Update: Machine Learning is Fun! Part 5 is now available! Also, don't forget to check out Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Have you noticed that Facebook has developed an uncanny ability to recognize your friends in your photographs? In the old days, Facebook used to make you to tag your friends in photos by clicking on them and typing in their name. This technology is called face recognition.

Splunk on Tuesday outlined new versions of its flagship suites with an emphasis on machine learning advances. The company updated Splunk Enterprise, Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI), Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) and Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA) for both cloud and on-premises deployments. Splunk's algorithms are focused on investigations for security incidents, alerting, predictive tools for operations and maintenance and business optimization for demand, inventory and analysis of historical data.

The company enlisted the name of the smartest person ever to brand its new platform-wide layer of artificial intelligence. While computer intelligence is not foreign to parts of Salesforce's clouds, this massive commitment means that advanced computer intelligence will now be embedded throughout the company's tools. And the company has made a major commitment to pushing the envelope. It is setting up an R&D lab, and it recently purchased pioneer BeyondCore, a data analysis platform so smart that it tells you the best questions to ask before answering them. Although Salesforce's announcement represents the biggest commitment thus far among marketing/sales tools, it is only part of the wave.

Love them or hate them, you'd better be prepared for these technologies to power the future of the B2B sales process. First, though, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out--or manners to be worked in, however you want to look at it. Don't think so? Don't be so quick to forget Microsoft's chatbot Tay, the millennial-esque chatbot that became the opposite of chill when it sent out a barrage of offensive, racist tweets back in March. What was the result of malicious hacking (and a sad ending for Tay) raised real questions that take far more than 140 snarky characters to answer: Can chatbots be both empowered to provide customer service and still be sensitive to human emotions? Some in the industry, like the co-founder of machine-learning startup Koko, say yes. The company is working to add empathy as a service to its chatbot-human interactions.

Deep learning and GPU computing have quickly advanced the abilities of image recognition technology to superhuman levels. Now, PicsArt, maker of the social photo editor by the same name, is applying this breakthrough in artificial intelligence to the creation of images. Hitting the market today, "Magic Effects" is a new feature in the latest version of the PicsArt app, which has been downloaded more than 300 million times and boasts 80 million active monthly users. Magic Effects uses GPU-powered AI to analyze the quality and context of photos, and enables users to transform their pics in seconds with an array of filtering effects that are customized based on the AI analysis. If, for example, a user applies the "Neo Pop" effect to a photo, the result won't be standardized.

One of our neighbours is a company called Rainbird which is building a commercial AI platform. We paid them a visit to learn more about AI and its intersection with design. Artificial Intelligence is a very wide, multi-disciplinary field. This means that there's no single model for how software and hardware come together to create practical applications. Knowledge modelling: This is a way to gather and organise human input to capture a particular area of knowledge.

In the year leading up to Sandra Bland's arrest, she uploaded a series of videos to YouTube, recorded on her cell phone, called "Sandy Speaks." In the first of the series, made on Jan. 15, 2015, Bland expressed her wish to educate black youth about how to interact with law enforcement, believing that children were the key to a more peaceful, unprejudiced future. "With the police brutality, all the things that have been going on in the news," Bland says, curlers in her hair, "a lot of people have been making noise and expressing their opinions about how they feel. Somewhere along the way we've forgotten about the kids. I want to get some dialogue started with them ... Why not educate them on interacting with the people who are really important to our survival?"

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Our previous discussion on augmented reality revealed a new trend in supply chain management, the use of computer-simulated imagery to enhance production and efficiency. However, the supply chain tends to forget how augmented reality will naturally transform the entire supply chain, and supply chain artificial intelligence is one of the key driving forces behind supply chain augmented reality. However, artificial intelligence is poised to radically change the supply chain in profound ways. Let's take a closer look at what artificial intelligence is and what it can offer the exciting world of supply chain management. "Alexa....please tell Baxter the Robot to machine this part."

Splunk on Tuesday outlined new versions of its flagship suites with an emphasis on machine learning advances. Since late 2014, the BetterWorks team has been building data infrastructures to develop the employee's "work profile"--called the BetterWorks Work Graph --informed by everything related to an employee's work. The Work Graph collects data on the work and performance relationships of an employee available in the BetterWorks platform, including goal alignment, organization chart, cross-functional goals and teams, comments, data from integrated key results, recognition hashtags and more. Microsoft has announced several new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features for Office 365 and Dynamics 365 for Sales. Machine learning is bringing data analysis into a new era, allowing companies to use predictive analytics that continually "learn" from historical data.