You wouldn't think that articles on business and tech topics would make for the most beautiful music, but believe it or not, they were used by an artificial intelligence system and human composers to create an original symphony. It sounds like science fiction, but last week inside the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, a 50-piece orchestra performed "Symphonologie," a "symphonic experience" from Accenture Strategy, a business and technology consulting firm. The project aims to shed light on the tangible uses of this kind of artificial intelligence and its broad potential. "Initially, we talked about what could be a way for us to grab our clients and others in the business world? What would draw their attention? We wanted to show what's happening with digital and technology, and we thought about metaphors that cross cultures. We realized that music cuts straight through the list – there are so many different cultures and spoken languages around the world and we quickly went to music as something that transcends culture," Mark Knickrehm, group chief executive at Accenture Strategy, told CBS News. "The big question was how do you make music in the digital space using technology and artificial intelligence? It was quite creative to go from there. Words have real meaning, and they can make music."

You wouldn't think that articles on business and tech topics would make for the most beautiful music, but believe it or not, they were used by an artificial intelligence system and human composers to create an original symphony. It sounds like science fiction, but last week inside the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, a 50-piece orchestra performed "Symphonologie," a "symphonic experience" from Accenture Strategy, a business and technology consulting firm. The project aims to shed light on the tangible uses of this kind of artificial intelligence and its broad potential. "Initially, we talked about what could be a way for us to grab our clients and others in the business world? What would draw their attention? We wanted to show what's happening with digital and technology, and we thought about metaphors that cross cultures. We realized that music cuts straight through the list – there are so many different cultures and spoken languages around the world and we quickly went to music as something that transcends culture," Mark Knickrehm, group chief executive at Accenture Strategy, told CBS News. "The big question was how do you make music in the digital space using technology and artificial intelligence? It was quite creative to go from there. Words have real meaning, and they can make music."

A new press release reports, "Today Tractica announced the launch of its new Artificial Intelligence Advisory Service, a subscription-based market research and analysis suite that provides independent and objective market intelligence and strategy insights for companies engaged in the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence (AI) market. As part of the service, Tractica's global industry analyst team provides strategic and quantitative analysis focused on the market opportunity for AI technologies in enterprise, consumer, and government markets." Managing director Clint Wheelock commented, "Artificial intelligence technologies are already beginning to have a disruptive effect on established business models across virtually every industry, while simultaneously enabling new business processes that were not previously possible… Rapid advances in AI technologies like deep learning, machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing (NLP) are being enabled by more powerful hardware, sophisticated algorithms, and a virtually limitless ocean of data to analyze and interpret." The release goes on, "As part of its Artificial Intelligence service, Tractica's industry analysts offer timely and actionable market insights, covering specific technology and industry sectors as well as overall market conditions and trends. Research reports include an in-depth examination of AI business models, use cases, technology issues, and key industry players in addition to detailed market sizing, segmentation, and forecasts. Tractica's Artificial Intelligence Advisory Service examines use cases and business models for the application of artificial intelligence technologies in enterprise, consumer, and government markets."

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Tractica announced the launch of its new Artificial Intelligence Advisory Service, a subscription-based market research and analysis suite that provides independent and objective market intelligence and strategy insights for companies engaged in the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence (AI) market. As part of the service, Tractica's global industry analyst team provides strategic and quantitative analysis focused on the market opportunity for AI technologies in enterprise, consumer, and government markets. "Artificial intelligence technologies are already beginning to have a disruptive effect on established business models across virtually every industry, while simultaneously enabling new business processes that were not previously possible," says managing director Clint Wheelock. "Rapid advances in AI technologies like deep learning, machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing (NLP) are being enabled by more powerful hardware, sophisticated algorithms, and a virtually limitless ocean of data to analyze and interpret." As part of its Artificial Intelligence service, Tractica's industry analysts offer timely and actionable market insights, covering specific technology and industry sectors as well as overall market conditions and trends.

The London borough of Enfield has enlisted artificial intelligence Amelia to take on customer service tasks for its residents starting late this year. Developed by IPSoft, Amelia is a cognitive agent, capable of automating certain tasks as well as learn from its interactions. As to what makes Amelia a competent asset to the council, IPSoft says she is "[c]apable of analysing natural language, she understands context, applies logic, learns, resolves problems and even senses emotions." Amelia currently handles cognitive customer experience for professional services company Accenture and financial consultancy firm Deloitte. This will, however, be her first public sector role.

Think back to when you were a child. You were in a data-rich environment, but only starting to make sense of it all. You barely knew the names for things, much less how one thing related to another. By this point, most of your experiences fit into webs of different but familiar contexts. You understand your co-workers' roles, their strengths and weaknesses, where they come from, what their families are like, who they work best with.

The idea of computers outsmarting and replacing humans has existed in movies and books for decades. Fortunately, that hasn't happened on a wide scale yet. But what has happened is the recent emergence of artificial intelligence concepts--specifically cognitive computing. These concepts involve advanced technology platforms that can address complex situations that are characterized by ambiguity and uncertainty. Cognitive computing has begun to augment business decisions and power performance right alongside human thought process and traditional analytics.

Imagine a future office in which the robot not only makes you tea but actually gets better at it over time. That is the very real future that awaits most workers. "You can imagine a world in five years' time when teams are made up of company employees, crowd specialists, and cognitive robots -- all creating and collaborating together", says Shamus Rae, the head of innovation and investments for KPMG in the UK. The future of robotic process automation also promises to bring more "human" intelligence to robots. "The robot would gain experience from its many interactions -- potentially thousands or more each day -- and gradually improve its responses", Rae explains in the KPMG report "The crowd in the cloud".

In the first blog post of this series we introduced the topic of machine learning and discussed why there is a lot of excitement around the topic. In this blog we explore different types of machine learning. Let's start with a simple example that everyone can relate to. You want to teach a three year old some basic discipline of keeping their toys in the right place. The room is full of interlocking blocks and soft toys.

Speaking to Anton was worrying, it seems that robots are already having better outcomes as psychologists and coaches. Which doesn't bode that well for me, time to consider what other skills I have that a robot doesn't. Artificial intelligence is already being used to deliver services that people once did, however, the surprising impact is that it is the professional services that are currently being hit the hardest. Professional services such as lawyers, doctors, and psychologists are the target of the first wave of the implementation of artificial intelligence. To give you an example, a chatbot lawyer recently overturned 160,000 in parking fines.