Or more realistically, he intentionally leaks bits to the press to get everyone excited about the news he'll be making at Dreamforce, his company's massive user conference that takes over San Francisco each fall. Two years ago, the conference team draped a banner across the entrance to the Moscone Center convention complex that identified Salesforce as "The Customer Success Platform" in advance of Dreamforce -- then acted surprised, no, horrified, when the press started writing about its alleged strategic shift. This week we found out Salesforce will be unveiling a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) product called Salesforce Einstein at this year's Dreamforce. The news comes via a Forbes Magazine story by reporter Alex Conrad -- where Benioff muses that Salesforce Einstein is poised to be "the next big thing" -- and from a related tweet from Benioff himself. Benioff, being the showman that he is, was careful to give away just enough details to pique everyone's interest -- and not enough to satisfy anyone's curiosity.

In the background, wearing a white t-shirt, is a camera man. Russia's Tigr is a decade-old armored car. Seating 10 soldiers inside with gear, the Tigr's primary missions is to get Russian forces safely to where they need to be, across rough terrain. Since it was made to be filled with people, the newest design takes the Tigr in an odd direction. Instead of a human-driven troop carrier, the latest Tigr model is a remotely controlled gun-firing robot.

Machines are helping people learn faster, better, and more efficiently. Join us as we explore cognitive technology, and learn what advances in artificial intelligence will impact analytics and demand for human interaction on the next episode of Modern Workplace, Machine Learning: How technology advances human intelligence, airing April 12th at 8:00 AM PST / 4:00 PM GMT. This month, two of the industry's most forward thinkers share their predictions of where business is going with big data and how we can take advantage of the changes in technology to come. In addition, he will show how you can unearth value for your customers in the data you already have. Gain an insider perspective as we dissect the world of cognitive technology, learn what technological capabilities will be available, and what tasks will still require human input.

Over the past two months, its team of nine developers has made it possible for the app to run offline, without connecting to its servers. The update, available Tuesday for iOS devices, is a big deal because Prisma previously needed a large amount of computing power in remote servers to process each image. That work can now be performed on individual phones thanks to the improved efficiency of the app. If you haven't used Prisma, it works a lot like Instagram, without the social network component: Upload or take a photo, and the free app will transform it into artwork in the style of famous masterpieces. You can make your selfie look like Edvard Munch's The Scream, or your backyard resemble Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave.

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One of the trademarks that distinguishes robots from humans is the ability to reproduce. This dividing between man and machine just got blurrier. Researchers in Amsterdam have created robots that can mate and spawn offspring through a process similar to human reproduction. Robots have created quite a stir in the media recently, as more and more machines take on human tasks. Some estimates suggest automation could take over half of the work force. In addition to replacing jobs, robots could be replacing themselves.

They are everywhere at the moment, from banks offering their customers a conversational bot to interact with for basic tasks, to the old and funny Cleverbot. The question that remains, though, is whether or not chatbots are here to stay. Are they a fad, doomed to disappear shortly? Alternatively, are they an entirely new way of experiencing the world, beyond bank transactions and silly existential questions? A recent study shed some light on what people want from businesses nowadays regarding availability, instantaneity, and help.

Numerous municipalities nationwide are struggling to aid foreign students who are learning at local public schools but cannot understand the Japanese language fully or at all, a Kyodo News survey showed Saturday. In a questionnaire survey on issues facing foreign children living in Japan, 46 percent of the 1,612 municipalities that responded said that learning the Japanese language and other subjects, which are taught in Japanese, remain a challenge for foreign students. The survey, conducted from May to July, also highlighted another stumbling block in aiding foreign students: many are dispersed in small numbers -- sometimes one or two -- in public schools nationwide. In the survey, the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, said foreign students who speak 14 languages, including Vietnamese and Thai, are scattered across 39 of its 93 public elementary schools and junior high schools. In the southwestern city of Kagoshima, some of the foreign students cannot maintain the pace of classes with their Japanese peers and struggle in understanding tests, the questionnaire showed.

Some time ago, experts from the tech industry agreed that Apple has a cap on its artificial intelligence (AI) program, and it was mainly due to the company's high privacy factor. Recently, Apple executives talked to Backchannel in great detail about the development of AI that takes place inside iOS. Most users might not even acknowledge how much AI is actually present in key features of iOS, and it might be that Apple wants it this way. According to senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi and senior worldwide marketing vice president Phil Schiller, AI is far from being the "final frontier." The executives noted that rival companies make AI sound like the final goal of research, but for Apple this is just a regular task in a day's schedule.

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