A UAE-based bank is introducing an artificial intelligence robot that will engage with customers by telling them about the products and services. The UAE-based bank Emirates NBD plans to do so in a bid to make banking more convenient. The artificial intelligence (AI) robot called Pepper will make his appearance at the bank's marketing and promotional events in the UAE as well as at select Emirates NBD branches in the near future. Pepper will interact with customers to understand visitation needs and present products and services alternatives in an engaging manner, assisted by the bank's staff. While Pepper will not engage on core banking functions, as the world of artificial intelligence and robots evolves, the bank has announced that it will continue to engage with these technologies to make banking simpler and more convenient.

Jigsaw, a subsidiary of Google, is set to launch multiple technological projects that will protect people from hate speech and online harassment. Jared Cohen, president and founder, is launching a set to fight internet trolling thru artificial intelligence known as'Conversation Al.' "I want to use the best technology we have at our disposal to begin to take on trolling and other nefarious tactics that give hostile voices disproportionate weight... [we will] do everything we can to level the playing field," confirmed Cohen. Jigsaw believes that while online speech must be moderated, online bullies should not be allowed to intimidate people and self-censor their personal opinions and views. The filter will have a 92% success rate in detecting "abusive" messages producing a false positive of only 10% of the time. The issue with the tool is the possibility of filtering well-intentioned views that may appear or resemble as harassment.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is steadily growing more sophisticated, particularly in regards to advanced decision making capabilities, making it increasingly appealing to corporations. It's quite simple for AI to predict a temporary employee's success in completing a single task. When developing artificially intelligent software, companies have been tasked with giving the software a human touch that encourages people to welcome AI into their business and personal lives. Specialising in cloud business management, Tithof leads Unit4's business, being responsible for developing new business, strategic account selling and continuing the successful partnerships with Agilyx, Connexxion and S1 Consulting within the region.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is steadily growing more sophisticated, particularly in regards to advanced decision making capabilities, making it increasingly appealing to corporations. A survey from Narrative Science shows that 62 per cent of organisations will be using AI technologies by 2018, while Gartner is predicting that three million employees worldwide will be supervised by AI in 2018. The question that remains is what will this transformation look like? While computers are capable of making intelligent decisions about financial trading, medical diagnoses and even flying planes or driving cars, several factors have kept businesses from adopting AI broadly. One of these is accessibility.

The company is launching Allo, it's AI-centric messaging app for iOS and Android that offers an early peek at some of its most robust artificial intelligence capabilities yet. First previewed during its I/O developer conference earlier this year, the app combines the best of Google's predictive and search superpowers along with an all-new personal assistant feature. At first glance, Allo looks very similar to many other messaging apps. You sign up with your phone number and, after verifying your identity, the app scans your address book to find people you may know who are also using the app. Beginning a one-on-one or group chat is fairly straightforward.

The company is launching Allo, it's AI-centric messaging app for iOS and Android that offers an early peek at some of its most robust artificial intelligence capabilities yet. First previewed during its I/O developer conference earlier this year, the app combines the best of Google's predictive and search superpowers along with an all-new personal assistant feature. At first glance, Allo looks very similar to many other messaging apps. You sign up with your phone number and, after verifying your identity, the app scans your address book to find people you may know who are also using the app. Beginning a one-on-one or group chat is fairly straightforward.

SHANGHAI--A Chinese man whose son was killed while driving a Tesla Motors Inc. TSLA -0.82 % vehicle applied to a local Beijing court to investigate whether the car's Autopilot driving system was engaged. In January, 23-year-old Gao Yaning died in a crash in the northeastern province of Hebei while driving a Tesla Model S. Six months later his father, Gao Jubin, filed a lawsuit accusing Tesla of exaggerating Autopilot's capabilities. At a court hearing Tuesday, he asked for an independent investigation of the cause of the crash. "The family insists the investigation should be done by a third party, rather than Tesla," said Cui Qiuna, a lawyer for the Gao family. The court will study the family's request.

In the 2016 Google Founder's Letter, CEO Sundar Pichai cited Google's long-term investment in machine learning and AI. "It's what allows you to use your voice to search for information," he explained, "to translate the web from one language to another, to filter the spam from your inbox, to search for'hugs' in your photos and actually pull up pictures of people hugging ... to solve many of the problems we encounter in daily life. It's what has allowed us to build products that get better over time, making them increasingly useful and helpful." In addition to using machine learning for its own products, Google has released several applied machine learning services -- for vision, speech, natural language, and translation -- and has open-sourced its TensorFlow scalable machine learning package. An additional service based on TensorFlow, the Cloud Machine Learning Platform, is still in a closed alpha test phase.

For all its promise of delivering a bold future, the green energy industry is still decidedly low tech when it comes to moving merchandise. Solar panels are still sold door-to-door, a slow and expensive process that has impeded the industry's growth. Now, a California startup thinks it has a solution, using sophisticated data science to find consumers likely to adopt solar power and let them know just how much they can save on their electric bills. PowerScout, a machine-learning-enabled eCommerce platform for solar energy, aims to eliminate marketing costs that, according to CEO Attila Toth, can exceed the cost of the actual equipment for some green-power vendors. "This is very absurd--very crazy," Toth says.

It's your nighttime routine: You drop your phone onto the nightstand charging pad, and it asks about your day. You tell it, talking to the virtual personal assistant just like you'd talk to a friend. Your phone's artificial intelligence knows you almost as well as you know yourself (maybe even better). So when it suggests ways to get through tomorrow's calendar, you trust its advice. AI is practically everywhere, and getting smarter all the time.