Speech is a fundamental aspect of human behavior, yet it remains something that many of us struggle with. It's believed that around 1 in 14 adults in the United States have some kind of voice disorder, and our understanding of such disorders makes it difficult to both diagnose and treat. A team from MIT and the Massachusetts General Hospital believe that machine learning can play a part in better understanding speech disorders. In a recent paper, they describe using a wearable device to collect accelerometer data to detect differences in people with Muscle Tension Dysphonia (MTD) and a control group. After such individuals with MTD had received therapy for the condition, their behaviors appeared to converge with that of the control group.

Big Data is becoming too big to manage manually. The amount of data coming from sensors, streams and social media is astronomical--but that's only part of the problem. Out of all the data that is being collected, only a small amount of it is actually essential, making it an impossible task to find the needle (value) in the haystack (data). "Data collection is easy," said Sri Ambati, CEO of H2O.ai, a machine learning solution provider. "But it is not just about collecting data for your customer anymore; it is knowing what they want that makes a big difference." In order to sift out the value from all the data, organizations are turning to machine learning technologies to learn from their data, make sense of their data, and make better business decisions based on the data. "Machine learning is the crucial link between business use, between applications at the business level, and between ROI to the actual collection of data," said Ambati. Big Data has become the norm in today's enterprise, and machine learning is now becoming imperative to that norm, according to Steven Noels, cofounder and CTO of NGDATA, a Big Data analytics and management provider. Businesses need to continuously pull insights out of their massive amounts of data in order to improve customer experience, streamline business processes, optimize solutions, and understand the business in real time.

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One of the latest innovations making waves in public discussion is artificial intelligence, or AI. While many people question how deep AI's "thinking" processes could go, others are waiting for the inevitable crunch that will come when companies start using robots to perform job functions currently performed by human employees. We are on the verge of a massive shift in the dynamics of the modern workforce, and AI is one of the biggest influencing factors. In today's modern business world, there are still countless dangerous, dirty, repetitive, and simple jobs that humans perform. While some may argue that robots taking over these positions would result in eliminating jobs for humans, it's hard to argue with the ability of robots to assume dangerous positions instead of risking human lives.

Advancements in artificial intelligence have set the world on fire. Our homes and pockets now contain voice-enabled intelligent assistants that are ready to answer any question, play music, coordinate our schedule, balance our budget, call us a taxi, replenish the pantry, and so much more. Our cars are now able to handle the driving on the highway, and very soon will not require our involvement at all. Bots are now providing customer service, booking our vacations, assisting lawyers and doctors, and protecting our networks. There is likely no task so complex that a machine cannot eventually be taught to do it faster and better than a human.

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One by one, the skills that separate us from machines are falling into the machines' column. First there was chess, then Jeopardy!, then Go, then object recognition, face recognition, and video gaming in general. You could be forgiven for thinking that humans are becoming obsolete. But try any voice recognition software and your faith in humanity will be quickly restored. Though good and getting better, these systems are by no means perfect.

IBM's machine-learning tech will help GM's system learn a driver's tastes, habits and decision-making processes. General Motors is teaming up with IBM to use Watson's artificial intelligence not to power an autonomous vehicle, but to market services to drivers on the road. The GM and IBM partnership has given birth to OnStar Go, a next-generation version of GM's existing OnStar subscription packages for mobile data, navigation, assistance and security. The partnership will focus on tailoring in-vehicle marketing and entertainment to drivers' tastes by expanding the OnStar AtYourService feature, GM's offers and deals platform. The service today makes recommendations via the vehicle's mobile app for places to eat, shop and do things, but with Watson it will become smarter about how it makes suggestions.

Yoshua Bengio, one of the leading figures behind the rise of deep learning, is launching a Silicon Valley-style startup incubator dedicated to this enormously influential form of artificial intelligence. The incubator, Element.AI, will help build companies from AI research that emerges from the University of Montreal, where Bengio is a professor, and nearby McGill University, and he says this is just part of his efforts to develop an "AI ecosystem" in Montreal. Bengio says the Canadian city offers "the biggest concentration in the world" of academic researchers exploring deep learning, the breed of AI that now plays such an important role inside the likes of Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. "Element.AI will help entrepreneurs get started in that high-growth area, with a team of experts--and my help--to steer those companies in the right direction," he says. According to Bengio, about 100 researchers are exploring deep learning at the University of Montreal and about 50 others are doing similar work at McGill.

Hollywood's depiction of the future is practically the present. The Jetsons' lifestyle has become Elon Musk's passion project; the self-driving car from I, Robot is now being tested on roads; and even the hoverboard from Back to the Future can be purchased by consumers. And as the evolution of technology turns fiction into reality, brands are forced to keep pace with their customers. "You have this symbiotic rise of technology and consumer expectations," Norman de Greve, SVP and CMO of CVS Health, said at a recent CMO Panel hosted by creative consultancy Lippincott in New York. So, how can brands meet consumer demand when those demands and expectations are constantly changing?