of gadgetry, he showed me some of Alexa's other tricks: telling us the weather, keeping a shopping list, ordering products from Amazon. This summer, Alexa decided again and again who the tickle monster's next victim was, saying their children's adorable nicknames in her strange A.I. accent.

In the popular 2014 animated film Big Hero 6, the protagonist has a robot called Max. This robot Max follows the commands of its master and scans a human to detect any physical harm done. Such a robot seems to be a novelty to own in case one would get the chance. But now a Hong Kong-based company has made it possible for us to own a robot which would follow our commands and work accordingly. NXRobo has created the first personalized family robot, the BIG-i robot.

When the engineers had at last finished their work, Eugenia Kuyda opened a console on her laptop and began to type. "This is your digital monument." It had been three months since Roman Mazurenko, Kuyda's closest friend, had died. Kuyda had spent that time gathering up his old text messages, setting aside the ones that felt too personal, and feeding the rest into a neural network built by developers at her artificial intelligence startup. She had struggled with whether she was doing the right thing by bringing him back this way. At times it had even given her nightmares. But ever since Mazurenko's death, Kuyda had wanted one more chance to speak with him. A message blinked onto the screen. "You have one of the most interesting puzzles in the world in your hands," it said. Born in Belarus in 1981, Roman Mazurenko was the only child of Sergei, an engineer, and Victoria, a landscape architect. They remember him as an unusually serious child; when he was 8 he wrote a letter to his descendents declaring his most cherished values: wisdom and justice. In family photos, Mazurenko roller-skates, sails a boat, and climbs trees. Average in height, with a mop of chestnut hair, he is almost always smiling.

Even though over the years actress Evan Rachel Wood has held our attention with her tumultuous personal life, we are eager to see The Ides of March actress as a cowgirl, in the sci-fi drama Westworld. Created by Jonathan Nolan (younger brother of Christopher Nolan and co-writer of Interstellar) and his wife, Lisa Joy, the television series is a remake of the 1973 movie of the same name. With a star cast, which includes Anthony Hopkins and Ed Harris, the plot is based on a machines vs humans premise. Let's talk about the show It's based on Michael Crichton's 1970s film, but it's really just the premise–this is a complete re imagining. Instead of focusing on the humans being terrorised by robots gone haywire, it's flipping that on its head and it focuses more on the hosts, as we like to call them, and what would that be like if they were trapped in a world they thought was real.

I'm a student business engineering and got the chance to write my thesis about deep learning, but don't really know what way to go specifically, I'm looking for an interesting and challenging topic/field to work 2 years on. The suggested topics are all around analysis of the stock market or simple image classification, which both seem a bit too boring. Stuff like wavenet are cool but can't see an implimentation in a "scientifically" paper. So, does any of you have some cool possible ML applications that I should take a look at?

It's been reported that Spotify Free for desktop computers has been causing several issues for users. The music streaming service was apparently launching malware websites on users' web browsers. The problem with Spotify Free was first reported by a user with the handle'tonyonly' on the Spotify community forum. "If you have Spotify Free open, it will launch -- and keep launching- the default internet browser on the computer to different kinds of malware/virus sites," tonyonly wrote on his user report. The vulnerability may have occured on a Windows 10 computer, but it has also affected other operating systems including macOS and Ubuntu, according to The Next Web.

Watson, IBM's artificial intelligence computer system, is ridiculously prolific. In the last few years it's written a cookbook, crafted a movie trailer, joined the debate team, and helped in medical education, among many other projects. The latest point on the system's resumé is to help make hospital stays more comfortable for patients and relieve the strain on doctors and nurses through smart speakers that can answer basic questions and grant patients' control over things like room temperature, the lights or the TV.

The specialty, also known as artificial intelligence, has hatched a flock of voice-activated digital concierges including Siri, Amazon's Alexa, Microsoft's Cortana and Google's Assistant that work in personal computers, smartphones and internet-connected speakers.

It was Assistant, the artificially intelligent digital helper that caters to your every whim and powers your every interaction. Assistant is invisible, in the design-jargon sense. The omnipresent concierge works in the background, predicting your needs, processing your requests, and offering neatly parceled answers to your questions. You never see the cogs behind it, you merely type (or speak) a command and read (or hear) tailored responses served on screen or through a speaker. This requires more than a smartphone, which explains the gadgets Google announced Tuesday.