Health startup Pillo Health has developed a personal robot that uses face and voice recognition tied with artificial intelligence to manage a medication schedule. Called Pillo, the robot is being showcased in a fundraising campaign on IndieGogo, aiming to raise 75,000 ( 57,374). The robot can store up to 250 pills, which the company says is around four weeks of medication, at one time, in a tamper-proof case. 'Our goal was never to build a smart device. From the very beginning we set out to create "'someone" a true healthcare companion for the home,' CEO and co founder Emanuele Musini said to the Daily Mail.

AI, where computers behave like humans, is no longer the stuff of science fiction. In many respects, AI is like a freight train racing down the tracks. Steady advances in hardware and software are sparking immense progress in how machines help interact with customers. Google's voice recognition technology, for instance, improved to 98% in 2014 from 84% just two years earlier. Facebook's DeepFace technology now recognises faces with 97% accuracy.

As important as we all (think we) are, we can't all afford to have assistants scheduling our lives on our behalf. But thanks to the rise of the machine, your busy life might've just gotten a little more manageable. Meet Julie Desk, the artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant that organizes your meetings. Because you already have to spend your time going to these things -- at the very least, you shouldn't be wasting your time scheduling them, right? Launched in 2015, Julie Desk promises to simplify and humanize your relationships to technology (and other people) by automatically managing all the available information required to go about your day-to-day life.

The comparison revealed that people who are lying are less likely to use personal pronouns - such as "I", "me", "mine" - and tend to use more adjectives, such as "brilliant" and "sublime". Reasons for this language use could be that liars try to dissociate themselves from the content of a message, while clouding its meaning in unnecessary description. Other clues that someone is lying include linking sentences to each other so that thoughts appear to be connected, and mirroring the sentence structure of the person they're communicating with. The algorithm is better at detecting lies than the average human. People manage to spot a lie 54 per cent of the time, according to the researchers, whereas the computer lie detector detects it 70 per cent of the time.

Machine learning artificial intelligence has unlocked big data as a source of military, weather and business intelligence that has opened up multiple options. Social Media giants Twitter and Facebook have been spending millions trying to keep their companies ahead of the flock, highlighted by Twitter Buys Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Star Magic Pony Technology Pavel Machalek co-founder of Silicon Valley data analytics firm Spaceknow working with commercial satellite data says the convergence of computing power, machine learning and satellite imagery is a perfect storm that s just beginning to peak, ... We could not have done this five years ago. Chinese government economic reports are notoriously inaccurate. Spaceknow's China Satellite Manufacturing Index uses satellite imagery to monitor changes at 6,000 industrial facilities in China as an alternative. The above image courtesy of DigitalGlobe shows how geospatial data companies can track activity by identifying surface material as seen here with individual trees in a forest (above) and aircrafts on the tarmac (below).

The price of oil has fallen over 60% since the summer 2014, and anybody reading the news sees it mentioned on a daily basis. With all of the negativity portrayed in the day-to-day headlines, many forget that the oil and gas business is one of the largest, most globally-important industries in the world. As the Motley Fool has called out, there is a huge amount of opportunity in the oil and gas industry, notably because it has weathered times like this before. One of the things that happens during downturns is that companies innovate. As we have seen historically, the companies that emerge the strongest during these times are the ones who adopt innovative technologies to promote growth.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence created by machines or software. The artificial intelligence and robotics market was worth US 10.7 billion in 2014 and is expected to be worth US 153 billion by 2020, and to have a disruptive impact of between US 14 to US 33 trillion. The component for artificial intelligence alone is worth US 70 billion. There are perils with artificial intelligence. Don't let anyone tell you there aren't.

In the opening installment, Dr. Kaku explains how artificial intelligence will revolutionize homes, workplaces and lifestyles, and how virtual worlds will become so realistic that they will rival the physical world. Robots with human-level intelligence may finally become a reality, and in the ultimate stage of mastery, we'll even be able to merge our minds with machine intelligence. For the first time on television, see how a severely depressed patient can be turned into a happy person at the push of a button - all thanks to the cross-pollination of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. I supply this video with no intention of gaining monetary compensation. Everything you see is strictly for the purpose of teaching and/or enlightenment.

This post highlights a number of important applications found for deep learning so far. It is well known that 80% of data is unstructured. Unstructured data is the messy stuff every quantitative analyst tries to traditionally stay away from. It can include images of accidents, text notes of loss adjusters, social media comments, claim documents and review of medical doctors etc. Unstructured data has massive potential but has never been traditionally considered as a source of insight before. Deep Learning is becoming the method of choice for its exceptional accuracy and capturing capacity for unstructured data.