MetaMind, a startup focused on deep learning, this week announced that it has been acquired by Salesforce. The company's expertise is in natural language processing -- letting computers analyze relationships between words. "With MetaMind and Salesforce coming together, we'll be able to offer customers real AI solutions with breakthrough capabilities that further automate and personalize customer support, marketing automation, and many other business processes," MetaMind CEO Richard Socher said. The acquisition will see MetaMind, whose backers included Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, embed deep learning within the Salesforce platform. Socher has been named chief scientist at Salesforce.

Sure, world is crying out loud that big-data's biggest problem will be resources. Demand has skyrocketed and everyone in the world is going into tailspin in meeting that demands. Companies are going frantic and overspending to hire data scientists to secure themselves from any upcoming shortfall. This is nothing but a sign that world needs our robot algorithm friends to pacify some demand and increase credibility to new paradigms. Who could forget Steve Balmer's famous quote comparing Big Data as a Machine Learning problem.

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April 5, 2016 – NEW YORK, NY – Persado, the leading cognitive content generation platform, today announced that it has closed a 30 million Series C financing led by Goldman Sachs, with participation from all previous investors Bain Capital Ventures, StarVest Partners, American Express Ventures and Citi Ventures. Persado fuses language with data to transform people into the most effective communicators. The only existing solution of its kind, and one of few to successfully productize and commercialize cognitive computing technologies to date, Persado's platform employs natural language processing and machine learning algorithms to generate the precise combination of words, phrases and images that motivate any audience, at scale, in real time. "Persado is revolutionizing how organizations communicate by propelling creativity into the data-driven age, arming brands with'smart content' that resonates with any audience, every time, and inspires them to act," said Alex Vratskides, CEO and Co-Founder of Persado. "This latest round of funding will enable us to continue investing in distribution and product development. It will also accelerate our expansion into more digital channels and potentially other sectors beyond marketing, such as pharmaceutical adherence, fitness and personal motivation, civic engagement, human resources and more."

Imagine strapping an enormous VR headset to a car. Now, place that car inside a facility the size of a football field that simulates a full range of motion. Toyota Research Institute CEO Gill Pratt provided a peek inside that incredible facility during a keynote speech to a crowd of more than 3,000 at our GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley Thursday. Pratt also announced that Toyota will be opening a new autonomous driving research facility in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that will be staffed by about 50 researchers to complement Toyota's ongoing efforts in Japan, Silicon Valley, and Cambridge, Mass., near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pratt is a legendary figure in the robotics community.

Deal activity in artificial intelligence has now hit record highs for two quarters straight. Deal count had already leapt to 24 in Q4'15, ten more deals than the previous quarter. The trend continued in Q1'16, with deals reaching a 5-year quarterly high, and passing the 25-deal threshold. However, total funding dropped 18% to 83M from 101M in Q4'15, when over 20 companies raised funds. Our artificial intelligence category covers startups primarily focused on developing AI technologies, across areas including image processing, natural language processing, machine learning, deep learning, and predictive APIs, among other core applications.

Or did he deliberately damage his car? It's a question insurance companies face every day. Deliberate deception is a contributing factor in one out of ten insurance claims. A joint project by IBM and SAP is intended to make estimating easier for claims adjusters in the future. The two tech giants are developing a program that searches through large numbers of damage reports to uncover irregularities.

Computer scientists at MIT have created a 3D-printed robot that requires such little human intervention it practically walks out of the printer on its own. Researchers from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have pioneered a system that allows printing solid and liquid materials simultaneously. This means their tiny proof-of-concept creation can have a built-in hydraulic system consisting of 12 ready-assembled pumps. All the human needs to do is attach a motor and a battery. "Our approach, which we call'printable hydraulics', is a step towards the rapid fabrication of functional machines," said CSAIL director Daniela Rus.

SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 30, 2016) - EverString, the fastest-growing predictive marketing SaaS company, today announced that its artificial intelligence-powered platform is now integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. The new integration empowers users to optimize the prospect-to-customer journey by enabling sales and marketing teams to prioritize existing prospects and also identify net new, high-quality leads using the power of predictive marketing. "Predictive Marketing is quickly becoming an integral piece of an intelligent customer engagement solution and we are excited to offer this powerful technology through our partnership with EverString," said Jujhar Singh, general manager, Microsoft Dynamics CRM. "With EverString's predictive marketing technology, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online customers can improve sales outcomes not only by prioritizing prospect conversations but also by filling their pipeline with high-value accounts." Delivered as a SaaS platform, the EverString integration provides marketers with the ability to analyze and validate their entire addressable market of prospects, then proactively select and target the optimal audience based on data from their Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and more than 20,000 external signals. EverString's predictive marketing technology leverages applied data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence to find and analyze patterns in the pipeline of all prospects and customers existing in a user's instance of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.

You cannot, it appears, afford to ignore Artificial Intelligence (AI) these days. In March, Google Inc.-owned AI firm, DeepMind's computer programme, AlphaGo, beat Go champion, Lee Seedol. And this very year, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg chatted about building personal AI projects at home while International Business Machines Corp.'s (IBM's) supercomputing engine Watson trended, and other headlines screamed Big Oil tapping into Watson, Big Data for Medicine and Smart Concierge Robots. Not one to be left behind in the AI news race, Microsoft Corp. released its conversational chatbot--Tay, which had learnt about the world from 18–24 year olds on microblogging and chatting sites like Twitter, GroupMe and Kik. However, Tay turned racist and sexist within 24 hours because the people she spoke to, crammed her with hate and anger.