Samsung has announced Bixby, its artificial intelligence assistant, ahead of the launch of the Galaxy S8. It's expected to be one of the phone's biggest new features, and Samsung hopes it will trigger an enormous shift in user behaviour. As has been rumoured, the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S8 will have a dedicated Bixby button, which users can push in order to launch the voice assistant. Bixby is designed to make Samsung's devices more "natural and intuitive" to use, according to the company. It will initially only work with a handful of pre-installed apps, but Samsung says it will support almost every task the app is capable of performing, entirely through spoken commands. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

Pope Francis has warned young people about their use of social media, urging them to create their own history and reject "false" depictions of reality. The Argentinian pontiff was recording a video message for World Youth Day, which takes places on 9 April. "Many people say that young people are distracted and superficial," he said. Still, we should acknowledge our need to reflect on our lives and direct them towards the future. "In the social media, we see faces of young people appearing in any number of pictures recounting more or less real events, but we don't know how much of all this is really'history', an experience that can be communicated and endowed with purpose and meaning."

Wal-Mart is making strides in its pursuit to be a leader in ecommerce. Wal-Mart executives announced Monday they will be developing "Store No. 8" in Silicon Valley in hopes of making improvements to its online retail experience. Store No. 8 will experiment with autonomous vehicle and drone delivery, virtual reality and personalized shopping. Last summer, Wal-Mart purchased Jet.com, an online retailer, for $3.3 billion in an effort to compete with Amazon, the dominant force in online shopping. Marc Lore, founder of Jet.com joined Wal-Mart's ecommerce team following the purchase.

Samsung could start a new chapter when it unveils its long-awaited Galaxy S8 on March 29, putting the disaster of the Note 7 behind it and showing that it can take a big step forward with innovative features. It's a digital assistant you'll be able activate by pressing a dedicated button on the side of the S8, and it has an impressive pedigree. The feature descends from Viv, the A.I. startup that Samsung bought in October 2016 and which claimed to be a more extensive and powerful alternative to Siri, which its creators also built. Apple bought Siri in 2010, and its co-founders Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Chris Brigham left the company in 2012 to build a better version of Siri that could connect to other services on a phone, and not just refer queries that it didn't understand to the Web. That's what Samsung is now promising Bixby will be able to do, claiming it will be better than other digital assistants like Siri or Google Assistant because of how it can link more deeply with apps on your phone.

I get a lot of questions about how to learn TensorFlow and Deep Learning. I'll often hear, "How do I start learning TensorFlow?" or "How do I start learning Deep Learning?". My answer is, "Learn Deep Learning and TensorFlow at the same time!". See, it's not easy to learn one without the other. Of course, you can use other libraries like Keras or Theano, but TensorFlow is a clear favorite when it comes to libraries for deep learning. And now is the best time to start.

In this digital age, we are starting to see great practical ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) can shake up the status quo. Take the recently launched'robot lawyer' DoNotPay for example - an AI powered chatbot that gives free legal and immigration advice. Then there is the marketers' mission to create a utopian, near-perfect experience for customers, with the likes of the O2 announcing that AI is set to handle its customer services from 2017 with a voice recognition system called Aura. AI, machine learning and predictive intelligence are terms that are frequently thrown around in the marketing space, and we've known for a while now how these emerging technologies are going to transform businesses and the customer journey, but how will the everyday man or woman on the street feel about the experience in reality? There is still a level of apprehension from customers about talking to an automated so-called robot instead of real people, but in fact, AI and machine learning can help humanise the customer experience by making it more personal for each user.

If the idea of using cognitive computing and artificial intelligence to provide a compelling customer experience seems far off, think again. Where providing top-notch customer service used to fall to large call centers, now leading insurers are deploying virtual agents in multiple channels to provide their customers with the right information quickly, even cross-selling and upselling insurance products and services based on the analytics-driven intelligence that leverages the unique preferences of the customer.

In a modern economy, the website is a foregone conclusion. Whatever your business model, your end customer expects you to have some representation on the internet. If you are a consumer-facing business, chances are a mobile app is just as vital to your brand as your website. While these business tools are considered mission critical today, a mere 20 years ago almost no one had a website and the app only rose to importance with the advent of the smartphone economy, less than a decade ago. At traditional industry pace these are rapidly changing parameters, and the next technology revolution is already upon us.

Known as Information Warrior 17, it will take place between 26 March and 6 April in various locations in and around Scotland. It is intended to drive the development of cutting edge technology in the Navy, including artificial intelligence, to put the UK at the forefront of Information Warfare. It will also test the defensive capabilities of ships and submarines against cyber attacks, which are as real a threat in the modern age as traditional weapons like rockets, missiles, and torpedoes. Admiral Sir Philip Jones, First Sea Lord, said: "We are living in a data-driven age in which our adversaries are already exploiting the potential of Information Warfare, and we must respond in kind." The Royal Navy has expressed an interest in using AI technology to develop a "Ship's Mind" at the centre of its warships, enhancing efficiency and allowing for fast and complex decisions to be made automatically.

The'artificially intelligent' future needs regulation and human creativity, according to tech pioneer Inma Martinez, who will speak at the Inspirefest Salon in London this week. The computers are taking over! With headlines declaring that supercomputers can now beat expert humans in complex strategic games and can even chug through the medical literature to diagnose disease, it's easy to believe we are on the cusp of science-fiction becoming fact as artificial intelligence gets a mind of its own. But for technology pioneer and data scientist Inma Martinez, the precipitous rise of fast and flashy artificial intelligence (AI) comes as no surprise. We are now'almost vertical' in the exponential growth in AI technology, and she stresses the need to regulate the AI industry, but reassures that as the computers get even'smarter' we will still need human creativity.