Bioelectronics has recently hit the headlines as Google has teamed up with GlaxoSmithKline, mixing chemistry and biology to develop implantable electronic devices that can help treat chronic diseases. The whole area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing at a rapid pace but is still often built around auto-bot style tools, which provide an intelligent question and answer interaction. However, what happens when you have more complex business processes that require more than a simple'yes' or'no' response? Most information and content repositories, and their subsequent business process flows, are based on modelling years of experience to provide semi-automated and compliant business processes. They enable organisations to adhere to standards and operate as efficiently as possible, or so it would seem.

During a recent interview with Erik Lindberg, Senior Director for Westlaw Product Management, not only did I get the scoop on the latest emerging technologies from Westlaw, but I also got to pick his brain about how younger generations are influencing advancements in legal technology and the future of the legal industry. Take a look at his thoughts, and share your own ideas and experiences with us on social media. How are Gen Y and Gen Z attorneys driving advancements in legal technology? They're used to having the world in their pocket and being able to get information much more quickly. They consume and interact with information sources and technology in a completely different way than generations before.

Two of the technology world's most powerful billionaires are concerned we are living in a Matrix-style simulated world and are working with scientists to break us out. In an article in The New Yorker, writer Ted Friend explains that the idea of the "simulation hypothesis" has been on the rise among tech's elite. "Many people in Silicon Valley have become obsessed with the simulation hypothesis, the argument that what we experience as reality is in fact fabricated in a computer; two tech billionaires have gone so far as to secretly engage scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation," Friend claimed. Neither of the billionaires were named in the piece. The idea has gained traction in recent years with the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

We're excited by Zymergen's latest funding of 130 million to aggressively scale its machine learning and applied robotics platform. This platform enables precision engineering biology at industrial scale and quality, optimizing existing products and producing breakthrough new ones in agriculture, life-sciences, and manufacturing. It was an easy decision for us to continue to invest in Zymergen, which we've backed since its seed. Their technology lead is huge and self-reinforcing, and they have an impressive number of global Fortune 500 customers, outstanding financial metrics, and a world-class team. We're pleased that this success attracted the support of SoftBank, which brings Deep Nishar to join us on the Zymergen Board.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already made its mark in areas like technology and manufacturing. Technology has progressed by such leaps and bounds that we have computers that untangle spoken language, recognize faces, and even turn down our thermostat when we're away from home. But what does all this have to do with your customer's experience? Unless you closely follow tech trends, you might be surprised to learn that AI is already playing a role in customer service, user experience, inventory planning, and other areas. First, let's consider how AI is changing and improving things on the business side.

In his recent book, The Inevitable, former Wired editor Kevin Kelly lists Marketing among the fields that will soon become cognified, his term for being infused with and transformed by Artificial Intelligence. "The amount of attention an individual reader or watcher spends on an advertisement can be multiplied by their social influence … in order to optimize their attention and influence per dollar. Done at the scale of millions, this is a job for AI." Although The Inevitable's aim is to describe technologies that will shape our future, it's clear that the first tendrils of that future reach back to today and that advertising is going to get cognified sooner than most suspect. In some ways, of course, it already has been.

Conversational UIs (CUI) have been gaining rapid prominence this year. If web applications enabled new user conveniences (like self-service travel booking and e-commerce) in the 1990s, Mobile apps opened up different set of conveniences since 2007 (like GPS navigation, ride hailing, and messengers). Over the past two years, CUIs like Amazon Alexa have begun to enable another interaction mode that has the potential to unlock new set user conveniences and use cases like never before. Conversational UIs include both text based and voice based UIs. The focus of this blog post is on voice based UI.

October 9, 2016, 7:50 PM It might not be long before machines begin thinking for themselves --creatively, independently and with judgment sometimes better than ours.

Babak Hodjat is a co-founder and the chief scientist of Sentient. Artificial intelligence is all around us, from searching on Google to what news you see on social media to using Siri. And with the momentum around AI growing every day, it's not surprising that some of the most innovative retail sites have recently been experimenting with the use of AI, as well. Businesses that ignore this growing trend will find themselves playing catch-up for years. The big question is how exactly is this new technology going to change retail. E-commerce is a space with a lot of potential, in part because it's such a data-rich industry, and, there's some momentum around AI gathering already.

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