Hello all, I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this and if someone could point me in a better direction I would gladly take this elsewhere. I am a student in college and I have to interview someone in a career similar to the one I would like to be in. I am looking into a career in the artificial intelligence/machine learning field, so if any of you have a career in that or very similar to that I would love to ask you about 10 questions. If you are willing leaving a comment that I could PM you would be amazing. Thanks you for your time, have a great day!

To answer these and many other questions, Kaiser and Jeremy talk to Andrew Ng, founder and chairman of Coursera, an associate professor in the department of computer science at Stanford University, and the chief scientist of Baidu, where he heads up the company's research on deep learning and AI. The discussion delves into the differences between Chinese and American engineers, entrepreneurial culture in China, artificial neural networks, augmented reality, and the role big internet companies and their resources play in advancing AI. Check out the SupChina backgrounder on their conversation here.

Duolingo has been offering language learning tools for a while now, but today the company debuted a new tool inside its iPhone app that could make the task a bit easier. Thanks to AI-powered chatbots, the language-learning app offers a way to have conversations while you're trying to learn French, German and Spanish. That's a short list of languages for now, but Duolingo says more options are on the way. Right now, you can only interact with the chatbots via text, but the company does have plans to add spoken conversations in the future. Duolingo gave these bots a bit of personality to make them more like real people and created them to be flexible with the answers they'll accept when there's multiple ways for you to respond.

Announcement Layman Tutorials for Data Science site Annalyzin is now called Algobeans! We're creating a new mailing list to deliver tutorials to your inbox. If you'd like to be included, sign up: If you're already subscribed, signing up to this new mailing list will remove you from the old one. Have you ever wondered about the difference between red and white wine? Some assume that red wine is made from red grapes, and white wine is made from white grapes.

There is a lot of talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the moment, with many people speculating the different areas of business that could stand to benefit from the fast-emerging technology. A recent CloudTech article – entitled'Anything you can do, AI can do better: Making smarter IT Infrastructure' – discusses the topic with regards to what AI can do to help provide smarter infrastructure. This is a subject we are familiar with here at Bridgeworks as both our PORTrockIT and WANrockIT products are built with machine intelligence technology – a form of AI. With regards to our specialist subject – data transfers across the WAN network – the article highlights how AI technology should be applied to network infrastructure to help optimise the performance of what is, by it's nature, an unstable entity. Thus providing a smarter IT infrastructure, mitigated latency and reduced packet loss.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Virtual and Augmented Reality is quickly changing the way we know the markets of technology to be. There have been a number of changes that have come out in the recent few years, and it now looks like the markets are in for a major change. Artificial Intelligence, in particular has been the apple of the eye of many major tech firms. However, it is not just AI, but a mix of all the aforementioned technologies that will lead towards a major leap in the way we use technology. Samsung, one of the biggest names in the world of technology, has now taken a step forward towards the world of AI, as they have now acquired Viv.

Whilst CRM systems are used by many companies to handle their sales processes, they still rely heavily on the human element when it comes to interpreting the data they hold. Marketing cloud specialist Optimove is seeking to bring machine learning and artificial intelligence to bear on CRM with the launch of Optibot. This is designed to automate the analysis and interpretation of customer marketing campaigns behind the scenes and recommend actionable insights to help marketers improve their campaign performance. Integrated within the Optimove platform, Optibot uses advanced probability-theory algorithms to find insights within data, and can then automatically apply its conclusions to optimize campaigns. For example it can recommend dropping underperforming actions and readjusting existing actions. Once enough data has been collected on a certain campaign, Optibot can use its self-optimizing feature to automatically decide the correct customer mix for each campaign action.

Nietzsche, if alive today, will probably be convinced that artificial intelligence will be the final nail in the coffin of god (reference to his famous statement: god is dead). Nietzsche's controversial statement, which is widely understood to be referring to the concept that science will diminish the role and belief system related to religions (the rise of nihilism), can be resurrected to analyze the developments in AI. Religion has been an extremely important part of our species. From the recent archeological findings in Gobekli Tepe (Turkey), experts now believe that 11,000 years ago, before humans settled into organized farming communities, hunters and gatherers erected a temple for worship (1). It means that religion plays such an important role in our lives that before we built our own homes, we built homes to hoist gods and goddesses.

Anyone looking for a book about driverless cars -- smart, wide-ranging, nontechnical, easy to understand -- was pretty much out of luck until "Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead" was published in September. The authors, Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman, have a reputation for clear, succinct writing about emerging technologies. It's geared toward nonexperts, but scientists, engineers and computer programmers can learn new things too. Lipson is a roboticist and professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University, where he directs the Creative Machines Lab. Kurman, a former product manager and industry analyst at Microsoft, is an author and speaker with a specialty in technology and its effect on our daily lives and the economy.

In the popular 2014 animated film Big Hero 6, the protagonist has a robot called Max. This robot Max follows the commands of its master and scans a human to detect any physical harm done. Such a robot seems to be a novelty to own in case one would get the chance. But now a Hong Kong-based company has made it possible for us to own a robot which would follow our commands and work accordingly. NXRobo has created the first personalized family robot, the BIG-i robot.