As artificial intelligence continues to advance, more and more businesses are starting to take interest. Businesses from every industry are trying to figure out how they can update their solutions to leverage artificial intelligence, or how they can find new and interesting solutions to take advantage of the technology. While there have been some groundbreaking use cases in health, science, and software development, there have also been some wacky products to come out of the woodworks. SD Times has rounded up the top 10 most unusual ways we've seen artificial intelligence put to use: Flippy: The hamburger restaurant CaliBurger is hiring a new employee that won't need to worry about wearing a hairnet in the kitchen. Flippy is an artificial intelligence-driven robot designed to flip burgers and place them on buns.

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PISCATAWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today announced the "OurAIVision" Campaign in conjunction with the recently introduced paper, Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Wellbeing with Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems (AI/AS). Launched by The IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems, Ethically Aligned Design is a first version of a global document encouraging technologists to prioritize ethical considerations in the creation of autonomous and intelligent technologies. The first leg of the "OurAIVision" Campaign Tour was held in Mumbai, India, where representatives from The IEEE Global Initiative received direct feedback about Ethically Aligned Design from AI experts, engineers, and technologists. The tour's next stop in Tokyo, Japan in March will collect further input to Version 2 of Ethically Aligned Design. Interested parties can support the global campaign activities using Twitter hashtag #OurAIVision or learn more by visiting the Campaign website.

If you've recently had your first interaction with a voice-based personal assistant like Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Siri, you might get the sense that artificial intelligence is just a few years away from being able to talk and act like a human. It will soon be capable of managing our schedules, troubleshooting technical issues, or even holding conversation. According to a recent Wall Street Journal piece titled "Alexa and Cortana May Be Heading to the Office," many businesses share that hope. One startup profiled in the piece uses "an Amazon Echo attached to the office ceiling for such tasks as adding events to their calendars," while another is building a virtual assistant to set meetings on behalf of human users. The belief that natural language processing is right around the corner seems to be widespread: About half of IT professionals in the Spiceworks survey cited in the article said they plan to use intelligent assistants in a corporate setting in the next three years.

Until now, humans have held sway as the most dominant force on Earth. Despite lacking some of the physical attributes of a host of other species, we have conquered the planet by virtue of our mighty minds. Yet by 2025, a computer costing as little as $1,000 will have the equivalent processing speed of the human brain, according to Silicon Valley engineer and entrepreneur Peter Diamandis. And artificial intelligence systems are already faster and more accurate than humans when searching vast databases for anomalies or patterns in customer behaviour. They can also "learn" from what they have discovered and react to those findings.

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.

Social media has caused an explosion in the amount of data generated by people and businesses in the last five years. That has led to the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning coupled with the input of humans to make sense of streams of data, according to experts on Argo Digital's panel Sunday at South by Southwest on "How Data and Machine Learning/AI Affect Risk Transfer in the 21st Century." Jason Abbruzzese, business reporter with Mashable, moderated the panel for Argo Digital, an emerging insure tech practice within property and casualty carrier Argo Group, based in San Antonio. By analyzing the data, all businesses are trying to make themselves smarter, said Andy Breen, senior vice president for Argo Digital and adjunct professor at NYU Stern School of Business and one of the panelists. Until recently, the tools did not exist to sift through all the data and extract insights that make a business operate better, he said.

Are you considering including chatbots in your marketing and customer support? Wondering how consumers are responding to chatbots? In this article, you'll discover new research that shares consumer reactions to chatbots and the issues businesses should address before integrating chatbots. According to a recent study by technology company Retale, 58% of the 500 Millennials surveyed have used chatbots. Of the 42% of respondents who had not used them, 53% were interested in using them, 26% had no interest in using them, and 20% were neutral.

Microsoft is currently finalising a major new update to Windows 10 that looks set to arrive in April, but users can try it out ahead of its launch. The Creators Update will introduce a raft of new features, including Paint 3D, Beam game streaming, new accessibility features, including braille support, as well as a multitude of performance and security tweaks and enhancements. In order to get a taste of them before they officially arrive, Windows 10 users can join Microsoft's Windows 10 Insider Program. Doing so gives you access to all of the latest Windows 10 builds as soon as they're available, and you can help shape the future of the operating system by providing feedback on the new features. However, before joining the Windows 10 Insider Program, be aware that you'll be signing up to use unfinished pre-release software that might not work as it's supposed to.

Why is machine learning finally real? As he declared: "The algorithms that early researchers and current practitioners use are ravenous for data and we finally have enough data on the planet to feed them. They also need scale-out computation and storage at low cost." In fact, the mountains of data that we now enjoy are a direct result of high-quality open source software running on commodity hardware: More applications churning out more data for more people. Despite this low-cost hardware and software, and its impact on machine learning, let's be clear: Big enterprises are the primary beneficiaries.