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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.

When the engineers had at last finished their work, Eugenia Kuyda opened a console on her laptop and began to type. "This is your digital monument." It had been three months since Roman Mazurenko, Kuyda's closest friend, had died. Kuyda had spent that time gathering up his old text messages, setting aside the ones that felt too personal, and feeding the rest into a neural network built by developers at her artificial intelligence startup. She had struggled with whether she was doing the right thing by bringing him back this way. At times it had even given her nightmares. But ever since Mazurenko's death, Kuyda had wanted one more chance to speak with him. A message blinked onto the screen. "You have one of the most interesting puzzles in the world in your hands," it said. Born in Belarus in 1981, Roman Mazurenko was the only child of Sergei, an engineer, and Victoria, a landscape architect. They remember him as an unusually serious child; when he was 8 he wrote a letter to his descendents declaring his most cherished values: wisdom and justice. In family photos, Mazurenko roller-skates, sails a boat, and climbs trees. Average in height, with a mop of chestnut hair, he is almost always smiling.

A worrying 42 per cent of ten-year-olds believe they have the technical skills to hide what they're doing online from their parents, according to new research. One in four (27 per cent) admitted to logging on at a friend's house to get around rules set by their parents. What's more, an alarming 10 per cent said that they had never spoken with a parent about their online activity. A worrying 42 per cent of ten-year-olds believe they have the technical skills to hide what they're doing online from their parents, according to new research (stock image) This has led to many of the children being exposed to inappropriate content online. According to the survey carried out by security firm Kaspersky Lab, 42 per cent of children as young as ten have been exposed to bad language online, while 28 per cent had seen something violent.

If President Roosevelt is remembered for starting the Manhattan Project, President John F. Kennedy for setting the goal to put a human on the moon, Clinton/Gore team for launching the Internet revolution, should President Obama be known as the founder of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Revolution? We believe the answer to that question is a resounding "yes". A less known fact about the Obama Administration is the level of guidance, support, encouragement, and focus it has provided in the growth of technology in general and artificial intelligence in particular. In fact, in some ways, the only failure that can be pointed out is that the administration has been too modest in promoting its role in driving and creating the recent artificial technology revolution. When President Obama took office, America was engulfed in an unprecedented economic crisis.