SwiftKey has launched a new experimental app that uses language pattern recognition from no other than William Shakespeare. ShakeSpeak might help you compare your spouse to a summer's day, but its predictive typing technology goes well beyond that. SwiftKey recently rolled out a new app that the Microsoft-owned company says will enable you to write just like William Shakespeare. ShakeSpeak is one Android app that is part of a suite of experimental apps that mix technology show-off with clean, linguistic fun. The release of the software was scheduled to coincide with 400 years since the Bard's death and one way in which the coders commemorate the great writer is by having his iconic face as the app's background image.

Let me take you on a hypothetical journey through some hypothetical future research in neuroscience that could potentially shorten the path to strong artificial intelligence. By "strong" I mean "human level machine intelligence." We'll start by looking at functional networks in the brain and their cognitive fingerprints. Then, we'll review some of the flexible new techniques in artificial intelligence that can observe and reason about the world, while opining on video captioning systems. Finally, we'll end our hypothetical journey, combining the neural pathology of cognition with synthetic reasoning to create a pathologically human bot.

Darktrace, the leader in Enterprise Immune System technology, presented a radical vision of cyber defense at InfoSec World 2016, Orlando, yesterday, where'immune system'-inspired technology can automatically find and respond to evolving cyber-threats. IT Security Architect at Steelcase, Stuart Berman, joined Sean O'Connor, Director at Darktrace on the conference stage as a guest speaker, to discuss how enterprises can tackle the cyber security challenges of tomorrow. As one of the world's leading manufacturers of corporate office environments, Steelcase is known for embracing new technology and innovation, and was quick to recognize the importance of adopting new models of security. Speaking at the InfoSec World Conference in Florida yesterday, Stuart Berman, who has over 20 years' experience in information security, shared his views on the future of cyber defense. "Math and machine learning are an important part of advanced threat defense, in the context of today's fast-moving, distributed work environments," Berman commented.

This informative tutorial walks us through using Spark's machine learning capabilities and Scala to train a logistic regression classifier on a larger-than-memory dataset.

As data grows, organizations are increasingly seeking for an intelligent information discovery and analytics platform that goes beyond keyword searches and better understands users' intent. With Google Now and Cortana, advanced question answering systems are starting to become ubiquitous. Recently, Gartner has also started discussing'insight engines,' a new technology that can provide natural, total, and proactive search, analytics, and discovery. Please let us know the email address we should be sending a PDF copy of the white paper to. A download link will be immediately emailed to you - please check your junk mail if you have a strong email filter.

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence IoT Industry Insider subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. More than half (51%) of professionals in the supply chain and logistics industry believe robotics and automation will provide a competitive advantage in their industry, according to a recently released survey from industry association MHI and Deloitte. That number is up from 39% in a similar survey last year, The Wall Street Journal reported. More of the respondents cited robotics and automation as a competitive advantage than other technologies that are more prevalent in the logistics industry such as sensors, cloud computing, and inventory management tools. Only 35% of the respondents said that their companies had adopted robotics, but 74% said they had plans to do so within the next 10 years.

The focus of this workshop is machine learning using the H2O R and Python packages. H2O is an open source distributed machine learning platform designed for big data, with the added benefit that it's easy to use on a laptop (in addition to a multi-node Hadoop or Spark cluster). The core machine learning algorithms of H2O are implemented in high-performance Java; however, fully featured APIs are available in R, Python, Scala, REST/JSON and also through a web interface. Since H2O's algorithm implementations are distributed, this allows the software to scale to very large datasets that may not fit into RAM on a single machine. H2O currently features distributed implementations of generalized linear models, gradient boosting machines, random forest, deep neural nets, dimensionality reduction methods (PCA, GLRM), clustering algorithms (K-means), and anomaly detection methods, among others.

Business InsiderChatbots aren't robots, but they are supposed to be close to mimicking humans. Chatbots are the future, whether we're ready for them or not. "It's technology that's inevitable," Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella has said. On Tuesday, Facebook is expected to release a Bot Store in a launch that could define the next decade in the same way that the Apple App Store launch paved the path for companies like Uber to build a business off your phone. So what are these chatbots, and why is everyone obsessed?

Now, she is applying her creative talents toward building the personality of a different type of character: a virtual assistant, animated by artificial intelligence, that interacts with sick patients. Unlike the fictional characters Ewing developed in Hollywood, who are put through adventures and plot twists, most virtual assistants are designed to perform largely prosaic tasks, such as reading through email, sending meeting reminders or turning off the lights. Writers for medical and productivity apps make character decisions, such as whether bots should be workaholics, self-effacing or eager beavers. At a recent meeting of Microsoft Cortana's six-person writing team -- which includes a poet, a novelist, a playwright and a former TV writer -- the group debated how to answer political questions.

Until recently, Robyn Ewing was a writer in Hollywood, developing TV scripts and pitching pilots to film studios. Now, she is applying her creative talents toward building the personality of a different type of character: a virtual assistant, animated by artificial intelligence, that interacts with sick patients. Ewing works with engineers on the software program, called Sophie, which can be downloaded to a smartphone. The virtual nurse gently reminds users to check their medication, asks them how they are feeling or if they are in pain, and then sends the data to a doctor. As tech behemoths and a wave of startups double down on virtual assistants that can chat with humans, writing for AI is becoming a hot job in Silicon Valley.