Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed service that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. But besides streamlining the machine learning (ML) workflow, Amazon SageMaker also provides a serverless, powerful, and easy-to-use compute environment to execute and parallelize a large spectrum of scientific computing tasks. In this notebook we demonstrate how to simulate a simple quantum system using TensorFlow together with the Amazon SageMaker "bring your own algorithm" (BYOA) functionality. To follow this exercise you need an AWS account with access to Amazon SageMaker and basic familiarity with Python and TensorFlow. The quantum effect we are going to simulate is known as superradiance.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the way forward for the retail industry in terms of technology but at the moment, baring a few countries not all are ready for this change in retail and the retailers are also unsure about the introducing AI in their stores like a self-checkout platform is still better than a service robot asking for details. Stressing on the same and to better understand the standing of AI in retail, Retail Analytics Council (RAC) – the leading body focussed on the study of consumer buying behaviour across retail platforms and the impact of technology – held the first-ever Retail Robotics and AI Conference recently in San Francisco, USA. Retail and technology industry leaders, C-level executives along with academic leaders discussed various key topics at the event, including the use of AI in retail, understanding of consumer buying patterns, growing execution of robotic applications in retail and the current retail industry trends, at the conference. At the event, Don Schultz, Director of RAC warned that with the increasing reliance on technology, the retail industry will soon become'retail singularity'. Referring to the data released by market intelligence and advisory firm International Data Corporation (IDC), Schultz told that before 2020, 40 per cent digital retail transformation steps will get an AI support.

Shopping shouldn't feel like a chore. It should be fun and convenient, delighting the customer at every turn. The next generation of AI will anticipate your needs before you do. Imagine the perfect blazer arriving to your doorstep just-in-time for your cocktail reception. This may seem like a hi-tech fantasy, but thanks to the powerful combination of artificial intelligence and mobile technology, seeing is more than believing, it is a mechanism for brands to drive value-based shopping experiences.

Amazon is setting foot in the Sex-Robotics market. Amazon Prime members will be able to order a sex-robot of choice and have it delivered to their home within hours. Thousands of Alexa based skills will be implemented into the robots to provide a personalized experience. Amazon's Lab126 has ramped up personnel recruit for the project and has commenced a beta-testing program by supplying first prototypes to its employees. The project is secretly named "Alsexa".

Things with Amazon are about to get really intimate. According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, the online retailer, which already knows more than its fair share about you and your shopping preferences, is about to learn something more -- your exact size. Amazon is reportedly inviting customers into a New York office in order to keep tabs on their body shape and size over a 20 week time period. Twice a month, volunteers (chosen from a survey) will visit the office in order to allow Amazon to better understand "how bodies change shape over time," as per the survey. In return, participants will receive Amazon gift cards worth up to $250.

However, modern customers (Millennials and Generation Z) are not so easy to surprise. So, it is not enough for retailers to keep up with settled trends -- they have to be few steps ahead to hold all the aces. Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes a life jacket in this case. How can retail benefit from Artificial Intelligence solutions? Much as television in its time or Internet accordingly, Artificial Intelligence is here yet to make a revolution in common things.

The popularity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has grown exponentially in recent years. According to Gartner, a research and advisory company and a member of the S&P 500, Artificial Intelligence will be one of the top five investment priorities for more than 30 percent of Chief Information Officers by 2020, as they find more ways to include it in their digital business strategies. Gartner also predicts that AI technology will be pervasive in almost every new software product and service by 2020. Even now, from marketing, to retail, to software development and product design, Artificial Intelligence has become increasingly useful for improving products and services which ultimately improves customer experience. So, in what ways exactly does artificial intelligence improve customer experience?

This has further foisted pressure on the traditional retailers to reimagine the strategies for creating and capturing value in order to explore the optimal usage of their assets. Public policy liberalization is also one of the key factors supporting the flow of knowledge, information and resources, further generating pressure on the brick n' mortar retailers to tackle with the lowered entry barriers to the online retailers in the market. Key trend which will predominantly effect the market in coming year is rising adoption of multi-channel or omni channel retailing. In forthcoming years, the retail industry is anticipated to witness higher growth in the trend of Omni channel retailing. Artificial intelligence will be having a key role as this technology would be bridging the gap between online and offline retailing in coming future.

You made it to right here, Saturday morning. This week, Nintendo faced a patent infringement investigation over its Switch, Sprint and T-Mobile announce they're together, and the notch rears its ugly head again. All it takes to get your stolen pooch back is an email to a CEO. Apparently, all you need to do to get a hold of Jeff Bezos though is have your puppy stolen by a delivery driver and guess the CEO's email address, according to CNBC. After UK resident Richard Guttfield's black miniature schnauzer was nicked following a dog food delivery, Amazon tracked the driver, an independent contractor, and found the dog at the thief's home.

For a computer science professor, Greg Mori doesn't spend nearly as much time staring at a computer as one might think. "A lot of what I do is talk to people," said the director of Simon Fraser University's School of Computing Science. It's fitting, then, that he's using both his human and his computer skills for his next venture: making computers see and perceive the world as humans do. Mori is leading the latest artificial intelligence lab within a network of cross-Canada AI labs that the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) research institute Borealis AI is operating. The lab, announced by the big bank late last month, will be housed in a downtown Vancouver facility where researchers will be tackling fairness, privacy and bias in AI in addition to its mandate for computer vision. Mori said this holistic approach of Borealis AI helped entice him to join.