Artificial intelligence can do a lot of amazing things. It's helping medical researchers, aiding in just about every computational process, and beating people in lots of games The AIs Are Winning: 5 Times When Computers Beat Humans The AIs Are Winning: 5 Times When Computers Beat Humans Artificial intelligence is getting good. In fact, computers are now beating the best and brightest minds that humanity can offer. What does that mean for us? It's even making your phone smarter 7 Siri Alternatives for Android: Google Now, Cortana, & More 7 Siri Alternatives for Android: Google Now, Cortana, & More There are a lot of personal assistant apps in the Play Store, so we help you sort through the best of them.

What better way to demonstrate the capabilities of IBM's artificial intelligence system, Watson, than to show it working its hardest, and when it really matters? For the film IBM partnered with oil and gas company Woodside, and creative agency the Barbarian Group, to create '70 Miles from Shore with Watson: Woodside Energy and IBM'. The result is a two-minute journey that shows IBM's Watson working and learning, on one of the toughest work sites in the world – an oil rig. To produce a film on such an especially challenging scale required an experienced set of hands, and PSN Australia was enlisted for the job through Production Service Network's U.S. Liaison Carolyn Hill. Choosing to shoot on the rig for real as opposed to a studio levied some strict safety regulations on the team that had not been previously encountered.

Whether you're blogging, publishing a video, or sharing an image, you are contributing to the 2.5 quintillion bytes of data that is made everyday! The old method of publishing tons of content isn't as effective as it used to be. Many more are publishing great content nowadays to the point that it's becoming increasingly difficult to be heard over all that digital noise. It's time to blow off that dust and apply a shiny new coat of machine learning polish to your content strategy. As a sub-set of artificial intelligence, machine learning occurs when computer algorithms are programmed to learn from the data and information it inputs.

Cognitive automation is an exciting future trend and we are at the forefront in helping our clients understand the implications for their organisation. KAI (short for KPMG Artificial Intelligence) is a Furhat Robotics artificial intelligence robot head and one of the newest components supporting the digital labour proposition and our wider cognitive automation agenda as a whole. KAI is a ground breaking user interface that replicates a human with social intelligence, allowing interaction between humans and computers. KAI's'brain' is powered by a state-of-the-art conversational intelligence platform which is used to build highly sophisticated and socially aware spoken interactions with the robot head. We have started to showcase KAI at various internal events and external presentations, including the recent Digital Labour Symposium and the Solutions Showcase. KAI has also given introductory presentations at client events. So far, we have used KAI in limited, controlled environments where his interactions are pre-programmed. The next step is to develop a back-end engine that will enable KAI to respond to and answer questions that a user poses. The data science team is currently working on this and we hope to have a live demo in the near future.

The past 30 years have seen incredible growth and innovation in the tech industry. We've gone from pocket calculators and PCs to pocket computers more powerful than the mammoth mainframe computers of the 1980s. The Atari 800XL computer I used in high school to develop games was powered by a microprocessor with 3,500 transistors – the one running my iPhone today has 2 billion transistors. The cost of a gigabyte of storage was in the range of 100,000 and the size of a refrigerator. Today, it's basically free and size is measured in millimetres.

Your next financial adviser might be a centaur -- not half-human, half-horse, but half-human, half-machine. You might have heard of centaurs in chess, where a person and a computer form a team that together can beat the best human or computer playing alone. The idea, popularized after IBM's computer Deep Blue learned chess well enough to defeat world champion Garry Kasparov in 2003, is infiltrating financial planning. In artificial intelligence or machine learning, computers effectively program themselves to analyze data and solve problems. That's how IBM's Watson beat champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on the television quiz show Jeopardy in 2011.

We all become accustomed to the tone and pattern of human speech at an early age, and any deviations from what we have come to accept as "normal" are immediately recognizable. That's why it has been so difficult to develop text-to-speech (TTS) that sounds authentically human. Google's DeepMind AI research arm has turned its machine learning model on the problem, and the resulting "WaveNet" platform has produced some amazing (and slightly creepy) results. The system, known as WaveNet, is able to generate human speech by forming individual sound waves that are used in a human voice. Additionally, because it is designed to mimic human brain function, WaveNet is capable of learni... Artist Ai Weiwei poses next to images of Andy Warhol at the Museum of Modern Art in 1987.

Symmetry Master evaluated they symmetry of each person's face and AntiAgeist estimated the difference between the chronological and perceived age. Once these parameters were determined, the fifth robot, called MADIS, compared each selfie to models and actors within their age and ethnic groups were are stored in a database. 'We are very pleased with the Ai's performance in achieving 100 percent accuracy in predicting the I'm a Singer competition's results,' Dr. Min Wanli, Alibaba Cloud's chief scientist for artificial intelligence, said in a statement following the show, according to the Wall Street Journal. '[The result] is very random and almost impossible to predict using human intelligence,' said Min Wanli, chief scientist for artificial intelligence at Alibaba Cloud.

Artificial intelligence and shopping -- does that mean robots that'll stock the shelves? We'll have robots that will use A.I. to check inventory, help customers find the items they're shopping for, ferry supplies from one part of the warehouse to another, aid with shipping, you name it. But the real revolution for A.I. and shopping will be invisible because the technology will create better experiences for consumers while helping employees and shopkeepers run operations more effectively. Let's take any big department store that sells thousands of home, fashion, and beauty products -- more specifically, let's say that there are exactly 100,000 products. Because customers will buy up to 150 percent more and be happier with their purchases if they're shown the items in context, merchants will create outfits, design window displays, and produce splashy catalogs and digital lookbooks to help customers imagine how to wear the latest fashion trend, how to arrange their living rooms to show off their new velvet sectional, or how to install an outdoor shower.