TripAdvisor brings to you a fun, new feature we have been testing and is now available on Facebook Messenger. We're happy to introduce you to TripAdvisor chatbot, a real time interactive platform, where ask for travel advice and recommendations regarding popular restaurants, attractions, hotels and flights. In case you are unfamiliar with chatbots, they are simple artificial intelligence computer systems that you can chat with via text. Many people use them to help get things done, or even to be entertained. With this new feature now you can send TripAdvisor a message via Facebook Messenger asking where to stay, eat, or what to do anytime, anywhere.

I was meeting with the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce's Communications Committee; there was some brainstorming about session ideas for the upcoming Chamber Conference. There were some thoughts thrown out, and quite a few comments were made. Then someone said, "how about automation and artificial intelligence." Suddenly, a surge of ideas and thoughts hit the room like a vicious uppercut from Mike Tyson circa 1999. All industries went into the mix: retail, auto, construction, medical and legal.

In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell repeatedly mentions what has become known as the "10,000-hour rule", which states that to become world-class in any field you must devote 10,000 hours of "deliberate practice". Whether or not you believe the 10,000-hour figure, many would acknowledge that to become an accomplished legal professional requires considerable legal, communicative and, particularly in in-house environments, interpersonal skills that are often acquired after a tremendous amount of effort exerted over many years. There has been much hoopla about AI-based legal systems that, some might have you believe, may soon replace lawyers (no doubt causing a degree of anxiety among some legal professionals). There is some misunderstanding among many lawyers, and much of the public, about what AI systems are presently capable of. Can a legal AI, based on current technology, actually "think" like a lawyer?

Fraudulent credit card transactions are a pressing concern among retailers, card issuers, and consumers alike. With a reported 31.8 million U.S. consumers experiencing credit card fraud in 2014 alone, sweeping changes have been put in place to thwart its devastating effects. Technology enhancements like EMV chip-enabled cards, fraud alerts from card issuers and banks, and dozens of no-cost credit monitoring services all work together to fight the ongoing issue of credit card fraud throughout the country. Despite good intentions, some consumers desire more from card issuers in accurately detecting – and halting – fraudulent activity on credit or debit cards. The majority of consumers can share at least one awkward moment when a credit card purchase was declined in error.

Today, there is incredible interest in anything that is even remotely related to Artificial Intelligence. AI is dominating the conversation on a variety of levels. Philosophers and thinkers are debating the moral implications and risks for human kind of a world where intelligent machines are ubiquitous. In the media, it seems that a new movie or TV series on AI is launched every month. Academic papers on the topic are receiving attention from far beyond the scope of the usual research audience.

Bosch is creating the brain for the self-driving cars of the future. At the international Bosch ConnectedWorld 2017 conference in Berlin this week, the supplier of technology and services presented an onboard computer for automated vehicles. Thanks to artificial intelligence, the computer can apply machine learning methods. The AI onboard computer is expected to guide self-driving cars through even complex traffic situations, or ones that are new to the car. "We are teaching the car how to maneuver through road traffic by itself," said Dr. Volkmar Denner, chairman of the Bosch board of management.

Samsung Electronics is taking on Google and Apple to grab the lion's share in the highly potential artificial intelligence (AI) industry. The Seoul-based tech behemoth confirmed this week that its upcoming flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, would be equipped with its new AI assistant, Bixby. Samsung is a latecomer in the AI industry, compared with its handset rivals such as Apple and Google. Google, for its part, is also seeking to expand its AI presence, backed by its dominant Android mobile operating system (OS), allowing Nougat 7.0 users to access its AI service, Google Assistant. Samsung, though, remains confident about its success in AI, largely due to its global influence as the world's largest consumer electronics manufacturer.

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"Scientia potentia est" is a Latin adage that means "knowledge is power". This phrase is commonly attributed to Sir Francis Bacon and its most common modern interpretation is'information is power'. There has never been a time in human history when this phrase was more relevant, as each day humanity creates over 2 Quintillion bytes of data. This reality has manufactured the big data boom that the world is currently experiencing. All of this data has to be processed, analyzed and stored in some way.

Deep Learning is not just for super genius Data Science PhDs. Someone needs to get this code running, scale it, distribute it, install it, integrate it, and have it executed. Here is the place where the Big Data engineers and data DevOps teams come into play. I have been integrating some of these frameworks, libraries, models and tools into existing Hadoop, Big Data, Spark, and Machine Learning pipelines. Follow the instructions for PyTorch, TensorFlow, and MXNet.