However, iOS users might have not realized it but there is already artificial intelligent capability applied in the current generation iOS operating system. The company has given a clear indication that it will continue to implement artificial intelligence features in its next generation operating system. Apple executives have created an impression that artificial intelligence is not a "final frontier" that other tech companies have predicted it to be but they did confirm that the company is working towards AI and other machine learning initiatives for the future. Apple executives also confirmed that the company does not have a dedicated team working on artificial intelligence or machine learning, so it is a bit confusing as to how the tech giant intends to apply such features in its future software updates.

Baidu's Deep Speech 2 is a cloud-based voice recognition software based on a deep learning neural network. "But we were noticing that in the past two to three years, speech recognition was actually improving a lot, benefiting from big data and deep learning to train its neural networks to produce faster, more accurate results. For English, the speech recognition software was three times faster with a 20.4 percent low error rate. For Mandarin Chinese, the software was 2.8 times faster with a 63.4 percent lower error rate compared to typing.

Now, I think it's a projection of alpha male's psychology onto the very concept of intelligence. If we create intelligence, that's intelligent design. I mean our intelligent design creating something, and unless we program it with a goal of subjugating less intelligent beings, there's no reason to think that it will naturally evolve in that direction, particularly if, like with every gadget that we invent we build in safeguards. As we develop smarter and smarter artificially intelligent systems, if there's some danger that it will, through some oversight, shoot off in some direction that starts to work against our interest then that's a safeguard that we can build in.

The deal, announced Tuesday, will bring the Genee team into the Microsoft fold and put them to work on bringing intelligence into Office 365. Acquiring Genee is part of Microsoft's ongoing crusade to build intelligent productivity software and services using AI. It's unclear whether the functionality from the assistant will be making its way directly into Office 365, or if the team behind Genee will just be put to work improving a variety of Microsoft's products. This all plays into Satya Nadella's ongoing strategy of aggressively acquiring companies to shore up Microsoft's capabilities and growth areas.

From the era of the desktop app to the era of the web page to the era of the mobile app to the latest paradigm shift which seems to be happening now: the conversation. These providers will most likely sit at the center of an ecosystem which will handle NLP (Natural Language Processing), semantic analysis, and other core tasks such as location and calendar integration. Currently, there are "bits and pieces" for particulars like dialogs (IBM Dialog) and NLP (IBM AlchemyAPI) all the way to large sdk's for voice and digital assistants (Alexa, Siri, and Google). While the examples above are simplistic they do provide some structure and a view into the basic text lines of voice and chat applications.

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There was a scene in the 1993 movie Demolition Man where Officer Huxley (Sandra Bullock, who hasn't aged a minute) asked John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone, who has aged for every minute Bullock hasn't) if he'd like to have sex. While most of us currently prefer the hunka chunka to simulated sex, with augmented and virtual reality technologies taking grand leaps every day -- this line of development was inevitable. It will also require artificial intelligence software to solidify and nurture that link, providing the stimulation based on learning factors. That's a dour outlook, but at the end of Demolition Man Spartan physically kissed Huxley and her brain reacted to this stimuli like it never had to the headset.

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